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The top names of 1979

Jennifer led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,326,804 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1979

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jennifer	56,712	3.53%
2	Melissa	34,050	2.12%
3	Amanda	31,924	1.99%
4	Jessica	27,780	1.73%
5	Amy	21,609	1.35%
6	Sarah	21,015	1.31%
7	Heather	20,834	1.30%
8	Angela	20,256	1.26%
9	Nicole	19,510	1.22%
10	Michelle	19,266	1.20%
11	Elizabeth	18,073	1.13%
12	Kimberly	17,635	1.10%
13	Lisa	17,286	1.08%
14	Christina	16,454	1.03%
15	Stephanie	16,204	1.01%
16	Kelly	15,296	0.95%
17	Rebecca	14,548	0.91%
18	Crystal	13,467	0.84%
19	Jamie	12,156	0.76%
20	Laura	11,880	0.74%
21	Erin	11,259	0.70%
22	Amber	11,079	0.69%
23	April	10,902	0.68%
24	Mary	10,555	0.66%
25	Shannon	10,370	0.65%
26	Andrea	10,336	0.64%
27	Rachel	10,230	0.64%
28	Tiffany	9,611	0.60%
29	Julie	9,254	0.58%
30	Sara	8,654	0.54%
31	Megan	8,293	0.52%
32	Erica	8,178	0.51%
33	Danielle	7,981	0.50%
34	Emily	7,971	0.50%
35	Christine	7,689	0.48%
36	Katherine	7,464	0.46%
37	Maria	7,339	0.46%
38	Tara	6,806	0.42%
39	Brandy	6,775	0.42%
40	Monica	6,585	0.41%
41	Carrie	6,354	0.40%
42	Misty	5,785	0.36%
43	Stacy	5,708	0.36%
44	Patricia	5,650	0.35%
45	Lauren	5,625	0.35%
46	Karen	5,599	0.35%
47	Alicia	5,547	0.35%
48	Holly	5,488	0.34%
49	Tracy	5,389	0.34%
50	Kathryn	5,312	0.33%

Boys, 1979

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	67,713	3.93%
2	Christopher	50,659	2.94%
3	Jason	50,369	2.93%
4	David	42,053	2.44%
5	James	39,351	2.29%
6	Matthew	35,621	2.07%
7	John	35,410	2.06%
8	Robert	34,015	1.98%
9	Joshua	31,120	1.81%
10	Brian	28,659	1.66%
11	Joseph	28,654	1.66%
12	Daniel	28,521	1.66%
13	William	24,676	1.43%
14	Ryan	23,212	1.35%
15	Nicholas	21,344	1.24%
16	Jeremy	21,005	1.22%
17	Eric	20,268	1.18%
18	Timothy	19,077	1.11%
19	Kevin	18,733	1.09%
20	Andrew	18,618	1.08%
21	Anthony	17,513	1.02%
22	Justin	17,390	1.01%
23	Adam	17,046	0.99%
24	Jeffrey	16,865	0.98%
25	Richard	16,713	0.97%
26	Thomas	16,454	0.96%
27	Steven	16,331	0.95%
28	Charles	14,806	0.86%
29	Scott	14,440	0.84%
30	Mark	14,386	0.84%
31	Jonathan	14,331	0.83%
32	Aaron	13,076	0.76%
33	Benjamin	12,512	0.73%
34	Paul	11,630	0.68%
35	Brandon	11,302	0.66%
36	Travis	11,037	0.64%
37	Nathan	10,719	0.62%
38	Chad	10,161	0.59%
39	Patrick	9,979	0.58%
40	Stephen	9,903	0.58%
41	Kenneth	9,236	0.54%
42	Gregory	9,109	0.53%
43	Shawn	7,910	0.46%
44	Jose	7,848	0.46%
45	Jacob	7,545	0.44%
46	Bryan	7,441	0.43%
47	Bradley	6,923	0.40%
48	Edward	6,877	0.40%
49	Sean	6,850	0.40%
50	Jesse	6,679	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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