The 80s - Popular names in the 80s

**Rainstorm Jenny** · 01-02-2009, 07:21 PM

I was bored and decided to look up baby names that were popular back in the 80s. Course my name being the number one in girls

Boy's Names and Girl's Names

1. Michael
Jennifer

2. Jason
Jessica

3. Christopher
Amanda

4. David
Melissa

5. James
Sarah

6. Matthew
Nicole

7. John
Heather

8. Joshua
Amy

9. Robert
Michelle

10. Daniel
Elizabeth

11. Brian
Rebecca

12. Justin
Stephanie

13. Joseph
Kimberly

14. Eric
Maria

15. William
Angela

16. Ryan
Lisa

17. Nicholas
Christina

18. Jeremy
Tiffany

19. Andrew
Crystal

20. Kevin
Erin

21. Adam
Kelly

22. Charles
Rachel

23. Timothy
Amber

24. Anthony
Mary

25. Jose
Julie

**Melis** · 01-02-2009, 07:28 PM

Well, the names do change by years. So one name can be popular in one year and bumped in another year. Boy names don't change since dad's name their sons after them. Didn't we talk about this on another thread?

**Rainstorm Jenny** · 01-02-2009, 07:33 PM

Yeah we did in the introduction thread

And yes they do change by years. I know my name starts going down the list as the years go on.

**Melis** · 01-02-2009, 07:35 PM

Yeah, girl names seem to fizzle off after a while. I know mine name died out, too. Plus, I'd never name my daughter Melissa.

I guess guys don't mind when they have the same name as everyone else.

**Rainstorm Jenny** · 01-02-2009, 07:39 PM

Yeah true on the guys, they dont mind as much. I know sometimes I wish I had an unique name.

Marki · 01-02-2009, 08:03 PM

ahh i wish the opposite i wish i had a common name.

looking at the list alot of them are common names...much unlike these days where there are so many unique names that its getting harder to find people with the same name.

**Melis** · 01-02-2009, 08:43 PM

The old-fashioned names are coming back. Elizabeth, Hannah, and others are becoming popular girl names.

Unique names can be hard, too. Kids tease the ones with different names.

Marki · 01-28-2009, 03:34 PM

i havent seen many tiffany's around woudl be cool if i started to see alot more i like that name.

**Melis** · 01-28-2009, 05:45 PM

My cousin is named Tiffany.

Marki · 01-28-2009, 06:00 PM

awesome. tiffany isa weird name i think the end of it has a classiness feel to it and at the same time i think its portrayed alot in the media as someone who is ditzy but i think its just a nice name that has a classical sound to it.

SunKissedFan · 01-28-2009, 06:06 PM

I think there are some of those names that are dated- you can defintiely put a decade of around that name was used/popular/trendy. Such as ten years from now, if I were to here an Emma, Madison, Brooklyn, Braelyn, Jaden, Aiden, Caden I would assume that they were born in the 00's.

To me, a lot of girl names are dated for the 80s:
Amber
Tiffany
Ashley
Brittany
Kimberly

But guy names are harder to date for me, I mean most names back in the 80s were pretty common, and still are to this day.

**Melis** · 01-28-2009, 07:57 PM

My cousin was probably born around the time Tiffany the singer was popular.

Yeah, we discussed how boy's name don't die out. Men name their sons after them, so you always have the same male names.

SunKissedFan · 01-29-2009, 12:43 PM

Yeah, that's why it's so much harder for me to like guy names than girl names. I have a huge list of girl names that I love, but my boys list is so much smaller...

Marki · 05-12-2009, 06:25 PM

it must of been the names ending in y that seemed to get popular because so many on the list end with that letter.

hottlegs6 · 05-12-2009, 08:21 PM

yeah there really are a lot of y's up there


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