2010s Baby Names

45,658 names were given to children in the United States between 2010 and 2019, ranked below by how many.

A name's place is its total across those ten years. Names that appear in only some of the decade say so, because a name recorded once is a different fact from one recorded every year.

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Rankings for

#433
Harmony Harmony began as a carpentry term — the Greek harmonia is a fitting-together, from harmos, a joint, so the word described how timbers met long before it described how notes sound.
16,327 in the 2010s
#434
Israel Israel means he wrestles with God, and it is a name given after a fight — Jacob receives it in Genesis having wrestled a stranger until dawn and refused to let go without a blessing.
16,294 in the 2010s
#435
Amaya Amaya is a girl's name with several unrelated origins.
16,288 in the 2010s
#436
Alana Alana is a girl's name whose origin is disputed.
16,263 in the 2010s
#437
Dallas Dallas is the only rising name in this group — it peaked in 2015 and is still climbing, at 238th in the United States.
16,262 in the 2010s
#438
Griffin Griffin peaked in 2023, more recently than any other name in this group, and it is not named for the beast — the Welsh Gruffudd came first, and the resemblance to the griffin is coincidence.
16,258 in the 2010s
#439
Judah Judah is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "praised."
16,236 in the 2010s
#440
Julianna Julianna descends from a Roman family name whose meaning was never settled — downy-bearded and devoted to Jove are both proposed for Julius, and the family's own claim was descent from Venus.
16,194 in the 2010s
#441
Arya Arya is a name of Sanskrit origin meaning "noble."
16,156 in the 2010s
#442
Cecilia Cecilia is a girl's name of Latin origin from the Roman family name Caecilius, which derives from caecus, meaning blind.
16,150 in the 2010s
#443
Paxton Paxton is a boy's name of English origin meaning "Pæcc's farmstead".
16,101 in the 2010s
#444
Emiliano Emiliano is a boy's name of Latin origin, the Spanish and Italian form of Aemilianus, from the Roman family name Aemilius.
16,094 in the 2010s
#445
Izabella
16,050 in the 2010s
#446
Makenzie Makenzie means son of the handsome one, which is an odd fit for a name that is 99 percent female on record — the Gaelic Mac is a patronymic, and it has not been reinterpreted.
16,030 in the 2010s
#447
Lukas Lukas does not mean light, despite what most sources say — it means a man from Lucania, a region of southern Italy.
15,956 in the 2010s
#448
Esther Esther is a girl's name usually connected to the Persian word for star, and possibly to the Babylonian goddess Ishtar.
15,948 in the 2010s
#449
Stephanie Stephanie is a girl's name from the Greek for crown or garland, the feminine of Stephen.
15,849 in the 2010s
#450
Raelynn Raelynn is a girl's name of modern American coinage, joining Rae to the -lynn suffix.
15,820 in the 2010s
#451
Eduardo Eduardo means wealthy guardian, and it is one of very few Old English names that spread across the Catholic world — carried by Edward the Confessor's cult rather than by English settlement.
15,755 in the 2010s
#452
Spencer Spencer is a name of Middle English origin meaning "steward" or "dispenser of provisions."
15,750 in the 2010s
#453
Corbin Corbin means little raven, and it began as a description of hair — Norman bynames used black birds for black-haired people, which is the same logic behind the Irish names built on the word for dark.
15,726 in the 2010s
#454
Remington Remington is a unisex name of English origin, a place name meaning the settlement by the boundary stream.
15,708 in the 2010s
#455
Collin Collin doubles the L of Colin, and the name underneath has two unrelated sources — a French pet form of Nicolas, and the Scottish Gaelic Cailean, which share nothing but a spelling.
15,702 in the 2010s
#456
Genevieve Genevieve is a girl's name of Gaulish origin whose meaning is not settled.
15,649 in the 2010s
#457
Alina Alina is a girl's name with several origins. It functions as a short form of Adelina and so means "noble," from the Germanic adal; a Slavic line connects it to light or bright; and an Arabic reading gives "noble" from a different root entirely.
