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

#21,979
Remmington
17 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,001
Ivane
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,010
Cimarron
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,012
Jerzy
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,030
Uchechukwu
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,043
Vallen
17 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,054
Emmette
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,085
Kashmere
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,089
Mehan
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,128
Sayre
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,129
Lundon
16 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,130
Francy
16 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,141
Lyann
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,156
Blayze
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,194
Asheton
16 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,222
Devinn
16 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,224
Dezi
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,227
Nalin
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,250
Garrie
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,271
Damani
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,343
Delfin
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,353
Kyndell
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,370
Carrell
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,371
Dameron
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,392
Satia
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,405
Mardy
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,411
Sheen
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,425
Shiron
16 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,454
Sheraz
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,456
Lunden
16 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,457
Rabab
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,467
Yannis
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,477
Da
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,506
Laurien
16 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,553
Senna
15 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,556
Deondrea
15 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,572
Claudy
15 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,578
Othell
15 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,579
Jua
15 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,584
Nuri
15 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,612
Tavi
15 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,622
Cayse
15 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,641
Shell
15 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,645
Alin
15 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,650
Corren
15 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,667
Kailan
15 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,703
Layken
15 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,714
Nike
15 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.