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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 2017						Change to 2017
Girls		Number of Girls	%	Rank	Number	Boys		Number of Boys	%	Rank	Number
1	Jennifer	59,474	3.784	-309	-58,432	1	Michael	66,964	4.100	-11	-54,385
2	Amy	31,341	1.994	-172	-29,617	2	Jason	52,681	3.226	-90	-48,460
3	Melissa	25,093	1.596	-270	-23,925	3	Christopher	45,213	2.768	-35	-36,958
4	Heather	24,199	1.540	-1,125	-23,980	4	David	39,299	2.406	-19	-29,175
5	Angela	22,041	1.402	-229	-20,697	5	James	38,306	2.345	1	-24,074
6	Michelle	19,555	1.244	-208	-18,134	6	John	34,008	2.082	-21	-24,574
7	Kimberly	18,967	1.207	-157	-17,144	7	Robert	33,809	2.070	-58	-28,302
8	Jessica	18,368	1.169	-240	-17,097	8	Brian	30,535	1.870	-209	-28,772
9	Lisa	17,350	1.104	-875	-17,045	9	Matthew	29,982	1.836	-7	-18,371
10	Amanda	15,591	0.992	-324	-14,637	10	Daniel	24,718	1.513	-5	-13,078
11	Stephanie	15,179	0.966	-276	-14,053	11	William	24,447	1.497	8	-9,543
12	Rebecca	14,491	0.922	-204	-13,075	12	Joseph	24,072	1.474	-7	-13,712
13	Nicole	14,452	0.919	-170	-12,798	13	Eric	21,375	1.309	-130	-18,618
14	Christina	14,034	0.893	-394	-13,264	14	Jeremy	20,138	1.233	-179	-18,103
15	Sarah	13,993	0.890	-47	-10,007	15	Kevin	18,482	1.132	-86	-14,677
16	Elizabeth	13,548	0.862	3	-4,633	16	Ryan	17,501	1.072	-27	-9,849
17	Shannon	13,372	0.851	-1,324	-13,199	17	Jeffrey	17,025	1.042	-306	-15,976
18	Jamie	12,539	0.798	-597	-12,051	18	Joshua	16,867	1.033	-21	-8,628
19	Kelly	11,791	0.750	-576	-11,291	19	Richard	16,764	1.026	-156	-14,495
20	Laura	11,253	0.716	-320	-10,314	20	Steven	16,661	1.020	-162	-14,513
21	Julie	10,841	0.690	-497	-10,242	21	Timothy	16,630	1.018	-143	-14,237
22	Mary	10,318	0.656	-104	-7,937	22	Anthony	16,612	1.017	-10	-7,810
23	Rachel	8,456	0.538	-172	-6,865	23	Thomas	16,125	0.987	-25	-8,994
24	Erin	8,384	0.533	-383	-7,613	24	Scott	15,736	0.963	-460	-15,134
25	Andrea	8,351	0.531	-103	-6,039	25	Mark	15,517	0.950	-178	-13,581
26	Christine	8,110	0.516	-760	-7,764	26	Charles	13,937	0.853	-23	-6,807
27	Sara	8,024	0.510	-131	-6,152	27	Andrew	13,317	0.815	-13	-5,102
28	Carrie	7,992	0.508	-1,637	-7,864	28	Paul	11,787	0.722	-197	-10,103
29	Jaime	7,836	0.499	-2,746	-7,775	29	Chad	11,776	0.721	-927	-11,561
30	April	7,762	0.494	-423	-7,071	30	Aaron	11,351	0.695	-16	-4,186
31	Karen	7,503	0.477	-525	-6,951	31	Jonathan	11,320	0.693	-24	-4,849
32	Tiffany	7,484	0.476	-548	-6,968	32	Benjamin	10,680	0.654	26	3,053
33	Danielle	7,363	0.468	-318	-6,457	33	Justin	10,157	0.622	-93	-7,036
34	Maria	7,348	0.467	-77	-4,649	34	Shawn	10,107	0.619	-353	-9,286
35	Dawn	7,049	0.448	-1,945	-6,950	35	Gregory	10,062	0.616	-340	-9,181
36	Crystal	6,945	0.442	-608	-6,490	36	Adam	9,945	0.609	-41	-5,041
37	Tracy	6,824	0.434	-2,127	-6,736	37	Stephen	9,730	0.596	-234	-8,409
38	Stacy	6,524	0.415	-1,307	-6,352	38	Kenneth	9,134	0.559	-180	-7,383
39	Wendy	6,467	0.411	-1,059	-6,238	39	Nathan	8,616	0.528	-6	-1,226
40	Susan	6,406	0.408	-923	-6,134	40	Brandon	7,792	0.477	-74	-4,318
41	Tammy	6,227	0.396	-2,867	-6,170	41	Patrick	7,641	0.468	-130	-5,358
42	Tara	6,024	0.383	-943	-5,760	42	Sean	7,578	0.464	-209	-6,109
43	Patricia	6,017	0.383	-846	-5,715	43	Bryan	7,292	0.446	-167	-5,465
44	Cynthia	6,014	0.383	-593	-5,554	44	Edward	7,054	0.432	-125	-4,745
45	Monica	5,981	0.381	-581	-5,512	45	Jose	7,053	0.432	-36	-2,278
46	Misty	5,906	0.376	-3,827	-5,867	46	Travis	6,835	0.419	-254	-5,674
47	Lori	5,847	0.372	-1,634	-5,720	47	Donald	6,799	0.416	-441	-6,205
48	Tina	5,747	0.366	-1,462	-5,601	48	Keith	6,750	0.413	-445	-6,168
49	Amber	5,648	0.359	-352	-4,872	49	Ronald	6,461	0.396	-411	-5,806
50	Emily	5,547	0.353	38	4,199	50	Todd	6,441	0.394	-1,117	-6,281

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.