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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Rankings for

#1,153
Ashlie
3,651 in the 1990s
#1,154
Moses Moses is explained in Exodus as drawn out of the water, but the name is more likely Egyptian — mose means born of, and it is the second half of Thutmose and Ramose, where the god's name sits in front.
3,635 in the 1990s
#1,155
Juanita Juanita is a girl's name meaning God is gracious, the Spanish diminutive of Juana.
3,630 in the 1990s
#1,156
Khadijah
3,625 in the 1990s
#1,157
Angie Angie means messenger, and the Greek root behind it named someone carrying news — the wings and choirs of later Christianity all grew from an ordinary occupational word.
3,619 in the 1990s
#1,158
Kerri
3,604 in the 1990s
#1,159
Mohammad Mohammad is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "praiseworthy."
3,594 in the 1990s
#1,160
Lexus
3,593 in the 1990s
#1,161
Shanna
3,586 in the 1990s
#1,162
Malachi Malachi is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "my messenger."
3,570 in the 1990s
#1,163
Carlton Carlton means the settlement of the free peasants, and the word for those peasants became an insult — ceorl gave English churl and churlish, so the name preserves a class that the language later turned against.
3,568 in the 1990s
#1,164
Mariela
3,566 in the 1990s
#1,165
Ellie Ellie is a girl's name that began as a short form of Eleanor, Ellen, and Elizabeth, and is now widely given as a name in its own right.
3,564 in the 1990s
#1,166
Leroy Leroy is a boy's name that is simply the French for the king, taken as one word.
3,559 in the 1990s
#1,167
Katarina
3,553 in the 1990s
#1,168
Shayne
3,545 in the 1990s
#1,169
Kai Kai is a name that exists independently in many unrelated languages.
3,545 in the 1990s
#1,170
Annette Annette is a girl's name meaning grace, a French diminutive of Anne.
3,540 in the 1990s
#1,171
Celia Celia is a girl's name of Latin origin from the Roman family name Caelius, whose meaning is disputed between "heaven" and a much older Etruscan word.
3,540 in the 1990s
#1,172
Maegan
3,539 in the 1990s
#1,173
Brice Brice means speckled, and the fourth-century saint who carried it was a difficult man — Brictius succeeded Martin of Tours after years of insulting him publicly, and was driven out before being restored.
3,535 in the 1990s
#1,174
Gordon Gordon is a Scottish surname turned given name, from a place in Berwickshire whose meaning is not settled — spacious fort is the usual gloss but it is a guess.
3,532 in the 1990s
#1,175
Essence
3,531 in the 1990s
#1,176
Yadira
3,530 in the 1990s
#1,177
Shaniqua
3,525 in the 1990s
#1,178
Reyna
3,509 in the 1990s
#1,179
Deangelo
3,507 in the 1990s
#1,180
Jayla Jayla is a modern American coinage with no source, and its 2006 peak of 3,417 births is the largest single-year figure in this group — a name can be very popular and still have no history at all.
3,499 in the 1990s
#1,181
Issac
3,495 in the 1990s
#1,182
Toby Toby is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is good."
3,493 in the 1990s
#1,183
Shantel
3,487 in the 1990s
#1,184
Markus
3,487 in the 1990s
#1,185
Katy
3,486 in the 1990s
#1,186
Jaron
3,481 in the 1990s
#1,187
Uriel Uriel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my light".
3,475 in the 1990s
#1,188
Tristin
3,474 in the 1990s
#1,189
Quintin
3,471 in the 1990s
#1,190
Jodi Jodi serves Judith, Joseph and Jude at once, which is why the wider Jody family never settled on one sex — three unrelated Hebrew parents pulling in different directions.
3,470 in the 1990s
#1,191
Beth Beth is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my oath," a short form of Elizabeth, and the seven in the Hebrew is the same idea as the oath.
3,457 in the 1990s
#1,192
Ben Ben is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "son," used both as a short form of Benjamin and as a name in its own right.
3,455 in the 1990s
#1,193
Jamar
3,444 in the 1990s
#1,194
Norman Norman means a Northman — a Viking.
3,439 in the 1990s
#1,195
Shelbi
3,435 in the 1990s
#1,196
Leanne Leanne is a British and Irish name far more than an American one — England peaked at 616 births, Scotland 287 and Ireland 201, against an American high of 801 in a vastly larger population.
3,433 in the 1990s
#1,197
Domonique
3,433 in the 1990s
#1,198
Brook
3,428 in the 1990s
#1,199
Karlee
3,427 in the 1990s
#1,200
Ayanna
3,423 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.