15,599 in the 2010s
#458
Callie Callie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "beautiful."
15,504 in the 2010s
#459
Angela Angela is a girl's name from the Greek for messenger, the word that also gives us angel.
15,494 in the 2010s
#460
Alivia
15,472 in the 2010s
#461
Jax Jax is a boy's name of modern coinage, a respelling of Jack or Jackson.
15,454 in the 2010s
#462
Iris Iris is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "rainbow."
15,389 in the 2010s
#463
Dawson Dawson is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "son of David."
15,350 in the 2010s
#464
Conner Conner means desiring hounds rather than loving them — the Irish joins a word for a hound or wolf to one meaning desire, and the softer lover of hounds gloss smooths over what was a warrior's name.
15,296 in the 2010s
#465
Josue Josue is the same name as Jesus, not merely a relative of it — both descend from the Hebrew Yehoshua, and Greek translators simply rendered it two different ways in two different books.
15,284 in the 2010s
#466
Francisco Francisco means Frenchman, and Saint Francis was given it as a nickname — his father traded in France and called him the little Frenchman.
15,283 in the 2010s
#467
Jennifer Jennifer is a girl's name, the Cornish form of the Welsh Gwenhwyfar, the name of King Arthur's queen.
15,282 in the 2010s
#468
Damien Damien is a boy's name meaning to tame, and its saint was a Belgian priest who chose to live in a leper colony and died of the disease.
15,266 in the 2010s
#469
Giselle Giselle means a pledge, and the pledge was a person — the Germanic gisil named a hostage given as security for a treaty.
15,187 in the 2010s
#470
Arabella Arabella is a girl's name whose origin is disputed.
15,120 in the 2010s
#471
Beckett Beckett is a boy's name of Old English origin, most likely meaning "bee cottage" or "stream."
15,053 in the 2010s
#472
Simon Simon is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "he has heard," borne by the apostle Peter before his renaming.
14,904 in the 2010s
#473
Travis Travis is a boy's name from an occupational surname meaning a toll collector, one who worked at a crossing.
14,898 in the 2010s
#474
Kylee Kylee has no agreed source, and it is not a feminine of Kyle — the -lee ending was attached to a Ky- opening in twentieth-century America, and any Gaelic meaning offered for it arrived afterward.
14,734 in the 2010s
#475
Lucia Lucia is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "light," the feminine of Lucius from lux.
14,704 in the 2010s
#476
Cristian Cristian drops the h from Christian, and the h was never in the Greek pronunciation anyway — it marks a letter that Latin borrowed as a digraph, so the Spanish and Romanian spelling is the plainer one.
14,687 in the 2010s
#477
Seth Seth is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "appointed" or "placed," given to Adam and Eve's third son after Cain killed Abel.
14,686 in the 2010s
#478
Erick Erick means ever-ruler, and the K-spelling is the Scandinavian one — Erik the Red named Greenland deliberately to attract settlers, which may be the earliest recorded use of a misleading brand name.
14,681 in the 2010s
#479
Fiona Fiona was invented by a Scottish poet, and then used as a pen name by a man — William Sharp published as Fiona Macleod for a decade and denied being her until his death.
14,669 in the 2010s
#480
Chance Chance means a falling, and the falling was dice — the Old French cheance describes how they land, from the Latin cadere, to fall, which also gives cadence, decay and accident.
14,643 in the 2010s

What Made a 2010s Name

Children in the United States were registered with it between 2010 and 2019. A name's position here is how many of them were.

Why Some Names Only Cover Part of the Decade

A name that appears in three of the ten years either arrived partway through or faded out — and either is more interesting than the total on its own. The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.

Where to Go Next

Open any name to see its full curve — most of these have a hundred and forty years of it. Or compare the ends of the same measurement: the most popular names now and the rarest.