Names that Peaked in 1989

Nouveau spelling remained in the US Top 300 for all of the 1990s. With the traditional spelling still a highly popular choice, a child bearing the Nickolas version could be accused of misspelling his own name.

Long considered Mr. Hall's exclusive property, it's now ready to be adopted by others.

While all spellings of these name are off their popularity peak, Brittney gained some recent notice as the name of the American basketball player arrested in Russian, Brittney Griner.

Variation of Adrianna.

Christop, along with other truncated names such as Elizabet, Alexadr, and Katherin, appeared in the Top 1000 of 1989. It was the result of a glitch in some of New York state's data entry, which only allowed names to be entered up to eight characters.

Variation of Katherine.

See COREY.

A variant of Elizabeth that is very popular in Hungary, that would translate well as a small quirky twist on the familiar classic.