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The top names of 2008

Emma led the girls and Jacob the boys, out of 3,931,088 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 2008

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Emma	18,830	1.00%
2	Isabella	18,629	0.99%
3	Emily	17,448	0.92%
4	Olivia	17,088	0.90%
5	Ava	17,051	0.90%
6	Madison	17,047	0.90%
7	Sophia	16,091	0.85%
8	Abigail	15,088	0.80%
9	Elizabeth	12,027	0.64%
10	Chloe	11,836	0.63%
11	Samantha	11,190	0.59%
12	Addison	10,767	0.57%
13	Natalie	10,201	0.54%
14	Mia	10,173	0.54%
15	Alexis	9,734	0.51%
16	Alyssa	9,653	0.51%
17	Hannah	9,577	0.51%
18	Ashley	9,408	0.50%
19	Ella	9,364	0.50%
20	Sarah	9,055	0.48%
21	Grace	9,042	0.48%
22	Taylor	8,344	0.44%
23	Brianna	8,278	0.44%
24	Lily	8,128	0.43%
25	Hailey	7,872	0.42%
26	Anna	7,278	0.38%
27	Victoria	7,127	0.38%
28	Kayla	6,835	0.36%
29	Lillian	6,817	0.36%
30	Lauren	6,455	0.34%
31	Kaylee	6,302	0.33%
32	Allison	6,241	0.33%
33	Savannah	6,134	0.32%
34	Nevaeh	6,112	0.32%
35	Gabriella	6,039	0.32%
36	Sofia	5,985	0.32%
37	Makayla	5,957	0.32%
38	Avery	5,829	0.31%
39	Riley	5,774	0.31%
40	Leah	5,634	0.30%
41	Julia	5,620	0.30%
42	Aubrey	5,570	0.29%
43	Jasmine	5,536	0.29%
44	Audrey	5,443	0.29%
45	Katherine	5,350	0.28%
46	Morgan	5,333	0.28%
47	Destiny	5,320	0.28%
48	Brooklyn	5,317	0.28%
49	Sydney	5,264	0.28%
50	Alexa	5,226	0.28%

Boys, 2008

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jacob	22,621	1.11%
2	Michael	20,652	1.01%
3	Ethan	20,223	0.99%
4	Joshua	19,231	0.94%
5	Daniel	19,032	0.93%
6	Alexander	18,711	0.92%
7	Anthony	18,417	0.90%
8	William	18,403	0.90%
9	Christopher	17,966	0.88%
10	Matthew	17,604	0.86%
11	Jayden	17,167	0.84%
12	Andrew	16,779	0.82%
13	Joseph	16,599	0.81%
14	David	16,347	0.80%
15	Noah	15,808	0.77%
16	Aiden	15,592	0.76%
17	James	15,190	0.74%
18	Ryan	14,686	0.72%
19	Logan	13,861	0.68%
20	John	13,336	0.65%
21	Nathan	13,262	0.65%
22	Elijah	13,241	0.65%
23	Christian	13,069	0.64%
24	Gabriel	13,041	0.64%
25	Benjamin	12,958	0.64%
26	Jonathan	12,905	0.63%
27	Samuel	12,774	0.63%
28	Tyler	12,709	0.62%
29	Nicholas	12,533	0.61%
30	Gavin	11,752	0.58%
31	Dylan	11,710	0.57%
32	Jackson	11,641	0.57%
33	Brandon	11,482	0.56%
34	Caleb	10,579	0.52%
35	Mason	10,489	0.51%
36	Angel	10,357	0.51%
37	Isaac	10,030	0.49%
38	Evan	9,926	0.49%
39	Jack	9,897	0.49%
40	Jose	9,826	0.48%
41	Kevin	9,798	0.48%
42	Isaiah	9,670	0.47%
43	Luke	9,424	0.46%
44	Justin	9,365	0.46%
45	Landon	9,361	0.46%
46	Lucas	9,328	0.46%
47	Zachary	9,235	0.45%
48	Jordan	9,099	0.45%
49	Robert	8,841	0.43%
50	Aaron	8,545	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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