1990s Baby Names

22,219 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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Rankings for

#975
Chanel
4,765 in the 1990s
#976
Hallie Hallie is a girl's name with more than one line.
4,750 in the 1990s
#977
Eliza Eliza is a girl's name that began as a short form of Elizabeth, and so means "God is my oath," from the Hebrew Elisheva.
4,750 in the 1990s
#979
Jill Jill is a girl's name, a medieval short form of Gillian, and it is half of the oldest surviving English nursery rhyme pair.
4,748 in the 1990s
#982
Shaina
4,724 in the 1990s
#984
Tianna
4,719 in the 1990s
#988
Tyra
4,660 in the 1990s
#989
Mollie Mollie is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, a diminutive of Mary reached through a chain of medieval sound shifts.
4,659 in the 1990s
#991
Sheila Sheila is the Irish form of Cecilia, meaning blind — and parents outside Ireland should know it became Australian slang for a woman in the nineteenth century, which is why it barely charts there.
4,646 in the 1990s
#993
Paulina
4,639 in the 1990s
#994
Yolanda Yolanda means violet, and the flower reaches it through a chain of respellings — the Greek Iolanthe became Violante in Italian by association with viola, and Spanish then rendered that form as the Yolanda we know.
4,638 in the 1990s
#995
Moriah
4,627 in the 1990s
#996
Emilie Emilie is a girl's name, the French and Danish form of Latin Aemilia, usually given as rival.
4,624 in the 1990s
#998
Desirae
4,613 in the 1990s
#999
Perla
4,611 in the 1990s
#1,001
Casandra
4,605 in the 1990s
#1,004
Hilary
4,578 in the 1990s
#1,005
Anita Anita is a girl's name, the Spanish diminutive of Ana, meaning grace.
4,577 in the 1990s
#1,006
Kaylie
4,575 in the 1990s
#1,009
Genevieve Genevieve is a girl's name of Gaulish origin whose meaning is not settled.
4,567 in the 1990s
#1,010
Tess Tess is a girl's name of Greek origin, a short form of Theresa whose meaning has never been established despite centuries of attempts.
4,559 in the 1990s
#1,013
Lacy
4,533 in the 1990s
#1,014
Stephany
4,524 in the 1990s
#1,017
Trinity Trinity means threefold, and birth records pin its rise to The Matrix with unusual precision — the film opened on 31 March 1999, and American births went 557 in 1998, 1,571 in 1999 and 4,386 in 2000, a partial year followed by a full one.
4,507 in the 1990s
#1,019
Maranda
4,502 in the 1990s
#1,020
Skye Skye is a girl's name taken from the Hebridean island, whose own name is disputed between a Gaelic root meaning "winged" and a Norse one meaning "cloud."
4,495 in the 1990s
#1,022
Edith Edith is a girl's name of Old English origin meaning "prosperous in war."
4,489 in the 1990s
#1,023
Lena Lena is a girl's name used as a short form of Helena, Magdalena and Elena, so it usually carries the sense "light" or "torch."
4,484 in the 1990s
#1,026
Bonnie Bonnie is a girl's name of Scots origin meaning "pretty" or "fine."
4,452 in the 1990s
#1,027
Iesha
4,452 in the 1990s
#1,028
Yasmine Yasmine is a girl's name of Persian origin meaning "jasmine," the flower.
4,448 in the 1990s
#1,029
Fatima Fatima is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "one who weans" or "one who abstains."
4,446 in the 1990s
#1,030
Shana
4,431 in the 1990s
#1,031
Alisa
4,425 in the 1990s
#1,033
Beatriz
4,402 in the 1990s
#1,034
Georgia Georgia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "farmer" or "worker of the earth," the feminine of George, from ge, earth, and ergon, work.
4,388 in the 1990s
#1,035
Laurel Laurel names the plant directly, which sets it apart from Lora and Loren on this site — those reach the laurel through a Roman town, while this one is simply the tree.
4,379 in the 1990s
#1,041
Cayla
4,359 in the 1990s
#1,042
Micaela
4,359 in the 1990s
#1,043
Dawn Dawn is a girl's name taken directly from the English word for daybreak, and it is the English counterpart of Aurora rather than a translation of it.
4,334 in the 1990s
#1,044
Antonia Antonia has no known meaning, and the flower reading given everywhere is a Renaissance invention — humanists attached the Greek anthos to a Roman family name that has never been explained.
4,321 in the 1990s
#1,045
Kacie
4,319 in the 1990s
#1,047
Kathy Kathy is a girl's name, the pet form of Katherine, and it inherits that name's unknown meaning.
4,312 in the 1990s
#1,049
Alina Alina is a girl's name with several origins. It functions as a short form of Adelina and so means "noble," from the Germanic adal; a Slavic line connects it to light or bright; and an Arabic reading gives "noble" from a different root entirely.
4,302 in the 1990s
#1,050
Bridgette
4,288 in the 1990s
#1,051
Roxanne Roxanne means dawn or bright, and it is Persian rather than Greek — Alexander married Roxana in Bactria, and she and their son were murdered after his death.
4,287 in the 1990s
#1,052
Antoinette Antoinette means little Antoine, and the meaning usually given for the parent name — flower — is a false etymology.
4,286 in the 1990s
#1,053
Heaven Heaven is a girl's name from the English word for paradise, from the Old English heofon.
4,284 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.