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The top names of 1988

Jessica led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,695,137 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1988

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jessica	51,556	2.90%
2	Ashley	49,977	2.81%
3	Amanda	39,459	2.22%
4	Sarah	28,374	1.59%
5	Jennifer	27,893	1.57%
6	Brittany	26,816	1.51%
7	Stephanie	22,843	1.28%
8	Samantha	20,700	1.16%
9	Nicole	20,315	1.14%
10	Elizabeth	20,042	1.13%
11	Lauren	19,637	1.10%
12	Megan	18,570	1.04%
13	Tiffany	18,364	1.03%
14	Heather	18,033	1.01%
15	Amber	16,676	0.94%
16	Melissa	16,546	0.93%
17	Danielle	16,253	0.91%
18	Emily	15,869	0.89%
19	Rachel	15,348	0.86%
20	Kayla	13,433	0.75%
21	Michelle	13,339	0.75%
22	Christina	12,954	0.73%
23	Laura	12,126	0.68%
24	Courtney	12,043	0.68%
25	Kimberly	11,948	0.67%
26	Rebecca	11,877	0.67%
27	Katherine	11,154	0.63%
28	Crystal	10,101	0.57%
29	Amy	10,034	0.56%
30	Sara	10,020	0.56%
31	Erica	9,591	0.54%
32	Kelly	8,917	0.50%
33	Chelsea	8,879	0.50%
34	Mary	8,518	0.48%
35	Andrea	8,392	0.47%
36	Kristen	8,382	0.47%
37	Erin	8,267	0.46%
38	Angela	7,914	0.44%
39	Whitney	7,853	0.44%
40	Katie	7,770	0.44%
41	Vanessa	7,516	0.42%
42	Victoria	7,283	0.41%
43	Lisa	7,267	0.41%
44	Caitlin	7,246	0.41%
45	Jamie	7,187	0.40%
46	Allison	7,145	0.40%
47	Alyssa	7,135	0.40%
48	Lindsey	7,001	0.39%
49	Alexandra	6,972	0.39%
50	Alicia	6,700	0.38%

Boys, 1988

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	64,171	3.35%
2	Christopher	53,014	2.77%
3	Matthew	45,876	2.40%
4	Joshua	42,653	2.23%
5	Andrew	35,745	1.87%
6	David	35,329	1.85%
7	Justin	35,055	1.83%
8	Daniel	34,718	1.81%
9	James	32,523	1.70%
10	Robert	30,319	1.58%
11	John	29,427	1.54%
12	Joseph	29,019	1.52%
13	Ryan	27,747	1.45%
14	Nicholas	25,303	1.32%
15	Jonathan	24,349	1.27%
16	William	24,126	1.26%
17	Brandon	23,744	1.24%
18	Anthony	23,644	1.24%
19	Eric	20,175	1.05%
20	Kevin	20,168	1.05%
21	Kyle	19,895	1.04%
22	Brian	19,532	1.02%
23	Thomas	18,806	0.98%
24	Steven	17,865	0.93%
25	Timothy	16,807	0.88%
26	Adam	16,467	0.86%
27	Jason	15,917	0.83%
28	Jacob	15,883	0.83%
29	Zachary	15,870	0.83%
30	Benjamin	15,187	0.79%
31	Aaron	14,408	0.75%
32	Richard	14,144	0.74%
33	Tyler	13,349	0.70%
34	Alexander	13,341	0.70%
35	Jeremy	13,169	0.69%
36	Jeffrey	12,401	0.65%
37	Charles	12,109	0.63%
38	Sean	11,794	0.62%
39	Mark	11,715	0.61%
40	Stephen	11,607	0.61%
41	Travis	11,423	0.60%
42	Patrick	11,400	0.60%
43	Cody	10,583	0.55%
44	Nathan	10,154	0.53%
45	Samuel	9,564	0.50%
46	Paul	9,438	0.49%
47	Scott	9,351	0.49%
48	Dustin	9,337	0.49%
49	Jose	9,007	0.47%
50	Gregory	8,629	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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