Top 100 Most Popular U.S. Baby Names Of 1982

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1982 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	57,117	3.148	-344	-56,202	1	Michael	68,235	3.615	-13	-56,615
2	Jessica	45,451	2.505	-310	-44,394	2	Christopher	59,231	3.138	-40	-51,970
3	Amanda	34,214	1.886	-366	-33,370	3	Matthew	46,066	2.441	-17	-36,142
4	Sarah	28,484	1.570	-63	-24,750	4	Jason	40,632	2.153	-96	-36,785
5	Melissa	25,867	1.426	-292	-24,753	5	David	40,459	2.144	-17	-30,762
6	Nicole	21,707	1.197	-212	-20,291	6	James	38,875	2.060	2	-25,350
7	Stephanie	20,857	1.150	-311	-19,831	7	Joshua	38,028	2.015	-34	-30,664
8	Elizabeth	20,514	1.131	-5	-12,001	8	John	34,705	1.839	-19	-25,586
9	Crystal	19,104	1.053	-708	-18,709	9	Robert	34,425	1.824	-62	-29,285
10	Amy	18,803	1.036	-195	-17,306	10	Daniel	32,653	1.730	-5	-21,480
11	Michelle	17,766	0.979	-252	-16,527	11	Joseph	31,050	1.645	-12	-21,495
12	Heather	17,494	0.964	-1,137	-17,284	12	Justin	29,107	1.542	-129	-26,320
13	Tiffany	17,173	0.947	-677	-16,755	13	Ryan	26,700	1.415	-33	-19,795
14	Kimberly	16,100	0.887	-156	-14,404	14	Brian	25,831	1.369	-221	-24,213
15	Rebecca	15,727	0.867	-199	-14,285	15	William	25,601	1.356	12	-11,085
16	Angela	15,002	0.827	-248	-13,766	16	Jonathan	23,126	1.225	-47	-17,414
17	Ashley	14,857	0.819	-112	-12,590	17	Andrew	22,839	1.210	-26	-15,605
18	Amber	14,679	0.809	-453	-14,021	18	Brandon	20,222	1.071	-106	-17,039
19	Christina	14,515	0.800	-420	-13,796	19	Adam	20,103	1.065	-59	-15,428
20	Erin	14,365	0.792	-401	-13,630	20	Eric	19,878	1.053	-140	-17,489
21	Rachel	13,871	0.765	-177	-12,327	21	Nicholas	19,646	1.041	-53	-14,845
22	Laura	13,308	0.734	-318	-12,373	22	Anthony	19,642	1.041	-16	-11,639
23	Lisa	12,637	0.697	-868	-12,335	23	Thomas	17,582	0.932	-26	-10,803
24	Emily	12,518	0.690	12	-3,862	24	Kevin	17,467	0.926	-101	-14,343
25	Kelly	12,171	0.671	-593	-11,687	25	Timothy	17,465	0.925	-140	-15,135
26	Lauren	11,593	0.639	-145	-9,897	26	Steven	17,146	0.908	-172	-15,124
27	Andrea	11,376	0.627	-107	-9,222	27	Richard	16,720	0.886	-161	-14,601
28	Sara	11,343	0.625	-145	-9,651	28	Jeremy	16,470	0.873	-176	-14,515
29	Jamie	11,039	0.609	-585	-10,551	29	Jeffrey	16,038	0.850	-302	-15,035
30	Mary	10,855	0.598	-96	-8,528	30	Aaron	14,415	0.764	-30	-8,462
31	Danielle	10,208	0.563	-351	-9,399	31	Charles	14,306	0.758	-21	-7,702
32	April	10,062	0.555	-444	-9,409	32	Mark	13,873	0.735	-178	-12,014
33	Kristen	9,535	0.526	-1,193	-9,346	33	Benjamin	13,816	0.732	27	-435
34	Megan	9,519	0.525	-511	-8,955	34	Scott	12,212	0.647	-486	-11,671
35	Erica	9,341	0.515	-864	-9,045	35	Paul	11,307	0.599	-199	-9,682
36	Katherine	9,180	0.506	-76	-6,514	36	Nathan	10,803	0.572	-12	-4,013
37	Kristin	8,733	0.481	-2,609	-8,668	37	Patrick	10,701	0.567	-152	-8,590
38	Shannon	8,622	0.475	-1,440	-8,474	38	Stephen	10,631	0.563	-246	-9,395
39	Lindsay	8,258	0.455	-1,261	-8,084	39	Travis	10,418	0.552	-274	-9,346
40	Lindsey	7,958	0.439	-793	-7,635	40	Gregory	10,151	0.538	-368	-9,373
41	Julie	7,694	0.424	-547	-7,178	41	Jacob	10,062	0.533	28	1,708
42	Maria	7,342	0.405	-74	-4,747	42	Dustin	9,551	0.506	-483	-9,016
43	Courtney	7,098	0.391	-1,149	-6,899	43	Jesse	9,505	0.504	-142	-7,379
44	Samantha	6,771	0.373	-16	-2,874	44	Sean	9,374	0.497	-225	-8,064
45	Katie	6,680	0.368	-404	-5,973	45	Kenneth	9,356	0.496	-181	-7,701
46	Christine	6,556	0.361	-880	-6,269	46	Jose	8,618	0.457	-43	-4,326
47	Tara	6,523	0.360	-984	-6,274	47	Kyle	8,209	0.435	-176	-6,541
48	Kathryn	6,285	0.346	-405	-5,593	48	Chad	7,909	0.419	-849	-7,669
49	Vanessa	6,153	0.339	-181	-4,784	49	Bryan	7,497	0.397	-183	-5,864
50	Brandy	6,079	0.335	-2,621	-6,015	50	Derek	6,991	0.370	-207	-5,593

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.