Top 100 Most Popular U.S. Baby Names Of 1979

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1979 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	56,717	3.291	-344	-55,802	1	Michael	67,739	3.780	-13	-56,119
2	Melissa	34,052	1.976	-295	-32,938	2	Christopher	50,677	2.828	-40	-43,416
3	Amanda	31,928	1.853	-366	-31,084	3	Jason	50,408	2.813	-97	-46,561
4	Jessica	27,776	1.612	-308	-26,719	4	David	42,078	2.348	-18	-32,381
5	Amy	21,615	1.254	-200	-20,118	5	James	39,371	2.197	1	-25,846
6	Sarah	21,018	1.220	-61	-17,284	6	Matthew	35,657	1.990	-14	-25,733
7	Heather	20,839	1.209	-1,142	-20,629	7	John	35,434	1.977	-20	-26,315
8	Angela	20,256	1.176	-256	-19,020	8	Robert	34,026	1.899	-63	-28,886
9	Nicole	19,511	1.132	-209	-18,095	9	Joshua	31,137	1.738	-32	-23,773
10	Michelle	19,269	1.118	-253	-18,030	10	Brian	28,670	1.600	-225	-27,052
11	Elizabeth	18,078	1.049	-2	-9,565	11	Joseph	28,669	1.600	-12	-19,114
12	Kimberly	17,639	1.024	-158	-15,943	12	Daniel	28,529	1.592	-3	-17,356
13	Lisa	17,286	1.003	-878	-16,984	13	William	24,699	1.378	10	-10,183
14	Christina	16,457	0.955	-425	-15,738	14	Ryan	23,218	1.296	-32	-16,313
15	Stephanie	16,204	0.940	-303	-15,178	15	Nicholas	21,345	1.191	-59	-16,544
16	Kelly	15,297	0.888	-602	-14,813	16	Jeremy	21,010	1.173	-188	-19,055
17	Rebecca	14,548	0.844	-197	-13,106	17	Eric	20,273	1.131	-143	-17,884
18	Crystal	13,466	0.781	-699	-13,071	18	Timothy	19,085	1.065	-147	-16,755
19	Jamie	12,156	0.705	-595	-11,668	19	Kevin	18,739	1.046	-106	-15,615
20	Laura	11,885	0.690	-320	-10,950	20	Andrew	18,634	1.040	-23	-11,400
21	Erin	11,258	0.653	-400	-10,523	21	Anthony	17,527	0.978	-17	-9,524
22	Amber	11,082	0.643	-449	-10,424	22	Justin	17,404	0.971	-119	-14,617
23	April	10,904	0.633	-453	-10,251	23	Adam	17,063	0.952	-55	-12,388
24	Mary	10,561	0.613	-102	-8,234	24	Jeffrey	16,873	0.942	-307	-15,870
25	Shannon	10,367	0.602	-1,453	-10,219	25	Richard	16,721	0.933	-163	-14,602
26	Andrea	10,338	0.600	-108	-8,184	26	Thomas	16,476	0.919	-23	-9,697
27	Rachel	10,232	0.594	-171	-8,688	27	Steven	16,333	0.912	-171	-14,311
28	Tiffany	9,611	0.558	-662	-9,193	28	Charles	14,822	0.827	-24	-8,218
29	Julie	9,253	0.537	-559	-8,737	29	Scott	14,454	0.807	-491	-13,913
30	Sara	8,655	0.502	-143	-6,963	30	Mark	14,394	0.803	-180	-12,535
31	Megan	8,293	0.481	-514	-7,729	31	Jonathan	14,332	0.800	-32	-8,620
32	Erica	8,176	0.474	-867	-7,880	32	Aaron	13,077	0.730	-28	-7,124
33	Danielle	7,980	0.463	-349	-7,171	33	Benjamin	12,521	0.699	27	860
34	Emily	7,972	0.463	22	684	34	Paul	11,649	0.650	-200	-10,024
35	Christine	7,689	0.446	-891	-7,402	35	Brandon	11,310	0.631	-89	-8,127
36	Katherine	7,467	0.433	-76	-4,801	36	Travis	11,055	0.617	-277	-9,983
37	Maria	7,329	0.425	-79	-4,734	37	Nathan	10,740	0.599	-11	-3,950
38	Tara	6,807	0.395	-993	-6,558	38	Chad	10,160	0.567	-859	-9,920
39	Brandy	6,774	0.393	-2,632	-6,710	39	Patrick	9,987	0.557	-150	-7,876
40	Monica	6,586	0.382	-568	-6,091	40	Stephen	9,904	0.553	-244	-8,668
41	Carrie	6,356	0.369	-1,727	-6,241	41	Kenneth	9,245	0.516	-185	-7,590
42	Misty	5,786	0.336	-4,050	-5,751	42	Gregory	9,114	0.509	-366	-8,336
43	Stacy	5,708	0.331	-1,273	-5,536	43	Shawn	7,910	0.441	-350	-7,108
44	Patricia	5,650	0.328	-869	-5,357	44	Jose	7,842	0.438	-45	-3,550
45	Lauren	5,627	0.327	-126	-3,931	45	Jacob	7,549	0.421	32	4,221
46	Karen	5,601	0.325	-589	-5,133	46	Bryan	7,449	0.416	-186	-5,816
47	Alicia	5,548	0.322	-344	-4,762	47	Bradley	6,932	0.387	-200	-5,446
48	Holly	5,489	0.319	-461	-4,881	48	Edward	6,878	0.384	-121	-4,610
49	Tracy	5,389	0.313	-2,293	-5,311	49	Sean	6,864	0.383	-220	-5,554
50	Kathryn	5,312	0.308	-403	-4,620	50	Jesse	6,684	0.373	-135	-4,558

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.