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

#2,545
Nash Nash is a boy's name of English origin meaning "at the ash tree".
1,084 in the 1990s
#2,546
Caylee
1,084 in the 1990s
#2,547
Cady
1,082 in the 1990s
#2,548
Ridge
1,082 in the 1990s
#2,549
Elvia
1,081 in the 1990s
#2,550
Alessandro Alessandro is a boy's name meaning "defender of men."
1,081 in the 1990s
#2,551
Chyanne
1,079 in the 1990s
#2,552
Jenae
1,077 in the 1990s
#2,553
Jarret
1,076 in the 1990s
#2,554
Montrell
1,076 in the 1990s
#2,555
Augustine Augustine means venerable, and it began as a title rather than a name — the Senate voted Octavian the style Augustus in 27 BC, and everything since descends from that vote.
1,075 in the 1990s
#2,556
Fredy
1,074 in the 1990s
#2,557
Nikhil
1,073 in the 1990s
#2,558
Bruno Bruno is a boy's name from the Germanic word for brown, and it founded the Carthusians — the strictest order in the Western church, whose monks still live largely in silence.
1,073 in the 1990s
#2,559
Bilal
1,071 in the 1990s
#2,560
Audrianna
1,071 in the 1990s
#2,561
Jonatan
1,070 in the 1990s
#2,562
Francine Francine means Frenchwoman, and it is a French diminutive of a name that already means French — so it reads as a small French person, which is circular in a way few names manage.
1,068 in the 1990s
#2,563
Daren
1,067 in the 1990s
#2,564
Ida Ida is a girl's name from a Germanic word for work or labor, and it charts in all seven markets.
1,067 in the 1990s
#2,565
Cherie
1,067 in the 1990s
#2,566
Virgil Virgil is misspelled and always has been — the poet's name was Vergilius, and medieval scribes changed the e to an i by association with virgo, which is how a Roman family name acquired a meaning it never had.
1,067 in the 1990s
#2,567
Jaiden Jaiden belongs to the -aiden rhyming family invented in America in the 1990s, and the Hebrew meanings offered for it are attached to a coinage — thankful one and God will judge cannot both be right.
1,066 in the 1990s 9 of 10 years
#2,568
Kyree
1,066 in the 1990s
#2,569
Kaya
1,066 in the 1990s
#2,570
Darrick
1,065 in the 1990s
#2,571
Janee
1,064 in the 1990s
#2,572
Brandt
1,064 in the 1990s
#2,573
Maximiliano Maximiliano is a boy's name of Latin origin, the Spanish and Portuguese form of Maximilian.
1,063 in the 1990s
#2,574
Odalis
1,062 in the 1990s
#2,575
Scottie Scottie is a name meaning "a Scot," a pet form of Scott.
1,062 in the 1990s
#2,576
Yulissa
1,061 in the 1990s
#2,577
Kirstyn
1,059 in the 1990s
#2,578
Mykel
1,059 in the 1990s
#2,579
Nasir
1,059 in the 1990s
#2,580
Lynda Lynda means lime tree, from Spanish and Germanic roots that disagree — the pretty reading comes from the Spanish linda, and the tree from a Germanic element, and neither is settled.
1,058 in the 1990s
#2,581
Calista
1,056 in the 1990s
#2,582
Keyla
1,055 in the 1990s
#2,583
Brodie Brodie is a boy's name of Scottish origin taken from a place near Forres in Moray.
1,055 in the 1990s
#2,584
Cailey
1,054 in the 1990s
#2,585
Kaylene
1,054 in the 1990s
#2,586
Rudolph Rudolph means famous wolf, and the reindeer was invented to sell things — a Montgomery Ward copywriter wrote him for a giveaway booklet in 1939, which makes him a corporate creation rather than a folk one.
1,054 in the 1990s
#2,587
Dustyn
1,054 in the 1990s
#2,588
Earnest Earnest respells Ernest, and the Germanic behind it is not mild — eornost meant vigor in battle, seriousness of the deadly kind, long before it settled into the sense of being sincere.
1,053 in the 1990s
#2,589
Tawny
1,052 in the 1990s
#2,590
Landen
1,052 in the 1990s
#2,591
Marielle
1,051 in the 1990s
#2,592
Keyona
1,051 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.