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The top names of 1985

Jessica led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,569,038 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1985

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jessica	48,345	2.81%
2	Ashley	47,010	2.73%
3	Jennifer	42,661	2.48%
4	Amanda	39,055	2.27%
5	Sarah	24,879	1.45%
6	Stephanie	23,243	1.35%
7	Nicole	22,966	1.33%
8	Heather	21,151	1.23%
9	Elizabeth	20,545	1.19%
10	Megan	20,013	1.16%
11	Melissa	19,963	1.16%
12	Christina	16,600	0.96%
13	Rachel	16,360	0.95%
14	Laura	16,002	0.93%
15	Lauren	15,768	0.92%
16	Amber	15,506	0.90%
17	Brittany	15,437	0.90%
18	Danielle	15,417	0.90%
19	Kimberly	14,914	0.87%
20	Amy	14,429	0.84%
21	Crystal	14,399	0.84%
22	Michelle	13,973	0.81%
23	Tiffany	13,681	0.80%
24	Emily	13,144	0.76%
25	Rebecca	12,705	0.74%
26	Erin	11,384	0.66%
27	Jamie	11,038	0.64%
28	Kelly	11,031	0.64%
29	Samantha	10,658	0.62%
30	Sara	10,562	0.61%
31	Angela	10,227	0.59%
32	Katherine	10,128	0.59%
33	Andrea	10,053	0.58%
34	Erica	9,525	0.55%
35	Mary	9,240	0.54%
36	Lisa	9,012	0.52%
37	Lindsey	8,468	0.49%
38	Kristen	8,445	0.49%
39	Katie	7,995	0.46%
40	Lindsay	7,871	0.46%
41	Shannon	7,714	0.45%
42	Vanessa	7,563	0.44%
43	Courtney	7,531	0.44%
44	Christine	7,441	0.43%
45	Alicia	7,122	0.41%
46	Allison	7,028	0.41%
47	April	6,691	0.39%
48	Kathryn	6,634	0.39%
49	Kristin	6,566	0.38%
50	Jenna	6,436	0.37%

Boys, 1985

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	64,934	3.51%
2	Christopher	59,609	3.23%
3	Matthew	47,075	2.55%
4	Joshua	42,194	2.28%
5	Daniel	38,559	2.09%
6	David	38,522	2.08%
7	James	35,862	1.94%
8	Robert	32,094	1.74%
9	John	31,502	1.70%
10	Joseph	30,222	1.64%
11	Andrew	30,178	1.63%
12	Ryan	29,905	1.62%
13	Brandon	29,304	1.59%
14	Jason	26,039	1.41%
15	Justin	25,537	1.38%
16	William	24,606	1.33%
17	Jonathan	24,116	1.30%
18	Brian	23,069	1.25%
19	Nicholas	22,384	1.21%
20	Anthony	22,104	1.20%
21	Eric	20,844	1.13%
22	Adam	20,165	1.09%
23	Kevin	18,814	1.02%
24	Steven	18,726	1.01%
25	Thomas	17,609	0.95%
26	Timothy	17,140	0.93%
27	Kyle	16,523	0.89%
28	Richard	15,330	0.83%
29	Jeffrey	14,500	0.78%
30	Jeremy	13,445	0.73%
31	Benjamin	13,423	0.73%
32	Mark	13,194	0.71%
33	Aaron	13,137	0.71%
34	Charles	12,900	0.70%
35	Jacob	12,284	0.66%
36	Stephen	12,210	0.66%
37	Patrick	11,638	0.63%
38	Sean	11,455	0.62%
39	Zachary	11,346	0.61%
40	Nathan	10,653	0.58%
41	Dustin	10,439	0.56%
42	Paul	10,315	0.56%
43	Tyler	10,211	0.55%
44	Scott	10,145	0.55%
45	Gregory	9,767	0.53%
46	Travis	9,094	0.49%
47	Kenneth	8,992	0.49%
48	Bryan	8,717	0.47%
49	Jose	8,403	0.45%
50	Alexander	8,295	0.45%

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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