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The top names of 1968

Lisa led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,378,363 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1968

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Lisa	49,534	3.02%
2	Michelle	33,223	2.03%
3	Kimberly	31,906	1.95%
4	Jennifer	26,853	1.64%
5	Melissa	21,733	1.32%
6	Mary	21,727	1.32%
7	Angela	20,670	1.26%
8	Tammy	20,058	1.22%
9	Karen	19,560	1.19%
10	Susan	19,503	1.19%
11	Laura	18,741	1.14%
12	Kelly	17,138	1.04%
13	Amy	17,090	1.04%
14	Christine	16,525	1.01%
15	Patricia	15,803	0.96%
16	Julie	15,750	0.96%
17	Elizabeth	14,887	0.91%
18	Tina	14,772	0.90%
19	Cynthia	14,050	0.86%
20	Pamela	14,031	0.86%
21	Dawn	13,441	0.82%
22	Lori	13,126	0.80%
23	Stephanie	12,953	0.79%
24	Donna	12,748	0.78%
25	Tracy	12,743	0.78%
26	Sandra	12,686	0.77%
27	Deborah	12,288	0.75%
28	Linda	11,371	0.69%
29	Michele	11,219	0.68%
30	Teresa	10,912	0.67%
31	Wendy	10,709	0.65%
32	Sharon	10,340	0.63%
33	Rebecca	10,225	0.62%
34	Brenda	9,945	0.61%
35	Denise	9,877	0.60%
36	Barbara	9,740	0.59%
37	Cheryl	9,138	0.56%
38	Debra	9,095	0.55%
39	Nancy	8,961	0.55%
40	Kathleen	8,729	0.53%
41	Maria	8,386	0.51%
42	Rhonda	8,268	0.50%
43	Robin	8,180	0.50%
44	Christina	8,016	0.49%
45	Paula	7,637	0.47%
46	Jill	7,521	0.46%
47	Theresa	7,307	0.45%
48	Andrea	7,089	0.43%
49	Carol	7,078	0.43%
50	Jacqueline	6,745	0.41%

Boys, 1968

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	81,968	4.72%
2	David	63,679	3.66%
3	John	60,903	3.50%
4	James	60,665	3.49%
5	Robert	58,174	3.35%
6	William	36,927	2.12%
7	Mark	35,401	2.04%
8	Richard	32,976	1.90%
9	Christopher	31,468	1.81%
10	Brian	29,922	1.72%
11	Jeffrey	28,369	1.63%
12	Thomas	27,420	1.58%
13	Timothy	26,496	1.52%
14	Scott	26,022	1.50%
15	Steven	25,493	1.47%
16	Joseph	25,396	1.46%
17	Kevin	23,862	1.37%
18	Daniel	22,012	1.27%
19	Paul	21,865	1.26%
20	Charles	21,575	1.24%
21	Anthony	20,231	1.16%
22	Eric	18,501	1.06%
23	Kenneth	18,077	1.04%
24	Matthew	15,823	0.91%
25	Ronald	15,415	0.89%
26	Gregory	15,392	0.89%
27	Stephen	14,761	0.85%
28	Todd	14,659	0.84%
29	Donald	13,362	0.77%
30	Patrick	13,062	0.75%
31	Edward	12,276	0.71%
32	Gary	11,973	0.69%
33	Douglas	11,405	0.66%
34	Andrew	10,563	0.61%
35	Keith	9,861	0.57%
36	George	9,382	0.54%
37	Sean	9,172	0.53%
38	Larry	8,231	0.47%
39	Peter	8,122	0.47%
40	Troy	7,976	0.46%
41	Craig	7,858	0.45%
42	Rodney	7,505	0.43%
43	Shawn	7,478	0.43%
44	Jerry	7,450	0.43%
45	Dennis	7,403	0.43%
46	Jeffery	7,223	0.42%
47	Jason	7,143	0.41%
48	Terry	7,089	0.41%
49	Frank	6,897	0.40%
50	Raymond	6,883	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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