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The top names of 1964

Lisa led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,887,553 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1964

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Lisa	54,270	2.86%
2	Mary	40,985	2.16%
3	Susan	31,515	1.66%
4	Karen	30,243	1.60%
5	Patricia	26,091	1.38%
6	Kimberly	24,128	1.27%
7	Donna	23,808	1.26%
8	Linda	23,629	1.25%
9	Cynthia	20,321	1.07%
10	Tammy	20,043	1.06%
11	Pamela	19,823	1.05%
12	Deborah	19,306	1.02%
13	Sandra	19,249	1.02%
14	Laura	18,967	1.00%
15	Lori	18,624	0.98%
16	Elizabeth	17,294	0.91%
17	Julie	17,283	0.91%
18	Brenda	17,106	0.90%
19	Barbara	16,481	0.87%
20	Sharon	16,449	0.87%
21	Teresa	16,420	0.87%
22	Angela	16,256	0.86%
23	Michelle	16,180	0.85%
24	Debra	15,329	0.81%
25	Denise	14,726	0.78%
26	Nancy	14,696	0.78%
27	Robin	14,328	0.76%
28	Christine	14,270	0.75%
29	Cheryl	14,081	0.74%
30	Kathleen	13,231	0.70%
31	Jennifer	12,955	0.68%
32	Diane	12,864	0.68%
33	Dawn	12,613	0.67%
34	Tina	12,548	0.66%
35	Kelly	12,470	0.66%
36	Carol	12,125	0.64%
37	Jacqueline	11,975	0.63%
38	Theresa	10,557	0.56%
39	Kathy	10,377	0.55%
40	Tracy	10,161	0.54%
41	Maria	10,148	0.54%
42	Kim	9,980	0.53%
43	Rhonda	9,713	0.51%
44	Amy	9,576	0.51%
45	Paula	9,498	0.50%
46	Rebecca	9,474	0.50%
47	Cindy	9,322	0.49%
48	Janet	9,249	0.49%
49	Margaret	9,101	0.48%
50	Sherry	8,496	0.45%

Boys, 1964

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	82,617	4.15%
2	John	82,508	4.14%
3	David	75,043	3.77%
4	James	73,026	3.66%
5	Robert	69,980	3.51%
6	Mark	45,261	2.27%
7	William	44,224	2.22%
8	Richard	40,098	2.01%
9	Thomas	34,463	1.73%
10	Jeffrey	30,728	1.54%
11	Joseph	30,576	1.53%
12	Steven	29,707	1.49%
13	Kevin	29,357	1.47%
14	Scott	28,506	1.43%
15	Timothy	28,090	1.41%
16	Paul	26,874	1.35%
17	Charles	25,908	1.30%
18	Kenneth	24,850	1.25%
19	Daniel	24,342	1.22%
20	Brian	24,167	1.21%
21	Anthony	20,126	1.01%
22	Gregory	19,884	1.00%
23	Christopher	19,627	0.98%
24	Ronald	18,844	0.95%
25	Donald	18,045	0.91%
26	Gary	17,206	0.86%
27	Edward	15,609	0.78%
28	Todd	15,350	0.77%
29	Stephen	14,968	0.75%
30	Patrick	14,692	0.74%
31	Douglas	14,600	0.73%
32	Eric	14,567	0.73%
33	George	11,792	0.59%
34	Keith	11,655	0.58%
35	Terry	10,867	0.55%
36	Larry	10,678	0.54%
37	Andrew	10,494	0.53%
38	Randy	10,302	0.52%
39	Peter	9,911	0.50%
40	Jerry	9,606	0.48%
41	Frank	9,333	0.47%
42	Dennis	9,327	0.47%
43	Matthew	8,981	0.45%
44	Raymond	8,592	0.43%
45	Jeffery	8,360	0.42%
46	Bruce	7,890	0.40%
47	Mike	7,767	0.39%
48	Craig	7,752	0.39%
49	Roger	7,389	0.37%
50	Tony	7,199	0.36%

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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