1980s Baby Names

10,009 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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Rankings for

#25,274
Alexandru
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,277
Saunders
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,278
Olanrewaju
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,279
Francico
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,285
Nichollas
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,291
Dywan
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,292
Kwami
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,293
Staton
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,300
Jhony
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,303
Daveion
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,304
Semisi
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,306
Greory
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,308
Kalid
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,317
Esmael
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,319
Yassin
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,322
Nimit
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,324
Teshawn
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,325
Marsh
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,327
Avrum
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,328
Tauris
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,329
Kees
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,330
Abdullatif
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,332
Leroi
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,337
Niegel
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,343
Benjamyn
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,346
Devarious
10 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#25,351
Kolawole
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,352
Olukayode
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,353
Olujimi
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,355
Treye
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,356
Ato
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,357
Jabori
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,358
Craven
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,359
Lemichael
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,361
Yovanny
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,363
Jamard
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,364
Fedrick
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,365
Jiten
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,367
Buzz
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,368
Missael
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,369
Romondo
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,370
Juddson
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,379
Abubakar
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,384
Duarte
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,385
Jachob
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,386
Keiffer
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,387
Romaro
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,388
Dorsett
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years

What Made a 1980s Name

Children in the United States were registered with it between 1980 and 1989. 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.