Ready to take a look at history through the lens of names?
The Baby Name Timeline is a collection of thousands of historically popular/trendy U.S. baby names. Many of these names became trendy thanks to various types of pop culture: movies, music, television, sports, news stories, politics, comic strips, video games, and so forth.
I’m slowly converting the original decade-by-decade timeline into a more detailed year-by-year timeline, so I apologize if the table below is looking rather incomplete at the moment.
Here are links to each decade, and to the single years I’ve completed so far:
| 2020s: | 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| 2010s | …2016, 2017… |
| 2000s | …2006, 2007… |
| 1990s | …1994, 1995… |
| 1980s | …1984, 1985… |
| 1970s | …1978, 1979 |
| 1960s | …1961, 1962… |
| 1950s | 1950 … 1955, 1956… |
| 1940s | …1943, 1944… |
| 1930s | …1932, 1933… |
| 1920s | …1926, 1927… |
| 1910s | …1912, 1913… |
| 1900s | …1907, 1908… |
| 1890s: | 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899 |
| 1880s: | 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889 |
| Pre-1880: | Pre-1880 |
[Latest update: Jul. 2024]