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The top names of 1973

Jennifer led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,016,785 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1973

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jennifer	62,448	4.28%
2	Amy	26,962	1.85%
3	Michelle	26,935	1.85%
4	Kimberly	23,531	1.61%
5	Lisa	22,677	1.56%
6	Melissa	22,479	1.54%
7	Angela	20,898	1.43%
8	Heather	19,347	1.33%
9	Stephanie	17,263	1.18%
10	Rebecca	14,868	1.02%
11	Nicole	13,922	0.95%
12	Julie	12,785	0.88%
13	Elizabeth	12,360	0.85%
14	Mary	12,313	0.84%
15	Tammy	11,244	0.77%
16	Christina	10,888	0.75%
17	Christine	10,549	0.72%
18	Kelly	10,512	0.72%
19	Laura	10,344	0.71%
20	Tracy	9,913	0.68%
21	Dawn	9,890	0.68%
22	Shannon	9,802	0.67%
23	Karen	9,352	0.64%
24	Tina	9,307	0.64%
25	Susan	9,279	0.64%
26	Cynthia	8,743	0.60%
27	Patricia	8,476	0.58%
28	Lori	8,472	0.58%
29	Wendy	7,810	0.54%
30	Andrea	7,766	0.53%
31	Maria	7,667	0.53%
32	Stacy	7,338	0.50%
33	April	7,264	0.50%
34	Jessica	7,228	0.50%
35	Sarah	7,214	0.49%
36	Tonya	7,184	0.49%
37	Tara	6,707	0.46%
38	Denise	6,615	0.45%
39	Sandra	6,585	0.45%
40	Monica	6,380	0.44%
41	Stacey	6,253	0.43%
42	Rachel	6,103	0.42%
43	Melanie	6,079	0.42%
44	Michele	5,996	0.41%
45	Teresa	5,986	0.41%
46	Carrie	5,835	0.40%
47	Pamela	5,813	0.40%
48	Crystal	5,768	0.40%
49	Danielle	5,648	0.39%
50	Tanya	5,632	0.39%

Boys, 1973

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	67,797	4.35%
2	Christopher	48,313	3.10%
3	Jason	46,683	3.00%
4	James	42,836	2.75%
5	David	41,082	2.64%
6	John	39,165	2.51%
7	Robert	38,698	2.48%
8	Brian	35,686	2.29%
9	William	28,018	1.80%
10	Matthew	24,531	1.57%
11	Daniel	23,672	1.52%
12	Joseph	21,326	1.37%
13	Eric	20,802	1.33%
14	Kevin	20,768	1.33%
15	Mark	20,367	1.31%
16	Richard	19,942	1.28%
17	Jeffrey	19,216	1.23%
18	Scott	18,980	1.22%
19	Thomas	17,921	1.15%
20	Steven	17,175	1.10%
21	Anthony	16,414	1.05%
22	Timothy	16,036	1.03%
23	Charles	15,752	1.01%
24	Paul	12,901	0.83%
25	Chad	12,886	0.83%
26	Gregory	11,674	0.75%
27	Shawn	11,451	0.73%
28	Kenneth	10,979	0.70%
29	Andrew	10,728	0.69%
30	Ryan	10,511	0.67%
31	Jonathan	10,273	0.66%
32	Stephen	9,955	0.64%
33	Jeremy	9,363	0.60%
34	Aaron	9,232	0.59%
35	Todd	8,677	0.56%
36	Sean	8,553	0.55%
37	Patrick	8,480	0.54%
38	Donald	8,361	0.54%
39	Edward	8,360	0.54%
40	Ronald	8,327	0.53%
41	Keith	8,165	0.52%
42	Joshua	8,057	0.52%
43	Bryan	7,110	0.46%
44	Gary	6,851	0.44%
45	Adam	6,842	0.44%
46	George	6,601	0.42%
47	Douglas	6,595	0.42%
48	Craig	6,295	0.40%
49	Jose	6,097	0.39%
50	Larry	6,080	0.39%

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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