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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#1,467Miracle Miracle is a girl's name taken from the English word, from Latin miraculum, "object of wonder."2,482 in the 1990s
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#1,470Malia Malia is a girl's name of Hawaiian origin, the Hawaiian form of Mary.2,477 in the 1990s
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#1,475Kobe Kobe is a boy's name best known from the Japanese city, whose name means "door of the gods".2,458 in the 1990s 5 of 10 years
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#1,477Macie Macie is a girl's name of Norman French origin, a respelling of Macy.2,457 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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.