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The top names of 1989

Jessica led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,844,480 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1989

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jessica	47,887	2.60%
2	Ashley	47,588	2.58%
3	Brittany	37,792	2.05%
4	Amanda	36,834	2.00%
5	Sarah	27,797	1.51%
6	Samantha	24,792	1.34%
7	Jennifer	24,006	1.30%
8	Stephanie	22,766	1.23%
9	Lauren	21,065	1.14%
10	Elizabeth	20,298	1.10%
11	Megan	19,780	1.07%
12	Nicole	19,032	1.03%
13	Emily	17,323	0.94%
14	Amber	16,760	0.91%
15	Heather	16,248	0.88%
16	Tiffany	15,716	0.85%
17	Danielle	15,366	0.83%
18	Rachel	15,357	0.83%
19	Melissa	15,203	0.82%
20	Kayla	14,903	0.81%
21	Courtney	13,452	0.73%
22	Michelle	13,376	0.73%
23	Christina	13,141	0.71%
24	Rebecca	12,436	0.67%
25	Laura	11,740	0.64%
26	Katherine	11,415	0.62%
27	Chelsea	11,252	0.61%
28	Kimberly	11,037	0.60%
29	Sara	9,706	0.53%
30	Jasmine	9,549	0.52%
31	Kelsey	9,256	0.50%
32	Crystal	9,103	0.49%
33	Alyssa	9,042	0.49%
34	Erica	9,025	0.49%
35	Amy	8,899	0.48%
36	Kristen	8,803	0.48%
37	Kelly	8,759	0.48%
38	Mary	8,645	0.47%
39	Andrea	8,410	0.46%
40	Erin	8,144	0.44%
41	Brittney	7,834	0.42%
42	Hannah	7,830	0.42%
43	Alexandra	7,680	0.42%
44	Victoria	7,637	0.41%
45	Katie	7,290	0.40%
46	Allison	7,282	0.39%
47	Angela	7,199	0.39%
48	Lindsey	7,069	0.38%
49	Caitlin	7,025	0.38%
50	Vanessa	6,962	0.38%

Boys, 1989

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	65,415	3.27%
2	Christopher	53,186	2.66%
3	Matthew	45,375	2.27%
4	Joshua	44,100	2.20%
5	David	35,225	1.76%
6	Daniel	35,007	1.75%
7	Andrew	34,817	1.74%
8	Justin	32,852	1.64%
9	James	32,720	1.64%
10	Robert	30,072	1.50%
11	Joseph	29,884	1.49%
12	John	29,853	1.49%
13	Ryan	28,408	1.42%
14	Nicholas	28,230	1.41%
15	William	24,673	1.23%
16	Anthony	24,423	1.22%
17	Jonathan	23,608	1.18%
18	Brandon	23,310	1.16%
19	Kevin	21,209	1.06%
20	Kyle	20,882	1.04%
21	Eric	18,977	0.95%
22	Steven	18,929	0.95%
23	Thomas	18,439	0.92%
24	Brian	18,106	0.90%
25	Zachary	18,077	0.90%
26	Jacob	17,831	0.89%
27	Adam	16,928	0.85%
28	Timothy	16,427	0.82%
29	Benjamin	15,733	0.79%
30	Tyler	15,594	0.78%
31	Aaron	15,308	0.77%
32	Alexander	14,523	0.73%
33	Richard	14,133	0.71%
34	Jeremy	13,081	0.65%
35	Jason	12,614	0.63%
36	Charles	12,245	0.61%
37	Jeffrey	12,013	0.60%
38	Patrick	11,987	0.60%
39	Sean	11,895	0.59%
40	Stephen	11,736	0.59%
41	Travis	11,526	0.58%
42	Mark	11,320	0.57%
43	Nathan	10,904	0.54%
44	Jordan	10,882	0.54%
45	Cody	10,823	0.54%
46	Jose	10,331	0.52%
47	Samuel	10,107	0.51%
48	Dustin	9,715	0.49%
49	Paul	9,029	0.45%
50	Jesse	8,853	0.44%

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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