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The top names of 1982

Jennifer led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,507,772 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1982

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jennifer	57,120	3.37%
2	Jessica	45,453	2.68%
3	Amanda	34,214	2.02%
4	Sarah	28,483	1.68%
5	Melissa	25,864	1.53%
6	Nicole	21,706	1.28%
7	Stephanie	20,861	1.23%
8	Elizabeth	20,506	1.21%
9	Crystal	19,099	1.13%
10	Amy	18,799	1.11%
11	Michelle	17,765	1.05%
12	Heather	17,493	1.03%
13	Tiffany	17,175	1.01%
14	Kimberly	16,101	0.95%
15	Rebecca	15,730	0.93%
16	Angela	15,002	0.89%
17	Ashley	14,851	0.88%
18	Amber	14,678	0.87%
19	Christina	14,518	0.86%
20	Erin	14,362	0.85%
21	Rachel	13,871	0.82%
22	Laura	13,310	0.79%
23	Lisa	12,637	0.75%
24	Emily	12,519	0.74%
25	Kelly	12,170	0.72%
26	Lauren	11,589	0.68%
27	Andrea	11,374	0.67%
28	Sara	11,344	0.67%
29	Jamie	11,039	0.65%
30	Mary	10,851	0.64%
31	Danielle	10,204	0.60%
32	April	10,060	0.59%
33	Kristen	9,534	0.56%
34	Megan	9,518	0.56%
35	Erica	9,340	0.55%
36	Katherine	9,179	0.54%
37	Kristin	8,734	0.52%
38	Shannon	8,623	0.51%
39	Lindsay	8,260	0.49%
40	Lindsey	7,961	0.47%
41	Julie	7,696	0.45%
42	Maria	7,348	0.43%
43	Courtney	7,100	0.42%
44	Samantha	6,768	0.40%
45	Katie	6,681	0.39%
46	Christine	6,555	0.39%
47	Tara	6,524	0.39%
48	Kathryn	6,284	0.37%
49	Vanessa	6,154	0.36%
50	Brandy	6,077	0.36%

Boys, 1982

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	68,216	3.76%
2	Christopher	59,223	3.26%
3	Matthew	46,045	2.54%
4	Jason	40,628	2.24%
5	David	40,453	2.23%
6	James	38,874	2.14%
7	Joshua	38,004	2.09%
8	John	34,698	1.91%
9	Robert	34,409	1.90%
10	Daniel	32,652	1.80%
11	Joseph	31,035	1.71%
12	Justin	29,115	1.60%
13	Ryan	26,685	1.47%
14	Brian	25,829	1.42%
15	William	25,604	1.41%
16	Jonathan	23,113	1.27%
17	Andrew	22,833	1.26%
18	Brandon	20,212	1.11%
19	Adam	20,099	1.11%
20	Eric	19,878	1.10%
21	Anthony	19,648	1.08%
22	Nicholas	19,643	1.08%
23	Thomas	17,578	0.97%
24	Timothy	17,464	0.96%
25	Kevin	17,462	0.96%
26	Steven	17,145	0.94%
27	Richard	16,717	0.92%
28	Jeremy	16,466	0.91%
29	Jeffrey	16,030	0.88%
30	Aaron	14,406	0.79%
31	Charles	14,310	0.79%
32	Mark	13,865	0.76%
33	Benjamin	13,805	0.76%
34	Scott	12,200	0.67%
35	Paul	11,310	0.62%
36	Nathan	10,805	0.60%
37	Patrick	10,695	0.59%
38	Stephen	10,627	0.59%
39	Travis	10,415	0.57%
40	Gregory	10,144	0.56%
41	Jacob	10,059	0.55%
42	Dustin	9,551	0.53%
43	Jesse	9,504	0.52%
44	Sean	9,359	0.52%
45	Kenneth	9,354	0.52%
46	Jose	8,624	0.48%
47	Kyle	8,207	0.45%
48	Chad	7,909	0.44%
49	Bryan	7,498	0.41%
50	Derek	6,992	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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