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

#25,182
Frenchie
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,185
Deshante
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,209
Brodi
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,223
Tash
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,253
Ayan Ayan is a name with two unrelated origins.
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,257
Marle
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,297
Kamali
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,320
Shinya
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,327
Airin
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,338
Rudell
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,357
Myers
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,387
Yunuen
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,408
Sao
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,420
Jordain
10 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#25,424
Hillory
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,425
Monnie
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,431
Delorian
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,439
Leverne
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,442
Jerre
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,450
Donshay
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,461
Stace
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,475
Galyn
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,479
Trayce
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,484
Harsha
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,495
Maryland
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,497
Hannon
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,539
Lyndale
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,542
Lindsley
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,547
Charlin
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,554
Lemoyne
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,561
Savonne
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,578
Navjot
10 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#25,616
Kolya
9 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#25,655
Yanai
9 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#25,665
Ragene
9 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#25,691
Tay
8 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#25,733
Jacquise
8 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#25,746
Wandy
8 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#25,800
Phalen
8 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#25,803
Leshun
8 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#25,817
Mateja
8 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#25,818
Decota
8 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#25,826
Asten
8 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#25,880
Terriel
8 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#25,884
Mishon
8 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#25,915
Panya
7 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#25,929
Gemini
7 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#25,935
Brannigan
7 in the 1980s 1 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.