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The top names of 1965

Lisa led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,625,307 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1965

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Lisa	60,271	3.41%
2	Mary	34,270	1.94%
3	Karen	32,869	1.86%
4	Kimberly	28,836	1.63%
5	Susan	26,321	1.49%
6	Patricia	23,552	1.33%
7	Donna	19,700	1.12%
8	Linda	19,345	1.10%
9	Cynthia	19,239	1.09%
10	Angela	18,754	1.06%
11	Tammy	18,013	1.02%
12	Pamela	17,467	0.99%
13	Deborah	17,081	0.97%
14	Julie	16,987	0.96%
15	Sandra	16,371	0.93%
16	Elizabeth	16,321	0.92%
17	Laura	16,218	0.92%
18	Michelle	16,215	0.92%
19	Lori	15,695	0.89%
20	Jennifer	15,207	0.86%
21	Christine	15,204	0.86%
22	Sharon	15,129	0.86%
23	Brenda	15,060	0.85%
24	Teresa	14,578	0.83%
25	Barbara	14,023	0.79%
26	Dawn	13,344	0.76%
27	Debra	13,098	0.74%
28	Denise	13,036	0.74%
29	Tina	12,831	0.73%
30	Kelly	12,763	0.72%
31	Cheryl	12,550	0.71%
32	Nancy	12,255	0.69%
33	Robin	11,995	0.68%
34	Kathleen	11,778	0.67%
35	Amy	11,530	0.65%
36	Tracy	11,174	0.63%
37	Rhonda	10,949	0.62%
38	Melissa	10,563	0.60%
39	Wendy	10,481	0.59%
40	Diane	10,365	0.59%
41	Rebecca	10,211	0.58%
42	Carol	10,097	0.57%
43	Kim	10,083	0.57%
44	Stephanie	9,765	0.55%
45	Theresa	9,685	0.55%
46	Maria	9,480	0.54%
47	Jacqueline	9,413	0.53%
48	Michele	8,661	0.49%
49	Paula	7,915	0.45%
50	Sheila	7,904	0.45%

Boys, 1965

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	80,992	4.35%
2	John	71,493	3.84%
3	David	67,825	3.65%
4	James	67,666	3.64%
5	Robert	63,106	3.39%
6	William	40,111	2.16%
7	Mark	38,244	2.06%
8	Richard	36,817	1.98%
9	Thomas	31,595	1.70%
10	Jeffrey	29,574	1.59%
11	Joseph	28,630	1.54%
12	Timothy	28,334	1.52%
13	Kevin	28,177	1.51%
14	Steven	27,977	1.50%
15	Scott	25,437	1.37%
16	Paul	24,919	1.34%
17	Daniel	24,833	1.34%
18	Christopher	24,640	1.32%
19	Brian	24,552	1.32%
20	Charles	23,494	1.26%
21	Kenneth	22,677	1.22%
22	Anthony	20,326	1.09%
23	Gregory	18,205	0.98%
24	Ronald	17,619	0.95%
25	Eric	16,826	0.90%
26	Donald	16,033	0.86%
27	Gary	15,259	0.82%
28	Stephen	14,648	0.79%
29	Edward	14,404	0.77%
30	Todd	13,934	0.75%
31	Patrick	12,929	0.70%
32	Douglas	12,787	0.69%
33	Rodney	11,086	0.60%
34	George	10,680	0.57%
35	Keith	10,670	0.57%
36	Matthew	9,982	0.54%
37	Andrew	9,673	0.52%
38	Larry	9,403	0.51%
39	Peter	9,395	0.51%
40	Terry	9,088	0.49%
41	Jerry	9,015	0.48%
42	Randy	8,861	0.48%
43	Frank	8,319	0.45%
44	Dennis	8,215	0.44%
45	Raymond	8,051	0.43%
46	Craig	7,877	0.42%
47	Jeffery	7,734	0.42%
48	Tony	6,815	0.37%
49	Roger	6,429	0.35%
50	Bruce	6,325	0.34%

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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