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The top names of 1971

Jennifer led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,432,270 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1971

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jennifer	56,771	3.41%
2	Michelle	33,160	1.99%
3	Lisa	32,907	1.98%
4	Kimberly	30,708	1.85%
5	Amy	26,237	1.58%
6	Angela	25,901	1.56%
7	Melissa	23,875	1.43%
8	Tammy	17,656	1.06%
9	Mary	16,703	1.00%
10	Julie	15,322	0.92%
11	Stephanie	15,135	0.91%
12	Heather	15,017	0.90%
13	Tracy	14,330	0.86%
14	Dawn	14,288	0.86%
15	Karen	14,214	0.85%
16	Laura	13,875	0.83%
17	Susan	13,782	0.83%
18	Christine	13,678	0.82%
19	Elizabeth	13,606	0.82%
20	Tina	13,266	0.80%
21	Shannon	12,647	0.76%
22	Kelly	12,599	0.76%
23	Rebecca	12,192	0.73%
24	Cynthia	12,143	0.73%
25	Lori	11,829	0.71%
26	Patricia	11,470	0.69%
27	Nicole	10,423	0.63%
28	Pamela	10,149	0.61%
29	Wendy	10,063	0.60%
30	Christina	9,915	0.60%
31	Sandra	9,714	0.58%
32	Stacy	9,117	0.55%
33	Deborah	8,675	0.52%
34	Teresa	8,563	0.51%
35	Andrea	8,483	0.51%
36	Denise	8,219	0.49%
37	Maria	8,141	0.49%
38	Donna	8,013	0.48%
39	Michele	7,955	0.48%
40	Sharon	7,523	0.45%
41	Stacey	7,482	0.45%
42	Linda	7,376	0.44%
43	Brenda	7,160	0.43%
44	Dana	6,934	0.42%
45	Tonya	6,897	0.41%
46	Rhonda	6,649	0.40%
47	Barbara	6,453	0.39%
48	Monica	6,426	0.39%
49	Tara	6,336	0.38%
50	Cheryl	6,327	0.38%

Boys, 1971

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	77,577	4.39%
2	James	54,597	3.09%
3	David	53,113	3.00%
4	John	51,512	2.91%
5	Robert	50,634	2.86%
6	Christopher	48,225	2.73%
7	William	35,413	2.00%
8	Jason	34,173	1.93%
9	Brian	32,624	1.84%
10	Scott	30,901	1.75%
11	Richard	26,154	1.48%
12	Jeffrey	25,834	1.46%
13	Mark	25,132	1.42%
14	Kevin	24,850	1.41%
15	Joseph	24,517	1.39%
16	Steven	23,686	1.34%
17	Thomas	23,149	1.31%
18	Eric	22,962	1.30%
19	Matthew	22,543	1.27%
20	Daniel	21,785	1.23%
21	Timothy	20,089	1.14%
22	Charles	19,851	1.12%
23	Anthony	19,223	1.09%
24	Paul	17,469	0.99%
25	Kenneth	14,763	0.83%
26	Gregory	14,760	0.83%
27	Stephen	13,102	0.74%
28	Shawn	12,825	0.73%
29	Chad	12,137	0.69%
30	Todd	12,055	0.68%
31	Ronald	11,617	0.66%
32	Edward	11,062	0.63%
33	Andrew	10,911	0.62%
34	Donald	10,872	0.61%
35	Patrick	10,808	0.61%
36	Sean	10,510	0.59%
37	Keith	9,851	0.56%
38	Gary	9,190	0.52%
39	Douglas	8,737	0.49%
40	Jonathan	8,628	0.49%
41	Aaron	8,403	0.48%
42	George	8,226	0.47%
43	Craig	7,957	0.45%
44	Larry	7,763	0.44%
45	Jeremy	7,498	0.42%
46	Troy	7,340	0.42%
47	Peter	7,025	0.40%
48	Bryan	6,611	0.37%
49	Dennis	6,584	0.37%
50	Jerry	6,572	0.37%

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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