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If you were a child of the 80s or 90s, you’d remember the popular, sculptured dolls called Cabbage Patch Kids. Nearly every kid had one, unless your parents

In November of 1999, a 5-year-old Cuban boy named Elián González and his mother Elizabeth (along with others) attempted to escape Cuba and reach the U.S. The boat capsized and most of the…

No, I'm not talking Q*Bert. But would something like Azurian or Zaviga make a good baby name?

"Baby names for $200, Alex." "This name debuted in the U.S. baby name data in the year 2000 thanks to the game show Jeopardy." "What is Alancia?"

Some 90s girl names feel dated and overused, but a surprising number are still every bit as wearable as they were long before Y2K, Twitter, and the iPhone.

In October of 1990, two months after Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait, a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl named Nayirah testified in front of the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus. S…

Saddam Hussein served as the leader of Iraq from the mid-1970s until the early 2000s. In August of 1990, he invaded Kuwait and set off the Persian Gulf War. (Years later, when asked why he invaded …

Evidence of this 1991-1992 wave of Albanian immigration can be see in the sudden appearance of several rather patriotic Albanian baby names to the U.S. baby name data:

Inspired by the leading ladies, their gentleman friends and more.

I am graduating college in about 20 days and its hard to believe I am almost done. Four years really flies by when you are having fun, a

Disney princesses often influence the baby name charts. But what about Disney animals? We’ve already talked about two deer and a squirrel, so today let’s check out five lions and a meer…

Travis has been on the baby name charts since the very beginning. It was particularly popular from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, ranking in the top 50 for 18 years straight. During that period…

I've calculated the dozen defining baby names of every decade, from 1880s to today—the names that were most distinctly popular in that decade compared to all others.

In early 1991, a Malaysian newspaper ran a photo of an exiled Kuwaiti woman in Bahrain holding a baby girl. According to the caption, the baby was named “Kuwait.” The photo was taken at…

The names Dodie, Dody, and Dodi are most familiar to us as nicknames for Dorothy (or Dolores). But in 1997, Dodi pops onto the charts as a boy name for the first and only time: 1998: unlisted 1997:…

One-hit wonder baby name Thurgood appeared on the charts the year Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall passed away.

Our search for pop culture name inspirations takes us down Memory Lane to the 1990s.

It's hard to think about the '90s and not smile. Neon colors were in, along with some of the craziest hairstyles known to man. Sayings lik