1990s Baby Names
13,477 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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#1,767Royce Royce is a boy's name from an English surname meaning "son of Roy" or "son of Rose."1,877 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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#1,816Asher 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
What Made a 1990s Name
Children in the United States were registered with it between 1990 and 1999. 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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.