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.

All Girls Boys Unisex

Rankings for

#20,028
Kimble
23 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#20,035
Jwan
23 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,047
Clemmie
23 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,052
Lawan
22 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,055
Claudel
22 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,070
Monti
22 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,077
Danyl
22 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#20,098
Kallan
22 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,108
Kodee
22 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#20,113
Dresden
22 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#20,136
Laroyce
22 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#20,140
Ting
22 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#20,148
Juel
22 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,171
Lior
22 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#20,196
Montique
22 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,203
Choya
22 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,213
Vallon
22 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,218
Tailor
22 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#20,251
Talyn
22 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#20,295
Britian
22 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#20,310
Baley
22 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#20,311
Arleigh
22 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#20,328
So
22 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,349
Ehrin
21 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,373
Dontia
21 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#20,377
Olayinka
21 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#20,381
Haile
21 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,389
Arryn
21 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,390
Hany
21 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#20,436
Annet
21 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,437
Diep
21 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#20,453
Denim
21 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,474
Carlas
21 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#20,490
Brenn
21 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,505
Raymie
21 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,531
Gregorie
21 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,532
Arly
21 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#20,538
Krisna
21 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,570
Nao
21 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,591
Nehemie
21 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#20,600
Abijah
21 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,613
Orel
21 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#20,649
Karron
20 in the 1980s 4 of 10 years
#20,664
Indy
20 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#20,671
Angelin
20 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#20,697
Markelle
20 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#20,699
Sinai
20 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#20,701
Tian
20 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.