What do you call the first and second decades of a century?

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The third decade is the twenties, then the thirties, then forties, fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties, and finally nineties. But what do you call the first and second decades? The second one can't be called the teens because what about year 10, 11, and 12?

When it's 2023 and we want to refer back to the first decade of the turn of the century, 2000-2009, what can it be called? I can think of nothing.
 
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