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

#337
Elliot Elliot is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord is my God."
22,261 in the 2010s
#338
Abraham Abraham is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "father of many."
22,252 in the 2010s
#339
Brady Brady means descendant of Brádach, an Irish byname whose own meaning is not settled — spirited, large-chested and broad-eyed are all proposed, and none is established.
22,125 in the 2010s
#340
River River is a name taken from the English word, which comes through Anglo-Norman from the Latin riparius, meaning "of the riverbank."
22,061 in the 2010s
#341
Dakota Dakota means friend or ally in the Dakota language, and it is one of very few widely used names taken from an Indigenous North American language.
21,858 in the 2010s
#342
Sean Sean is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "God is gracious," the Irish form of John by way of Norman French.
21,606 in the 2010s
#343
Elliott Elliott is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord is my God."
21,571 in the 2010s
#344
Jake Jake is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," a short form of Jacob that became a name in its own right.
21,426 in the 2010s
#345
Valeria Valeria is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "strong" or "healthy."
21,411 in the 2010s
#346
Tucker Tucker is a boy's name of Old English origin meaning "cloth fuller."
21,397 in the 2010s
#347
Everly Everly is a girl's name of English origin, from a place name meaning "boar meadow" — the Old English eofor, a wild boar, and leah, a clearing.
21,281 in the 2010s
#348
Nicolas Nicolas is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "victory of the people."
21,221 in the 2010s
#349
Destiny Destiny is a word name meaning a fixed future, and its root is a verb about standing firm — the Latin destinare means to make fast or fix in place, so the idea is settled rather than foreseen.
21,189 in the 2010s
#350
Mark Mark is a boy's name of Latin origin, most likely meaning "of Mars," borne by the evangelist who wrote the earliest gospel.
21,128 in the 2010s
#351
Rachel Rachel is a girl's name from Hebrew meaning ewe, borne by Jacob's wife in Genesis.
21,093 in the 2010s
#352
Ximena Ximena is a girl's name of Spanish origin whose meaning is unresolved.
21,039 in the 2010s
#353
Zion Zion is a name of Hebrew origin naming the hill in Jerusalem, and by extension the city and the promised land itself.
21,002 in the 2010s
#354
Sara Sara is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "princess" or "noblewoman."
20,744 in the 2010s
#355
Amir Amir is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "prince" or "commander," from amara, to command.
20,646 in the 2010s
#356
Angelina Angelina means little angel, and the Greek root behind it means a messenger — the winged being is a later idea layered onto a word for someone carrying news.
20,593 in the 2010s
#357
Rylan Rylan has no documented source, and the little king gloss repeated for it is unsupported — the likeliest reading is rye land, an English place name, but even that is not established.
20,563 in the 2010s
#358
Bradley Bradley is a boy's name from an English place name meaning broad meadow.
20,535 in the 2010s
#359
Cayden Cayden charts in all seven markets and has no etymology at all — it belongs to the -aiden rhyming family invented in America in the 1990s, alongside Kaiden which is written up separately here.
20,472 in the 2010s
#360
King King is a boy's name taken from the English title, from the Old English cyning.
20,465 in the 2010s
#361
Gael Gael is a boy's name meaning a Gaelic person — a speaker of Irish, Scottish Gaelic or Manx.
20,414 in the 2010s
#362
Adalynn Adalynn is a girl's name of modern American coinage, formed from the Germanic element adal, meaning noble, with the -lynn suffix.
20,400 in the 2010s
#363
Kenneth Kenneth is a boy's name anglicizing two separate Gaelic names, one meaning born of fire and one meaning handsome.
20,230 in the 2010s
#364
Aliyah Aliyah is a girl's name of Hebrew and Arabic origin meaning "ascent" or "exalted," and the two languages arrived at it separately from cognate roots.
20,188 in the 2010s
#365
Margaret Margaret is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "pearl," from margarites.
20,042 in the 2010s
#366
Juliana Juliana means youthful, from the Roman family that claimed descent from Venus — and it is the name of a Dutch queen who abdicated in favor of her daughter, as her mother and daughter both did in turn.
20,009 in the 2010s
#367
Mckenzie Mckenzie means son of Coinneach, and the z was never a z — it replaced a lost Scots letter called yogh, so the name has been mispronounced into its own spelling.
19,886 in the 2010s
#368
Melody Melody is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "song" or "singing," from melodia.
19,885 in the 2010s
#369
Amy Amy is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "beloved," and unusually the name is a past participle — someone who has been loved rather than someone lovable.
19,775 in the 2010s
#370
Laila Laila means night, and the romance built on it ran for a thousand years before Clapton — Layla and Majnun is a Persian retelling of an Arabic story, and it is the source both of the song and of the name's spread.
19,671 in the 2010s
#371
Vanessa Vanessa was invented by Jonathan Swift around 1713, built from the name of a woman he was writing to — and it later became the name of a genus of butterflies.
19,624 in the 2010s
#372
Karter Karter is a unisex name of English origin, a respelling of Carter, the occupational surname for someone who drove a cart.
19,481 in the 2010s
#373
Nova Nova is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "new," from novus.
19,405 in the 2010s
#374
Xander Xander is a boy's name, a short form of Alexander meaning defender of men.
19,351 in the 2010s
#375
Graham Graham is a boy's name of English origin meaning "gravelly homestead," from Grantham in Lincolnshire.
19,329 in the 2010s
#376
Gracie Gracie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "grace."
19,109 in the 2010s
#377
Amari Amari is a name with several competing origins: the Yoruba for "strength," the Arabic ʿāmir meaning "prosperous," and the Hebrew amar, "to say" — and reference works disagree because all three are genuine.
19,073 in the 2010s
#378
Paul Paul is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "small" or "humble," borne by the apostle whose letters shaped Christian doctrine.
19,030 in the 2010s
#379
Valerie Valerie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "strong" or "healthy," from the verb valere, meaning to be strong or to be well.
19,013 in the 2010s
#380
Adalyn Adalyn is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble".
18,846 in the 2010s
#381
Brooklynn
18,836 in the 2010s
#382
Peter Peter is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "rock."
18,725 in the 2010s
#383
Gabrielle Gabrielle is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my strength," the French feminine of Gabriel.
18,706 in the 2010s
#384
Maximus Maximus was a Roman cognomen meaning the greatest, and it charts in all seven markets — England and Wales ranks it 219th, above the United States, which is not where a Latin superlative usually leads.
18,694 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.