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The top names of 1978

Jennifer led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,173,696 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1978

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jennifer	56,314	3.68%
2	Melissa	28,327	1.85%
3	Jessica	26,102	1.70%
4	Amy	23,213	1.52%
5	Heather	22,270	1.45%
6	Amanda	20,520	1.34%
7	Angela	20,517	1.34%
8	Sarah	19,976	1.30%
9	Michelle	18,856	1.23%
10	Nicole	17,279	1.13%
11	Lisa	17,033	1.11%
12	Kelly	16,976	1.11%
13	Kimberly	16,879	1.10%
14	Elizabeth	16,807	1.10%
15	Christina	16,367	1.07%
16	Stephanie	16,233	1.06%
17	Rebecca	13,796	0.90%
18	Crystal	12,594	0.82%
19	Laura	11,240	0.73%
20	Jamie	10,982	0.72%
21	Erin	10,786	0.70%
22	Shannon	10,598	0.69%
23	Andrea	10,461	0.68%
24	Mary	10,040	0.66%
25	Rachel	9,802	0.64%
26	Julie	9,794	0.64%
27	April	9,590	0.63%
28	Sara	8,869	0.58%
29	Christine	8,272	0.54%
30	Amber	8,174	0.53%
31	Danielle	7,983	0.52%
32	Tiffany	7,701	0.50%
33	Emily	7,473	0.49%
34	Erica	7,340	0.48%
35	Carrie	7,318	0.48%
36	Maria	7,021	0.46%
37	Brandy	6,699	0.44%
38	Katherine	6,625	0.43%
39	Karen	6,371	0.42%
40	Tara	6,330	0.41%
41	Megan	5,895	0.38%
42	Monica	5,867	0.38%
43	Misty	5,834	0.38%
44	Stacy	5,776	0.38%
45	Tina	5,699	0.37%
46	Jill	5,676	0.37%
47	Tracy	5,631	0.37%
48	Patricia	5,498	0.36%
49	Susan	5,418	0.35%
50	Cynthia	5,403	0.35%

Boys, 1978

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	67,127	4.09%
2	Jason	51,600	3.14%
3	Christopher	47,236	2.88%
4	David	40,684	2.48%
5	James	39,894	2.43%
6	Matthew	34,282	2.09%
7	John	34,014	2.07%
8	Robert	33,374	2.03%
9	Brian	29,432	1.79%
10	Joseph	26,663	1.62%
11	Daniel	26,441	1.61%
12	Joshua	25,204	1.54%
13	William	24,170	1.47%
14	Ryan	21,322	1.30%
15	Kevin	20,094	1.22%
16	Eric	19,761	1.20%
17	Timothy	19,597	1.19%
18	Jeremy	19,509	1.19%
19	Jeffrey	16,989	1.03%
20	Anthony	16,808	1.02%
21	Richard	16,734	1.02%
22	Andrew	16,720	1.02%
23	Thomas	16,481	1.00%
24	Steven	16,390	1.00%
25	Nicholas	16,342	1.00%
26	Mark	14,851	0.90%
27	Charles	14,844	0.90%
28	Justin	14,183	0.86%
29	Adam	13,918	0.85%
30	Scott	13,539	0.82%
31	Jonathan	12,514	0.76%
32	Aaron	12,299	0.75%
33	Paul	11,733	0.71%
34	Benjamin	11,414	0.70%
35	Chad	10,107	0.62%
36	Nathan	9,890	0.60%
37	Stephen	9,854	0.60%
38	Gregory	9,340	0.57%
39	Shawn	9,289	0.57%
40	Brandon	9,241	0.56%
41	Kenneth	9,021	0.55%
42	Patrick	8,830	0.54%
43	Bryan	7,291	0.44%
44	Jose	7,148	0.44%
45	Sean	7,059	0.43%
46	Travis	6,953	0.42%
47	Edward	6,473	0.39%
48	Donald	6,423	0.39%
49	Keith	6,172	0.38%
50	Jacob	6,161	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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