1980s Baby Names

2,576 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

#17,357
Jourdain
33 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,379
Hawley
33 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,392
Nehal
33 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,404
Shaylen
33 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,410
Kriss
33 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,416
Gwynn
33 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,420
Shajuan
33 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,422
Jordie
33 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,423
Mannie
33 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,434
Rilee
33 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,437
Nur
33 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,442
Lorell
33 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,444
Deontra
33 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,466
Doan
32 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,479
Kaelan
32 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#17,482
Joany
32 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,496
Oral
32 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,568
Crescent
32 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,577
Narin
32 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,581
Doua
32 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,607
Elis
32 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,683
Shadie
32 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,692
Krister
31 in the 1980s 6 of 10 years
#17,708
Reda
31 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,709
Alisan
31 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,716
Zephyr
31 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,723
Sok
31 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#17,728
Jem
31 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,764
Bowie
31 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,777
Chene
31 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,779
Phalon
31 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,797
Bianco
31 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#17,819
Bela
31 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,822
Chandara
31 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,825
Sugar
31 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,837
Argelis
31 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#17,840
Nealy
31 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,842
Marjon
31 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,849
Starling
31 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#17,863
Dorin
31 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,895
Reeve
31 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,907
Anant
31 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,932
Jonnell
30 in the 1980s 6 of 10 years
#17,950
Oluwatosin
30 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,951
Troi
30 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#17,967
Taris
30 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#17,977
Summers
30 in the 1980s 5 of 10 years
#18,019
Olanda
30 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years

What made a 1980s name

Nothing about the sound of it. A name is on this page because children in the United States were registered with it between 1980 and 1989, and its position is simply how many. Every list of "1980s names" you will find elsewhere is somebody's sense of the period; this one is the register.

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.