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The top names of 2016

Emma led the girls and Noah the boys, out of 3,669,760 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 2016

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Emma	19,550	1.10%
2	Olivia	19,414	1.10%
3	Ava	16,354	0.92%
4	Sophia	16,185	0.91%
5	Isabella	14,863	0.84%
6	Mia	14,464	0.82%
7	Charlotte	13,118	0.74%
8	Abigail	11,796	0.67%
9	Emily	11,006	0.62%
10	Amelia	10,809	0.61%
11	Harper	10,803	0.61%
12	Evelyn	10,116	0.57%
13	Elizabeth	9,607	0.54%
14	Sofia	9,179	0.52%
15	Madison	9,057	0.51%
16	Avery	8,774	0.50%
17	Ella	7,940	0.45%
18	Scarlett	7,720	0.44%
19	Grace	7,617	0.43%
20	Chloe	7,484	0.42%
21	Victoria	7,329	0.41%
22	Riley	7,159	0.40%
23	Aria	6,949	0.39%
24	Lily	6,610	0.37%
25	Aubrey	6,552	0.37%
26	Zoey	6,481	0.37%
27	Penelope	6,400	0.36%
28	Lillian	6,386	0.36%
29	Addison	6,341	0.36%
30	Layla	6,300	0.36%
31	Natalie	6,191	0.35%
32	Camila	6,054	0.34%
33	Hannah	6,038	0.34%
34	Brooklyn	5,971	0.34%
35	Zoe	5,764	0.33%
36	Nora	5,593	0.32%
37	Leah	5,434	0.31%
38	Savannah	5,389	0.30%
39	Audrey	5,369	0.30%
40	Claire	5,216	0.29%
41	Eleanor	5,140	0.29%
42	Skylar	5,137	0.29%
43	Ellie	5,074	0.29%
44	Samantha	4,956	0.28%
45	Stella	4,933	0.28%
46	Paisley	4,883	0.28%
47	Violet	4,882	0.28%
48	Mila	4,830	0.27%
49	Anna	4,810	0.27%
50	Allison	4,786	0.27%

Boys, 2016

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Noah	19,188	1.01%
2	Liam	18,277	0.96%
3	William	15,810	0.83%
4	Mason	15,287	0.81%
5	James	14,920	0.79%
6	Benjamin	14,686	0.77%
7	Jacob	14,559	0.77%
8	Michael	14,145	0.75%
9	Elijah	13,982	0.74%
10	Ethan	13,855	0.73%
11	Alexander	13,446	0.71%
12	Oliver	13,066	0.69%
13	Daniel	12,996	0.68%
14	Lucas	12,906	0.68%
15	Matthew	12,665	0.67%
16	Aiden	12,269	0.65%
17	Jackson	11,315	0.60%
18	Logan	11,278	0.59%
19	David	11,153	0.59%
20	Joseph	10,969	0.58%
21	Samuel	10,621	0.56%
22	Henry	10,390	0.55%
23	Sebastian	10,309	0.54%
24	Owen	10,305	0.54%
25	Gabriel	10,279	0.54%
26	Carter	10,220	0.54%
27	Jayden	10,158	0.54%
28	John	10,060	0.53%
29	Luke	10,001	0.53%
30	Anthony	9,900	0.52%
31	Isaac	9,782	0.52%
32	Dylan	9,720	0.51%
33	Wyatt	9,581	0.50%
34	Andrew	9,437	0.50%
35	Joshua	9,258	0.49%
36	Christopher	9,106	0.48%
37	Grayson	8,693	0.46%
38	Jack	8,430	0.44%
39	Julian	8,388	0.44%
40	Ryan	8,261	0.44%
41	Jaxon	8,145	0.43%
42	Levi	8,118	0.43%
43	Nathan	8,000	0.42%
44	Caleb	7,982	0.42%
45	Hunter	7,681	0.40%
46	Christian	7,674	0.40%
47	Isaiah	7,573	0.40%
48	Thomas	7,367	0.39%
49	Aaron	7,178	0.38%
50	Eli	7,132	0.38%

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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