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The top names of 1974

Jennifer led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,039,868 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1974

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jennifer	63,107	4.30%
2	Amy	29,566	2.01%
3	Michelle	25,826	1.76%
4	Heather	23,179	1.58%
5	Angela	22,803	1.55%
6	Kimberly	22,427	1.53%
7	Melissa	22,166	1.51%
8	Lisa	19,778	1.35%
9	Stephanie	16,984	1.16%
10	Rebecca	15,163	1.03%
11	Nicole	13,112	0.89%
12	Elizabeth	12,259	0.84%
13	Mary	11,738	0.80%
14	Julie	11,360	0.77%
15	Kelly	10,851	0.74%
16	Christina	10,849	0.74%
17	Jessica	10,656	0.73%
18	Shannon	10,608	0.72%
19	Christine	9,901	0.67%
20	Sarah	9,788	0.67%
21	Laura	9,716	0.66%
22	Dawn	9,417	0.64%
23	Tracy	9,286	0.63%
24	Tammy	9,238	0.63%
25	Tina	8,668	0.59%
26	Karen	8,643	0.59%
27	Susan	8,470	0.58%
28	April	8,454	0.58%
29	Patricia	8,036	0.55%
30	Lori	7,960	0.54%
31	Maria	7,804	0.53%
32	Wendy	7,564	0.52%
33	Cynthia	7,557	0.51%
34	Amanda	7,473	0.51%
35	Andrea	7,472	0.51%
36	Rachel	7,399	0.50%
37	Tonya	6,878	0.47%
38	Stacy	6,741	0.46%
39	Tara	6,657	0.45%
40	Danielle	6,629	0.45%
41	Tiffany	6,482	0.44%
42	Carrie	6,436	0.44%
43	Monica	6,281	0.43%
44	Sandra	6,270	0.43%
45	Kristen	6,052	0.41%
46	Tanya	5,997	0.41%
47	Erin	5,868	0.40%
48	Stacey	5,803	0.40%
49	Crystal	5,622	0.38%
50	Michele	5,587	0.38%

Boys, 1974

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	67,534	4.30%
2	Jason	54,756	3.48%
3	Christopher	48,585	3.09%
4	David	41,786	2.66%
5	James	41,334	2.63%
6	John	37,612	2.39%
7	Robert	37,005	2.35%
8	Brian	34,449	2.19%
9	Matthew	27,194	1.73%
10	William	26,980	1.72%
11	Daniel	23,833	1.52%
12	Joseph	21,834	1.39%
13	Eric	20,193	1.28%
14	Kevin	19,461	1.24%
15	Jeffrey	19,320	1.23%
16	Mark	18,905	1.20%
17	Richard	18,636	1.19%
18	Scott	18,030	1.15%
19	Steven	17,663	1.12%
20	Thomas	17,268	1.10%
21	Anthony	16,391	1.04%
22	Timothy	15,890	1.01%
23	Charles	15,151	0.96%
24	Jeremy	13,295	0.85%
25	Ryan	13,179	0.84%
26	Chad	12,788	0.81%
27	Paul	12,310	0.78%
28	Andrew	11,778	0.75%
29	Joshua	11,599	0.74%
30	Shawn	11,438	0.73%
31	Gregory	10,826	0.69%
32	Aaron	10,507	0.67%
33	Jonathan	10,230	0.65%
34	Kenneth	10,143	0.65%
35	Stephen	10,101	0.64%
36	Adam	8,421	0.54%
37	Sean	8,290	0.53%
38	Patrick	8,137	0.52%
39	Todd	7,845	0.50%
40	Edward	7,817	0.50%
41	Donald	7,758	0.49%
42	Ronald	7,667	0.49%
43	Justin	7,429	0.47%
44	Keith	7,390	0.47%
45	Bryan	7,226	0.46%
46	Benjamin	7,183	0.46%
47	Jose	6,720	0.43%
48	Gary	6,444	0.41%
49	George	6,283	0.40%
50	Peter	5,940	0.38%

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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