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The top names of 2017

Emma led the girls and Liam the boys, out of 3,577,417 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 2017

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Emma	19,873	1.15%
2	Olivia	18,778	1.09%
3	Ava	16,017	0.93%
4	Isabella	15,263	0.88%
5	Sophia	14,947	0.87%
6	Mia	13,521	0.78%
7	Charlotte	12,969	0.75%
8	Amelia	11,870	0.69%
9	Evelyn	10,748	0.62%
10	Abigail	10,645	0.62%
11	Harper	10,524	0.61%
12	Emily	9,817	0.57%
13	Elizabeth	9,004	0.52%
14	Avery	8,237	0.48%
15	Sofia	8,175	0.47%
16	Ella	8,084	0.47%
17	Madison	7,910	0.46%
18	Scarlett	7,721	0.45%
19	Victoria	7,314	0.42%
20	Aria	7,168	0.42%
21	Grace	7,087	0.41%
22	Chloe	6,982	0.40%
23	Camila	6,776	0.39%
24	Penelope	6,668	0.39%
25	Riley	6,368	0.37%
26	Layla	6,335	0.37%
27	Lillian	6,181	0.36%
28	Zoey	6,077	0.35%
29	Nora	6,067	0.35%
30	Mila	5,974	0.35%
31	Aubrey	5,937	0.34%
32	Hannah	5,934	0.34%
33	Lily	5,862	0.34%
34	Addison	5,639	0.33%
35	Natalie	5,554	0.32%
36	Eleanor	5,549	0.32%
37	Luna	5,356	0.31%
38	Savannah	5,255	0.30%
39	Brooklyn	5,213	0.30%
40	Leah	5,202	0.30%
41	Zoe	5,173	0.30%
42	Stella	5,070	0.29%
43	Hazel	5,047	0.29%
44	Ellie	5,020	0.29%
45	Paisley	4,958	0.29%
46	Audrey	4,835	0.28%
47	Violet	4,741	0.27%
48	Skylar	4,736	0.27%
49	Claire	4,702	0.27%
50	Bella	4,667	0.27%

Boys, 2017

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Liam	18,874	1.02%
2	Noah	18,507	1.00%
3	William	15,046	0.81%
4	James	14,362	0.78%
5	Logan	14,061	0.76%
6	Benjamin	13,858	0.75%
7	Mason	13,602	0.73%
8	Elijah	13,449	0.73%
9	Jacob	13,269	0.72%
10	Oliver	13,224	0.71%
11	Lucas	13,032	0.70%
12	Michael	12,726	0.69%
13	Alexander	12,577	0.68%
14	Ethan	12,483	0.67%
15	Daniel	11,758	0.64%
16	Matthew	11,732	0.63%
17	Aiden	11,357	0.61%
18	Joseph	10,488	0.57%
19	Henry	10,482	0.57%
20	Jackson	10,469	0.57%
21	Samuel	10,449	0.56%
22	David	10,244	0.55%
23	Sebastian	10,197	0.55%
24	Carter	9,833	0.53%
25	Wyatt	9,727	0.53%
26	Jayden	9,594	0.52%
27	John	9,536	0.52%
28	Owen	9,363	0.51%
29	Dylan	9,315	0.50%
30	Luke	9,224	0.50%
31	Gabriel	9,178	0.50%
32	Isaac	8,894	0.48%
33	Anthony	8,877	0.48%
34	Grayson	8,718	0.47%
35	Levi	8,478	0.46%
36	Jack	8,477	0.46%
37	Julian	8,455	0.46%
38	Joshua	8,353	0.45%
39	Christopher	8,319	0.45%
40	Andrew	8,290	0.45%
41	Lincoln	8,202	0.44%
42	Mateo	7,774	0.42%
43	Jaxon	7,725	0.42%
44	Ryan	7,706	0.42%
45	Nathan	7,442	0.40%
46	Isaiah	7,262	0.39%
47	Aaron	7,219	0.39%
48	Charles	7,193	0.39%
49	Thomas	7,187	0.39%
50	Caleb	7,154	0.39%

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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