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The top names of 1990

Jessica led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,952,585 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1990

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jessica	46,486	2.45%
2	Ashley	45,561	2.40%
3	Brittany	36,536	1.92%
4	Amanda	34,413	1.81%
5	Samantha	25,868	1.36%
6	Sarah	25,824	1.36%
7	Stephanie	24,864	1.31%
8	Jennifer	22,236	1.17%
9	Elizabeth	20,750	1.09%
10	Lauren	20,506	1.08%
11	Megan	20,259	1.07%
12	Emily	19,370	1.02%
13	Nicole	17,954	0.95%
14	Kayla	17,538	0.92%
15	Amber	15,866	0.84%
16	Rachel	15,710	0.83%
17	Courtney	15,380	0.81%
18	Danielle	14,339	0.76%
19	Heather	14,220	0.75%
20	Melissa	14,000	0.74%
21	Rebecca	13,677	0.72%
22	Michelle	13,425	0.71%
23	Tiffany	13,160	0.69%
24	Chelsea	12,785	0.67%
25	Christina	11,927	0.63%
26	Katherine	11,625	0.61%
27	Alyssa	11,263	0.59%
28	Jasmine	11,037	0.58%
29	Laura	10,914	0.57%
30	Hannah	10,283	0.54%
31	Kimberly	10,191	0.54%
32	Kelsey	9,494	0.50%
33	Victoria	9,109	0.48%
34	Sara	8,979	0.47%
35	Mary	8,670	0.46%
36	Erica	8,608	0.45%
37	Alexandra	8,508	0.45%
38	Amy	8,463	0.45%
39	Crystal	8,218	0.43%
40	Andrea	8,214	0.43%
41	Kelly	8,137	0.43%
42	Kristen	8,073	0.43%
43	Erin	7,989	0.42%
44	Brittney	7,427	0.39%
45	Anna	7,293	0.38%
46	Taylor	7,262	0.38%
47	Maria	7,186	0.38%
48	Allison	7,136	0.38%
49	Cassandra	7,054	0.37%
50	Caitlin	7,026	0.37%

Boys, 1990

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	65,321	3.18%
2	Christopher	52,362	2.55%
3	Matthew	44,826	2.18%
4	Joshua	43,237	2.10%
5	Daniel	33,830	1.65%
6	David	33,748	1.64%
7	Andrew	33,673	1.64%
8	James	32,359	1.58%
9	Justin	30,649	1.49%
10	Joseph	30,137	1.47%
11	Ryan	29,263	1.42%
12	John	29,089	1.42%
13	Robert	28,886	1.41%
14	Nicholas	27,913	1.36%
15	Anthony	25,088	1.22%
16	William	24,906	1.21%
17	Jonathan	24,077	1.17%
18	Kyle	22,710	1.11%
19	Brandon	22,163	1.08%
20	Jacob	22,022	1.07%
21	Tyler	20,646	1.01%
22	Zachary	20,430	0.99%
23	Kevin	20,413	0.99%
24	Eric	19,430	0.95%
25	Steven	18,764	0.91%
26	Thomas	18,231	0.89%
27	Brian	16,935	0.82%
28	Alexander	16,194	0.79%
29	Jordan	16,137	0.79%
30	Timothy	15,700	0.76%
31	Cody	15,399	0.75%
32	Adam	14,713	0.72%
33	Benjamin	14,633	0.71%
34	Aaron	14,557	0.71%
35	Richard	13,580	0.66%
36	Patrick	12,377	0.60%
37	Sean	12,018	0.59%
38	Charles	12,000	0.58%
39	Stephen	11,943	0.58%
40	Jeremy	11,689	0.57%
41	Jose	11,519	0.56%
42	Travis	11,462	0.56%
43	Jeffrey	10,980	0.53%
44	Nathan	10,934	0.53%
45	Samuel	10,894	0.53%
46	Jason	10,694	0.52%
47	Mark	10,689	0.52%
48	Jesse	8,977	0.44%
49	Paul	8,579	0.42%
50	Dustin	8,457	0.41%

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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