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

#22,097
Markida
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,099
Stephanny
17 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,100
Elesia
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,101
Anysia
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,103
Tichelle
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,104
Naa
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,105
Suman
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,106
Dafna
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,107
Vanette
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,109
Jazzmyne
16 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,110
Zenna
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,111
Triniece
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,112
Tymeshia
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,113
Bernarda
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,116
Aggie
16 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,117
Madlyn
16 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,120
Mandana
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,121
Shanecia
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,122
Kiswana
16 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#22,123
Malvina
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,124
Samya
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,125
Nasia
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,126
Shandia
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,127
Adasha
16 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#22,131
Lyneisha
16 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,133
Rachale
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,134
Basma
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,135
Pamla
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,137
Taresha
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,138
Chelcea
16 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,139
Moreen
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,140
Lucianne
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,142
Arkeisha
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,143
Yukari
16 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,144
Latedra
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,145
Dameshia
16 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,147
Nannie
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,150
Angeleena
16 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,151
Deette
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,154
Parisha
16 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,158
Staysha
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,159
Kalliope
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,163
Cia
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,165
Reizel
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,166
Liela
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,167
Vivi
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,168
Kalynda
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,169
Chastina
16 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.