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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#1,237Phoebe Phoebe is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "bright" or "radiant."3,288 in the 1990s
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#1,241Alayna Alayna is a girl's name, a modern respelling that sits between several older names.3,278 in the 1990s
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#1,242Maddison Maddison is a girl's name of English origin meaning "son of Maud."3,278 in the 1990s
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#1,255Rita Rita is a girl's name meaning pearl, clipped from the end of Margarita rather than the front.3,221 in the 1990s
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#1,262Athena Athena is a girl's name from the Greek goddess of wisdom, warfare and craft.3,191 in the 1990s
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#1,277Debra Debra is a girl's name, the phonetic respelling of Deborah, from the Hebrew for bee.3,125 in the 1990s
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#1,310Maureen Maureen is the Irish Máirín, a diminutive of Máire, which is itself the Irish form of Mary.3,018 in the 1990s
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#1,311Joanne Joanne is a girl's name meaning God is gracious, one of the many feminines of John.3,010 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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.