1980s Baby Names

2,345 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

#17,028
Samon
35 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,033
Yardley
35 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#17,051
Dorris
35 in the 1980s 6 of 10 years
#17,056
Yona
35 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,087
Jaylin
35 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,099
Donique
34 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,104
Cleotha
34 in the 1980s 6 of 10 years
#17,106
Fontaine
34 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,113
Swan
34 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,114
Kehinde
34 in the 1980s 6 of 10 years
#17,124
Lotus
34 in the 1980s 6 of 10 years
#17,149
Woodie
34 in the 1980s 6 of 10 years
#17,155
Jaie
34 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#17,163
Chantra
34 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,171
Windsor
34 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,183
Dorean
34 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,191
Marte
34 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,221
Kitt
34 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,231
Mackie
34 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,232
Kyri
34 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,263
Jany
34 in the 1980s 6 of 10 years
#17,287
Nur
33 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,304
Keelyn
33 in the 1980s 6 of 10 years
#17,316
Shajuan
33 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,321
Deontra
33 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,338
Nilay
33 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,345
Shaylen
33 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,363
Jeany
33 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,364
Lorell
33 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,366
Nehal
33 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,367
Hawley
33 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,370
Jourdain
33 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,373
Mannie
33 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,392
Larrie
33 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,426
Jordie
33 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,458
Kriss
33 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,473
Shadie
32 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,489
Joany
32 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,493
Kaelan
32 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#17,496
Oral
32 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,506
Reis
32 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,518
Doan
32 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,522
Crescent
32 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,531
Narin
32 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,550
Elis
32 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,572
Doua
32 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,580
Dymond
32 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#17,636
Oni
32 in the 1980s 4 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.