1980s Baby Names

30,334 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

#21,985
Zade
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,986
Pate
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,987
Evelyna
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,988
Desmen
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,989
Dioselina
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,990
Jolaine
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,991
Chasney
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,992
Joyceann
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,993
Daryel
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,994
Rakhee
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,995
Basia
17 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#21,996
Eban
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,997
Marybelle
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,998
Graviel
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#21,999
Nateshia
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,000
Chijioke
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,001
Ivane
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,002
Claretha
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,003
Loreta
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,004
Sephora
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,005
Niara
17 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,006
Juwanna
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,007
Natusha
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,008
Sangita
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,009
Kebra
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,010
Cimarron
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,011
Rodregus
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,012
Jerzy
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,013
Louden
17 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,014
Lailah
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,015
Kentral
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,016
Janissa
17 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#22,017
Aliea
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,018
Meliah
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,019
Donnella
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,020
Shakora
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,021
Brijette
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,022
Betsi
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,023
Daytron
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,024
Thedore
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,025
Bettyann
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,026
Corrado
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,027
Akelia
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,028
Damieon
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,029
Kyland
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,030
Uchechukwu
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,031
Carney
17 in the 1980s 3 of 10 years
#22,032
Heatherly
17 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.