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

#21,395
Kiowa
18 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,401
Maki
18 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,411
Riko
18 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,420
Jode
18 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,434
Beren
18 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,442
Quinci
18 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,455
Joss
18 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,458
Braylin
18 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#21,467
Rael
18 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,476
Arvis
18 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,479
Kenyota
18 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,484
Torance
18 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,485
Sa
18 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,494
Shin
18 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#21,544
Latrail
18 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,545
Ilya
18 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,549
Demeatrice
18 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,572
Asencion
18 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,574
Meiko
18 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,575
Gem
18 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,584
Cheyney
18 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#21,616
Marzell
18 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,627
Roben
18 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,643
Kona
18 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,648
Leal
18 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,683
Cimarron
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,690
Maran
17 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#21,718
Jerzy
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,723
Tane
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,747
Staley
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,761
Harlie
17 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#21,774
Elain
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,778
Gen
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,780
Daytona
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,796
Roche
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,798
Tamari
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,835
Kamerin
17 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#21,859
Idy
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,871
Maiko
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,872
Fate
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,897
Meco
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,900
Mehan
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,908
Uchechukwu
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,913
Carsen
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,915
Lenox
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,929
Ivane
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,944
Coda
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,956
Scotland
17 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.