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The top names of 1984

Jennifer led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,488,665 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1984

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jennifer	50,564	3.00%
2	Jessica	45,857	2.72%
3	Ashley	38,773	2.30%
4	Amanda	33,915	2.01%
5	Sarah	25,887	1.54%
6	Stephanie	23,025	1.37%
7	Nicole	22,270	1.32%
8	Melissa	21,896	1.30%
9	Heather	21,489	1.28%
10	Elizabeth	20,360	1.21%
11	Megan	16,984	1.01%
12	Crystal	16,560	0.98%
13	Amy	15,988	0.95%
14	Tiffany	15,861	0.94%
15	Rachel	15,839	0.94%
16	Danielle	15,670	0.93%
17	Michelle	15,499	0.92%
18	Amber	15,369	0.91%
19	Laura	14,818	0.88%
20	Christina	14,705	0.87%
21	Lauren	14,475	0.86%
22	Kimberly	14,445	0.86%
23	Rebecca	13,348	0.79%
24	Emily	12,786	0.76%
25	Erin	12,622	0.75%
26	Angela	11,291	0.67%
27	Kelly	11,216	0.67%
28	Andrea	10,350	0.61%
29	Lisa	10,238	0.61%
30	Katherine	10,157	0.60%
31	Jamie	9,761	0.58%
32	Sara	9,314	0.55%
33	Mary	9,293	0.55%
34	Erica	9,278	0.55%
35	Lindsey	9,005	0.53%
36	Lindsay	8,510	0.51%
37	Shannon	8,476	0.50%
38	Kristen	8,385	0.50%
39	Samantha	8,038	0.48%
40	Alicia	7,820	0.46%
41	Brittany	7,665	0.46%
42	April	7,566	0.45%
43	Christine	7,299	0.43%
44	Katie	7,175	0.43%
45	Vanessa	7,156	0.42%
46	Courtney	7,150	0.42%
47	Kristin	7,007	0.42%
48	Kathryn	6,538	0.39%
49	Tara	6,284	0.37%
50	Maria	6,136	0.36%

Boys, 1984

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	67,735	3.75%
2	Christopher	60,021	3.33%
3	Matthew	49,767	2.76%
4	Joshua	40,266	2.23%
5	David	38,492	2.13%
6	Daniel	36,531	2.02%
7	James	35,859	1.99%
8	John	32,610	1.81%
9	Robert	31,768	1.76%
10	Joseph	30,513	1.69%
11	Jason	29,953	1.66%
12	Ryan	28,724	1.59%
13	Justin	26,769	1.48%
14	Andrew	25,916	1.44%
15	Brandon	25,673	1.42%
16	William	24,900	1.38%
17	Brian	24,720	1.37%
18	Adam	23,939	1.33%
19	Jonathan	23,345	1.29%
20	Nicholas	21,017	1.16%
21	Anthony	20,956	1.16%
22	Eric	20,955	1.16%
23	Steven	18,217	1.01%
24	Kevin	17,858	0.99%
25	Thomas	17,596	0.97%
26	Timothy	16,987	0.94%
27	Richard	15,607	0.86%
28	Jeffrey	14,758	0.82%
29	Aaron	13,401	0.74%
30	Benjamin	13,266	0.74%
31	Jeremy	13,250	0.73%
32	Mark	13,214	0.73%
33	Charles	12,942	0.72%
34	Kyle	12,546	0.70%
35	Stephen	12,096	0.67%
36	Patrick	11,524	0.64%
37	Jacob	11,358	0.63%
38	Nathan	10,614	0.59%
39	Scott	10,574	0.59%
40	Paul	10,460	0.58%
41	Dustin	10,403	0.58%
42	Travis	10,241	0.57%
43	Sean	10,024	0.56%
44	Gregory	9,688	0.54%
45	Zachary	9,065	0.50%
46	Kenneth	8,790	0.49%
47	Tyler	8,705	0.48%
48	Bryan	8,270	0.46%
49	Jose	8,013	0.44%
50	Jesse	7,606	0.42%

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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