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

#25,297
Muneerah
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,298
Basilia
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,299
Carnita
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,300
Jhony
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,301
Chamille
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,302
Kelena
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,303
Daveion
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,304
Semisi
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,305
Staria
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,306
Greory
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,307
Zaynah
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,308
Kalid
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,309
Day
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,310
Dyonna
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,311
Krisan
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,312
Katlynd
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,313
Caycie
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,314
Zania
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,315
Nikkea
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,316
Deshante
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,317
Esmael
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,318
Gissele
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,319
Yassin
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,320
Alleen
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,321
Antina
10 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#25,322
Nimit
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,323
Fatemeh
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,324
Teshawn
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,325
Marsh
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,326
Yevonne
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,327
Avrum
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,328
Tauris
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,329
Kees
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,330
Abdullatif
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,331
Lemoyne
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,332
Leroi
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,333
Abrah
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,334
Elzbieta
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,335
Rudell
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,336
Kenra
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,337
Niegel
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,338
Liezel
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,339
Shevette
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,340
Moneke
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,341
Danyalle
10 in the 1980s 1 of 10 years
#25,342
Ilicia
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,343
Benjamyn
10 in the 1980s 2 of 10 years
#25,344
Nadera
10 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.