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

#23,137
Umer
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,138
Eiman
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,139
Kaleema
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,140
Demontray
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,141
Damascus
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,142
Frans
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,143
Brinkley
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,144
Norie
13 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#23,145
Jheremy
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,146
Malke
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,147
Kyah
13 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#23,148
Olamide
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,149
Kaniel
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,150
Chandre
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,151
Kemba
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,152
Jomel
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,153
Niyah
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,154
Salik
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,155
Alexsandro
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,156
Canice
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,157
Kazoua
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,158
Anthonette
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,159
Asako
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,160
Garvey
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,161
Zakiyya
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,162
Davron
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,163
Jameek
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,164
Clell
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,165
Jadda
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,166
Joneshia
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,167
Brahim
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,168
Saja
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,169
Giordano
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,170
Kamrin
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,171
Teera
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,172
Chrisa
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,173
Elyn
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,174
Taniah
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,175
Rason
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,176
Shulamis
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,177
Mohan
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,178
Idaliz
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,179
Denesia
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,180
Charnel
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,181
Stefane
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,182
Jonise
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,183
Kiyon
13 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#23,184
Kindrick
13 in the 1980s 2 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.