1980s Baby Names
9,885 names were given to children in the United States between 1980 and 1989, 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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#1,755Jacques Jacques is a boy's name, the French form of Jacob, and our data marks it reviving.1,435 in the 1980s
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#1,774Mohammed Mohammed is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "praiseworthy."1,416 in the 1980s
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#1,805Archie Archie is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "genuine and bold."1,376 in the 1980s
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#1,808Rocco Rocco is a boy's name of Germanic origin, generally read from a root meaning rest or repose.1,373 in the 1980s
What made a 1980s name
Nothing about the sound of it. A name is on this page because children in the United States were registered with it between 1980 and 1989, and its position is simply how many. Every list of "1980s names" you will find elsewhere is somebody's sense of the period; this one is the register.
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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.