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The top names of 2005

Emily led the girls and Jacob the boys, out of 3,845,147 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 2005

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Emily	23,952	1.30%
2	Emma	20,362	1.10%
3	Madison	19,578	1.06%
4	Abigail	15,756	0.85%
5	Olivia	15,700	0.85%
6	Isabella	15,197	0.82%
7	Hannah	14,854	0.80%
8	Samantha	13,642	0.74%
9	Ava	13,606	0.74%
10	Ashley	13,276	0.72%
11	Elizabeth	12,743	0.69%
12	Sophia	12,678	0.69%
13	Alexis	11,977	0.65%
14	Grace	11,865	0.64%
15	Sarah	11,555	0.63%
16	Alyssa	10,891	0.59%
17	Mia	10,846	0.59%
18	Natalie	10,742	0.58%
19	Chloe	9,598	0.52%
20	Brianna	9,370	0.51%
21	Lauren	9,249	0.50%
22	Anna	9,113	0.49%
23	Ella	9,072	0.49%
24	Taylor	8,676	0.47%
25	Kayla	8,620	0.47%
26	Hailey	8,595	0.47%
27	Jessica	8,115	0.44%
28	Victoria	7,961	0.43%
29	Jasmine	7,873	0.43%
30	Sydney	7,376	0.40%
31	Julia	7,089	0.38%
32	Destiny	6,894	0.37%
33	Morgan	6,749	0.37%
34	Kaitlyn	6,521	0.35%
35	Savannah	6,484	0.35%
36	Katherine	6,392	0.35%
37	Alexandra	6,319	0.34%
38	Rachel	6,226	0.34%
39	Lily	6,090	0.33%
40	Kaylee	5,870	0.32%
41	Megan	5,856	0.32%
42	Jennifer	5,837	0.32%
43	Angelina	5,813	0.31%
44	Makayla	5,727	0.31%
45	Allison	5,634	0.30%
46	Maria	5,600	0.30%
47	Brooke	5,571	0.30%
48	Trinity	5,455	0.30%
49	Faith	5,256	0.28%
50	Lillian	5,215	0.28%

Boys, 2005

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jacob	25,851	1.29%
2	Michael	23,828	1.19%
3	Joshua	23,261	1.16%
4	Matthew	21,483	1.08%
5	Ethan	21,318	1.07%
6	Andrew	20,742	1.04%
7	Daniel	20,236	1.01%
8	Anthony	19,387	0.97%
9	Joseph	19,241	0.96%
10	Christopher	19,174	0.96%
11	William	19,060	0.95%
12	David	18,144	0.91%
13	Alexander	18,130	0.91%
14	Ryan	17,990	0.90%
15	Nicholas	17,076	0.85%
16	Tyler	16,989	0.85%
17	James	16,140	0.81%
18	John	15,796	0.79%
19	Jonathan	14,443	0.72%
20	Nathan	14,365	0.72%
21	Samuel	14,271	0.71%
22	Christian	14,210	0.71%
23	Noah	13,905	0.70%
24	Dylan	13,782	0.69%
25	Benjamin	13,586	0.68%
26	Logan	13,475	0.67%
27	Brandon	12,947	0.65%
28	Gabriel	12,759	0.64%
29	Zachary	12,288	0.62%
30	Jose	12,065	0.60%
31	Elijah	11,612	0.58%
32	Angel	10,993	0.55%
33	Kevin	10,917	0.55%
34	Jack	10,906	0.55%
35	Caleb	10,894	0.55%
36	Justin	10,518	0.53%
37	Robert	10,166	0.51%
38	Austin	10,111	0.51%
39	Evan	10,109	0.51%
40	Thomas	10,041	0.50%
41	Luke	10,011	0.50%
42	Mason	9,771	0.49%
43	Aidan	9,759	0.49%
44	Jackson	9,580	0.48%
45	Isaiah	9,527	0.48%
46	Jordan	9,398	0.47%
47	Gavin	9,340	0.47%
48	Connor	9,321	0.47%
49	Isaac	9,127	0.46%
50	Aiden	9,083	0.45%

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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