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The top names of 1962

Lisa led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 4,035,375 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1962

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Lisa	46,069	2.34%
2	Mary	43,502	2.21%
3	Susan	35,752	1.82%
4	Karen	35,184	1.79%
5	Linda	31,461	1.60%
6	Patricia	26,532	1.35%
7	Donna	25,719	1.31%
8	Cynthia	24,025	1.22%
9	Deborah	22,889	1.16%
10	Sandra	22,420	1.14%
11	Lori	22,395	1.14%
12	Brenda	21,274	1.08%
13	Pamela	21,270	1.08%
14	Barbara	20,641	1.05%
15	Debra	20,593	1.05%
16	Kimberly	20,363	1.04%
17	Sharon	19,630	1.00%
18	Teresa	18,517	0.94%
19	Nancy	18,027	0.92%
20	Elizabeth	17,806	0.91%
21	Laura	17,490	0.89%
22	Julie	17,090	0.87%
23	Tammy	16,743	0.85%
24	Cheryl	16,587	0.84%
25	Robin	15,128	0.77%
26	Diane	14,823	0.75%
27	Kathy	14,757	0.75%
28	Carol	14,523	0.74%
29	Kathleen	14,188	0.72%
30	Denise	13,975	0.71%
31	Michelle	13,353	0.68%
32	Debbie	13,092	0.67%
33	Tina	12,781	0.65%
34	Cindy	12,297	0.63%
35	Janet	12,256	0.62%
36	Angela	11,664	0.59%
37	Kim	11,657	0.59%
38	Kelly	11,530	0.59%
39	Christine	11,196	0.57%
40	Theresa	11,061	0.56%
41	Jennifer	10,977	0.56%
42	Laurie	10,675	0.54%
43	Margaret	10,075	0.51%
44	Jacqueline	9,832	0.50%
45	Rhonda	9,803	0.50%
46	Carolyn	9,692	0.49%
47	Rebecca	9,403	0.48%
48	Sherry	9,223	0.47%
49	Maria	9,089	0.46%
50	Dawn	8,984	0.46%

Boys, 1962

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	85,059	4.11%
2	David	81,337	3.93%
3	John	78,427	3.79%
4	James	72,555	3.51%
5	Robert	70,199	3.39%
6	Mark	53,520	2.59%
7	William	44,853	2.17%
8	Richard	39,422	1.91%
9	Thomas	36,529	1.77%
10	Jeffrey	33,537	1.62%
11	Scott	30,703	1.48%
12	Steven	30,688	1.48%
13	Joseph	30,090	1.45%
14	Kevin	28,325	1.37%
15	Charles	27,590	1.33%
16	Timothy	27,111	1.31%
17	Daniel	25,543	1.23%
18	Kenneth	25,241	1.22%
19	Paul	23,802	1.15%
20	Brian	23,221	1.12%
21	Gregory	21,976	1.06%
22	Gary	20,884	1.01%
23	Donald	20,425	0.99%
24	Anthony	20,103	0.97%
25	Ronald	19,963	0.96%
26	Christopher	17,535	0.85%
27	Douglas	15,928	0.77%
28	Stephen	15,616	0.75%
29	Edward	15,518	0.75%
30	Todd	12,752	0.62%
31	Larry	12,711	0.61%
32	George	12,544	0.61%
33	Eric	12,348	0.60%
34	Terry	12,301	0.59%
35	Randy	11,840	0.57%
36	Keith	11,626	0.56%
37	Dennis	10,633	0.51%
38	Jerry	10,576	0.51%
39	Mike	10,530	0.51%
40	Patrick	10,499	0.51%
41	Bruce	10,038	0.49%
42	Frank	9,761	0.47%
43	Peter	9,585	0.46%
44	Jeff	9,424	0.46%
45	Jeffery	9,282	0.45%
46	Steve	9,154	0.44%
47	Roger	9,079	0.44%
48	Raymond	9,070	0.44%
49	Andrew	8,697	0.42%
50	Ricky	8,694	0.42%

United States national data, Social Security Administration. The file counts Social Security applications, so its early decades undercount; the share column is a name's part of the names recorded for that sex that year, not of all births. How we use it.

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