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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#1,440Ezequiel Ezequiel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God strengthens".2,568 in the 1990s
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#1,475Kobe Kobe is a boy's name best known from the Japanese city, whose name means "door of the gods".2,458 in the 1990s 5 of 10 years
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#1,503Herbert Herbert is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning bright army.2,409 in the 1990s
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#1,513Gerard Gerard is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning brave with the spear.2,383 in the 1990s
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#1,522Pierre Pierre is a boy's name, the French form of Peter, from the Greek for rock.2,368 in the 1990s
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#1,534Isaias Isaias is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "Yahweh is salvation".2,335 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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.