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The top names of 2001

Emily led the girls and Jacob the boys, out of 3,743,505 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 2001

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Emily	25,059	1.39%
2	Madison	22,166	1.23%
3	Hannah	20,723	1.15%
4	Ashley	16,531	0.92%
5	Alexis	16,404	0.91%
6	Sarah	15,929	0.88%
7	Samantha	15,867	0.88%
8	Abigail	14,807	0.82%
9	Elizabeth	14,792	0.82%
10	Olivia	13,977	0.78%
11	Jessica	13,925	0.77%
12	Taylor	13,693	0.76%
13	Emma	13,327	0.74%
14	Alyssa	13,272	0.74%
15	Lauren	12,782	0.71%
16	Grace	12,090	0.67%
17	Kayla	11,892	0.66%
18	Brianna	11,776	0.65%
19	Anna	10,596	0.59%
20	Megan	10,300	0.57%
21	Victoria	10,179	0.57%
22	Destiny	9,752	0.54%
23	Sydney	9,639	0.54%
24	Rachel	9,556	0.53%
25	Jasmine	8,958	0.50%
26	Jennifer	8,923	0.50%
27	Julia	8,838	0.49%
28	Isabella	8,835	0.49%
29	Morgan	8,735	0.49%
30	Chloe	8,177	0.45%
31	Kaitlyn	8,164	0.45%
32	Natalie	8,049	0.45%
33	Hailey	8,032	0.45%
34	Haley	8,011	0.44%
35	Katherine	7,880	0.44%
36	Nicole	7,820	0.43%
37	Sophia	7,162	0.40%
38	Alexandra	7,045	0.39%
39	Amanda	6,980	0.39%
40	Mackenzie	6,934	0.39%
41	Maria	6,842	0.38%
42	Savannah	6,737	0.37%
43	Stephanie	6,613	0.37%
44	Allison	6,215	0.35%
45	Jenna	6,143	0.34%
46	Rebecca	5,893	0.33%
47	Jordan	5,803	0.32%
48	Mary	5,762	0.32%
49	Andrea	5,745	0.32%
50	Gabrielle	5,606	0.31%

Boys, 2001

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jacob	32,573	1.68%
2	Michael	29,689	1.53%
3	Matthew	26,812	1.38%
4	Joshua	26,024	1.34%
5	Christopher	23,132	1.19%
6	Nicholas	22,849	1.18%
7	Andrew	22,422	1.15%
8	Joseph	22,030	1.13%
9	Daniel	21,013	1.08%
10	William	20,110	1.04%
11	Anthony	19,737	1.02%
12	David	19,362	1.00%
13	Tyler	19,275	0.99%
14	John	18,904	0.97%
15	Ryan	18,289	0.94%
16	Zachary	18,185	0.94%
17	Ethan	17,962	0.92%
18	Brandon	17,893	0.92%
19	James	17,074	0.88%
20	Alexander	16,720	0.86%
21	Dylan	16,497	0.85%
22	Justin	16,231	0.84%
23	Jonathan	16,147	0.83%
24	Christian	15,457	0.80%
25	Austin	14,955	0.77%
26	Samuel	14,813	0.76%
27	Benjamin	14,339	0.74%
28	Noah	13,494	0.69%
29	Logan	12,710	0.65%
30	Robert	12,665	0.65%
31	Nathan	12,647	0.65%
32	Kevin	12,596	0.65%
33	Thomas	12,148	0.63%
34	Jose	12,144	0.63%
35	Cameron	11,581	0.60%
36	Hunter	11,335	0.58%
37	Caleb	11,177	0.58%
38	Gabriel	10,917	0.56%
39	Jordan	10,815	0.56%
40	Kyle	10,568	0.54%
41	Jason	10,164	0.52%
42	Aaron	9,552	0.49%
43	Isaiah	8,589	0.44%
44	Eric	8,559	0.44%
45	Elijah	8,339	0.43%
46	Brian	8,303	0.43%
47	Isaac	8,200	0.42%
48	Jack	8,149	0.42%
49	Connor	8,082	0.42%
50	Luke	8,008	0.41%

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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