Top 100 Most Popular U.S. Baby Names Of 1989

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1989 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	Jessica	47,885	2.404	-247	-46,614	1	Michael	65,382	3.120	-11	-52,803
2	Ashley	47,587	2.389	-120	-45,070	2	Christopher	53,176	2.538	-36	-44,921
3	Brittany	37,788	1.897	-709	-37,388	3	Matthew	45,371	2.165	-13	-33,760
4	Amanda	36,828	1.849	-330	-35,874	4	Joshua	44,090	2.104	-35	-35,851
5	Sarah	27,792	1.395	-57	-23,806	5	David	35,216	1.681	-18	-25,092
6	Samantha	24,791	1.245	-48	-20,488	6	Daniel	34,998	1.670	-9	-23,358
7	Jennifer	23,995	1.205	-303	-22,953	7	Andrew	34,811	1.661	-33	-26,596
8	Stephanie	22,767	1.143	-279	-21,641	8	Justin	32,842	1.567	-118	-29,721
9	Lauren	21,061	1.057	-139	-19,083	9	James	32,698	1.560	5	-18,466
10	Elizabeth	20,296	1.019	-3	-11,381	10	Robert	30,064	1.435	-55	-24,557
11	Megan	19,782	0.993	-488	-19,158	11	Joseph	29,869	1.425	-8	-19,509
12	Nicole	19,031	0.955	-171	-17,377	12	John	29,844	1.424	-15	-20,410
13	Emily	17,319	0.869	1	-7,573	13	Ryan	28,409	1.356	-30	-20,757
14	Amber	16,758	0.841	-387	-15,982	14	Nicholas	28,225	1.347	-54	-22,904
15	Heather	16,245	0.816	-1,114	-16,026	15	William	24,670	1.177	12	-9,766
16	Tiffany	15,714	0.789	-564	-15,198	16	Anthony	24,420	1.165	-16	-15,618
17	Danielle	15,367	0.771	-334	-14,461	17	Jonathan	23,599	1.126	-38	-17,128
18	Rachel	15,356	0.771	-177	-13,765	18	Brandon	23,304	1.112	-96	-19,830
19	Melissa	15,204	0.763	-254	-14,036	19	Kevin	21,206	1.012	-82	-17,401
20	Kayla	14,902	0.748	-118	-12,794	20	Kyle	20,878	0.996	-191	-19,055
21	Courtney	13,452	0.675	-927	-13,176	21	Eric	18,976	0.906	-122	-16,219
22	Michelle	13,373	0.671	-192	-11,952	22	Steven	18,921	0.903	-160	-16,773
23	Christina	13,137	0.660	-385	-12,367	23	Thomas	18,429	0.879	-25	-11,298
24	Rebecca	12,433	0.624	-192	-11,017	24	Brian	18,100	0.864	-193	-16,337
25	Laura	11,742	0.589	-315	-10,803	25	Zachary	18,074	0.863	-78	-14,295
26	Katherine	11,415	0.573	-79	-8,582	26	Jacob	17,830	0.851	16	-4,724
27	Chelsea	11,250	0.565	-354	-10,437	27	Adam	16,929	0.808	-50	-12,025
28	Kimberly	11,035	0.554	-136	-9,212	28	Timothy	16,425	0.784	-136	-14,032
29	Sara	9,707	0.487	-129	-7,835	29	Benjamin	15,730	0.751	23	-1,997
30	Jasmine	9,549	0.479	-100	-7,293	30	Tyler	15,589	0.744	-76	-11,845
31	Kelsey	9,257	0.465	-368	-8,477	31	Aaron	15,312	0.731	-15	-8,147
32	Crystal	9,102	0.457	-612	-8,647	32	Alexander	14,520	0.693	19	-2,053
33	Alyssa	9,043	0.454	-100	-6,816	33	Richard	14,135	0.675	-142	-11,866
34	Erica	9,024	0.453	-797	-8,699	34	Jeremy	13,077	0.624	-159	-11,042
35	Amy	8,898	0.447	-139	-7,174	35	Jason	12,605	0.602	-57	-8,384
36	Kristen	8,802	0.442	-1,090	-8,581	36	Charles	12,247	0.584	-13	-5,117
37	Kelly	8,764	0.440	-558	-8,264	37	Jeffrey	12,012	0.573	-286	-10,963
38	Mary	8,644	0.434	-88	-6,263	38	Patrick	11,986	0.572	-133	-9,703
39	Andrea	8,408	0.422	-89	-6,096	39	Sean	11,892	0.568	-212	-10,423
40	Erin	8,143	0.409	-367	-7,372	40	Stephen	11,735	0.560	-231	-10,414
41	Brittney	7,832	0.393	-2,435	-7,760	41	Travis	11,523	0.550	-259	-10,362
42	Hannah	7,830	0.393	10	-1,958	42	Mark	11,317	0.540	-161	-9,381
43	Alexandra	7,678	0.385	-77	-5,086	43	Nathan	10,906	0.520	-2	-3,516
44	Victoria	7,636	0.383	25	-369	44	Jordan	10,871	0.519	-29	-5,757
45	Katie	7,288	0.366	-364	-6,518	45	Cody	10,818	0.516	-233	-9,534
46	Allison	7,286	0.366	-14	-3,269	46	Jose	10,329	0.493	-35	-5,554
47	Angela	7,199	0.361	-187	-5,855	47	Samuel	10,103	0.482	26	220
48	Lindsey	7,068	0.355	-825	-6,758	48	Dustin	9,720	0.464	-479	-9,187
49	Caitlin	7,025	0.353	-1,374	-6,866	49	Paul	9,029	0.431	-176	-7,345
50	Vanessa	6,958	0.349	-154	-5,450	50	Jesse	8,855	0.423	-136	-6,781

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.