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The top names of 1991

Ashley led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,895,335 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1991

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Ashley	43,477	2.32%
2	Jessica	43,398	2.31%
3	Brittany	29,093	1.55%
4	Amanda	28,896	1.54%
5	Samantha	25,651	1.37%
6	Sarah	25,233	1.35%
7	Stephanie	22,775	1.21%
8	Jennifer	20,673	1.10%
9	Elizabeth	20,395	1.09%
10	Emily	20,311	1.08%
11	Megan	19,278	1.03%
12	Kayla	18,545	0.99%
13	Lauren	18,412	0.98%
14	Rachel	16,344	0.87%
15	Nicole	16,046	0.86%
16	Amber	14,992	0.80%
17	Danielle	13,619	0.73%
18	Chelsea	13,509	0.72%
19	Courtney	13,441	0.72%
20	Melissa	13,348	0.71%
21	Rebecca	13,298	0.71%
22	Michelle	12,213	0.65%
23	Heather	11,703	0.62%
24	Jasmine	11,524	0.61%
25	Katherine	11,495	0.61%
26	Kelsey	11,435	0.61%
27	Tiffany	11,155	0.59%
28	Victoria	10,912	0.58%
29	Hannah	10,769	0.57%
30	Alyssa	10,678	0.57%
31	Christina	10,564	0.56%
32	Taylor	10,253	0.55%
33	Shelby	10,220	0.55%
34	Kimberly	9,799	0.52%
35	Laura	9,644	0.51%
36	Alexandra	9,460	0.50%
37	Sara	8,846	0.47%
38	Mary	8,764	0.47%
39	Andrea	7,995	0.43%
40	Erica	7,800	0.42%
41	Crystal	7,727	0.41%
42	Kelly	7,515	0.40%
43	Amy	7,275	0.39%
44	Erin	7,207	0.38%
45	Maria	7,136	0.38%
46	Anna	7,119	0.38%
47	Alexis	7,009	0.37%
48	Kristen	6,816	0.36%
49	Morgan	6,794	0.36%
50	Allison	6,773	0.36%

Boys, 1991

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	60,810	3.01%
2	Christopher	47,111	2.33%
3	Matthew	41,647	2.06%
4	Joshua	41,226	2.04%
5	Andrew	31,539	1.56%
6	Daniel	30,935	1.53%
7	James	30,514	1.51%
8	David	30,416	1.51%
9	Joseph	29,840	1.48%
10	John	27,809	1.38%
11	Ryan	27,536	1.36%
12	Nicholas	27,357	1.35%
13	Robert	26,839	1.33%
14	Justin	26,797	1.33%
15	Brandon	26,021	1.29%
16	Tyler	25,209	1.25%
17	Jacob	25,200	1.25%
18	Anthony	24,447	1.21%
19	William	23,860	1.18%
20	Jonathan	22,975	1.14%
21	Kyle	21,610	1.07%
22	Zachary	21,387	1.06%
23	Kevin	20,262	1.00%
24	Cody	18,980	0.94%
25	Eric	18,051	0.89%
26	Alexander	17,640	0.87%
27	Steven	16,863	0.83%
28	Thomas	16,789	0.83%
29	Jordan	16,020	0.79%
30	Brian	14,915	0.74%
31	Aaron	14,242	0.70%
32	Timothy	14,154	0.70%
33	Benjamin	13,877	0.69%
34	Richard	12,553	0.62%
35	Patrick	12,412	0.61%
36	Adam	12,308	0.61%
37	Jose	11,727	0.58%
38	Charles	11,336	0.56%
39	Samuel	11,234	0.56%
40	Sean	11,182	0.55%
41	Stephen	10,525	0.52%
42	Nathan	10,500	0.52%
43	Jeremy	10,403	0.51%
44	Travis	10,134	0.50%
45	Jeffrey	9,894	0.49%
46	Dylan	9,763	0.48%
47	Mark	9,684	0.48%
48	Christian	9,447	0.47%
49	Jason	9,387	0.46%
50	Austin	9,054	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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