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The top names of 1963

Lisa led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,958,585 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1963

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Lisa	56,047	2.91%
2	Mary	41,546	2.16%
3	Susan	33,991	1.76%
4	Karen	32,492	1.69%
5	Linda	27,727	1.44%
6	Donna	25,405	1.32%
7	Patricia	25,374	1.32%
8	Lori	23,899	1.24%
9	Sandra	21,621	1.12%
10	Cynthia	21,589	1.12%
11	Kimberly	21,224	1.10%
12	Tammy	21,199	1.10%
13	Deborah	21,053	1.09%
14	Pamela	20,593	1.07%
15	Brenda	19,611	1.02%
16	Laura	18,514	0.96%
17	Barbara	18,295	0.95%
18	Teresa	17,965	0.93%
19	Sharon	17,800	0.92%
20	Elizabeth	17,598	0.91%
21	Debra	17,335	0.90%
22	Julie	16,304	0.85%
23	Nancy	16,266	0.84%
24	Cheryl	15,047	0.78%
25	Robin	14,435	0.75%
26	Michelle	14,383	0.75%
27	Denise	14,092	0.73%
28	Kathleen	13,547	0.70%
29	Christine	13,387	0.69%
30	Angela	13,277	0.69%
31	Diane	13,193	0.68%
32	Kelly	12,550	0.65%
33	Carol	12,492	0.65%
34	Kathy	12,215	0.63%
35	Tina	12,157	0.63%
36	Jennifer	11,757	0.61%
37	Cindy	11,090	0.58%
38	Theresa	11,039	0.57%
39	Kim	10,683	0.55%
40	Janet	10,667	0.55%
41	Debbie	10,444	0.54%
42	Paula	10,156	0.53%
43	Maria	9,854	0.51%
44	Rebecca	9,393	0.49%
45	Rhonda	9,356	0.49%
46	Margaret	9,304	0.48%
47	Laurie	9,276	0.48%
48	Tracy	9,073	0.47%
49	Sherry	9,065	0.47%
50	Sheila	8,706	0.45%

Boys, 1963

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	83,771	4.12%
2	John	78,636	3.87%
3	David	78,444	3.86%
4	James	71,294	3.51%
5	Robert	70,007	3.45%
6	Mark	49,342	2.43%
7	William	44,453	2.19%
8	Richard	40,772	2.01%
9	Thomas	35,490	1.75%
10	Jeffrey	31,701	1.56%
11	Kevin	30,613	1.51%
12	Scott	30,396	1.50%
13	Joseph	30,077	1.48%
14	Steven	29,328	1.44%
15	Timothy	27,187	1.34%
16	Charles	26,762	1.32%
17	Paul	26,672	1.31%
18	Kenneth	25,235	1.24%
19	Daniel	24,815	1.22%
20	Brian	24,133	1.19%
21	Gregory	21,420	1.05%
22	Anthony	20,250	1.00%
23	Ronald	19,780	0.97%
24	Gary	18,929	0.93%
25	Donald	18,896	0.93%
26	Christopher	18,339	0.90%
27	Edward	15,323	0.75%
28	Douglas	15,086	0.74%
29	Stephen	14,992	0.74%
30	Todd	14,789	0.73%
31	Eric	13,278	0.65%
32	Terry	12,463	0.61%
33	Keith	12,243	0.60%
34	George	12,079	0.59%
35	Patrick	12,071	0.59%
36	Larry	11,667	0.57%
37	Randy	10,535	0.52%
38	Jerry	10,189	0.50%
39	Dennis	9,821	0.48%
40	Peter	9,614	0.47%
41	Frank	9,527	0.47%
42	Andrew	9,514	0.47%
43	Bruce	9,275	0.46%
44	Mike	9,045	0.45%
45	Raymond	8,780	0.43%
46	Jeffery	8,486	0.42%
47	Ricky	8,114	0.40%
48	Jeff	8,105	0.40%
49	Steve	8,050	0.40%
50	Matthew	8,034	0.40%

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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