Names that belong entirely to the 2000s
Every decade signs its name in the records. These reached their all-time top-100 peak in the 2000s — the years of flip phones and frosted tips — and have since stepped out of the mainstream.
Choose one to honor that generation, or simply enjoy the most concentrated time capsule the records can offer.
Girls
- Destiny#22 in 2001 · rare today
- Haley#28 in 2000 · rare today
- Kaitlyn#30 in 2000 · rare today
- Makayla#37 in 2008 · rare today
- Angelina#43 in 2005 · rare today
- Brooke#43 in 2003 · rare today
- Jenna#45 in 2001 · rare today
- Paige#47 in 2003 · rare today
- Trinity#48 in 2004 · rare today
- Jocelyn#50 in 2007 · rare today
- Katelyn#52 in 2001 · rare today
- Jada#75 in 2001 · rare today
- Mya#97 in 2009 · rare today
- Jayla#99 in 2006 · rare today
Boys
- Gavin#30 in 2008 · rare today
- Aidan#39 in 2003 · rare today
- Seth#63 in 2000 · rare today
- Jaden#74 in 2007 · rare today
- Garrett#74 in 2000 · rare today
- Colin#85 in 2004 · rare today
- Kaden#92 in 2006 · rare today
- Bryce#92 in 2000 · rare today
- Brady#93 in 2007 · rare today
- Jake#96 in 2000 · rare today
- Colby#99 in 2001 · rare today
How this list is built: Names whose all-time top-100 peak fell in the 2000s and which now rank outside the national top-300 (or are unranked). Source: US Social Security birth records, refreshed yearly.
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