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
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
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 genuinely 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
Ruben Ruben is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "behold, a son."
8,730 in the 2010s
#744
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
#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 in our data.
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
Beckham Beckham is a boy's name of Old English origin meaning "homestead by the stream."
8,199 in the 2010s
#766
Amira Amira is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "princess" or "commander."
8,199 in the 2010s
#767
Scarlet
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

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.