Ronald Regan was president, the Cold War ended. Americans were afraid to take Tylenol and rejected the New Coke. Everyone is watching Saturday Night Live, David Letterman, MTV and The Cosby Show. We're not watching MASH anymore. Everyone is listening to Michael Jackson, Madonna and the latest invasion of the Brits: New Wave.
Read on to see what people were naming their babies in the 1980s.
Boys
- Michael
- Christopher
- Matthew
- Joshua
- David
- Daniel
- James
- Robert
- John
- Joseph
- Jason
- Justin
- Andrew
- Ryan
- William
- Brian
- Jonathan
- Brandon
- Nicholas
- Anthony
Girls
- Jessica
- Jennifer
- Amanda
- Ashley
- Sarah
- Stephanie
- Melissa
- Nicole
- Elizabeth
- Heather
- Tiffany
- Michelle
- Amber
- Megan
- Rachel
- Amy
- Lauren
- Kimberly
- Christina
- Brittany
All names are from Social Security card applications for births that occurred in the United States at the end of February 1990. The most popular names of the 1980s were taken from a universe that includes 19,210,320 male births and 18,437,994 female births.
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