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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#1,722Sonny Sonny is a boy's name of English origin meaning exactly what it looks like — son.1,961 in the 1990s
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#1,748Leland Leland means fallow land — ground deliberately left unplowed for a season.1,905 in the 1990s
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#1,791Josh Josh is a boy's name, the short form of Joshua, from a Hebrew name meaning the Lord is salvation.1,827 in the 1990s
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#1,807Aiden Aiden is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "little fire," an Anglicized form of Aodhán.1,801 in the 1990s
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#1,817Asher Asher is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "happy" or "blessed."1,793 in the 1990s
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#1,822Hugh Hugh is a boy's name from a Germanic word for mind or spirit, brought to Britain by the Normans.1,791 in the 1990s
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#1,844Anderson Anderson is a boy's name of Scottish and Scandinavian origin meaning "son of Andrew".1,763 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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.