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The top names of 1997

Emily led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,625,850 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1997

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Emily	25,734	1.48%
2	Jessica	21,045	1.21%
3	Ashley	20,897	1.20%
4	Sarah	20,716	1.19%
5	Hannah	20,597	1.18%
6	Samantha	20,170	1.16%
7	Taylor	19,504	1.12%
8	Alexis	17,171	0.99%
9	Elizabeth	15,430	0.89%
10	Madison	15,189	0.87%
11	Megan	14,244	0.82%
12	Kayla	13,885	0.80%
13	Rachel	13,798	0.79%
14	Lauren	13,248	0.76%
15	Alyssa	12,649	0.73%
16	Amanda	12,243	0.70%
17	Brianna	12,008	0.69%
18	Jennifer	11,840	0.68%
19	Victoria	11,795	0.68%
20	Brittany	11,529	0.66%
21	Nicole	10,744	0.62%
22	Morgan	10,342	0.59%
23	Stephanie	9,778	0.56%
24	Jasmine	9,680	0.56%
25	Rebecca	9,634	0.55%
26	Abigail	9,630	0.55%
27	Olivia	9,479	0.54%
28	Courtney	9,035	0.52%
29	Amber	8,914	0.51%
30	Alexandra	8,752	0.50%
31	Haley	8,687	0.50%
32	Katherine	8,518	0.49%
33	Anna	8,342	0.48%
34	Danielle	8,034	0.46%
35	Sydney	8,032	0.46%
36	Emma	7,749	0.45%
37	Julia	7,341	0.42%
38	Maria	7,314	0.42%
39	Allison	7,274	0.42%
40	Jordan	7,167	0.41%
41	Kaitlyn	7,005	0.40%
42	Destiny	6,727	0.39%
43	Shelby	6,701	0.38%
44	Melissa	6,679	0.38%
45	Brooke	6,671	0.38%
46	Mary	6,650	0.38%
47	Savannah	6,580	0.38%
48	Natalie	6,539	0.38%
49	Kimberly	6,182	0.36%
50	Sara	6,159	0.35%

Boys, 1997

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	37,562	1.99%
2	Jacob	34,163	1.81%
3	Matthew	31,517	1.67%
4	Christopher	29,108	1.54%
5	Joshua	28,289	1.50%
6	Nicholas	27,258	1.45%
7	Andrew	25,208	1.34%
8	Brandon	25,197	1.34%
9	Austin	25,118	1.33%
10	Tyler	24,879	1.32%
11	Daniel	23,950	1.27%
12	Joseph	23,604	1.25%
13	Zachary	21,929	1.16%
14	David	21,896	1.16%
15	John	21,386	1.13%
16	Ryan	20,527	1.09%
17	James	20,408	1.08%
18	Anthony	20,034	1.06%
19	William	20,020	1.06%
20	Justin	18,745	0.99%
21	Jonathan	18,542	0.98%
22	Alexander	17,112	0.91%
23	Robert	16,304	0.86%
24	Kyle	15,919	0.84%
25	Christian	15,059	0.80%
26	Jordan	14,761	0.78%
27	Samuel	14,237	0.76%
28	Kevin	13,295	0.71%
29	Benjamin	13,266	0.70%
30	Dylan	12,968	0.69%
31	Thomas	12,899	0.68%
32	Jose	11,929	0.63%
33	Aaron	11,170	0.59%
34	Nathan	10,442	0.55%
35	Eric	10,317	0.55%
36	Cody	10,296	0.55%
37	Brian	9,739	0.52%
38	Noah	9,280	0.49%
39	Adam	8,805	0.47%
40	Steven	8,765	0.46%
41	Jason	8,746	0.46%
42	Logan	8,620	0.46%
43	Timothy	8,502	0.45%
44	Hunter	8,405	0.45%
45	Cameron	8,219	0.44%
46	Ethan	7,807	0.41%
47	Caleb	7,775	0.41%
48	Sean	7,744	0.41%
49	Charles	7,656	0.41%
50	Patrick	7,490	0.40%

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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