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Top 100 Most Popular U.S. Baby Names Of 1976

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1976 Popular Names U.S. - Top 100 Baby Names
				Change to 2018						Change to 2018
Girls		Number of Girls	%	Rank	Number	Boys		Number of Boys	%	Rank	Number
1	Jennifer	59,474	3.784	-344	-58,559	1	Michael	66,954	4.100	-13	-55,334
2	Amy	31,341	1.994	-203	-29,844	2	Jason	52,680	3.226	-98	-48,833
3	Melissa	25,095	1.596	-294	-23,981	3	Christopher	45,210	2.768	-39	-37,949
4	Heather	24,198	1.539	-1,145	-23,988	4	David	39,294	2.406	-18	-29,597
5	Angela	22,042	1.402	-259	-20,806	5	James	38,309	2.346	1	-24,784
6	Michelle	19,555	1.244	-257	-18,316	6	John	34,006	2.082	-21	-24,887
7	Kimberly	18,966	1.207	-163	-17,270	7	Robert	33,810	2.070	-64	-28,670
8	Jessica	18,370	1.169	-304	-17,313	8	Brian	30,532	1.869	-227	-28,914
9	Lisa	17,351	1.104	-882	-17,049	9	Matthew	29,981	1.836	-11	-20,057
10	Amanda	15,590	0.992	-359	-14,746	10	Daniel	24,720	1.514	-5	-13,547
11	Stephanie	15,179	0.966	-307	-14,153	11	William	24,446	1.497	8	-9,930
12	Rebecca	14,491	0.922	-202	-13,049	12	Joseph	24,073	1.474	-11	-14,518
13	Nicole	14,451	0.919	-205	-13,035	13	Eric	21,374	1.309	-147	-18,985
14	Christina	14,034	0.893	-425	-13,315	14	Jeremy	20,139	1.233	-190	-18,184
15	Sarah	13,993	0.890	-52	-10,259	15	Kevin	18,481	1.132	-110	-15,357
16	Elizabeth	13,546	0.862	3	-5,033	16	Ryan	17,497	1.071	-30	-10,592
17	Shannon	13,371	0.851	-1,461	-13,223	17	Jeffrey	17,023	1.042	-314	-16,020
18	Jamie	12,538	0.798	-596	-12,050	18	Joshua	16,865	1.033	-23	-9,501
19	Kelly	11,794	0.750	-599	-11,310	19	Richard	16,762	1.026	-169	-14,643
20	Laura	11,253	0.716	-320	-10,318	20	Steven	16,661	1.020	-178	-14,639
21	Julie	10,841	0.690	-567	-10,325	21	Timothy	16,628	1.018	-144	-14,298
22	Mary	10,318	0.656	-104	-7,991	22	Anthony	16,611	1.017	-16	-8,608
23	Rachel	8,455	0.538	-175	-6,911	23	Thomas	16,128	0.988	-26	-9,349
24	Erin	8,384	0.533	-397	-7,649	24	Scott	15,728	0.963	-496	-15,187
25	Andrea	8,353	0.531	-109	-6,199	25	Mark	15,519	0.950	-185	-13,660
26	Christine	8,111	0.516	-900	-7,824	26	Charles	13,934	0.853	-26	-7,330
27	Sara	8,023	0.510	-146	-6,331	27	Andrew	13,316	0.815	-16	-6,082
28	Carrie	7,992	0.508	-1,740	-7,877	28	Paul	11,788	0.722	-206	-10,163
29	Jaime	7,837	0.499	-2,405	-7,764	29	Chad	11,774	0.721	-868	-11,534
30	April	7,762	0.494	-446	-7,109	30	Aaron	11,351	0.695	-30	-5,398
31	Karen	7,505	0.477	-604	-7,037	31	Jonathan	11,318	0.693	-32	-5,606
32	Tiffany	7,484	0.476	-658	-7,066	32	Benjamin	10,680	0.654	26	2,701
33	Danielle	7,363	0.468	-349	-6,554	33	Justin	10,155	0.622	-108	-7,368
34	Maria	7,347	0.467	-82	-4,752	34	Shawn	10,107	0.619	-359	-9,305
35	Dawn	7,049	0.448	-1,925	-6,949	35	Gregory	10,062	0.616	-373	-9,284
36	Crystal	6,945	0.442	-681	-6,550	36	Adam	9,946	0.609	-42	-5,271
37	Tracy	6,824	0.434	-2,305	-6,746	37	Stephen	9,730	0.596	-247	-8,494
38	Stacy	6,524	0.415	-1,278	-6,352	38	Kenneth	9,134	0.559	-188	-7,479
39	Wendy	6,466	0.411	-930	-6,196	39	Nathan	8,617	0.528	-9	-1,827
40	Susan	6,405	0.407	-1,039	-6,171	40	Brandon	7,792	0.477	-84	-4,609
41	Tammy	6,227	0.396	-4,061	-6,192	41	Patrick	7,643	0.468	-148	-5,532
42	Tara	6,024	0.383	-989	-5,775	42	Sean	7,579	0.464	-227	-6,269
43	Patricia	6,017	0.383	-870	-5,724	43	Bryan	7,292	0.446	-189	-5,659
44	Cynthia	6,014	0.383	-649	-5,598	44	Edward	7,056	0.432	-125	-4,788
45	Monica	5,981	0.381	-563	-5,486	45	Jose	7,055	0.432	-44	-2,763
46	Misty	5,906	0.376	-4,046	-5,871	46	Travis	6,835	0.419	-267	-5,763
47	Lori	5,849	0.372	-1,528	-5,713	47	Donald	6,799	0.416	-479	-6,266
48	Tina	5,746	0.366	-1,636	-5,623	48	Keith	6,750	0.413	-456	-6,185
49	Amber	5,648	0.359	-422	-4,990	49	Ronald	6,461	0.396	-444	-5,883
50	Emily	5,547	0.353	38	3,109	50	Todd	6,441	0.394	-1,151	-6,285

United States name popularity data is provided by the Social Security Administration and is based on Social Security card applications.

Data for a given year is not made available until well into the next year.

Data reflects what was recorded and has not been edited for errors, so for example the gender associated with a name may be incorrect.

The more babies that are given a particular name, the higher the popularity ranking. If multiple names have the same usage, the tie is broken by assigning popularity rank in alphabetical order. Therefore in the case of names with fewer occurrences, names with the same number of occurrences may have vastly different rankings because they will be interranked alphabetically.

To safeguard privacy, the SSA does not include names with less than 5 occurrences.

Please note, we update the data each May when the SSA releases new figures. All data changes at that time, including previous years, which will change minutely based on new information.