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The top names of 1976

Jennifer led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,034,106 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1976

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jennifer	59,473	4.06%
2	Amy	31,339	2.14%
3	Melissa	25,094	1.71%
4	Heather	24,192	1.65%
5	Angela	22,038	1.50%
6	Michelle	19,550	1.33%
7	Kimberly	18,962	1.29%
8	Jessica	18,368	1.25%
9	Lisa	17,346	1.18%
10	Amanda	15,588	1.06%
11	Stephanie	15,180	1.04%
12	Rebecca	14,491	0.99%
13	Nicole	14,453	0.99%
14	Christina	14,033	0.96%
15	Sarah	13,993	0.96%
16	Elizabeth	13,547	0.92%
17	Shannon	13,368	0.91%
18	Jamie	12,539	0.86%
19	Kelly	11,791	0.80%
20	Laura	11,252	0.77%
21	Julie	10,839	0.74%
22	Mary	10,315	0.70%
23	Rachel	8,453	0.58%
24	Erin	8,381	0.57%
25	Andrea	8,352	0.57%
26	Christine	8,111	0.55%
27	Sara	8,020	0.55%
28	Carrie	7,991	0.55%
29	Jaime	7,838	0.53%
30	April	7,761	0.53%
31	Karen	7,505	0.51%
32	Tiffany	7,482	0.51%
33	Danielle	7,364	0.50%
34	Maria	7,358	0.50%
35	Dawn	7,048	0.48%
36	Crystal	6,946	0.47%
37	Tracy	6,822	0.47%
38	Stacy	6,523	0.45%
39	Wendy	6,464	0.44%
40	Susan	6,402	0.44%
41	Tammy	6,228	0.43%
42	Tara	6,020	0.41%
43	Patricia	6,017	0.41%
44	Cynthia	6,012	0.41%
45	Monica	5,978	0.41%
46	Misty	5,906	0.40%
47	Lori	5,849	0.40%
48	Tina	5,747	0.39%
49	Amber	5,646	0.39%
50	Emily	5,547	0.38%

Boys, 1976

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	66,915	4.26%
2	Jason	52,643	3.36%
3	Christopher	45,190	2.88%
4	David	39,265	2.50%
5	James	38,294	2.44%
6	John	33,976	2.17%
7	Robert	33,789	2.15%
8	Brian	30,517	1.94%
9	Matthew	29,951	1.91%
10	Daniel	24,702	1.57%
11	William	24,428	1.56%
12	Joseph	24,055	1.53%
13	Eric	21,359	1.36%
14	Jeremy	20,126	1.28%
15	Kevin	18,474	1.18%
16	Ryan	17,484	1.11%
17	Jeffrey	17,013	1.08%
18	Joshua	16,845	1.07%
19	Richard	16,752	1.07%
20	Steven	16,650	1.06%
21	Timothy	16,620	1.06%
22	Anthony	16,601	1.06%
23	Thomas	16,122	1.03%
24	Scott	15,717	1.00%
25	Mark	15,508	0.99%
26	Charles	13,921	0.89%
27	Andrew	13,301	0.85%
28	Paul	11,781	0.75%
29	Chad	11,766	0.75%
30	Aaron	11,344	0.72%
31	Jonathan	11,314	0.72%
32	Benjamin	10,672	0.68%
33	Justin	10,144	0.65%
34	Shawn	10,108	0.64%
35	Gregory	10,060	0.64%
36	Adam	9,937	0.63%
37	Stephen	9,727	0.62%
38	Kenneth	9,127	0.58%
39	Nathan	8,611	0.55%
40	Brandon	7,786	0.50%
41	Patrick	7,642	0.49%
42	Sean	7,565	0.48%
43	Bryan	7,288	0.46%
44	Jose	7,061	0.45%
45	Edward	7,048	0.45%
46	Travis	6,832	0.44%
47	Donald	6,792	0.43%
48	Keith	6,745	0.43%
49	Ronald	6,457	0.41%
50	Todd	6,440	0.41%

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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