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

#23,080
Marteka
14 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#23,084
Jarika
14 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,089
Charma
14 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,091
Orissa
14 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,092
Reagen
14 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,093
Jylian
14 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,095
Alnisha
14 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,097
Joleene
14 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,098
Dosha
14 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,100
Anglica
14 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,102
Taramarie
14 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,103
Kyandra
14 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,105
Kailei
14 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,107
Ramisha
14 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,108
Alissha
14 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,109
Vasti
14 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,110
Angelice
14 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,112
Marsena
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,114
Lavanna
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,115
Lakrista
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,116
Lonnetta
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,118
Kura
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,120
Honi
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,121
Maelyn
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,122
Halona
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,123
Bayleigh
13 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#23,125
Jatina
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,130
Diamonds
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,131
Aija
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,133
Janyce
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,134
Chamia
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,135
Tiarrah
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,138
Eiman
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,139
Kaleema
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,143
Brinkley
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,144
Norie
13 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#23,146
Malke
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,147
Kyah
13 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#23,150
Chandre
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,151
Kemba
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,153
Niyah
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,157
Kazoua
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,158
Anthonette
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,159
Asako
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,161
Zakiyya
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,165
Jadda
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,166
Joneshia
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,168
Saja
13 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.