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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#1,297Mohammed Mohammed is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "praiseworthy."3,068 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
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#1,322Lynn Lynn is a name from a Welsh and Gaelic word for a lake or a pool below a waterfall.2,975 in the 1990s
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#1,324Demi Demi is a girl's name usually explained as French for "half", from the Latin dimidius.2,956 in the 1990s
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#1,333Caden Caden is a boy's name of modern American coinage with no documented origin.2,913 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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.