Top 100 Most Popular U.S. Baby Names Of 1980

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1980 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	58,375	3.279	-344	-57,460	1	Michael	68,696	3.703	-13	-57,076
2	Amanda	35,821	2.012	-367	-34,977	2	Christopher	49,092	2.646	-40	-41,831
3	Jessica	33,921	1.905	-309	-32,864	3	Jason	48,171	2.597	-97	-44,324
4	Melissa	31,636	1.777	-293	-30,522	4	David	41,925	2.260	-18	-32,228
5	Sarah	25,755	1.447	-62	-22,021	5	James	39,325	2.120	1	-25,800
6	Heather	19,975	1.122	-1,143	-19,765	6	Matthew	37,855	2.041	-14	-27,931
7	Nicole	19,920	1.119	-211	-18,504	7	Joshua	36,060	1.944	-34	-28,696
8	Amy	19,835	1.114	-197	-18,338	8	John	35,279	1.902	-19	-26,160
9	Elizabeth	19,528	1.097	-4	-11,015	9	Robert	34,280	1.848	-62	-29,140
10	Michelle	19,123	1.074	-253	-17,884	10	Joseph	30,203	1.628	-13	-20,648
11	Kimberly	18,500	1.039	-159	-16,804	11	Daniel	29,894	1.611	-4	-18,721
12	Angela	17,971	1.009	-252	-16,735	12	Brian	28,722	1.548	-223	-27,104
13	Stephanie	17,841	1.002	-305	-16,815	13	Justin	26,756	1.442	-128	-23,969
14	Tiffany	16,229	0.912	-676	-15,811	14	William	25,654	1.383	11	-11,138
15	Christina	16,137	0.906	-424	-15,418	15	Ryan	24,808	1.337	-31	-17,903
16	Lisa	15,661	0.880	-875	-15,359	16	Eric	22,632	1.220	-144	-20,243
17	Rebecca	15,280	0.858	-197	-13,838	17	Nicholas	21,026	1.133	-57	-16,225
18	Crystal	14,255	0.801	-699	-13,860	18	Jeremy	19,902	1.073	-186	-17,947
19	Kelly	13,717	0.770	-599	-13,233	19	Andrew	19,729	1.063	-24	-12,495
20	Erin	13,430	0.754	-401	-12,695	20	Timothy	19,155	1.033	-145	-16,825
21	Laura	12,917	0.725	-319	-11,982	21	Jonathan	18,994	1.024	-42	-13,282
22	Amber	12,555	0.705	-449	-11,897	22	Adam	18,872	1.017	-56	-14,197
23	Rachel	11,623	0.653	-175	-10,079	23	Kevin	17,984	0.969	-102	-14,860
24	Jamie	11,526	0.647	-590	-11,038	24	Anthony	17,613	0.949	-14	-9,610
25	April	11,474	0.644	-451	-10,821	25	Thomas	17,570	0.947	-24	-10,791
26	Mary	11,474	0.644	-100	-9,147	26	Richard	16,664	0.898	-162	-14,545
27	Sara	11,148	0.626	-146	-9,456	27	Jeffrey	16,384	0.883	-304	-15,381
28	Andrea	10,452	0.587	-106	-8,298	28	Steven	15,917	0.858	-170	-13,895
29	Shannon	9,669	0.543	-1,449	-9,521	29	Charles	14,961	0.806	-23	-8,357
30	Megan	9,138	0.513	-515	-8,574	30	Brandon	14,172	0.764	-94	-10,989
31	Emily	9,006	0.506	19	-350	31	Mark	14,161	0.763	-179	-12,302
32	Julie	8,910	0.500	-556	-8,394	32	Benjamin	13,634	0.735	26	-253
33	Danielle	8,846	0.497	-349	-8,037	33	Scott	13,312	0.718	-487	-12,771
34	Erica	8,760	0.492	-865	-8,464	34	Aaron	13,173	0.710	-26	-7,220
35	Katherine	8,019	0.450	-77	-5,353	35	Paul	11,824	0.637	-199	-10,199
36	Maria	7,863	0.442	-80	-5,268	36	Nathan	11,142	0.601	-12	-4,352
37	Kristin	7,702	0.433	-2,609	-7,637	37	Travis	10,770	0.581	-276	-9,698
38	Lauren	7,477	0.420	-133	-5,781	38	Patrick	10,354	0.558	-151	-8,243
39	Kristen	7,316	0.411	-1,187	-7,127	39	Chad	10,149	0.547	-858	-9,909
40	Ashley	7,297	0.410	-89	-5,030	40	Stephen	10,065	0.543	-244	-8,829
41	Christine	7,085	0.398	-885	-6,798	41	Kenneth	9,614	0.518	-185	-7,959
42	Brandy	6,410	0.360	-2,629	-6,346	42	Gregory	9,269	0.500	-366	-8,491
43	Tara	6,283	0.353	-988	-6,034	43	Jacob	8,525	0.460	30	3,245
44	Katie	6,135	0.345	-405	-5,428	44	Dustin	8,418	0.454	-481	-7,883
45	Monica	6,034	0.339	-563	-5,539	45	Jesse	8,382	0.452	-140	-6,256
46	Carrie	5,761	0.324	-1,722	-5,646	46	Jose	8,319	0.448	-43	-4,027
47	Alicia	5,752	0.323	-344	-4,966	47	Shawn	7,698	0.415	-346	-6,896
48	Courtney	5,616	0.315	-1,144	-5,417	48	Sean	7,602	0.410	-221	-6,292
49	Misty	5,542	0.311	-4,043	-5,507	49	Bryan	7,516	0.405	-183	-5,883
50	Kathryn	5,528	0.310	-403	-4,836	50	Derek	7,249	0.391	-207	-5,851

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.