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The top names of 2000

Emily led the girls and Jacob the boys, out of 3,780,037 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 2000

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Emily	25,959	1.43%
2	Hannah	23,087	1.27%
3	Madison	19,968	1.10%
4	Ashley	18,000	0.99%
5	Sarah	17,715	0.98%
6	Alexis	17,631	0.97%
7	Samantha	17,265	0.95%
8	Jessica	15,711	0.87%
9	Elizabeth	15,117	0.83%
10	Taylor	15,080	0.83%
11	Lauren	14,176	0.78%
12	Alyssa	13,553	0.75%
13	Kayla	13,313	0.73%
14	Abigail	13,094	0.72%
15	Brianna	12,880	0.71%
16	Olivia	12,855	0.71%
17	Emma	12,560	0.69%
18	Megan	11,436	0.63%
19	Grace	11,285	0.62%
20	Victoria	10,926	0.60%
21	Rachel	10,687	0.59%
22	Anna	10,613	0.58%
23	Sydney	10,243	0.56%
24	Destiny	9,850	0.54%
25	Morgan	9,502	0.52%
26	Jennifer	9,390	0.52%
27	Jasmine	9,099	0.50%
28	Haley	9,069	0.50%
29	Julia	8,769	0.48%
30	Kaitlyn	8,759	0.48%
31	Nicole	8,563	0.47%
32	Amanda	8,558	0.47%
33	Katherine	8,109	0.45%
34	Natalie	8,096	0.45%
35	Hailey	7,829	0.43%
36	Alexandra	7,550	0.42%
37	Savannah	7,100	0.39%
38	Chloe	7,094	0.39%
39	Rebecca	7,078	0.39%
40	Stephanie	7,028	0.39%
41	Maria	6,857	0.38%
42	Sophia	6,564	0.36%
43	Mackenzie	6,350	0.35%
44	Allison	6,315	0.35%
45	Isabella	6,242	0.34%
46	Mary	6,222	0.34%
47	Amber	6,182	0.34%
48	Danielle	6,092	0.34%
49	Gabrielle	5,872	0.32%
50	Jordan	5,809	0.32%

Boys, 2000

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jacob	34,492	1.76%
2	Michael	32,045	1.63%
3	Matthew	28,580	1.46%
4	Joshua	27,543	1.40%
5	Christopher	24,936	1.27%
6	Nicholas	24,653	1.26%
7	Andrew	23,658	1.20%
8	Joseph	22,844	1.16%
9	Daniel	22,338	1.14%
10	Tyler	21,506	1.10%
11	William	20,669	1.05%
12	Brandon	20,337	1.04%
13	Ryan	20,269	1.03%
14	John	20,115	1.02%
15	Zachary	19,852	1.01%
16	David	19,787	1.01%
17	Anthony	19,656	1.00%
18	James	17,991	0.92%
19	Justin	17,784	0.91%
20	Alexander	17,290	0.88%
21	Jonathan	16,888	0.86%
22	Christian	16,059	0.82%
23	Austin	15,947	0.81%
24	Dylan	15,405	0.78%
25	Ethan	15,226	0.78%
26	Benjamin	14,845	0.76%
27	Noah	14,282	0.73%
28	Samuel	14,188	0.72%
29	Robert	13,739	0.70%
30	Nathan	13,040	0.66%
31	Cameron	12,767	0.65%
32	Kevin	12,674	0.65%
33	Thomas	12,638	0.64%
34	Jose	12,585	0.64%
35	Hunter	12,538	0.64%
36	Jordan	12,168	0.62%
37	Kyle	11,969	0.61%
38	Caleb	9,866	0.50%
39	Jason	9,778	0.50%
40	Logan	9,737	0.50%
41	Aaron	9,561	0.49%
42	Eric	9,162	0.47%
43	Brian	8,958	0.46%
44	Gabriel	8,681	0.44%
45	Adam	8,136	0.41%
46	Jack	8,125	0.41%
47	Isaiah	8,029	0.41%
48	Juan	7,712	0.39%
49	Luis	7,662	0.39%
50	Connor	7,530	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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