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The top names of 2002

Emily led the girls and Jacob the boys, out of 3,738,396 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 2002

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Emily	24,470	1.36%
2	Madison	21,774	1.21%
3	Hannah	18,828	1.05%
4	Emma	16,558	0.92%
5	Alexis	15,636	0.87%
6	Ashley	15,344	0.85%
7	Abigail	15,303	0.85%
8	Sarah	14,779	0.82%
9	Samantha	14,671	0.82%
10	Olivia	14,631	0.81%
11	Elizabeth	14,621	0.81%
12	Alyssa	12,847	0.71%
13	Lauren	12,327	0.69%
14	Isabella	12,171	0.68%
15	Grace	12,056	0.67%
16	Jessica	11,921	0.66%
17	Brianna	11,524	0.64%
18	Taylor	11,468	0.64%
19	Kayla	11,310	0.63%
20	Anna	10,398	0.58%
21	Victoria	9,785	0.54%
22	Megan	9,210	0.51%
23	Sydney	9,034	0.50%
24	Rachel	8,944	0.50%
25	Chloe	8,902	0.50%
26	Jasmine	8,869	0.49%
27	Sophia	8,665	0.48%
28	Jennifer	8,540	0.48%
29	Morgan	8,433	0.47%
30	Natalie	8,352	0.46%
31	Hailey	7,992	0.44%
32	Kaitlyn	7,981	0.44%
33	Julia	7,965	0.44%
34	Destiny	7,804	0.43%
35	Haley	7,457	0.41%
36	Katherine	7,212	0.40%
37	Nicole	6,974	0.39%
38	Alexandra	6,936	0.39%
39	Savannah	6,581	0.37%
40	Maria	6,391	0.36%
41	Stephanie	6,270	0.35%
42	Mackenzie	6,268	0.35%
43	Mia	6,259	0.35%
44	Allison	6,239	0.35%
45	Jordan	6,152	0.34%
46	Amanda	6,145	0.34%
47	Jenna	5,664	0.32%
48	Faith	5,527	0.31%
49	Mary	5,487	0.31%
50	Makayla	5,476	0.30%

Boys, 2002

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jacob	30,586	1.58%
2	Michael	28,258	1.46%
3	Joshua	25,998	1.34%
4	Matthew	25,154	1.30%
5	Ethan	22,113	1.14%
6	Andrew	22,037	1.14%
7	Joseph	21,920	1.13%
8	Christopher	21,689	1.12%
9	Nicholas	21,390	1.10%
10	Daniel	21,352	1.10%
11	William	20,136	1.04%
12	Anthony	19,590	1.01%
13	David	18,704	0.96%
14	Tyler	18,266	0.94%
15	Alexander	17,718	0.91%
16	Ryan	17,658	0.91%
17	John	17,477	0.90%
18	James	16,968	0.87%
19	Zachary	16,622	0.86%
20	Brandon	16,282	0.84%
21	Jonathan	15,514	0.80%
22	Justin	14,906	0.77%
23	Dylan	14,821	0.76%
24	Christian	14,597	0.75%
25	Samuel	14,579	0.75%
26	Austin	14,542	0.75%
27	Benjamin	13,492	0.69%
28	Nathan	13,224	0.68%
29	Logan	12,974	0.67%
30	Jose	12,868	0.66%
31	Noah	12,076	0.62%
32	Gabriel	12,059	0.62%
33	Kevin	12,046	0.62%
34	Robert	12,031	0.62%
35	Caleb	11,665	0.60%
36	Thomas	11,293	0.58%
37	Jordan	11,152	0.57%
38	Hunter	11,085	0.57%
39	Cameron	10,339	0.53%
40	Kyle	10,064	0.52%
41	Elijah	10,053	0.52%
42	Jason	9,956	0.51%
43	Aaron	9,008	0.46%
44	Jack	9,000	0.46%
45	Isaiah	8,965	0.46%
46	Luke	8,692	0.45%
47	Connor	8,409	0.43%
48	Isaac	8,312	0.43%
49	Angel	8,192	0.42%
50	Jackson	8,153	0.42%

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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