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The top names of 1996

Emily led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,647,307 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1996

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Emily	25,150	1.43%
2	Jessica	24,201	1.38%
3	Ashley	23,678	1.35%
4	Sarah	21,048	1.20%
5	Samantha	20,552	1.17%
6	Taylor	19,155	1.09%
7	Hannah	18,596	1.06%
8	Alexis	16,592	0.95%
9	Rachel	16,121	0.92%
10	Elizabeth	16,003	0.91%
11	Kayla	15,269	0.87%
12	Megan	14,770	0.84%
13	Amanda	13,980	0.80%
14	Brittany	13,797	0.79%
15	Madison	13,412	0.77%
16	Lauren	12,595	0.72%
17	Brianna	11,925	0.68%
18	Victoria	11,859	0.68%
19	Jennifer	11,732	0.67%
20	Stephanie	11,643	0.66%
21	Courtney	11,344	0.65%
22	Nicole	11,135	0.64%
23	Alyssa	11,024	0.63%
24	Rebecca	10,626	0.61%
25	Morgan	10,295	0.59%
26	Alexandra	10,025	0.57%
27	Amber	9,771	0.56%
28	Jasmine	9,707	0.55%
29	Danielle	9,286	0.53%
30	Haley	9,042	0.52%
31	Katherine	8,877	0.51%
32	Abigail	8,604	0.49%
33	Anna	8,575	0.49%
34	Olivia	8,126	0.46%
35	Shelby	7,950	0.45%
36	Kelsey	7,655	0.44%
37	Maria	7,598	0.43%
38	Allison	7,455	0.43%
39	Sydney	7,259	0.41%
40	Kaitlyn	7,241	0.41%
41	Kimberly	7,176	0.41%
42	Melissa	7,170	0.41%
43	Savannah	7,000	0.40%
44	Mary	6,968	0.40%
45	Brooke	6,724	0.38%
46	Natalie	6,693	0.38%
47	Michelle	6,598	0.38%
48	Julia	6,314	0.36%
49	Jordan	6,299	0.36%
50	Sara	6,288	0.36%

Boys, 1996

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	38,373	2.03%
2	Matthew	32,077	1.69%
3	Jacob	31,925	1.69%
4	Christopher	30,904	1.63%
5	Joshua	29,175	1.54%
6	Nicholas	27,724	1.46%
7	Tyler	26,956	1.42%
8	Brandon	25,847	1.36%
9	Austin	25,663	1.35%
10	Andrew	25,244	1.33%
11	Daniel	25,128	1.33%
12	Joseph	24,758	1.31%
13	David	23,022	1.22%
14	Zachary	22,369	1.18%
15	John	22,188	1.17%
16	Ryan	21,809	1.15%
17	James	21,165	1.12%
18	William	20,546	1.08%
19	Anthony	20,508	1.08%
20	Justin	20,015	1.06%
21	Jonathan	18,602	0.98%
22	Alexander	17,964	0.95%
23	Robert	17,676	0.93%
24	Christian	15,824	0.84%
25	Kyle	15,600	0.82%
26	Kevin	14,589	0.77%
27	Jordan	13,852	0.73%
28	Thomas	13,804	0.73%
29	Benjamin	13,784	0.73%
30	Samuel	13,629	0.72%
31	Cody	12,954	0.68%
32	Jose	12,155	0.64%
33	Dylan	12,037	0.64%
34	Aaron	11,971	0.63%
35	Eric	11,611	0.61%
36	Brian	10,476	0.55%
37	Nathan	10,287	0.54%
38	Steven	9,650	0.51%
39	Adam	9,557	0.50%
40	Timothy	8,919	0.47%
41	Jason	8,695	0.46%
42	Logan	8,374	0.44%
43	Charles	8,248	0.44%
44	Patrick	8,194	0.43%
45	Richard	8,182	0.43%
46	Sean	7,896	0.42%
47	Hunter	7,603	0.40%
48	Caleb	7,550	0.40%
49	Cameron	7,388	0.39%
50	Noah	7,184	0.38%

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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