Top 100 Most Popular U.S. Baby Names Of 1974

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1974 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	63,114	4.030	-344	-62,199	1	Michael	67,578	4.144	-13	-55,958
2	Amy	29,565	1.888	-203	-28,068	2	Jason	54,776	3.359	-98	-50,929
3	Michelle	25,828	1.649	-260	-24,589	3	Christopher	48,603	2.980	-39	-41,342
4	Heather	23,181	1.480	-1,145	-22,971	4	David	41,815	2.564	-18	-32,118
5	Angela	22,802	1.456	-259	-21,566	5	James	41,354	2.536	1	-27,829
6	Kimberly	22,419	1.431	-164	-20,723	6	John	37,638	2.308	-21	-28,519
7	Melissa	22,166	1.415	-290	-21,052	7	Robert	37,031	2.271	-64	-31,891
8	Lisa	19,774	1.263	-883	-19,472	8	Brian	34,460	2.113	-227	-32,842
9	Stephanie	16,983	1.084	-309	-15,957	9	Matthew	27,224	1.669	-11	-17,300
10	Rebecca	15,167	0.968	-204	-13,725	10	William	26,990	1.655	7	-12,474
11	Nicole	13,116	0.837	-207	-11,700	11	Daniel	23,838	1.462	-4	-12,665
12	Elizabeth	12,261	0.783	-1	-3,748	12	Joseph	21,838	1.339	-11	-12,283
13	Mary	11,738	0.749	-113	-9,411	13	Eric	20,191	1.238	-147	-17,802
14	Julie	11,359	0.725	-574	-10,843	14	Kevin	19,473	1.194	-111	-16,349
15	Christina	10,848	0.693	-424	-10,129	15	Jeffrey	19,326	1.185	-316	-18,323
16	Kelly	10,848	0.693	-602	-10,364	16	Mark	18,916	1.160	-194	-17,057
17	Jessica	10,652	0.680	-295	-9,595	17	Richard	18,646	1.143	-171	-16,527
18	Shannon	10,609	0.677	-1,460	-10,461	18	Scott	18,044	1.107	-502	-17,503
19	Christine	9,899	0.632	-907	-9,612	19	Steven	17,677	1.084	-179	-15,655
20	Sarah	9,788	0.625	-47	-6,054	20	Thomas	17,287	1.060	-29	-10,508
21	Laura	9,718	0.621	-319	-8,783	21	Anthony	16,388	1.005	-17	-8,385
22	Dawn	9,418	0.601	-1,938	-9,318	22	Timothy	15,894	0.975	-143	-13,564
23	Tracy	9,289	0.593	-2,319	-9,211	23	Charles	15,149	0.929	-29	-8,545
24	Tammy	9,239	0.590	-4,078	-9,204	24	Jeremy	13,300	0.816	-180	-11,345
25	Tina	8,667	0.553	-1,659	-8,544	25	Ryan	13,191	0.809	-21	-6,286
26	Karen	8,651	0.552	-609	-8,183	26	Chad	12,796	0.785	-871	-12,556
27	Susan	8,472	0.541	-1,052	-8,238	27	Paul	12,319	0.755	-207	-10,694
28	April	8,452	0.540	-448	-7,799	28	Andrew	11,784	0.723	-15	-4,550
29	Patricia	8,034	0.513	-884	-7,741	29	Joshua	11,598	0.711	-12	-4,234
30	Lori	7,962	0.508	-1,545	-7,826	30	Shawn	11,445	0.702	-363	-10,643
31	Maria	7,792	0.498	-85	-5,197	31	Gregory	10,837	0.665	-377	-10,059
32	Wendy	7,562	0.483	-937	-7,292	32	Aaron	10,511	0.645	-28	-4,558
33	Cynthia	7,554	0.482	-660	-7,138	33	Jonathan	10,236	0.628	-30	-4,524
34	Amanda	7,476	0.477	-335	-6,632	34	Kenneth	10,148	0.622	-192	-8,493
35	Andrea	7,475	0.477	-99	-5,321	35	Stephen	10,115	0.620	-249	-8,879
36	Rachel	7,397	0.472	-162	-5,853	36	Adam	8,427	0.517	-42	-3,752
37	Tonya	6,878	0.439	-5,534	-6,855	37	Sean	8,291	0.508	-232	-6,981
38	Stacy	6,740	0.430	-1,278	-6,568	38	Patrick	8,137	0.499	-151	-6,026
39	Tara	6,655	0.425	-992	-6,406	39	Todd	7,850	0.481	-1,162	-7,694
40	Danielle	6,627	0.423	-342	-5,818	40	Edward	7,825	0.480	-129	-5,557
41	Tiffany	6,477	0.414	-649	-6,059	41	Donald	7,760	0.476	-485	-7,227
42	Carrie	6,435	0.411	-1,726	-6,320	42	Ronald	7,667	0.470	-451	-7,089
43	Monica	6,284	0.401	-565	-5,789	43	Justin	7,430	0.456	-98	-4,643
44	Sandra	6,268	0.400	-931	-5,999	44	Keith	7,391	0.453	-460	-6,826
45	Kristen	6,054	0.387	-1,181	-5,865	45	Bryan	7,232	0.443	-187	-5,599
46	Tanya	5,996	0.383	-2,545	-5,929	46	Benjamin	7,188	0.441	40	6,193
47	Erin	5,870	0.375	-374	-5,135	47	Jose	6,720	0.412	-42	-2,428
48	Stacey	5,802	0.370	-2,338	-5,726	48	Gary	6,447	0.395	-626	-6,080
49	Crystal	5,620	0.359	-668	-5,225	49	George	6,279	0.385	-78	-3,220
50	Michele	5,586	0.357	-4,449	-5,555	50	Peter	5,948	0.365	-161	-4,136

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.