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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#1,551Cyrus Cyrus is a boy's name of Persian origin whose meaning is not settled.2,295 in the 1990s
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#1,559Lilly Lilly is a girl's name of Latin origin taken from the flower, from lilium.2,270 in the 1990s
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#1,563Kane Kane is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "battle", from Ó Catháin.2,263 in the 1990s
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#1,569Bo Bo is a boy's name of Scandinavian origin meaning "to live" or "to dwell".2,252 in the 1990s
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#1,573Catalina Catalina is a girl's name of Greek origin, the Spanish form of Catherine.2,243 in the 1990s
What made a 1990s name
Nothing about the sound of it. A name is on this page because children in the United States were registered with it between 1990 and 1999, and its position is simply how many. Every list of "1990s names" you will find elsewhere is somebody's sense of the period; this one is the register.
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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.