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The top names of 2009

Isabella led the girls and Jacob the boys, out of 3,820,687 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 2009

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Isabella	22,321	1.22%
2	Emma	17,910	0.97%
3	Olivia	17,444	0.95%
4	Sophia	16,951	0.92%
5	Ava	15,877	0.86%
6	Emily	15,366	0.84%
7	Madison	15,257	0.83%
8	Abigail	14,401	0.78%
9	Chloe	11,922	0.65%
10	Mia	11,438	0.62%
11	Elizabeth	11,057	0.60%
12	Addison	10,669	0.58%
13	Alexis	9,946	0.54%
14	Samantha	9,669	0.53%
15	Ella	9,659	0.53%
16	Natalie	9,421	0.51%
17	Grace	8,322	0.45%
18	Lily	8,101	0.44%
19	Alyssa	7,980	0.43%
20	Ashley	7,815	0.43%
21	Sarah	7,794	0.42%
22	Taylor	7,590	0.41%
23	Hannah	7,584	0.41%
24	Brianna	7,357	0.40%
25	Hailey	7,325	0.40%
26	Kaylee	7,219	0.39%
27	Lillian	6,861	0.37%
28	Anna	6,818	0.37%
29	Leah	6,790	0.37%
30	Allison	6,581	0.36%
31	Victoria	6,371	0.35%
32	Avery	6,301	0.34%
33	Gabriella	6,153	0.33%
34	Nevaeh	6,126	0.33%
35	Kayla	5,847	0.32%
36	Sofia	5,696	0.31%
37	Brooklyn	5,677	0.31%
38	Riley	5,637	0.31%
39	Savannah	5,606	0.31%
40	Evelyn	5,584	0.30%
41	Aubrey	5,408	0.29%
42	Peyton	5,318	0.29%
43	Alexa	5,311	0.29%
44	Makayla	5,269	0.29%
45	Layla	5,212	0.28%
46	Lauren	5,204	0.28%
47	Zoe	5,152	0.28%
48	Sydney	5,061	0.28%
49	Audrey	5,008	0.27%
50	Julia	4,996	0.27%

Boys, 2009

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jacob	21,204	1.07%
2	Ethan	19,858	1.00%
3	Michael	18,964	0.96%
4	Alexander	18,254	0.92%
5	William	17,937	0.90%
6	Joshua	17,671	0.89%
7	Daniel	17,564	0.89%
8	Jayden	17,316	0.87%
9	Noah	17,262	0.87%
10	Christopher	16,368	0.83%
11	Anthony	16,327	0.82%
12	Aiden	16,030	0.81%
13	Matthew	16,010	0.81%
14	David	15,457	0.78%
15	Joseph	14,952	0.75%
16	Andrew	14,877	0.75%
17	Logan	14,467	0.73%
18	James	14,223	0.72%
19	Benjamin	13,123	0.66%
20	Ryan	13,122	0.66%
21	Elijah	12,846	0.65%
22	Gabriel	12,834	0.65%
23	Christian	12,657	0.64%
24	Samuel	12,181	0.61%
25	Nathan	12,135	0.61%
26	John	12,133	0.61%
27	Jackson	12,123	0.61%
28	Tyler	11,551	0.58%
29	Jonathan	11,386	0.57%
30	Dylan	11,373	0.57%
31	Caleb	11,001	0.55%
32	Nicholas	10,856	0.55%
33	Gavin	10,742	0.54%
34	Mason	10,696	0.54%
35	Evan	10,280	0.52%
36	Landon	10,169	0.51%
37	Angel	9,853	0.50%
38	Brandon	9,848	0.50%
39	Lucas	9,620	0.48%
40	Isaac	9,569	0.48%
41	Isaiah	9,259	0.47%
42	Jack	9,029	0.46%
43	Jose	8,818	0.44%
44	Kevin	8,780	0.44%
45	Jordan	8,669	0.44%
46	Justin	8,631	0.44%
47	Luke	8,625	0.43%
48	Brayden	8,603	0.43%
49	Liam	8,567	0.43%
50	Carter	8,173	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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