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The top names of 1966

Lisa led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,475,638 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1966

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Lisa	56,918	3.36%
2	Kimberly	32,232	1.90%
3	Mary	28,890	1.71%
4	Michelle	27,159	1.60%
5	Karen	25,450	1.50%
6	Susan	23,776	1.41%
7	Patricia	20,112	1.19%
8	Tammy	18,621	1.10%
9	Angela	18,532	1.10%
10	Jennifer	18,215	1.08%
11	Cynthia	17,418	1.03%
12	Donna	17,037	1.01%
13	Julie	16,331	0.97%
14	Deborah	16,250	0.96%
15	Pamela	16,249	0.96%
16	Elizabeth	15,887	0.94%
17	Sandra	15,851	0.94%
18	Linda	15,566	0.92%
19	Laura	15,553	0.92%
20	Christine	15,546	0.92%
21	Lori	14,671	0.87%
22	Melissa	14,254	0.84%
23	Tina	13,892	0.82%
24	Dawn	13,603	0.80%
25	Brenda	13,294	0.79%
26	Kelly	13,242	0.78%
27	Barbara	13,123	0.78%
28	Sharon	13,063	0.77%
29	Teresa	13,024	0.77%
30	Amy	12,998	0.77%
31	Tracy	12,504	0.74%
32	Denise	11,797	0.70%
33	Nancy	11,729	0.69%
34	Cheryl	11,713	0.69%
35	Debra	11,261	0.67%
36	Michele	10,689	0.63%
37	Kathleen	10,491	0.62%
38	Stephanie	10,160	0.60%
39	Rhonda	9,805	0.58%
40	Rebecca	9,777	0.58%
41	Wendy	9,516	0.56%
42	Robin	9,440	0.56%
43	Kim	9,194	0.54%
44	Maria	9,132	0.54%
45	Diane	8,750	0.52%
46	Theresa	8,699	0.51%
47	Jacqueline	8,360	0.49%
48	Carol	8,259	0.49%
49	Jill	7,871	0.47%
50	Paula	7,856	0.46%

Boys, 1966

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	79,985	4.48%
2	David	66,408	3.72%
3	James	65,163	3.65%
4	John	65,016	3.65%
5	Robert	59,317	3.33%
6	William	38,237	2.14%
7	Mark	34,801	1.95%
8	Richard	34,457	1.93%
9	Jeffrey	30,200	1.69%
10	Thomas	29,003	1.63%
11	Timothy	28,923	1.62%
12	Christopher	27,866	1.56%
13	Steven	27,698	1.55%
14	Brian	27,253	1.53%
15	Joseph	26,981	1.51%
16	Scott	26,036	1.46%
17	Kevin	25,592	1.43%
18	Paul	23,578	1.32%
19	Daniel	23,269	1.30%
20	Charles	22,252	1.25%
21	Kenneth	20,834	1.17%
22	Anthony	20,624	1.16%
23	Gregory	17,009	0.95%
24	Ronald	16,952	0.95%
25	Eric	16,475	0.92%
26	Stephen	14,742	0.83%
27	Donald	14,713	0.82%
28	Gary	14,155	0.79%
29	Todd	13,557	0.76%
30	Edward	13,279	0.74%
31	Patrick	12,405	0.70%
32	Keith	11,614	0.65%
33	Douglas	11,401	0.64%
34	Matthew	10,803	0.61%
35	Rodney	10,268	0.58%
36	Andrew	10,235	0.57%
37	George	9,941	0.56%
38	Larry	8,709	0.49%
39	Peter	8,584	0.48%
40	Terry	8,455	0.47%
41	Jerry	8,429	0.47%
42	Jeffery	7,904	0.44%
43	Frank	7,787	0.44%
44	Dennis	7,786	0.44%
45	Randy	7,758	0.43%
46	Craig	7,729	0.43%
47	Raymond	7,376	0.41%
48	Troy	6,905	0.39%
49	Tony	6,571	0.37%
50	Sean	6,490	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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