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The top names of 1983

Jennifer led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,463,173 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1983

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jennifer	54,353	3.25%
2	Jessica	45,283	2.71%
3	Amanda	33,749	2.02%
4	Ashley	33,289	1.99%
5	Sarah	27,228	1.63%
6	Melissa	23,475	1.41%
7	Nicole	22,400	1.34%
8	Stephanie	22,329	1.34%
9	Heather	20,747	1.24%
10	Elizabeth	19,842	1.19%
11	Crystal	17,904	1.07%
12	Amy	17,097	1.02%
13	Michelle	16,838	1.01%
14	Tiffany	15,959	0.96%
15	Kimberly	15,370	0.92%
16	Christina	15,357	0.92%
17	Amber	14,892	0.89%
18	Erin	14,836	0.89%
19	Rebecca	14,714	0.88%
20	Rachel	14,591	0.87%
21	Megan	14,124	0.85%
22	Angela	13,219	0.79%
23	Laura	13,199	0.79%
24	Lauren	12,944	0.77%
25	Emily	12,377	0.74%
26	Kelly	11,586	0.69%
27	Lisa	11,469	0.69%
28	Jamie	11,025	0.66%
29	Danielle	10,634	0.64%
30	Andrea	10,413	0.62%
31	Sara	10,087	0.60%
32	Mary	9,897	0.59%
33	Erica	9,713	0.58%
34	Katherine	9,684	0.58%
35	Lindsey	8,679	0.52%
36	Lindsay	8,622	0.52%
37	Kristen	8,618	0.52%
38	Shannon	8,424	0.50%
39	April	8,209	0.49%
40	Samantha	7,703	0.46%
41	Alicia	7,492	0.45%
42	Kristin	7,267	0.43%
43	Maria	6,847	0.41%
44	Courtney	6,748	0.40%
45	Katie	6,705	0.40%
46	Julie	6,653	0.40%
47	Christine	6,499	0.39%
48	Holly	6,388	0.38%
49	Vanessa	6,388	0.38%
50	Kathryn	6,370	0.38%

Boys, 1983

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	68,004	3.79%
2	Christopher	59,324	3.31%
3	Matthew	50,209	2.80%
4	David	39,201	2.19%
5	Joshua	36,687	2.05%
6	James	36,342	2.03%
7	Jason	35,113	1.96%
8	Daniel	34,748	1.94%
9	John	33,154	1.85%
10	Robert	32,745	1.83%
11	Joseph	30,442	1.70%
12	Justin	28,298	1.58%
13	Ryan	27,849	1.55%
14	Brian	26,050	1.45%
15	Andrew	25,559	1.43%
16	William	25,396	1.42%
17	Brandon	23,519	1.31%
18	Adam	23,488	1.31%
19	Jonathan	22,756	1.27%
20	Eric	20,347	1.14%
21	Nicholas	19,891	1.11%
22	Anthony	19,830	1.11%
23	Steven	18,307	1.02%
24	Thomas	17,565	0.98%
25	Kevin	17,377	0.97%
26	Timothy	16,363	0.91%
27	Richard	15,888	0.89%
28	Jeffrey	15,649	0.87%
29	Aaron	14,460	0.81%
30	Jeremy	14,254	0.80%
31	Mark	13,815	0.77%
32	Benjamin	13,285	0.74%
33	Charles	13,212	0.74%
34	Kyle	12,372	0.69%
35	Stephen	11,564	0.65%
36	Jacob	10,999	0.61%
37	Patrick	10,876	0.61%
38	Scott	10,846	0.61%
39	Paul	10,828	0.60%
40	Nathan	10,557	0.59%
41	Travis	10,478	0.58%
42	Gregory	9,980	0.56%
43	Dustin	9,678	0.54%
44	Sean	9,615	0.54%
45	Kenneth	8,965	0.50%
46	Jesse	8,469	0.47%
47	Bryan	8,191	0.46%
48	Jose	8,073	0.45%
49	Chad	7,390	0.41%
50	Zachary	7,309	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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