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The top names of 1980

Jennifer led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,444,258 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1980

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jennifer	58,374	3.52%
2	Amanda	35,811	2.16%
3	Jessica	33,924	2.04%
4	Melissa	31,629	1.91%
5	Sarah	25,757	1.55%
6	Heather	19,973	1.20%
7	Nicole	19,917	1.20%
8	Amy	19,833	1.19%
9	Elizabeth	19,529	1.18%
10	Michelle	19,119	1.15%
11	Kimberly	18,497	1.11%
12	Angela	17,969	1.08%
13	Stephanie	17,841	1.07%
14	Tiffany	16,228	0.98%
15	Christina	16,141	0.97%
16	Lisa	15,664	0.94%
17	Rebecca	15,281	0.92%
18	Crystal	14,253	0.86%
19	Kelly	13,710	0.83%
20	Erin	13,428	0.81%
21	Laura	12,916	0.78%
22	Amber	12,553	0.76%
23	Rachel	11,618	0.70%
24	Jamie	11,529	0.69%
25	Mary	11,474	0.69%
26	April	11,472	0.69%
27	Sara	11,148	0.67%
28	Andrea	10,450	0.63%
29	Shannon	9,670	0.58%
30	Megan	9,134	0.55%
31	Emily	9,001	0.54%
32	Julie	8,906	0.54%
33	Danielle	8,845	0.53%
34	Erica	8,760	0.53%
35	Katherine	8,017	0.48%
36	Maria	7,875	0.47%
37	Kristin	7,701	0.46%
38	Lauren	7,476	0.45%
39	Kristen	7,316	0.44%
40	Ashley	7,296	0.44%
41	Christine	7,085	0.43%
42	Brandy	6,410	0.39%
43	Tara	6,283	0.38%
44	Katie	6,137	0.37%
45	Monica	6,034	0.36%
46	Carrie	5,761	0.35%
47	Alicia	5,753	0.35%
48	Courtney	5,618	0.34%
49	Misty	5,541	0.33%
50	Kathryn	5,527	0.33%

Boys, 1980

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	68,683	3.85%
2	Christopher	49,079	2.75%
3	Jason	48,164	2.70%
4	David	41,891	2.35%
5	James	39,312	2.20%
6	Matthew	37,834	2.12%
7	Joshua	36,052	2.02%
8	John	35,274	1.98%
9	Robert	34,266	1.92%
10	Joseph	30,185	1.69%
11	Daniel	29,888	1.68%
12	Brian	28,715	1.61%
13	Justin	26,763	1.50%
14	William	25,639	1.44%
15	Ryan	24,795	1.39%
16	Eric	22,611	1.27%
17	Nicholas	21,018	1.18%
18	Jeremy	19,892	1.12%
19	Andrew	19,730	1.11%
20	Timothy	19,146	1.07%
21	Jonathan	18,986	1.06%
22	Adam	18,868	1.06%
23	Kevin	17,972	1.01%
24	Anthony	17,604	0.99%
25	Thomas	17,564	0.98%
26	Richard	16,656	0.93%
27	Jeffrey	16,379	0.92%
28	Steven	15,916	0.89%
29	Charles	14,959	0.84%
30	Mark	14,169	0.79%
31	Brandon	14,161	0.79%
32	Benjamin	13,622	0.76%
33	Scott	13,300	0.75%
34	Aaron	13,166	0.74%
35	Paul	11,819	0.66%
36	Nathan	11,138	0.62%
37	Travis	10,764	0.60%
38	Patrick	10,352	0.58%
39	Chad	10,142	0.57%
40	Stephen	10,062	0.56%
41	Kenneth	9,608	0.54%
42	Gregory	9,267	0.52%
43	Jacob	8,520	0.48%
44	Dustin	8,416	0.47%
45	Jesse	8,374	0.47%
46	Jose	8,323	0.47%
47	Shawn	7,698	0.43%
48	Sean	7,596	0.43%
49	Bryan	7,513	0.42%
50	Derek	7,240	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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