Top 100 Most Popular U.S. Baby Names Of 1986

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1986 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	Jessica	52,677	2.855	-311	-51,620	1	Michael	64,208	3.342	-13	-52,588
2	Ashley	49,676	2.692	-127	-47,409	2	Christopher	56,691	2.951	-40	-49,430
3	Amanda	40,529	2.196	-366	-39,685	3	Matthew	46,925	2.442	-17	-37,001
4	Jennifer	36,185	1.961	-341	-35,270	4	Joshua	37,542	1.954	-37	-30,178
5	Sarah	28,155	1.526	-62	-24,421	5	David	37,147	1.934	-17	-27,450
6	Stephanie	22,647	1.227	-312	-21,621	6	Daniel	36,574	1.904	-9	-25,401
7	Nicole	21,285	1.154	-211	-19,869	7	James	34,040	1.772	3	-20,515
8	Brittany	20,311	1.101	-871	-20,006	8	Andrew	33,856	1.762	-35	-26,622
9	Heather	19,792	1.073	-1,140	-19,582	9	Robert	31,349	1.632	-62	-26,209
10	Elizabeth	19,072	1.034	-3	-10,559	10	John	30,207	1.572	-17	-21,088
11	Megan	18,593	1.008	-534	-18,029	11	Ryan	29,512	1.536	-35	-22,607
12	Melissa	17,662	0.957	-285	-16,548	12	Joseph	28,835	1.501	-11	-19,280
13	Amber	16,951	0.919	-458	-16,293	13	Brandon	27,253	1.419	-111	-24,070
14	Lauren	16,678	0.904	-157	-14,982	14	Justin	26,629	1.386	-127	-23,842
15	Rachel	15,454	0.838	-183	-13,910	15	William	24,332	1.267	12	-9,816
16	Danielle	14,941	0.810	-366	-14,132	16	Jonathan	23,972	1.248	-47	-18,260
17	Tiffany	14,484	0.785	-673	-14,066	17	Nicholas	22,798	1.187	-57	-17,997
18	Kimberly	14,418	0.781	-152	-12,722	18	Jason	22,401	1.166	-82	-18,554
19	Christina	14,380	0.779	-420	-13,661	19	Anthony	21,953	1.143	-19	-13,950
20	Laura	14,175	0.768	-320	-13,240	20	Brian	21,027	1.094	-215	-19,409
21	Samantha	14,092	0.764	-39	-10,195	21	Kevin	19,933	1.038	-104	-16,809
22	Amy	13,458	0.729	-183	-11,961	22	Eric	19,526	1.016	-138	-17,137
23	Michelle	13,301	0.721	-240	-12,062	23	Kyle	19,308	1.005	-200	-17,640
24	Emily	13,235	0.717	12	-4,579	24	Adam	18,161	0.945	-54	-13,486
25	Crystal	12,689	0.688	-692	-12,294	25	Steven	18,098	0.942	-173	-16,076
26	Rebecca	11,789	0.639	-188	-10,347	26	Thomas	17,352	0.903	-23	-10,573
27	Sara	11,051	0.599	-146	-9,359	27	Timothy	16,874	0.878	-138	-14,544
28	Katherine	10,572	0.573	-84	-7,906	28	Jeremy	16,265	0.847	-176	-14,310
29	Kelly	10,414	0.564	-589	-9,930	29	Richard	15,007	0.781	-159	-12,888
30	Erin	10,069	0.546	-391	-9,334	30	Benjamin	13,793	0.718	24	-412
31	Erica	9,973	0.540	-868	-9,677	31	Jacob	13,650	0.710	18	-1,880
32	Whitney	9,534	0.517	-869	-9,238	32	Jeffrey	13,649	0.710	-299	-12,646
33	Angela	9,268	0.502	-231	-8,032	33	Aaron	12,688	0.660	-27	-6,735
34	Jamie	9,233	0.500	-580	-8,745	34	Charles	12,623	0.657	-18	-6,019
35	Courtney	9,120	0.494	-1,157	-8,921	35	Mark	12,608	0.656	-175	-10,749
36	Andrea	8,637	0.468	-98	-6,483	36	Stephen	11,876	0.618	-248	-10,640
37	Mary	8,506	0.461	-89	-6,179	37	Sean	11,780	0.613	-232	-10,470
38	Katie	8,333	0.452	-411	-7,626	38	Zachary	11,726	0.610	-71	-8,198
39	Lindsey	8,053	0.436	-794	-7,730	39	Patrick	11,407	0.594	-150	-9,296
40	Lisa	7,904	0.428	-851	-7,602	40	Tyler	10,913	0.568	-79	-7,615
41	Kristen	7,844	0.425	-1,185	-7,655	41	Alexander	10,603	0.552	30	1,386
42	Allison	7,578	0.411	-27	-3,900	42	Dustin	10,316	0.537	-483	-9,781
43	Vanessa	7,467	0.405	-187	-6,098	43	Nathan	9,995	0.520	-5	-3,205
44	Shannon	7,404	0.401	-1,434	-7,256	44	Scott	9,963	0.519	-476	-9,422
45	Alicia	7,016	0.380	-346	-6,230	45	Paul	9,712	0.506	-189	-8,087
46	Lindsay	6,950	0.377	-1,254	-6,776	46	Gregory	9,535	0.496	-362	-8,757
47	Christine	6,919	0.375	-879	-6,632	47	Bryan	8,649	0.450	-185	-7,016
48	Kathryn	6,392	0.346	-405	-5,700	48	Jesse	8,542	0.445	-137	-6,416
49	Maria	6,132	0.332	-67	-3,537	49	Travis	8,477	0.441	-264	-7,405
50	Kristin	6,000	0.325	-2,596	-5,935	50	Kenneth	8,453	0.440	-176	-6,798

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.