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

#721
Briana Briana is a feminine of Brian, and it first appears in Spenser's Faerie Queene in 1590 — which makes it one of very few names whose earliest recorded use is a specific poem.
9,075 in the 2010s
#722
Ainsley Ainsley is a name of English and Scottish use, given mainly to girls, from a surname meaning "solitary clearing."
9,066 in the 2010s
#723
Matias Matias is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "gift of God."
9,058 in the 2010s
#724
Vera Vera is a girl's name with two origins that both work. In Russian it means "faith"; in Latin vera means "true" — and unusually for such a pair, the two senses reinforce rather than contradict each other.
9,052 in the 2010s
#725
Addyson
9,049 in the 2010s
#726
Ada Ada is a girl's name with two origins. In Germanic it is a short form of names beginning with adal, noble; in Hebrew, Adah means "adornment" and belongs to two women in Genesis.
9,044 in the 2010s
#727
Aden
9,000 in the 2010s
#728
Kira Kira has three unrelated sources — the Irish for dark, a Russian feminine of the Persian for lord, and a Japanese word for glittering — and nothing in the spelling tells you which one a given Kira belongs to.
8,979 in the 2010s
#729
Blakely Blakely is a name of Old English origin meaning either "black clearing" or "pale clearing."
8,976 in the 2010s
#730
Myla Myla is a girl's name whose origin is unsettled.
8,942 in the 2010s
#731
Briella Briella is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, a short form of Gabriella meaning "God is my strength".
8,915 in the 2010s
#732
Adelynn Adelynn is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble."
8,913 in the 2010s
#733
Ace Ace is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "one" or "unity."
8,910 in the 2010s
#734
Brendan Brendan is not Irish in origin — it comes from a Welsh word meaning a prince, borrowed into Irish, and its saint is credited with a transatlantic voyage six centuries before Columbus.
8,908 in the 2010s
#735
Esmeralda Esmeralda is not the character's name in the novel — Hugo's girl is christened Agnès and called Esmeralda for the green amulet she wears, so the name most readers know her by is a nickname.
8,879 in the 2010s
#736
Allen Allen is a boy's name whose meaning is unknown — rock, handsome and deer have all been proposed from an unidentified Breton source.
8,864 in the 2010s
#737
Camilla Camilla is a girl's name of Latin origin naming a young attendant at a religious rite.
8,840 in the 2010s
#738
Orion Orion is a boy's name of Greek origin, borne by the mythological hunter and the constellation named for him.
8,832 in the 2010s
#739
Carmen Carmen has two unrelated sources — the Latin word for a song, and a Spanish Marian title from Mount Carmel in Israel.
8,827 in the 2010s
#740
Braden Braden means descendant of the salmon, and the fish is not decorative — the Salmon of Knowledge is the center of one of the best-known Irish stories, in which Fionn gains all wisdom by burning his thumb on it.
8,796 in the 2010s
#741
Arielle Arielle is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "lion of God".
8,792 in the 2010s
#742
Ember Ember is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the word for a glowing coal, from æmyrge.
8,754 in the 2010s
#743
Jillian Jillian means youthful, and it descends from the same Roman family name as July — Julius, Julia, Jill and Jillian all come from the gens that claimed descent from Venus.
8,730 in the 2010s
#744
Ruben Ruben is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "behold, a son."
8,730 in the 2010s
#745
Gia Gia is a girl's name, the Italian short form of Gianna, meaning God is gracious.
8,729 in the 2010s
#746
Annabella
8,711 in the 2010s
#747
Oakley Oakley is a name of Old English origin meaning "oak clearing" or "oak meadow."
8,652 in the 2010s
#748
Leighton Leighton is a unisex name of English origin meaning "herb garden settlement".
8,650 in the 2010s
#749
Journee Journee is a girl's name taken from the English word journey, respelled to look like the French journée.
8,573 in the 2010s
#750
Derrick Derrick means ruler of the people, and the crane is named after a man — Thomas Derrick, an Elizabethan hangman whose gallows design was distinctive enough that his name became the word for it.
8,559 in the 2010s
#751
Yaretzi
8,472 in the 2010s
#752
Ariella Ariella is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "lion of God."
8,443 in the 2010s
#753
Abby Abby means my father is joy, and France ranks it 322nd — ahead of Scotland at 359th, Ireland at 453rd and the United States at 731st, which is not where an English diminutive of a Hebrew name should lead.
8,442 in the 2010s
#754
Atticus Atticus is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "from Attica", the region of Greece around Athens.
8,380 in the 2010s
#755
Zara Zara is a girl's name with more than one origin. It is read as "radiance" or "blossom" from the Arabic zahrah, and as a form of Sarah, meaning "princess," from Hebrew — and both readings are in active use.
8,367 in the 2010s
#756
Leland Leland means fallow land — ground deliberately left unplowed for a season.
8,365 in the 2010s
#757
Jensen Jensen is a Danish surname meaning son of Jens, now used as a given name for both boys and girls.
8,364 in the 2010s
#758
Cade Cade is a boy's name of English origin taken from a medieval surname.
8,350 in the 2010s
#759
Mallory Mallory means unlucky, and it is one of very few names built on an insult — the Norman malheuré described someone ill-fated, and it became a surname before anyone used it as a first name.
8,325 in the 2010s
#760
Chandler Chandler means a candle maker, and the trade left a grander word behind — the same French root gives chandelier, so the humblest medieval occupation names the most ornate fitting in the house.
8,315 in the 2010s
#761
Kyleigh
8,293 in the 2010s
#762
Kelly Kelly is a name from the Irish surname Ó Ceallaigh, borne almost entirely by men for most of its history and now 86 percent female on record.
8,274 in the 2010s
#763
Theo Theo is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "god," from theos.
8,245 in the 2010s
#764
Corey Corey is a boy's name from an Irish surname, generally given as dweller near a hollow.
8,207 in the 2010s
#765
Amira Amira is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "princess" or "commander."
8,199 in the 2010s
#766
Beckham Beckham is a boy's name of Old English origin meaning "homestead by the stream."
8,199 in the 2010s
#767
Scarlet Scarlet is a girl's name from the bright red color, a spelling of Scarlett.
8,196 in the 2010s
#768
Remy Remy is a name of Latin origin meaning "oarsman" or "rower."
8,187 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.