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.

All Girls Boys Unisex

Rankings for

#625
Walter Walter is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning ruler of the army.
10,607 in the 2010s
#626
Dalton Dalton means the settlement in the valley, and Northern Ireland ranks it 305th — above the United States at 448th, which is unexpected for a name whose modern use is almost entirely American.
10,575 in the 2010s
#627
Enzo Enzo is a boy's name of Italian origin whose derivation is disputed.
10,559 in the 2010s
#628
Nina Nina is a girl's name with several unrelated origins.
10,554 in the 2010s
#629
Rosalie Rosalie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "rose."
10,535 in the 2010s
#630
Alexia Alexia means defender, and it is also a clinical term — alexia is the medical name for acquired inability to read, from the same Greek root by a completely separate route.
10,525 in the 2010s
#631
Lena Lena is a girl's name used as a short form of Helena, Magdalena and Elena, so it usually carries the sense "light" or "torch."
10,516 in the 2010s
#632
Erik Erik is a boy's name meaning ever-ruler or sole ruler, from Old Norse.
10,506 in the 2010s
#633
Drake
10,501 in the 2010s
#634
Fatima Fatima is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "one who weans" or "one who abstains."
10,495 in the 2010s
#635
Gregory Gregory is a boy's name from the Greek for watchful or alert.
10,476 in the 2010s
#636
Kyrie Kyrie is a unisex name of Greek origin meaning "lord".
10,456 in the 2010s
#637
Laura Laura is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "laurel," the tree whose leaves crowned Roman victors and poets.
10,447 in the 2010s
#638
June June is a girl's name of Latin origin taken from the month, which is named for the goddess Juno — the queen of the Roman gods and the protector of marriage and childbirth.
10,415 in the 2010s
#639
Kenzie
10,382 in the 2010s
#640
Amiyah
10,363 in the 2010s
#641
Nyla Nyla is a girl's name with more than one plausible origin.
10,359 in the 2010s
#642
Thiago Thiago is a boy's name of Portuguese and Spanish origin, a form of James arrived at by splitting Santiago.
10,303 in the 2010s
#643
Jane Jane is a girl's name from the Hebrew for God is gracious, the English feminine of John.
10,278 in the 2010s
#644
Cadence
10,272 in the 2010s
#645
Walker Walker is a boy's name of English origin meaning "a fuller of cloth."
10,236 in the 2010s
#646
Kayleigh Kayleigh is far larger in England than its American figures suggest — 1,206 births in England and Wales in 1996 against a US peak of 1,450, in a country with about a fifth of the population.
10,235 in the 2010s
#647
Leslie Leslie is a Scottish place name turned surname turned given name, and it has crossed sexes: about 71 percent of the births in our records are female, though the name began firmly male and remains so in Britain.
10,234 in the 2010s
#648
Adelaide Adelaide means noble in kind, and it is one of only three names in this group our data marks as rising — 230th in Canada, 289th in the United States, 344th in England and Wales, 416th in France and 618th in Scotland, and setting its English peak in the most recent year we hold.
10,225 in the 2010s
#649
Sloane Sloane is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "raider" or "warrior."
10,222 in the 2010s
#650
Haven Haven is a name of Old English origin meaning "harbor" or "place of safety."
10,202 in the 2010s
#651
Kathryn Kathryn is a girl's name, the y-spelling of Katherine, and it inherits that name's genuinely unknown meaning.
10,199 in the 2010s
#652
Kendra Kendra has no settled origin — a feminine of Kenneth, a Welsh compound meaning greatest champion, and an invention from Ken plus a fashionable ending are all proposed, and none is established.
10,194 in the 2010s
#653
Kali Kali is a girl's name of Sanskrit origin naming the Hindu goddess, from kala meaning both black and time.
10,167 in the 2010s
#654
Alison Alison means little Alice, and Alice means noble — but the Norman name behind it is a heavy compression of the Germanic Adalheidis, so the noble is all that survived of a longer compound.
10,167 in the 2010s
#655
Madilyn
10,129 in the 2010s
#656
Cohen Cohen is a boy's name from the Hebrew word for priest, and a surname marking descent from the priestly line of ancient Israel.
10,103 in the 2010s
#657
Kelsey Kelsey is a girl's name from an English place name, and its two proposed meanings — ship's victory and Cenel's island — have nothing in common.
10,084 in the 2010s
#658
Alicia Alicia is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble," a Latinate form of Alice.
10,075 in the 2010s
#659
Sabrina Sabrina is the Latin name of the River Severn, and the legend behind it is a drowning — a princess thrown into the river became its spirit.
10,067 in the 2010s
#660
Armani Armani is a unisex name of Italian origin, a surname meaning "son of Armanno" — a Germanic name built from elements for army and man.
10,041 in the 2010s
#661
Amber Amber is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "ambergris."
10,023 in the 2010s
#662
Charlee Charlee is a girl's name of Germanic origin, a respelling of Charlie.
10,019 in the 2010s
#663
Kaydence
9,976 in the 2010s
#664
Daniella Daniella means God is my judge, and the name is a legal claim — Daniel's story turns on false accusation and vindication, so the name states in advance who decides the case.
9,974 in the 2010s
#665
Alessandra
9,951 in the 2010s
#666
Jayceon
9,950 in the 2010s
#667
Julius Julius means downy-bearded, and the family claimed descent from Venus — the Julii traced themselves to Iulus, son of Aeneas, which is the genealogy Virgil wrote the Aeneid to dignify.
9,945 in the 2010s
#668
Madeleine Madeleine is a girl's name meaning "of Magdala," a fishing town on the Sea of Galilee, and it is a place name rather than a description.
9,929 in the 2010s
#669
Joaquin Joaquin is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "established by God".
9,899 in the 2010s
#670
Nadia Nadia means hope, from the Russian word, and it charts in all seven markets we track — Ireland 293rd, Scotland 312th, Northern Ireland 329th, England and Wales 501st, the United States 565th and France 754th.
9,868 in the 2010s
#671
Annie Annie is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "grace" or "favor."
9,867 in the 2010s
#672
Ellis Ellis is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord is my God."
9,865 in the 2010s

What made a 2010s name

Nothing about the sound of it. A name is on this page because children in the United States were registered with it between 2010 and 2019, and its position is simply how many. Every list of "2010s names" you will find elsewhere is somebody's sense of the period; this one is the register.

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.