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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#1,269
Salvatore Salvatore means savior, and it is a title rather than a description — Italian Catholic families gave it as a devotional name naming Christ's role directly, in the way Spanish families use Jesús.
3,175 in the 1990s
#1,271
Neal Neal has no agreed meaning — champion, cloud and passionate are all proposed for the Irish Niall and none is established.
3,143 in the 1990s
#1,277
Aron
3,125 in the 1990s
#1,279
Tre
3,114 in the 1990s
#1,280
Roland Roland is a boy's name meaning famous land, and its bearer is the hero of France's national epic — a knight who dies at Roncevaux because he is too proud to blow his horn for help.
3,114 in the 1990s
#1,281
Glen Glen means a narrow valley, and it is one of very few Gaelic words that English borrowed wholesale rather than adapting to its own sounds.
3,113 in the 1990s
#1,282
Bennett Bennett is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "blessed," the medieval English form of Benedict, from benedictus.
3,113 in the 1990s
#1,283
Kaden Kaden is a modern American coinage rather than an inherited name — it belongs to the rhyming set with Aiden, Jaden and Brayden, and the Arabic and Welsh origins offered for it were attached afterwards.
3,110 in the 1990s
#1,290
Darion
3,082 in the 1990s
#1,292
Reece Reece means ardor, and its England and Wales peak of 1,828 in 1996 is far larger than anything the United States has recorded — a Welsh name that reached America late and never matched its home scale.
3,078 in the 1990s
#1,295
Joaquin Joaquin is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "established by God".
3,073 in the 1990s
#1,297
Mohammed Mohammed is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "praiseworthy."
3,068 in the 1990s
#1,299
Tate Tate is a boy's name of Old Norse origin meaning "cheerful."
3,058 in the 1990s
#1,300
Coleman
3,057 in the 1990s
#1,306
Lonnie Lonnie shortens Alonzo and Alphonso, meaning noble and ready — and the Germanic original reached Spain with the Visigoths, so a name that reads as American South is Gothic by descent.
3,031 in the 1990s
#1,309
Everett Everett is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "brave as a wild boar," from eber, boar, and hard, brave or hardy.
3,020 in the 1990s
#1,313
Ezra Ezra is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "help."
3,008 in the 1990s
#1,316
Nathanial
2,997 in the 1990s
#1,318
Irvin Irvin names a Scottish river valley, and the green water reading describes the water rather than the banks — Brittonic river names usually record color or behavior, not the land beside them.
2,990 in the 1990s
#1,326
Raheem
2,952 in the 1990s
#1,328
Clifton Clifton means the settlement by the cliff, and it is the same first element as Clifford — one describes a ford below the cliff and the other the farm on top of it.
2,941 in the 1990s
#1,330
Will Will means will-helmet, and the compound is stranger than it looks — the Germanic joins desire to a piece of armor, so the name reads as protection by determination.
2,927 in the 1990s
#1,333
Caden Caden is a boy's name of modern American coinage with no documented origin.
2,913 in the 1990s
#1,334
Darrin
2,906 in the 1990s
#1,335
Kent Kent is the oldest recorded place name in England — Cantium appears in Greek writing before the Roman invasion, and its meaning was already uncertain to the Romans who wrote it down.
2,902 in the 1990s
#1,336
Cornelius
2,896 in the 1990s
#1,341
Kolby
2,870 in the 1990s
#1,342
Marcel Marcel is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "little warrior," a diminutive of Marcus and so ultimately from Mars.
2,868 in the 1990s
#1,348
Vernon Vernon is a Norman place name meaning a place of alders, from a Gaulish word — so a French town gave England a surname that America turned into a first name, three languages deep.
2,839 in the 1990s
#1,350
Milton Milton means the mill settlement, and there is a second and quite separate source meaning the middle settlement — two entirely different Old English place names that ended up producing exactly the same modern spelling.
2,833 in the 1990s
#1,353
August August is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "venerable" or "majestic," from augustus.
2,826 in the 1990s
#1,355
Mohamed Mohamed is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "praiseworthy."
2,822 in the 1990s
#1,359
Agustin
2,817 in the 1990s
#1,360
Conrad Conrad set its American peak in the most recent year we hold, 2025, on 770 births — a name our records carry from 1880 reaching its high point a hundred and forty-five years later.
2,817 in the 1990s
#1,364
Darrius
2,801 in the 1990s
#1,366
Jamel
2,790 in the 1990s
#1,367
Jamison
2,790 in the 1990s
#1,371
Reynaldo
2,779 in the 1990s
#1,372
Fred Fred is a boy's name, the short form of Frederick meaning peaceful ruler.
2,779 in the 1990s
#1,373
Dandre
2,778 in the 1990s
#1,374
Gunnar
2,766 in the 1990s
#1,376
Maximilian Maximilian is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "greatest."
2,761 in the 1990s
#1,380
Camden Camden is a boy's name of English origin meaning "enclosed valley."
2,757 in the 1990s
#1,381
Deion
2,753 in the 1990s
#1,382
Lamont
2,752 in the 1990s
#1,383
Adolfo
2,746 in the 1990s
#1,388
Jonas Jonas means dove, and the prophet's story turns on it — a man named for the bird sent out to find land is himself sent overseas, refuses, and is carried there inside a fish instead.
2,717 in the 1990s
#1,390
Clark Clark means a clergyman, and the job drifted — a clericus was in holy orders, but since the clergy were the ones who could write, the word slid across to mean anyone who kept records, which is what a clerk still is.
2,711 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.