1990s Baby Names

13,313 names were given to children in the United States between 1990 and 1999, 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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#985
Rashad
4,711 in the 1990s
#986
Ramiro
4,696 in the 1990s
#990
Jace Jace is a boy's name that began as a short form of Jason, and so carries the meaning "healer," from the Greek iasthai, to heal.
4,651 in the 1990s
#997
Tyree
4,615 in the 1990s
#1,000
Nathanael Nathanael is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God has given," and it is the same name as Nathaniel with the spelling closer to the Greek.
4,606 in the 1990s
#1,002
Cade Cade is a boy's name of English origin taken from a medieval surname.
4,589 in the 1990s
#1,003
Marlon
4,581 in the 1990s
#1,007
Darnell
4,573 in the 1990s
#1,011
Clarence Clarence is a boy's name taken from an English dukedom, itself named for a Suffolk town.
4,548 in the 1990s
#1,013
Lewis Lewis is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior," the English form of Louis.
4,533 in the 1990s
#1,015
Julius Julius means downy-bearded, and the family claimed descent from Venus — the Julii traced themselves to Iulus, son of Aeneas, which is the genealogy Virgil wrote the Aeneid to dignify.
4,522 in the 1990s
#1,016
Tomas Tomas is a boy's name of Aramaic origin meaning "twin," a form of Thomas used across Ireland, Scandinavia and the Hispanic world.
4,520 in the 1990s
#1,021
Garret
4,492 in the 1990s
#1,025
Ralph Ralph is a boy's name of Norse origin meaning "wolf counsel."
4,479 in the 1990s
#1,036
Stuart Stuart means steward, and the office was literally the sty warden — keeper of the pigs — which rose to run the royal household and then supplied the name of a dynasty.
4,377 in the 1990s
#1,037
Brad Brad means broad clearing, shortened from Bradley — and the broad element is the same word as the modern English broad, one of the few Old English place-name terms still transparent.
4,375 in the 1990s
#1,038
Stephan Stephan means a wreath, not a crown — stephanos was the woven victor's garland at the Greek games, which is why the first Christian martyr's name reads as a prize rather than a rank.
4,367 in the 1990s
#1,039
Jaquan
4,365 in the 1990s
#1,046
Roderick Roderick means famous ruler, and its most consequential bearer lost a country — Roderic was the last Visigothic king of Spain, defeated in 711 by the Arab and Berber force that then held most of the peninsula for centuries.
4,315 in the 1990s
#1,049
Clifford Clifford is a boy's name from an English place name meaning a ford by a cliff — a river crossing below a steep bank.
4,302 in the 1990s
#1,054
Santiago Santiago is a boy's name of Spanish origin meaning "Saint James."
4,283 in the 1990s
#1,056
Daquan
4,275 in the 1990s
#1,057
Kory
4,272 in the 1990s
#1,058
Alonzo Alonzo is the Spanish descendant of a Visigothic name, and our data marks it rising — 511th in the United States, 1186th in Canada, 1324th in France and 1714th in England and Wales, having peaked as recently as 2022, which is unusual for a name our records carry from 1880.
4,262 in the 1990s
#1,060
Demarcus
4,252 in the 1990s
#1,063
Jayden Jayden is a boy's name of modern American coinage, formed on the pattern of Aiden.
4,238 in the 1990s
#1,064
Barry Barry is a boy's name from an Irish surname generally traced to a word for a spear, though a Welsh island gives a competing route.
4,234 in the 1990s
#1,065
Duncan
4,227 in the 1990s
#1,069
Antoine Antoine is a boy's name from the Roman family name Antonius, the French form of Anthony.
4,206 in the 1990s
#1,070
Wilson Wilson rose and fell with a presidency, and our data shows it plainly — 129 American births in 1911, then 496 in 1912, climbing to 1,381 by 1918 and back to 590 by 1920.
4,190 in the 1990s
#1,075
Bernard Bernard is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning brave as a bear.
4,167 in the 1990s
#1,080
Kurtis
4,132 in the 1990s
#1,086
Mauricio
4,098 in the 1990s
#1,087
Bret
4,091 in the 1990s
#1,088
Rolando
4,091 in the 1990s
#1,097
Jarod
4,004 in the 1990s
#1,099
Clint
3,995 in the 1990s
#1,101
Daryl Daryl completes a set of three — Darrell, Darryl and Daryl are one Norman place name split across three spellings, and all three appear in our gap band, carrying about 328,000 births between them.
3,979 in the 1990s
#1,102
Damion
3,974 in the 1990s
#1,104
Kirk Kirk means church, and it is Norse rather than English — the Vikings brought the word to northern England and Scotland, which is why Scots say kirk where English says church.
3,966 in the 1990s
#1,105
Lamar
3,961 in the 1990s
#1,111
Ahmad Ahmad is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "most praiseworthy".
3,923 in the 1990s
#1,113
Howard Howard is a boy's name whose origin is genuinely contested — high guardian, brave heart and even a keeper of pigs have all been proposed.
3,915 in the 1990s
#1,114
Adan
3,912 in the 1990s
#1,115
Earl Earl is a boy's name taken from the English noble title, and it is the only rank in the British peerage with a native English name rather than a French one.
3,908 in the 1990s
#1,117
Perry Perry means at the pear tree, from an English place name — and our data marks it reviving, at 1373rd in the United States and 1681st in England and Wales.
3,892 in the 1990s
#1,120
Derick
3,864 in the 1990s
#1,121
Dexter Dexter is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "right-handed" or "skilful."
3,862 in the 1990s

What made a 1990s name

Nothing about the sound of it. A name is on this page because children in the United States were registered with it between 1990 and 1999, and its position is simply how many. Every list of "1990s 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.