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The top names of 1972

Jennifer led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,142,852 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1972

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jennifer	63,600	4.18%
2	Michelle	29,285	1.93%
3	Lisa	27,543	1.81%
4	Kimberly	26,282	1.73%
5	Amy	25,873	1.70%
6	Angela	23,561	1.55%
7	Melissa	22,494	1.48%
8	Stephanie	16,890	1.11%
9	Heather	16,320	1.07%
10	Nicole	15,755	1.04%
11	Tammy	14,211	0.93%
12	Julie	14,062	0.92%
13	Mary	13,757	0.90%
14	Rebecca	13,252	0.87%
15	Elizabeth	12,182	0.80%
16	Christine	11,986	0.79%
17	Laura	11,778	0.77%
18	Tina	11,523	0.76%
19	Tracy	11,436	0.75%
20	Dawn	11,340	0.75%
21	Karen	11,181	0.73%
22	Shannon	10,965	0.72%
23	Kelly	10,944	0.72%
24	Susan	10,574	0.70%
25	Cynthia	10,173	0.67%
26	Christina	10,172	0.67%
27	Patricia	9,602	0.63%
28	Lori	9,434	0.62%
29	Wendy	8,529	0.56%
30	Andrea	8,022	0.53%
31	Sandra	7,917	0.52%
32	Maria	7,721	0.51%
33	Stacy	7,604	0.50%
34	Pamela	7,472	0.49%
35	Denise	7,382	0.49%
36	Michele	7,380	0.49%
37	Tonya	7,244	0.48%
38	Tara	7,234	0.48%
39	Teresa	7,176	0.47%
40	Rachel	6,417	0.42%
41	Stacey	6,380	0.42%
42	Melanie	6,296	0.41%
43	Deborah	6,271	0.41%
44	Brenda	6,270	0.41%
45	Donna	6,257	0.41%
46	Jessica	6,206	0.41%
47	Monica	6,133	0.40%
48	April	6,120	0.40%
49	Sarah	6,114	0.40%
50	Sharon	6,111	0.40%

Boys, 1972

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	71,393	4.40%
2	Christopher	52,172	3.22%
3	James	47,063	2.90%
4	David	46,322	2.86%
5	John	43,158	2.66%
6	Robert	43,013	2.65%
7	Jason	37,423	2.31%
8	Brian	36,306	2.24%
9	William	30,510	1.88%
10	Matthew	22,928	1.41%
11	Scott	22,838	1.41%
12	Joseph	22,454	1.38%
13	Kevin	22,354	1.38%
14	Richard	22,302	1.38%
15	Daniel	22,092	1.36%
16	Eric	22,027	1.36%
17	Jeffrey	21,677	1.34%
18	Mark	21,490	1.33%
19	Steven	19,851	1.22%
20	Thomas	19,557	1.21%
21	Timothy	17,605	1.09%
22	Anthony	17,454	1.08%
23	Charles	16,968	1.05%
24	Paul	14,555	0.90%
25	Chad	13,392	0.83%
26	Gregory	13,056	0.81%
27	Kenneth	12,334	0.76%
28	Shawn	11,277	0.70%
29	Stephen	11,037	0.68%
30	Andrew	10,111	0.62%
31	Todd	9,968	0.61%
32	Ronald	9,502	0.59%
33	Sean	9,444	0.58%
34	Edward	9,292	0.57%
35	Patrick	9,276	0.57%
36	Donald	9,261	0.57%
37	Jonathan	9,219	0.57%
38	Keith	9,145	0.56%
39	Ryan	8,878	0.55%
40	Aaron	7,863	0.48%
41	Gary	7,758	0.48%
42	Jeremy	7,398	0.46%
43	Douglas	7,387	0.46%
44	George	7,167	0.44%
45	Bryan	7,035	0.43%
46	Craig	6,729	0.41%
47	Larry	6,604	0.41%
48	Peter	6,471	0.40%
49	Troy	6,348	0.39%
50	Jose	5,935	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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