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

#961
Kassidy
6,406 in the 2010s
#962
Sterling Sterling is a unit of money that became a name, and the coin was probably named for a bird — the little star on early Norman pennies gives one account, and a starling stamped on them gives the other.
6,398 in the 2010s
#963
Marilyn Marilyn is a girl's name usually read as a blend of Mary and Lyn.
6,382 in the 2010s
#964
Malakai Malakai is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "my messenger".
6,371 in the 2010s
#965
Cassandra Cassandra is a girl's name from Greek myth, borne by a prophet cursed to see the future and never be believed.
6,365 in the 2010s
#966
Moises
6,364 in the 2010s
#967
Gianni Gianni is a unisex name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is gracious," the Italian short form of Giovanni.
6,358 in the 2010s
#968
Eve Eve is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "living one," the name given to the first woman in Genesis.
6,355 in the 2010s
#969
Addilyn
6,354 in the 2010s
#970
Franklin Franklin means a freeholder — a man who owned his land but held no noble rank, a specific medieval class.
6,353 in the 2010s
#971
Kellen
6,343 in the 2010s
#972
Alijah Alijah is a boy's name and a modern spelling of Elijah, the Hebrew name meaning "my God is Yahweh."
6,315 in the 2010s
#973
Saul Saul means asked for, and the Hebrew Bible appears to have attached his wordplay to the wrong man — the puns on asking in the birth of Samuel fit Sha'ul far better than they fit Shemuel.
6,315 in the 2010s
#974
Nasir
6,297 in the 2010s
#975
Ryland
6,295 in the 2010s
#976
Hayes Hayes is a boy's name of Old English origin meaning "hedged enclosure."
6,273 in the 2010s
#977
Royce Royce is a boy's name from an English surname meaning "son of Roy" or "son of Rose."
6,272 in the 2010s
#978
Melany Melany is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "black" or "dark".
6,263 in the 2010s
#979
Regina Regina is the Latin word for a queen, taken unchanged, and it is still the legal abbreviation in British courts — every criminal case against a defendant is formally Regina versus the accused.
6,250 in the 2010s
#980
Selah Selah is a girl's name of Hebrew origin whose meaning is unknown.
6,247 in the 2010s
#981
Charley Charley means free man, and it is one of the few mixed names on this site — 39 percent of recorded births are female, and it is rising.
6,234 in the 2010s
#982
Rhys Rhys is a boy's name of Welsh origin meaning "ardor" or "enthusiasm," and it gave English the surname Price by way of a Welsh word for son.
6,233 in the 2010s
#983
Alani Alani is a girl's name of Hawaiian origin meaning "orange tree."
6,218 in the 2010s
#984
Rodrigo Rodrigo is a Spanish and Portuguese boy's name meaning "famous ruler."
6,191 in the 2010s
#985
Jakob
6,189 in the 2010s
#986
Quentin Quentin is a boy's name meaning fifth — a Roman birth-order name, given to a fifth child or one born in the fifth month.
6,166 in the 2010s
#987
Kailey
6,154 in the 2010s
#988
Ariah
6,142 in the 2010s
#989
Kasen
6,135 in the 2010s
#990
Janiyah
6,112 in the 2010s
#991
Adonis Adonis is a boy's name of Greek origin borrowed from a Semitic word for lord.
6,098 in the 2010s
#992
Francis Francis is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "Frenchman" or "free man."
6,095 in the 2010s
#993
Julissa
6,092 in the 2010s
#994
Alec Alec means defender of men, and France ranks it 536th — above the United States at 979th, which is not where a Scottish short form of a Greek name would be expected to lead.
6,091 in the 2010s
#995
Anya Anya is a girl's name of Russian origin, a diminutive of Anna.
6,089 in the 2010s
#996
Pierce Pierce is a boy's name meaning "rock," from the medieval Piers, the Norman form of Peter.
6,083 in the 2010s
#997
Lacey Lacey means from Lassy, a place in Normandy, and Scotland ranks it 308th — its strongest market, ahead of Northern Ireland at 475th and England at 480th, with the United States back at 738th.
6,079 in the 2010s
#998
Miley Miley is a girl's name best known from Miley Cyrus, whose own was a nickname from smiley.
6,077 in the 2010s
#999
Monica Monica is a girl's name whose meaning is unknown, and whose saint — the mother of Augustine — came from Roman North Africa, so the name may be Berber rather than Latin or Greek at all.
6,074 in the 2010s
#1,000
Priscilla Priscilla means ancient or venerable, and it is a diminutive — so the name literally reads as little old one, which was a mark of respect rather than an insult.
6,073 in the 2010s
#1,001
Izaiah
6,051 in the 2010s
#1,002
Tony Tony is a boy's name from the Roman family name Antonius, whose meaning has never been established.
6,046 in the 2010s
#1,003
Sylvia Sylvia is a girl's name from the Latin for a forest, and the mother of Rome's founders bore it — Rhea Silvia, who was made a Vestal Virgin so she could not produce heirs.
6,046 in the 2010s
#1,004
Braelynn
6,029 in the 2010s
#1,005
Tristen
6,023 in the 2010s
#1,006
Dennis Dennis is a boy's name that traces back to Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and ecstatic release — one of the few widely used Christian names derived from a pagan deity.
6,018 in the 2010s
#1,007
Zayne Zayne is a boy's name with two unrelated sources and no agreement about which it descends from.
6,012 in the 2010s
#1,008
Liana Liana is a girl's name with two sources. It is a short form of Juliana, Eliana and similar names, and independently the botanical word for a woody climbing vine — from the French lier, to bind, which is also the root of liaison.
6,005 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.