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The top names of 1977

Jennifer led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,176,366 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1977

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jennifer	58,964	3.85%
2	Melissa	26,879	1.75%
3	Amy	26,729	1.74%
4	Jessica	24,846	1.62%
5	Heather	23,773	1.55%
6	Angela	20,998	1.37%
7	Michelle	19,540	1.27%
8	Kimberly	18,286	1.19%
9	Amanda	18,278	1.19%
10	Kelly	18,234	1.19%
11	Sarah	18,096	1.18%
12	Lisa	17,014	1.11%
13	Elizabeth	16,431	1.07%
14	Stephanie	15,417	1.01%
15	Nicole	15,247	0.99%
16	Christina	14,501	0.95%
17	Rebecca	14,196	0.93%
18	Jamie	12,895	0.84%
19	Shannon	12,518	0.82%
20	Laura	11,318	0.74%
21	Mary	10,656	0.70%
22	Julie	10,204	0.67%
23	Erin	10,198	0.67%
24	Andrea	9,782	0.64%
25	Crystal	9,724	0.63%
26	Rachel	8,976	0.59%
27	Sara	8,709	0.57%
28	Carrie	8,661	0.56%
29	April	8,068	0.53%
30	Christine	7,886	0.51%
31	Danielle	7,616	0.50%
32	Karen	7,441	0.49%
33	Amber	7,207	0.47%
34	Tiffany	7,205	0.47%
35	Tara	7,198	0.47%
36	Maria	7,094	0.46%
37	Emily	6,879	0.45%
38	Erica	6,624	0.43%
39	Monica	6,366	0.42%
40	Misty	6,315	0.41%
41	Jill	6,238	0.41%
42	Stacy	6,154	0.40%
43	Dawn	6,096	0.40%
44	Katherine	6,030	0.39%
45	Susan	5,961	0.39%
46	Jaime	5,906	0.39%
47	Patricia	5,903	0.39%
48	Cynthia	5,782	0.38%
49	Wendy	5,764	0.38%
50	Tracy	5,756	0.38%

Boys, 1977

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	67,587	4.11%
2	Jason	55,631	3.39%
3	Christopher	46,721	2.84%
4	David	40,515	2.47%
5	James	40,040	2.44%
6	Robert	34,214	2.08%
7	John	34,195	2.08%
8	Brian	32,492	1.98%
9	Matthew	31,965	1.95%
10	Joseph	26,483	1.61%
11	Daniel	26,073	1.59%
12	William	24,758	1.51%
13	Kevin	22,463	1.37%
14	Joshua	22,068	1.34%
15	Jeremy	21,610	1.32%
16	Ryan	21,246	1.29%
17	Eric	20,745	1.26%
18	Timothy	17,977	1.09%
19	Jeffrey	17,481	1.06%
20	Richard	17,442	1.06%
21	Anthony	16,804	1.02%
22	Thomas	16,586	1.01%
23	Steven	16,484	1.00%
24	Andrew	16,017	0.97%
25	Mark	15,418	0.94%
26	Charles	14,743	0.90%
27	Scott	14,203	0.86%
28	Jonathan	12,319	0.75%
29	Benjamin	12,106	0.74%
30	Justin	12,008	0.73%
31	Paul	11,798	0.72%
32	Aaron	11,631	0.71%
33	Adam	11,030	0.67%
34	Chad	10,831	0.66%
35	Gregory	10,052	0.61%
36	Nathan	9,886	0.60%
37	Shawn	9,865	0.60%
38	Stephen	9,635	0.59%
39	Kenneth	9,452	0.58%
40	Patrick	8,305	0.51%
41	Brandon	8,272	0.50%
42	Bryan	7,886	0.48%
43	Sean	7,625	0.46%
44	Travis	7,277	0.44%
45	Jose	6,919	0.42%
46	Donald	6,866	0.42%
47	Edward	6,840	0.42%
48	Keith	6,597	0.40%
49	Bradley	6,431	0.39%
50	Todd	6,276	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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