Most Popular Baby Names Of The 2010s
The top 100 girls’ and boys’ names across 2010–2019. Explore their meanings, histories, and popularity today.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Descendant of Nuallán; famous or loud root | 4,846#65 | Down 4 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Elf ruler | 2,003#146 | Down 90 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Meaning uncertain; Scottish surname | 2,883#124 | Down 40 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Defending men, through Alexandra | 243#1,029 | Down 799 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Keeper of the park | 3,477#102 | Down 7 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
My God is Yahweh, through Elijah | 8,837#13 | Up 41 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Night | 5,338#36 | Down 12 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Son of the steward | 5,805#51 | Down 16 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Gift of Yahweh, through Matthew | 11,045#8 | Up 12 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
New York place name; possibly broken land or marsh land; also Brook plus lyn | 2,300#118 | Down 64 rank positions in five years | 2011 | ||
Possibly noise or tumult; later associated with sad | 1,103#309 | Down 127 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Unknown; probably Etruscan, through Camillus | 6,591#19 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
Barrel maker | 7,472#27 | Up 48 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Sanskrit illusion or magic; Hebrew water; Greek good mother via Maia | 3,712#62 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Possibly boomerang; also a Kyle form or ky–lee combination | 1,491#204 | Down 72 rank positions in five years | 2003 | ||
Possibly most holy, through Ariadne | 2,219#128 | Down 49 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Of Magdala; the place name means tower | 3,362#71 | Down 5 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Life, through Zoe | 3,427#69 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Son of Hudd or Hudde | 8,583#17 | Up 26 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Son of Jack, through Jackson | 3,073#115 | Down 67 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Scarlet-cloth maker or seller | 5,644#32 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Happy, blessed | 7,456#28 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Yahweh is gracious | 5,634#33 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
High; lofty; sublime | 2,607#101 | Down 36 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Possibly duck; alternative weaving-related roots | 6,225#22 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Familiar form of Eleanor, Ellen, Elizabeth, and other El names | 6,176#24 | Up 5 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Lake colony | 4,703#69 | Down 29 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Possibly most holy, through Ariadne | 1,323#234 | Down 110 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Dawn | 7,065#15 | Up 21 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Heaven spelled backward | 1,828#165 | Down 82 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Musical solo or air; independently Persian “noble” | 6,130#26 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Armoured head or misshapen head, from the Irish name Cennétig | 2,933#85 | Down 13 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Birth; origin | 3,527#66 | Down 4 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Healer, through Jason | 3,083#114 | Down 18 rank positions in five years | 2013 | ||
Little fire, through Aidan | 1,343#257 | Down 135 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Pæga's town | 1,559#199 | Down 101 rank positions in five years | 2009 | ||
Moon | 6,076#27 | Down 13 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Scholar, through Schuyler | 1,818#167 | Down 103 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Dear; gracious | 4,796#43 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Beautiful; also a short form of Isabella | 2,129#136 | Down 73 rank positions in five years | 2010 | ||
East town | 3,198#110 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Calmness or tranquility | 2,209#129 | Down 60 rank positions in five years | 2013 | ||
Modern form of Caden; no settled literal meaning | 2,678#135 | Down 36 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Son of Jack | 2,365#156 | Down 71 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Lovable; also interpreted as Anna and beautiful | 891#343 | Down 123 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
From the Scottish place Paisley; deeper meaning uncertain | 3,508#67 | Down 18 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Player of a pipe | 1,940#155 | Down 64 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Bentgrass clearing | 1,649#215 | Down 74 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Green shoot | 1,149#272 | Down 111 rank positions in five years | 2010 | ||
Elf ruler | 606#489 | Down 333 rank positions in five years | 2013 |
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Year by year in the 2010s
This list includes the top 100 girls’ and boys’ names by total use across 2010–2019. Table birth counts and ranks show 2025, and rank movement covers the latest five years. Search, filters, and sorting stay within this decade’s name list.
Counts are based on U.S. births and are tracked separately for girls and boys. Names used fewer than 5 times in a year aren’t published for that year, so totals here are a floor — the shortfall is largest in the sparse early years.