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The top names of 2018

Emma led the girls and Liam the boys, out of 3,517,232 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 2018

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Emma	18,824	1.11%
2	Olivia	18,061	1.06%
3	Ava	15,034	0.88%
4	Isabella	14,575	0.86%
5	Sophia	14,013	0.82%
6	Charlotte	13,038	0.77%
7	Mia	12,742	0.75%
8	Amelia	12,405	0.73%
9	Harper	10,646	0.63%
10	Evelyn	10,433	0.61%
11	Abigail	9,879	0.58%
12	Emily	8,718	0.51%
13	Elizabeth	8,600	0.51%
14	Mila	8,169	0.48%
15	Ella	8,127	0.48%
16	Avery	8,099	0.48%
17	Sofia	7,667	0.45%
18	Camila	7,508	0.44%
19	Aria	7,437	0.44%
20	Scarlett	7,226	0.42%
21	Victoria	7,134	0.42%
22	Madison	7,103	0.42%
23	Luna	6,937	0.41%
24	Grace	6,789	0.40%
25	Chloe	6,679	0.39%
26	Penelope	6,524	0.38%
27	Layla	6,512	0.38%
28	Riley	6,010	0.35%
29	Zoey	5,946	0.35%
30	Nora	5,837	0.34%
31	Lily	5,753	0.34%
32	Eleanor	5,728	0.34%
33	Hannah	5,680	0.33%
34	Lillian	5,567	0.33%
35	Addison	5,232	0.31%
36	Ellie	5,223	0.31%
37	Aubrey	5,209	0.31%
38	Stella	5,164	0.30%
39	Natalie	5,127	0.30%
40	Zoe	5,124	0.30%
41	Leah	5,038	0.30%
42	Hazel	4,951	0.29%
43	Violet	4,834	0.28%
44	Aurora	4,830	0.28%
45	Savannah	4,769	0.28%
46	Audrey	4,697	0.28%
47	Brooklyn	4,652	0.27%
48	Bella	4,578	0.27%
49	Skylar	4,411	0.26%
50	Claire	4,406	0.26%

Boys, 2018

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Liam	19,977	1.10%
2	Noah	18,441	1.02%
3	William	14,646	0.81%
4	James	13,650	0.75%
5	Oliver	13,500	0.74%
6	Benjamin	13,488	0.74%
7	Elijah	13,020	0.72%
8	Lucas	12,665	0.70%
9	Mason	12,526	0.69%
10	Logan	12,447	0.69%
11	Alexander	12,110	0.67%
12	Ethan	11,931	0.66%
13	Jacob	11,897	0.66%
14	Michael	11,756	0.65%
15	Daniel	11,296	0.62%
16	Henry	10,714	0.59%
17	Jackson	10,424	0.57%
18	Sebastian	10,137	0.56%
19	Aiden	10,062	0.55%
20	Matthew	10,009	0.55%
21	Samuel	9,854	0.54%
22	David	9,812	0.54%
23	Joseph	9,682	0.53%
24	Carter	9,385	0.52%
25	Owen	9,337	0.51%
26	John	9,204	0.51%
27	Wyatt	9,183	0.51%
28	Jack	8,894	0.49%
29	Jayden	8,626	0.47%
30	Luke	8,624	0.47%
31	Dylan	8,610	0.47%
32	Grayson	8,606	0.47%
33	Levi	8,540	0.47%
34	Isaac	8,503	0.47%
35	Gabriel	8,439	0.46%
36	Julian	8,368	0.46%
37	Mateo	8,221	0.45%
38	Anthony	8,048	0.44%
39	Jaxon	7,774	0.43%
40	Joshua	7,446	0.41%
41	Lincoln	7,408	0.41%
42	Christopher	7,341	0.40%
43	Andrew	7,315	0.40%
44	Theodore	7,088	0.39%
45	Caleb	6,997	0.39%
46	Ryan	6,943	0.38%
47	Asher	6,879	0.38%
48	Nathan	6,850	0.38%
49	Thomas	6,840	0.38%
50	Leo	6,773	0.37%

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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