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The top names of 1970

Jennifer led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,606,373 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1970

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jennifer	46,150	2.64%
2	Lisa	38,967	2.23%
3	Kimberly	34,130	1.95%
4	Michelle	34,047	1.95%
5	Amy	25,212	1.44%
6	Angela	24,929	1.43%
7	Melissa	23,735	1.36%
8	Tammy	19,587	1.12%
9	Mary	19,204	1.10%
10	Tracy	18,464	1.06%
11	Julie	17,158	0.98%
12	Karen	16,699	0.96%
13	Laura	16,490	0.94%
14	Christine	16,061	0.92%
15	Susan	15,738	0.90%
16	Dawn	15,681	0.90%
17	Stephanie	15,387	0.88%
18	Elizabeth	15,108	0.86%
19	Heather	14,669	0.84%
20	Kelly	14,607	0.84%
21	Tina	13,861	0.79%
22	Shannon	13,547	0.77%
23	Lori	13,448	0.77%
24	Patricia	13,406	0.77%
25	Cynthia	12,913	0.74%
26	Pamela	12,907	0.74%
27	Sandra	11,246	0.64%
28	Wendy	11,100	0.63%
29	Rebecca	10,854	0.62%
30	Nicole	10,691	0.61%
31	Michele	10,090	0.58%
32	Donna	9,968	0.57%
33	Deborah	9,845	0.56%
34	Teresa	9,612	0.55%
35	Christina	9,588	0.55%
36	Denise	9,343	0.53%
37	Sharon	9,177	0.52%
38	Linda	8,731	0.50%
39	Maria	8,686	0.50%
40	Brenda	8,336	0.48%
41	Barbara	8,026	0.46%
42	Stacy	7,771	0.44%
43	Andrea	7,708	0.44%
44	Cheryl	7,440	0.43%
45	Kathleen	7,410	0.42%
46	Rhonda	7,379	0.42%
47	Debra	7,198	0.41%
48	Stacey	7,154	0.41%
49	Tonya	7,140	0.41%
50	Nancy	7,063	0.40%

Boys, 1970

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	85,266	4.59%
2	James	61,735	3.32%
3	David	61,728	3.32%
4	John	58,491	3.15%
5	Robert	57,177	3.08%
6	Christopher	41,747	2.25%
7	William	38,887	2.09%
8	Brian	31,917	1.72%
9	Mark	31,461	1.69%
10	Richard	30,442	1.64%
11	Jeffrey	30,139	1.62%
12	Scott	28,565	1.54%
13	Jason	27,272	1.47%
14	Kevin	26,968	1.45%
15	Steven	26,793	1.44%
16	Joseph	26,714	1.44%
17	Thomas	26,669	1.44%
18	Eric	23,571	1.27%
19	Daniel	23,521	1.27%
20	Timothy	22,422	1.21%
21	Charles	22,411	1.21%
22	Anthony	21,176	1.14%
23	Paul	20,196	1.09%
24	Matthew	20,185	1.09%
25	Kenneth	16,800	0.90%
26	Gregory	16,286	0.88%
27	Stephen	14,758	0.79%
28	Todd	14,426	0.78%
29	Ronald	13,618	0.73%
30	Donald	12,397	0.67%
31	Edward	12,275	0.66%
32	Andrew	11,989	0.65%
33	Patrick	11,730	0.63%
34	Shawn	10,945	0.59%
35	Gary	10,716	0.58%
36	Douglas	10,409	0.56%
37	Sean	10,341	0.56%
38	Keith	9,615	0.52%
39	Craig	9,364	0.50%
40	George	8,911	0.48%
41	Troy	8,448	0.45%
42	Jonathan	8,194	0.44%
43	Larry	8,104	0.44%
44	Peter	8,056	0.43%
45	Jerry	7,422	0.40%
46	Dennis	7,312	0.39%
47	Bradley	6,818	0.37%
48	Frank	6,805	0.37%
49	Raymond	6,788	0.37%
50	Jeffery	6,701	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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