Top 100 Most Popular U.S. Baby Names Of 1977

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1977 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	58,964	3.585	-344	-58,049	1	Michael	67,616	3.954	-13	-55,996
2	Melissa	26,886	1.634	-295	-25,772	2	Jason	55,653	3.255	-98	-51,806
3	Amy	26,732	1.625	-202	-25,235	3	Christopher	46,749	2.734	-39	-39,488
4	Jessica	24,843	1.510	-308	-23,786	4	David	40,543	2.371	-18	-30,846
5	Heather	23,777	1.445	-1,144	-23,567	5	James	40,054	2.342	1	-26,529
6	Angela	20,996	1.276	-258	-19,760	6	John	34,227	2.002	-21	-25,108
7	Michelle	19,539	1.188	-256	-18,300	7	Robert	34,217	2.001	-64	-29,077
8	Kimberly	18,286	1.112	-162	-16,590	8	Brian	32,502	1.901	-227	-30,884
9	Amanda	18,280	1.111	-360	-17,436	9	Matthew	31,973	1.870	-11	-22,049
10	Kelly	18,235	1.109	-608	-17,751	10	Joseph	26,493	1.549	-13	-16,938
11	Sarah	18,094	1.100	-56	-14,360	11	Daniel	26,077	1.525	-4	-14,904
12	Lisa	17,013	1.034	-879	-16,711	12	William	24,769	1.449	9	-10,253
13	Elizabeth	16,427	0.999	0	-7,914	13	Kevin	22,475	1.314	-112	-19,351
14	Stephanie	15,420	0.937	-304	-14,394	14	Joshua	22,079	1.291	-27	-14,715
15	Nicole	15,249	0.927	-203	-13,833	15	Jeremy	21,615	1.264	-189	-19,660
16	Christina	14,497	0.881	-423	-13,778	16	Ryan	21,258	1.243	-30	-14,353
17	Rebecca	14,195	0.863	-197	-12,753	17	Eric	20,748	1.213	-143	-18,359
18	Jamie	12,900	0.784	-596	-12,412	18	Timothy	17,984	1.052	-147	-15,654
19	Shannon	12,517	0.761	-1,459	-12,369	19	Jeffrey	17,485	1.023	-312	-16,482
20	Laura	11,320	0.688	-320	-10,385	20	Richard	17,448	1.020	-168	-15,329
21	Mary	10,659	0.648	-105	-8,332	21	Anthony	16,800	0.983	-17	-8,797
22	Julie	10,203	0.620	-566	-9,687	22	Thomas	16,590	0.970	-27	-9,811
23	Erin	10,198	0.620	-398	-9,463	23	Steven	16,492	0.965	-175	-14,470
24	Andrea	9,786	0.595	-110	-7,632	24	Andrew	16,035	0.938	-19	-8,801
25	Crystal	9,728	0.591	-692	-9,333	25	Mark	15,445	0.903	-185	-13,586
26	Rachel	8,976	0.546	-172	-7,432	26	Charles	14,741	0.862	-26	-8,137
27	Sara	8,710	0.530	-146	-7,018	27	Scott	14,212	0.831	-493	-13,671
28	Carrie	8,662	0.527	-1,740	-8,547	28	Jonathan	12,324	0.721	-35	-6,612
29	April	8,068	0.490	-447	-7,415	29	Benjamin	12,110	0.708	23	1,271
30	Christine	7,887	0.479	-896	-7,600	30	Justin	12,016	0.703	-111	-9,229
31	Danielle	7,616	0.463	-351	-6,807	31	Paul	11,811	0.691	-203	-10,186
32	Karen	7,444	0.453	-603	-6,976	32	Aaron	11,632	0.680	-28	-5,679
33	Amber	7,207	0.438	-438	-6,549	33	Adam	11,038	0.646	-45	-6,363
34	Tiffany	7,206	0.438	-656	-6,788	34	Chad	10,831	0.633	-863	-10,591
35	Tara	7,197	0.438	-996	-6,948	35	Gregory	10,054	0.588	-373	-9,276
36	Maria	7,088	0.431	-80	-4,493	36	Nathan	9,892	0.579	-12	-3,102
37	Emily	6,879	0.418	25	1,777	37	Shawn	9,864	0.577	-356	-9,062
38	Erica	6,622	0.403	-861	-6,326	38	Stephen	9,642	0.564	-246	-8,406
39	Monica	6,365	0.387	-569	-5,870	39	Kenneth	9,454	0.553	-187	-7,799
40	Misty	6,314	0.384	-4,052	-6,279	40	Patrick	8,309	0.486	-149	-6,198
41	Jill	6,240	0.379	-5,461	-6,217	41	Brandon	8,282	0.484	-83	-5,099
42	Stacy	6,155	0.374	-1,274	-5,983	42	Bryan	7,890	0.461	-190	-6,257
43	Dawn	6,095	0.371	-1,917	-5,995	43	Sean	7,639	0.447	-226	-6,329
44	Katherine	6,034	0.367	-68	-3,368	44	Travis	7,279	0.426	-269	-6,207
45	Susan	5,957	0.362	-1,034	-5,723	45	Jose	6,918	0.405	-44	-2,626
46	Jaime	5,906	0.359	-2,388	-5,833	46	Donald	6,867	0.402	-480	-6,334
47	Patricia	5,905	0.359	-866	-5,612	47	Edward	6,844	0.400	-122	-4,576
48	Cynthia	5,782	0.352	-645	-5,366	48	Keith	6,604	0.386	-456	-6,039
49	Wendy	5,762	0.350	-920	-5,492	49	Bradley	6,434	0.376	-198	-4,948
50	Tracy	5,757	0.350	-2,292	-5,679	50	Todd	6,277	0.367	-1,151	-6,121

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.