Baby names of 1993

Jessica and Michael topped the lists in 1993, out of 3,770,400 births recorded across 23,765 different names. That is 1.8% fewer than the 1992 files hold. About 3.7 million of them are alive today.

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Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Jessica	34,993
2	Ashley	34,849
3	Sarah	24,257
4	Samantha	23,668
5	Emily	23,596
6	Brittany	21,725
7	Taylor	21,270
8	Amanda	20,811
9	Elizabeth	17,559
10	Stephanie	17,186
11	Megan	16,384
12	Lauren	16,194
13	Nicole	16,183
14	Rachel	15,974
15	Jennifer	15,749
16	Kayla	15,453
17	Amber	14,066
18	Danielle	12,992
19	Victoria	12,925
20	Courtney	12,577
21	Hannah	12,510
22	Rebecca	12,321
23	Jasmine	12,063
24	Kelsey	11,380
25	Chelsea	11,287

All 200 girls’ names of 1993 (15,801 recorded)

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	Michael	49,571
2	Christopher	38,237
3	Matthew	35,782
4	Joshua	33,590
5	Tyler	29,800
6	Brandon	28,735
7	Daniel	28,698
8	Nicholas	28,114
9	Jacob	27,487
10	Andrew	27,326
11	David	27,038
12	Joseph	27,014
13	Ryan	26,727
14	James	26,259
15	Zachary	25,538
16	John	24,996
17	Robert	22,447
18	William	22,218
19	Anthony	21,788
20	Justin	21,540
21	Alexander	20,530
22	Jonathan	19,954
23	Kyle	19,454
24	Cody	19,152
25	Kevin	19,084

All 200 boys’ names of 1993 (10,170 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 1992:

Coraima #13,317 → #875 +12,442
Kadijah #6,314 → #690 +5,624
Kalene #4,236 → #929 +3,307
Deyanira #2,351 → #938 +1,413
Halle #1,713 → #734 +979
Hunter #1,381 → #519 +862
Yaritza #1,243 → #492 +751
Kaylene #1,661 → #959 +702

Hunter is here because the girls’ file records it: the SSA publishes every name given to five or more babies of one sex, and a rank is a position within that list. It is not a claim about whose name it is.

Biggest climbers, boys

Names that gained the most ground on 1992:

Savon #6,670 → #790 +5,880
Jordy #2,834 → #828 +2,006
Austyn #1,598 → #936 +662
Devaughn #1,395 → #924 +471
Mikal #1,294 → #840 +454
Jaylen #1,094 → #667 +427
Darrien #1,352 → #929 +423
Maximiliano #1,281 → #909 +372

First recorded in 1993, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 1993:

First recorded in 1993, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 1993:

Deyonta 37
Sayvon 26
Sevon 24
Tamarick 19
Deiondre 17
Tavist 16
Tayton 14
Treyvion 13
Swade 13
Jailen 13

Try it on yourself

Source: US Social Security Administration national baby-name files. Names given to fewer than five babies in a year are not published, so the totals here run below the true number of births. How far below is not the same in every year: the files hold 201,484 births for 1880 and 3,315,343 for 2025, so a change from one year to the next in the early decades is partly a change in what the record covers.