1980s Baby Names

17,980 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

#21,863
Talanda
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,864
Melitta
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,865
Nkechinyere
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,867
Alexarae
17 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#21,869
Tanisa
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,870
Mehwish
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,871
Hilaree
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,872
Ghada
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,874
Hye
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,877
Shataria
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,878
Niyoka
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,883
Chasitty
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,885
Akea
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,886
Gauri
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,887
Titianna
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,888
Safiyah
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,890
Jamilya
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,892
Uzoamaka
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,893
Lusila
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,894
Krishelle
17 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#21,895
Nykea
17 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#21,897
Emanda
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,898
Sobia
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,899
Rosalynda
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,900
Blanka
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,901
Yulisa
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,903
Tierrah
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,905
Lokelani
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,906
Missi
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,910
Bernadett
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,911
Kista
17 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#21,912
Shawnay
17 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#21,913
Kathlena
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,915
Markayla
17 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#21,917
Damber
17 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#21,918
Lasey
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,919
Nataja
17 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#21,920
Altamese
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,923
Teyanna
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,924
Shamiqua
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,927
Marshella
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,928
Lynnett
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,933
Salema
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,934
Maricris
17 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#21,935
Laesha
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,936
Sharnelle
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,937
Dustee
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,938
Disiree
17 in the 1980s 3 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.