1990s Baby Names

38,764 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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#577
Kennedy Kennedy is a name of Irish origin meaning "helmeted head" or "ugly head," from the Gaelic ceann, head, and éidigh.
9,826 in the 1990s
#578
Gerald Gerald is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning rule of the spear, and it gave Ireland one of its great Norman dynasties, the FitzGeralds.
9,820 in the 1990s
#579
Celeste Celeste is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "heavenly."
9,820 in the 1990s
#580
Martha Martha is a girl's name of Aramaic origin meaning "lady" or "mistress of the house."
9,809 in the 1990s
#581
Lily Lily is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "lily flower," from lilium.
9,772 in the 1990s
#582
Kelsie
9,766 in the 1990s
#583
Reginald Reginald means counsel-power, and England and Wales ranks it 229th on 217 births against 1,285th in the United States — one of the sharpest British-versus-American splits in this group.
9,737 in the 1990s
#584
Eddie Eddie is a boy's name, the pet form of Edward or Edwin, meaning wealth.
9,736 in the 1990s
#585
Branden
9,729 in the 1990s
#586
Tia Tia peaked far higher in England than its population would predict — 1,050 births in England and Wales in 2004 against an American peak of 1,189, in a country with roughly a fifth of the people.
9,715 in the 1990s
#587
Elise Elise is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my oath," a short form of Elizabeth.
9,712 in the 1990s
#588
Janet Janet is a girl's name, a Scottish diminutive of Jane meaning God is gracious.
9,707 in the 1990s
#589
Charlotte Charlotte is a girl's name of French origin meaning "free man," the feminine form of Charles, itself from the Germanic name Karl.
9,696 in the 1990s
#590
Owen Owen is a boy's name of Welsh origin, the anglicized form of Owain.
9,690 in the 1990s
#591
Stacey Stacey is the e-spelling of Stacy, from Eustace or Anastasia.
9,667 in the 1990s
#592
Damon Damon means one who tames, and the story attached to it is about friendship — Damon and Pythias each offered to die in the other's place, which persuaded a tyrant to release them both.
9,654 in the 1990s
#593
Terrance Terrance respells Terrence, and the name descends from a Roman playwright born enslaved in North Africa — Terence was freed by his owner and his Latin became a school text for centuries.
9,589 in the 1990s
#594
Elena Elena is a girl's name of Greek origin, the Italian, Spanish, and Russian form of Helen.
9,517 in the 1990s
#595
Cassie Cassie is a girl's name of Greek origin, usually short for Cassandra, whose curse was to prophesy truly and never be believed.
9,465 in the 1990s
#596
Ty Ty has no source of its own — it shortens Tyler, Tyrone and Tyson, three names with nothing in common, so which one a given Ty belongs to cannot be read off the name.
9,450 in the 1990s
#597
Esther Esther is a girl's name usually connected to the Persian word for star, and possibly to the Babylonian goddess Ishtar.
9,447 in the 1990s
#598
Justice
9,444 in the 1990s
#599
Callie Callie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "beautiful."
9,416 in the 1990s
#600
Tracy Tracy is a Norman place name that became a surname, then a boys' name, then overwhelmingly a girls' name — about 81 percent of recorded births are female.
9,402 in the 1990s
#601
Aidan Aidan is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "little fire," from Aodh, the name of a fire god.
9,395 in the 1990s
#602
Kate Kate is a girl's name of Greek origin, a short form of Katherine whose meaning has never been established.
9,355 in the 1990s
#603
Darian
9,330 in the 1990s
#604
Shayla
9,278 in the 1990s
#605
Kylee Kylee has no agreed source, and it is not a feminine of Kyle — the -lee ending was attached to a Ky- opening in twentieth-century America, and any Gaelic meaning offered for it arrived afterward.
9,240 in the 1990s
#606
Alana Alana is a girl's name whose origin is disputed.
9,220 in the 1990s
#607
Brenna
9,202 in the 1990s
#608
Lorenzo Lorenzo is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "from Laurentum," the Italian and Spanish form of Laurence.
9,175 in the 1990s
#609
Brock Brock means badger, and it is one of the oldest animal words in English — a Celtic borrowing that entered Old English before the Norman Conquest and survives in dialect to this day.
9,120 in the 1990s
#610
Tommy Tommy is a boy's name of Aramaic origin meaning "twin."
9,110 in the 1990s
#611
Alondra Alondra means lark, and a Roman legion was named for the bird — Caesar raised the Legio V Alaudae in Gaul and it took the lark's name, probably from crested plumes on the helmets.
9,109 in the 1990s
#612
Damien Damien is a boy's name meaning to tame, and its saint was a Belgian priest who chose to live in a leper colony and died of the disease.
9,102 in the 1990s
#613
Genesis Genesis is a name taken from the Greek word genesis, meaning "origin" or "beginning."
9,094 in the 1990s
#614
Dominick Dominick means of the Lord, and it was given to children born on a Sunday — dies dominica is the Lord's day, and the name records the day of birth rather than a hope for the child.
9,081 in the 1990s
#615
Johnathon
9,079 in the 1990s
#616
Savanna
9,048 in the 1990s
#617
Alexia Alexia means defender, and it is also a clinical term — alexia is the medical name for acquired inability to read, from the same Greek root by a completely separate route.
9,039 in the 1990s
#618
Gustavo Gustavo has no settled meaning, and the two accounts disagree on the language — a Norse staff of the Geats, or a Slavic name reshaped by Swedish, and neither has carried the field.
9,028 in the 1990s
#619
Marquis
9,006 in the 1990s
#620
Kyra Kyra means lady, and the Greek behind it is the feminine of the word Christians use for the Lord — kyrios, as in kyrie eleison, which is the oldest Greek surviving in the Latin mass.
8,952 in the 1990s
#621
Vivian Vivian is a name of Latin origin meaning "alive" or "lively," from vivus.
8,928 in the 1990s
#622
Madeleine Madeleine is a girl's name meaning "of Magdala," a fishing town on the Sea of Galilee, and it is a place name rather than a description.
8,927 in the 1990s
#623
Elias Elias is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "my God is Yahweh."
8,890 in the 1990s
#624
Shaun Shaun spells the Irish Seán phonetically for English readers, and it is the same name as John — the Irish took it from Norman French Jehan rather than directly from Latin, which is why it sounds nothing like John.
8,890 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.