Top 100 Most Popular U.S. Baby Names Of 1981

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1981 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	57,049	3.190	-344	-56,134	1	Michael	68,763	3.692	-13	-57,143
2	Jessica	42,533	2.378	-310	-41,476	2	Christopher	50,235	2.697	-40	-42,974
3	Amanda	34,373	1.922	-366	-33,529	3	Matthew	43,333	2.326	-17	-33,409
4	Sarah	28,173	1.575	-63	-24,439	4	Jason	41,931	2.251	-96	-38,084
5	Melissa	28,000	1.566	-292	-26,886	5	David	40,668	2.183	-17	-30,971
6	Amy	20,343	1.138	-199	-18,846	6	Joshua	39,054	2.097	-35	-31,690
7	Nicole	20,312	1.136	-211	-18,896	7	James	38,313	2.057	3	-24,788
8	Stephanie	20,209	1.130	-310	-19,183	8	John	34,887	1.873	-19	-25,768
9	Elizabeth	20,173	1.128	-4	-11,660	9	Robert	34,406	1.847	-62	-29,266
10	Heather	17,947	1.004	-1,139	-17,737	10	Daniel	30,994	1.664	-5	-19,821
11	Michelle	17,776	0.994	-252	-16,537	11	Joseph	30,773	1.652	-12	-21,218
12	Rebecca	16,740	0.936	-202	-15,298	12	Justin	27,311	1.466	-129	-24,524
13	Kimberly	16,690	0.933	-157	-14,994	13	Ryan	26,825	1.440	-33	-19,920
14	Tiffany	16,414	0.918	-676	-15,996	14	Brian	26,602	1.428	-221	-24,984
15	Angela	15,920	0.890	-249	-14,684	15	William	24,806	1.332	12	-10,290
16	Crystal	15,884	0.888	-701	-15,489	16	Jonathan	22,595	1.213	-47	-16,883
17	Christina	14,396	0.805	-422	-13,677	17	Eric	20,724	1.113	-143	-18,335
18	Lisa	14,294	0.799	-873	-13,992	18	Andrew	20,237	1.086	-25	-13,003
19	Erin	13,856	0.775	-402	-13,121	19	Brandon	20,216	1.085	-105	-17,033
20	Amber	13,814	0.772	-451	-13,156	20	Adam	20,042	1.076	-58	-15,367
21	Laura	13,291	0.743	-319	-12,356	21	Nicholas	19,780	1.062	-53	-14,979
22	Rachel	12,587	0.704	-176	-11,043	22	Jeremy	19,113	1.026	-182	-17,158
23	Kelly	11,876	0.664	-595	-11,392	23	Anthony	18,575	0.997	-15	-10,572
24	Andrea	11,682	0.653	-110	-9,528	24	Timothy	18,227	0.979	-141	-15,897
25	April	11,404	0.638	-451	-10,751	25	Kevin	17,464	0.938	-100	-14,340
26	Sara	11,357	0.635	-147	-9,665	26	Thomas	17,166	0.922	-23	-10,387
27	Mary	11,045	0.618	-99	-8,718	27	Richard	16,857	0.905	-161	-14,738
28	Jamie	10,980	0.614	-586	-10,492	28	Steven	16,488	0.885	-170	-14,466
29	Emily	10,802	0.604	17	-2,146	29	Jeffrey	15,932	0.855	-302	-14,929
30	Danielle	10,035	0.561	-352	-9,226	30	Aaron	14,692	0.789	-30	-8,739
31	Kristin	9,737	0.544	-2,615	-9,672	31	Charles	14,429	0.775	-21	-7,825
32	Shannon	9,227	0.516	-1,446	-9,079	32	Benjamin	14,357	0.771	26	-976
33	Megan	8,967	0.501	-512	-8,403	33	Mark	13,545	0.727	-177	-11,686
34	Ashley	8,879	0.497	-95	-6,612	34	Scott	12,726	0.683	-486	-12,185
35	Lauren	8,808	0.493	-136	-7,112	35	Paul	11,782	0.633	-199	-10,157
36	Erica	8,623	0.482	-863	-8,327	36	Nathan	11,263	0.605	-12	-4,473
37	Julie	8,565	0.479	-551	-8,049	37	Jesse	10,451	0.561	-148	-8,325
38	Kristen	8,542	0.478	-1,188	-8,353	38	Patrick	10,391	0.558	-151	-8,280
39	Katherine	8,435	0.472	-73	-5,769	39	Stephen	10,296	0.553	-245	-9,060
40	Maria	7,674	0.429	-76	-5,079	40	Travis	10,109	0.543	-273	-9,037
41	Brandy	6,895	0.386	-2,630	-6,831	41	Kenneth	9,477	0.509	-185	-7,822
42	Christine	6,853	0.383	-884	-6,566	42	Dustin	9,355	0.502	-483	-8,820
43	Courtney	6,638	0.371	-1,149	-6,439	43	Jacob	9,351	0.502	30	2,419
44	Katie	6,599	0.369	-405	-5,892	44	Sean	8,894	0.478	-225	-7,584
45	Tara	6,365	0.356	-986	-6,116	45	Jose	8,767	0.471	-44	-4,475
46	Alicia	5,856	0.327	-345	-5,070	46	Gregory	8,757	0.470	-362	-7,979
47	Lindsay	5,845	0.327	-1,253	-5,671	47	Chad	8,413	0.452	-850	-8,173
48	Kathryn	5,822	0.326	-405	-5,130	48	Bryan	7,220	0.388	-184	-5,587
49	Monica	5,783	0.323	-559	-5,288	49	Shawn	7,077	0.380	-344	-6,275
50	Brandi	5,526	0.309	-2,810	-5,468	50	Bradley	6,897	0.370	-197	-5,411

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.