Names that belong entirely to the 1990s
Every decade signs its name in the records. These reached their all-time top-100 peak in the 1990s — the years of mixtapes, mall food courts and dial-up — and have since stepped out of the mainstream.
Choose one to honor that generation, or simply enjoy the most concentrated time capsule the records can offer.
Girls
- Alexis#3 in 1999 · rare today
- Taylor#6 in 1994 · rare today
- Kayla#11 in 1995 · rare today
- Alyssa#11 in 1998 · rare today
- Chelsea#15 in 1992 · rare today
- Courtney#17 in 1990 · rare today
- Morgan#22 in 1997 · rare today
- Kelsey#23 in 1992 · rare today
- Sydney#23 in 1999 · rare today
- Shelby#33 in 1991 · rare today
- Jordan#40 in 1997 · rare today
- Gabrielle#46 in 1999 · rare today
- Sierra#49 in 1999 · rare today
- Cassandra#49 in 1990 · rare today
- Marissa#53 in 1994 · rare today
- Sabrina#53 in 1997 · rare today
- Miranda#57 in 1995 · rare today
- Mariah#62 in 1998 · rare today
- Ariel#66 in 1991 · rare today
- Cheyenne#68 in 1996 · rare today
- Briana#68 in 1994 · rare today
- Alexandria#69 in 1993 · rare today
- Breanna#74 in 1996 · rare today
- Mikayla#82 in 1998 · rare today
Boys
- Kyle#18 in 1990 · rare today
- Cody#24 in 1991 · rare today
- Jared#51 in 1998 · rare today
- Taylor#51 in 1993 · rare today
- Dakota#56 in 1995 · rare today
- Trevor#58 in 1994 · rare today
- Devin#58 in 1995 · rare today
- Tristan#68 in 1996 · rare today
- Mitchell#71 in 1994 · rare today
- Dillon#73 in 1992 · rare today
- Tanner#82 in 1997 · rare today
- Spencer#84 in 1998 · rare today
- Dalton#85 in 1994 · rare today
- Brendan#96 in 1999 · rare today
- Malik#97 in 1996 · rare today
How this list is built: Names whose all-time top-100 peak fell in the 1990s and which now rank outside the national top-300 (or are unranked). Source: US Social Security birth records, refreshed yearly.
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