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Baby names in Illinois, 1990s

1990–1999 · 1,571,185 recorded births

Michael was the most common name given in Illinois across the 1990s, with 24,701 births in the decade. The state recorded 1,571,185 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Illinois 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
Aneta6010×
Dawid4010×
Mateusz172
Lukasz83
Dantrell125
Piotr124
Katarzyna132
Marcin73

Top 25 in the 1990s

RankNameBirths
#1Michael24,701
#2Matthew17,444
#3Daniel15,216
#4Jessica14,925
#5Nicholas14,789
#6Jacob14,154
#7Christopher13,914
#8Joseph13,172
#9Ashley13,099
#10Joshua12,737
#11Ryan12,286
#12Andrew12,164
#13David11,652
#14John11,192
#15Emily11,149
#16Anthony11,122
#17Brandon11,025
#18Tyler11,008
#19Samantha10,875
#20James10,335
#21Zachary10,227
#22Alexander9,923
#23Kyle9,848
#24Sarah9,804
#25Kevin9,228

Other decades in Illinois

All Illinois 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