Mom Names

Irish place-name -- it's a river, a town, and an airport -- once popular but now supplanted by such newer immigrants as Saoirse and Seanan. 

Shannon

A crystalline name that retains its loveliness far past its prime.  Its biggest downside: Eternal confusion over spelling and pronunciation.  Kristen?  Kirsten?  It can be so confusing that many parents today opt to bypass it.

Kristin

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.

Brittney

 are the names that were popular when today's mothers were growing up in the 1980s and 1990s. Many mom names are losing their popularity as baby names today.

Girl names popular from 1982 through 2004, usually defined as the birth years for Millennials, include some traditional female names like Elizabeth, Katherine, and Sarah that are so widely used over such a long period of time that they can't be pegged as Mom names.

 also include some names that have become mega-popular for babies today, like Emma, Olivia, and Sophia. Though there are plenty of moms with those names, we're not classifying those names as Mom Names either.

Rather, Mom Names are the female names that are closely identified with the 1980s and 90s, like Jessica and Amanda, listed here in order of their current popularity on Nameberry.

Mom names are popular names of the 1980s and 1990s also called Millennial names, with origins, meanings, and popularity (Page 5)