Name Legacy

Baby names in Delaware, 1990s

1990–1999 · 75,384 recorded births

Michael was the most common name given in Delaware across the 1990s, with 1,590 births in the decade. The state recorded 75,384 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Delaware in the 1990s

Names given far more often here than nationally in these years. The multiplier is conservative — it is the low end of the plausible range, so a name carried by a handful of births does not outrank one carried by hundreds.

NameBirthsvs national
Unknown8013×
Ajee8
Tymere5
Javon38
Francis56
Jamier5
Shane224
Lindsay167

Top 25 in the 1990s

RankNameBirths
#1Michael1,590
#2Matthew1,242
#3Christopher1,120
#4Joshua983
#5Andrew945
#6Tyler942
#7John939
#8Ryan937
#9James928
#10Jessica902
#11Ashley856
#12Nicholas852
#13Robert846
#13William846
#15Zachary838
#16Brandon828
#17Emily797
#18David786
#19Kyle768
#20Taylor765
#21Daniel764
#22Sarah762
#23Joseph760
#24Samantha726
#25Amanda702

Other decades in Delaware

All Delaware names, 2025

Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. State records begin in 1910. Names given to fewer than five babies in a state in a year are withheld at source. namelegacy.org