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The top names of 1998

Emily led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,678,315 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1998

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Emily	26,188	1.48%
2	Hannah	21,376	1.21%
3	Samantha	20,195	1.14%
4	Sarah	19,898	1.13%
5	Ashley	19,875	1.12%
6	Alexis	19,778	1.12%
7	Taylor	18,576	1.05%
8	Jessica	18,239	1.03%
9	Madison	17,787	1.01%
10	Elizabeth	15,193	0.86%
11	Alyssa	13,709	0.78%
12	Kayla	13,422	0.76%
13	Megan	13,258	0.75%
14	Lauren	12,908	0.73%
15	Rachel	12,209	0.69%
16	Victoria	12,148	0.69%
17	Brianna	12,047	0.68%
18	Abigail	11,100	0.63%
19	Amanda	10,928	0.62%
20	Jennifer	10,692	0.61%
21	Olivia	10,610	0.60%
22	Emma	10,451	0.59%
23	Morgan	10,217	0.58%
24	Nicole	9,911	0.56%
25	Brittany	9,844	0.56%
26	Jasmine	9,488	0.54%
27	Alexandra	8,608	0.49%
28	Sydney	8,553	0.48%
29	Stephanie	8,491	0.48%
30	Rebecca	8,423	0.48%
31	Anna	8,386	0.47%
32	Julia	8,328	0.47%
33	Katherine	8,207	0.46%
34	Destiny	8,155	0.46%
35	Kaitlyn	7,937	0.45%
36	Haley	7,934	0.45%
37	Amber	7,930	0.45%
38	Allison	7,861	0.44%
39	Courtney	7,555	0.43%
40	Natalie	7,549	0.43%
41	Danielle	7,368	0.42%
42	Jordan	7,114	0.40%
43	Maria	6,817	0.39%
44	Mary	6,478	0.37%
45	Savannah	6,464	0.37%
46	Brooke	6,346	0.36%
47	Gabrielle	6,201	0.35%
48	Sara	6,010	0.34%
49	Shelby	5,893	0.33%
50	Madeline	5,869	0.33%

Boys, 1998

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	36,618	1.92%
2	Jacob	36,031	1.89%
3	Matthew	31,146	1.63%
4	Joshua	28,095	1.47%
5	Christopher	27,007	1.41%
6	Nicholas	26,632	1.39%
7	Brandon	23,832	1.25%
8	Tyler	23,712	1.24%
9	Andrew	23,664	1.24%
10	Austin	23,478	1.23%
11	Joseph	23,186	1.21%
12	Daniel	23,165	1.21%
13	David	20,892	1.09%
14	William	20,836	1.09%
15	John	20,633	1.08%
16	Zachary	20,580	1.08%
17	Ryan	20,198	1.06%
18	James	19,690	1.03%
19	Anthony	19,634	1.03%
20	Justin	17,971	0.94%
21	Jonathan	17,649	0.92%
22	Alexander	17,466	0.91%
23	Robert	15,527	0.81%
24	Kyle	15,277	0.80%
25	Dylan	14,540	0.76%
26	Christian	14,522	0.76%
27	Jordan	14,410	0.75%
28	Samuel	13,912	0.73%
29	Noah	13,415	0.70%
30	Benjamin	13,061	0.68%
31	Thomas	12,889	0.67%
32	Kevin	12,510	0.65%
33	Jose	12,374	0.65%
34	Nathan	11,586	0.61%
35	Cameron	11,416	0.60%
36	Hunter	11,078	0.58%
37	Aaron	10,552	0.55%
38	Ethan	10,536	0.55%
39	Eric	9,964	0.52%
40	Jason	9,399	0.49%
41	Brian	9,146	0.48%
42	Caleb	9,028	0.47%
43	Cody	8,810	0.46%
44	Logan	8,640	0.45%
45	Adam	8,356	0.44%
46	Steven	8,115	0.42%
47	Connor	7,906	0.41%
48	Charles	7,849	0.41%
49	Timothy	7,845	0.41%
50	Sean	7,712	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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