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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#1,587Colt Colt is a boy's name taken from the English word for a young male horse, from the Old English colt.2,218 in the 1990s
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#1,590Emilia Emilia is a girl's name of Latin origin, from the Roman family name Aemilius.2,209 in the 1990s
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#1,594Elsa Elsa is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my oath," a German short form of Elisabeth.2,197 in the 1990s
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#1,604Pauline Pauline is a girl's name from the Latin for small or humble, the feminine of Paul.2,186 in the 1990s
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#1,607Rhett Rhett is a boy's name of Dutch origin meaning "advice" or "counsel."2,179 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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.