Top 100 Most Popular U.S. Baby Names Of 1983

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1983 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	54,346	3.037	-344	-53,431	1	Michael	68,000	3.649	-13	-56,380
2	Jessica	45,282	2.530	-310	-44,225	2	Christopher	59,349	3.185	-40	-52,088
3	Amanda	33,754	1.886	-366	-32,910	3	Matthew	50,217	2.695	-17	-40,293
4	Ashley	33,293	1.860	-125	-31,026	4	David	39,199	2.103	-18	-29,502
5	Sarah	27,229	1.522	-62	-23,495	5	Joshua	36,707	1.970	-36	-29,343
6	Melissa	23,473	1.312	-291	-22,359	6	James	36,354	1.951	2	-22,829
7	Nicole	22,399	1.252	-211	-20,983	7	Jason	35,115	1.884	-93	-31,268
8	Stephanie	22,330	1.248	-310	-21,304	8	Daniel	34,750	1.865	-7	-23,577
9	Heather	20,746	1.159	-1,140	-20,536	9	John	33,153	1.779	-18	-24,034
10	Elizabeth	19,842	1.109	-3	-11,329	10	Robert	32,746	1.757	-61	-27,606
11	Crystal	17,905	1.001	-706	-17,510	11	Joseph	30,460	1.635	-12	-20,905
12	Amy	17,097	0.955	-193	-15,600	12	Justin	28,301	1.519	-129	-25,514
13	Michelle	16,834	0.941	-250	-15,595	13	Ryan	27,845	1.494	-33	-20,940
14	Tiffany	15,961	0.892	-676	-15,543	14	Brian	26,060	1.398	-221	-24,442
15	Kimberly	15,372	0.859	-155	-13,676	15	Andrew	25,577	1.372	-28	-18,343
16	Christina	15,360	0.858	-423	-14,641	16	William	25,395	1.363	13	-10,879
17	Amber	14,891	0.832	-454	-14,233	17	Brandon	23,518	1.262	-107	-20,335
18	Erin	14,838	0.829	-403	-14,103	18	Adam	23,495	1.261	-60	-18,820
19	Rebecca	14,713	0.822	-195	-13,271	19	Jonathan	22,750	1.221	-44	-17,038
20	Rachel	14,592	0.815	-178	-13,048	20	Eric	20,352	1.092	-140	-17,963
21	Megan	14,125	0.789	-524	-13,561	21	Nicholas	19,893	1.067	-53	-15,092
22	Angela	13,218	0.739	-242	-11,982	22	Anthony	19,832	1.064	-16	-11,829
23	Laura	13,196	0.737	-317	-12,261	23	Steven	18,314	0.983	-175	-16,292
24	Lauren	12,945	0.723	-147	-11,249	24	Thomas	17,566	0.943	-25	-10,787
25	Emily	12,379	0.692	13	-3,723	25	Kevin	17,383	0.933	-100	-14,259
26	Kelly	11,585	0.647	-592	-11,101	26	Timothy	16,365	0.878	-139	-14,035
27	Lisa	11,470	0.641	-864	-11,168	27	Richard	15,897	0.853	-161	-13,778
28	Jamie	11,028	0.616	-586	-10,540	28	Jeffrey	15,657	0.840	-303	-14,654
29	Danielle	10,636	0.594	-353	-9,827	29	Aaron	14,459	0.776	-31	-8,506
30	Andrea	10,414	0.582	-104	-8,260	30	Jeremy	14,258	0.765	-174	-12,303
31	Sara	10,087	0.564	-142	-8,395	31	Mark	13,818	0.741	-179	-11,959
32	Mary	9,897	0.553	-94	-7,570	32	Benjamin	13,287	0.713	26	94
33	Erica	9,711	0.543	-866	-9,415	33	Charles	13,212	0.709	-19	-6,608
34	Katherine	9,681	0.541	-78	-7,015	34	Kyle	12,374	0.664	-189	-10,706
35	Lindsey	8,681	0.485	-798	-8,358	35	Stephen	11,562	0.620	-249	-10,326
36	Lindsay	8,620	0.482	-1,264	-8,446	36	Jacob	11,001	0.590	23	769
37	Kristen	8,617	0.482	-1,189	-8,428	37	Patrick	10,880	0.584	-152	-8,769
38	Shannon	8,427	0.471	-1,440	-8,279	38	Scott	10,857	0.583	-482	-10,316
39	April	8,206	0.459	-437	-7,553	39	Paul	10,831	0.581	-195	-9,206
40	Samantha	7,705	0.431	-20	-3,808	40	Nathan	10,558	0.567	-8	-3,768
41	Alicia	7,491	0.419	-350	-6,705	41	Travis	10,479	0.562	-272	-9,407
42	Kristin	7,268	0.406	-2,604	-7,203	42	Gregory	9,984	0.536	-366	-9,206
43	Maria	6,846	0.383	-73	-4,251	43	Dustin	9,680	0.519	-482	-9,145
44	Courtney	6,748	0.377	-1,148	-6,549	44	Sean	9,622	0.516	-225	-8,312
45	Katie	6,702	0.375	-404	-5,995	45	Kenneth	8,969	0.481	-181	-7,314
46	Julie	6,654	0.372	-542	-6,138	46	Jesse	8,471	0.455	-139	-6,345
47	Christine	6,497	0.363	-879	-6,210	47	Bryan	8,192	0.440	-185	-6,559
48	Holly	6,388	0.357	-461	-5,780	48	Jose	8,075	0.433	-41	-3,783
49	Vanessa	6,386	0.357	-181	-5,017	49	Chad	7,388	0.396	-848	-7,148
50	Kathryn	6,370	0.356	-403	-5,678	50	Zachary	7,311	0.392	-59	-3,783

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.