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The top names of 2006

Emily led the girls and Jacob the boys, out of 3,956,482 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 2006

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Emily	21,412	1.13%
2	Emma	19,133	1.01%
3	Madison	18,635	0.98%
4	Isabella	18,231	0.96%
5	Ava	16,941	0.89%
6	Abigail	15,633	0.82%
7	Olivia	15,508	0.82%
8	Hannah	14,556	0.77%
9	Sophia	13,503	0.71%
10	Samantha	12,470	0.66%
11	Elizabeth	12,440	0.65%
12	Ashley	12,353	0.65%
13	Mia	12,027	0.63%
14	Alexis	11,239	0.59%
15	Sarah	11,161	0.59%
16	Grace	10,974	0.58%
17	Natalie	10,951	0.58%
18	Chloe	10,404	0.55%
19	Alyssa	10,177	0.54%
20	Brianna	9,370	0.49%
21	Ella	9,213	0.48%
22	Anna	8,613	0.45%
23	Taylor	8,566	0.45%
24	Lauren	8,498	0.45%
25	Hailey	8,423	0.44%
26	Kayla	8,226	0.43%
27	Victoria	7,653	0.40%
28	Addison	7,622	0.40%
29	Jasmine	7,521	0.40%
30	Savannah	7,096	0.37%
31	Julia	6,884	0.36%
32	Jessica	6,815	0.36%
33	Lily	6,768	0.36%
34	Sydney	6,516	0.34%
35	Morgan	6,495	0.34%
36	Destiny	6,313	0.33%
37	Katherine	6,295	0.33%
38	Lillian	6,236	0.33%
39	Alexa	6,117	0.32%
40	Alexandra	6,101	0.32%
41	Kaitlyn	6,074	0.32%
42	Kaylee	5,998	0.32%
43	Nevaeh	5,956	0.31%
44	Brooke	5,747	0.30%
45	Makayla	5,652	0.30%
46	Maria	5,604	0.29%
47	Allison	5,564	0.29%
48	Rachel	5,551	0.29%
49	Angelina	5,526	0.29%
50	Gabriella	5,372	0.28%

Boys, 2006

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jacob	24,871	1.21%
2	Michael	22,653	1.10%
3	Joshua	22,336	1.09%
4	Ethan	20,522	1.00%
5	Matthew	20,339	0.99%
6	Daniel	20,082	0.98%
7	Andrew	19,733	0.96%
8	Christopher	19,688	0.96%
9	Anthony	19,413	0.94%
10	William	18,965	0.92%
11	Joseph	18,471	0.90%
12	Alexander	18,235	0.89%
13	David	17,671	0.86%
14	Ryan	16,434	0.80%
15	Noah	16,342	0.80%
16	James	16,255	0.79%
17	Nicholas	15,675	0.76%
18	Tyler	15,550	0.76%
19	John	15,177	0.74%
20	Logan	15,151	0.74%
21	Christian	14,487	0.70%
22	Jonathan	14,387	0.70%
23	Nathan	14,278	0.69%
24	Benjamin	13,766	0.67%
25	Samuel	13,652	0.66%
26	Dylan	13,171	0.64%
27	Brandon	12,686	0.62%
28	Gabriel	12,543	0.61%
29	Elijah	12,055	0.59%
30	Jose	11,604	0.56%
31	Angel	11,602	0.56%
32	Aiden	11,591	0.56%
33	Zachary	11,013	0.54%
34	Caleb	11,001	0.54%
35	Jackson	10,896	0.53%
36	Jack	10,837	0.53%
37	Kevin	10,779	0.52%
38	Gavin	10,479	0.51%
39	Isaiah	10,459	0.51%
40	Mason	10,414	0.51%
41	Austin	10,293	0.50%
42	Evan	10,129	0.49%
43	Luke	10,087	0.49%
44	Aidan	10,035	0.49%
45	Justin	9,973	0.49%
46	Jordan	9,935	0.48%
47	Robert	9,911	0.48%
48	Isaac	9,685	0.47%
49	Jayden	9,624	0.47%
50	Landon	9,574	0.47%

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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