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The top names of 1986

Jessica led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,557,062 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1986

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jessica	52,682	3.07%
2	Ashley	49,671	2.90%
3	Amanda	40,532	2.36%
4	Jennifer	36,187	2.11%
5	Sarah	28,163	1.64%
6	Stephanie	22,651	1.32%
7	Nicole	21,292	1.24%
8	Brittany	20,313	1.18%
9	Heather	19,790	1.15%
10	Elizabeth	19,074	1.11%
11	Megan	18,590	1.08%
12	Melissa	17,667	1.03%
13	Amber	16,954	0.99%
14	Lauren	16,684	0.97%
15	Rachel	15,455	0.90%
16	Danielle	14,942	0.87%
17	Tiffany	14,483	0.84%
18	Kimberly	14,420	0.84%
19	Christina	14,384	0.84%
20	Laura	14,172	0.83%
21	Samantha	14,092	0.82%
22	Amy	13,452	0.78%
23	Michelle	13,303	0.78%
24	Emily	13,236	0.77%
25	Crystal	12,689	0.74%
26	Rebecca	11,793	0.69%
27	Sara	11,052	0.64%
28	Katherine	10,570	0.62%
29	Kelly	10,411	0.61%
30	Erin	10,068	0.59%
31	Erica	9,973	0.58%
32	Whitney	9,536	0.56%
33	Angela	9,267	0.54%
34	Jamie	9,234	0.54%
35	Courtney	9,122	0.53%
36	Andrea	8,639	0.50%
37	Mary	8,507	0.50%
38	Katie	8,333	0.49%
39	Lindsey	8,051	0.47%
40	Lisa	7,907	0.46%
41	Kristen	7,844	0.46%
42	Allison	7,575	0.44%
43	Vanessa	7,469	0.44%
44	Shannon	7,403	0.43%
45	Alicia	7,017	0.41%
46	Lindsay	6,952	0.41%
47	Christine	6,917	0.40%
48	Kathryn	6,393	0.37%
49	Maria	6,142	0.36%
50	Kristin	6,000	0.35%

Boys, 1986

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	64,235	3.49%
2	Christopher	56,693	3.08%
3	Matthew	46,929	2.55%
4	Joshua	37,542	2.04%
5	David	37,150	2.02%
6	Daniel	36,573	1.99%
7	James	34,057	1.85%
8	Andrew	33,858	1.84%
9	Robert	31,350	1.70%
10	John	30,209	1.64%
11	Ryan	29,524	1.60%
12	Joseph	28,834	1.57%
13	Brandon	27,254	1.48%
14	Justin	26,638	1.45%
15	William	24,333	1.32%
16	Jonathan	23,973	1.30%
17	Nicholas	22,800	1.24%
18	Jason	22,415	1.22%
19	Anthony	21,956	1.19%
20	Brian	21,027	1.14%
21	Kevin	19,935	1.08%
22	Eric	19,528	1.06%
23	Kyle	19,315	1.05%
24	Adam	18,157	0.99%
25	Steven	18,099	0.98%
26	Thomas	17,362	0.94%
27	Timothy	16,875	0.92%
28	Jeremy	16,269	0.88%
29	Richard	15,014	0.82%
30	Benjamin	13,793	0.75%
31	Jacob	13,652	0.74%
32	Jeffrey	13,651	0.74%
33	Aaron	12,692	0.69%
34	Charles	12,625	0.69%
35	Mark	12,615	0.69%
36	Stephen	11,877	0.64%
37	Sean	11,784	0.64%
38	Zachary	11,725	0.64%
39	Patrick	11,410	0.62%
40	Tyler	10,912	0.59%
41	Alexander	10,609	0.58%
42	Dustin	10,317	0.56%
43	Nathan	9,996	0.54%
44	Scott	9,965	0.54%
45	Paul	9,715	0.53%
46	Gregory	9,529	0.52%
47	Bryan	8,651	0.47%
48	Jesse	8,542	0.46%
49	Travis	8,480	0.46%
50	Kenneth	8,453	0.46%

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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