Most Popular Baby Names of 1983

In 1983, the most popular baby names in the United States were Jennifer for girls and Michael for boys. Jennifer was given to 54,353 girls and Michael to 68,004 boys, according to Social Security card applications.

Across all names, the Social Security Administration recorded 3,463,173 births for names given to at least five babies that year, down from 3,507,772 in 1982. The tables below show the top 100 names for each sex with their rank change from the year before, followed by the biggest movers in the top 1,000.

New to the top 100 this year: Meghan, Kayla, Desiree, Renee, Bethany, and Evan.

← 1982 1984 →The 1980s Download top 1,000 (CSV)

Top 100 baby names of 1983

Girls

Girls
#	Name	Babies	Change
1	Jennifer	54,353	–
2	Jessica	45,283	–
3	Amanda	33,749	–
4	Ashley	33,289	↑ 13
5	Sarah	27,228	↓ 1
6	Melissa	23,475	↓ 1
7	Nicole	22,400	↓ 1
8	Stephanie	22,329	↓ 1
9	Heather	20,747	↑ 3
10	Elizabeth	19,842	↓ 2
11	Crystal	17,904	↓ 2
12	Amy	17,097	↓ 2
13	Michelle	16,838	↓ 2
14	Tiffany	15,959	↓ 1
15	Kimberly	15,370	↓ 1
16	Christina	15,357	↑ 3
17	Amber	14,892	↑ 1
18	Erin	14,836	↑ 2
19	Rebecca	14,714	↓ 4
20	Rachel	14,591	↑ 1
21	Megan	14,124	↑ 13
22	Angela	13,219	↓ 6
23	Laura	13,199	↓ 1
24	Lauren	12,944	↑ 2
25	Emily	12,377	↓ 1
26	Kelly	11,586	↓ 1
27	Lisa	11,469	↓ 4
28	Jamie	11,025	↑ 1
29	Danielle	10,634	↑ 2
30	Andrea	10,413	↓ 3
31	Sara	10,087	↓ 3
32	Mary	9,897	↓ 2
33	Erica	9,713	↑ 2
34	Katherine	9,684	↑ 2
35	Lindsey	8,679	↑ 5
36	Lindsay	8,622	↑ 3
37	Kristen	8,618	↓ 4
38	Shannon	8,424	–
39	April	8,209	↓ 7
40	Samantha	7,703	↑ 4
41	Alicia	7,492	↑ 12
42	Kristin	7,267	↓ 5
43	Maria	6,847	↓ 1
44	Courtney	6,748	↓ 1
45	Katie	6,705	–
46	Julie	6,653	↓ 5
47	Christine	6,499	↓ 1
48	Holly	6,388	↑ 13
49	Vanessa	6,388	–
50	Kathryn	6,370	↓ 2
51	Tara	6,272	↓ 4
52	Natalie	5,723	↓ 1
53	Jacqueline	5,405	↑ 1
54	Monica	5,405	↓ 2
55	Anna	5,217	↑ 1
56	Brandi	5,203	↓ 1
57	Brandy	5,194	↓ 7
58	Victoria	5,046	↑ 8
59	Allison	4,973	↓ 1
60	Patricia	4,926	↓ 1
61	Stacy	4,678	↑ 11
62	Cynthia	4,553	↑ 2
63	Kristina	4,382	↑ 7
64	Brittany	4,377	↑ 30
65	Carrie	4,296	↓ 8
66	Catherine	4,252	↑ 7
67	Leslie	4,248	↓ 7
68	Veronica	4,069	↑ 1
69	Diana	4,039	↓ 6
70	Cassandra	4,006	↓ 8
71	Natasha	3,955	–
72	Dana	3,926	↓ 5
73	Kathleen	3,923	↑ 4
74	Valerie	3,901	↑ 1
75	Meghan	3,888	↑ 35
76	Stacey	3,799	↑ 9
77	Karen	3,787	↓ 9
78	Krystal	3,716	↑ 5
79	Melanie	3,553	↓ 14
80	Erika	3,548	↑ 1
81	Kayla	3,527	↑ 52
82	Leah	3,484	↓ 3
83	Alexis	3,462	↑ 10
84	Candice	3,420	↓ 6
85	Julia	3,381	↓ 1
86	Susan	3,358	↓ 10
87	Misty	3,189	↓ 13
88	Sandra	3,175	↓ 8
89	Tracy	3,158	↓ 1
90	Latoya	3,150	↑ 1
91	Pamela	3,029	↓ 9
92	Margaret	2,944	↑ 5
93	Nichole	2,926	↑ 6
94	Desiree	2,915	↑ 48
95	Heidi	2,915	↓ 9
96	Brooke	2,862	↓ 4
97	Renee	2,846	↑ 4
98	Jill	2,787	↓ 9
99	Bethany	2,765	↑ 13
100	Tina	2,738	↓ 10

Boys

Boys
#	Name	Babies	Change
1	Michael	68,004	–
2	Christopher	59,324	–
3	Matthew	50,209	–
4	David	39,201	↑ 1
5	Joshua	36,687	↑ 2
6	James	36,342	–
7	Jason	35,113	↓ 3
8	Daniel	34,748	↑ 2
9	John	33,154	↓ 1
10	Robert	32,745	↓ 1
11	Joseph	30,442	–
12	Justin	28,298	–
13	Ryan	27,849	–
14	Brian	26,050	–
15	Andrew	25,559	↑ 2
16	William	25,396	↓ 1
17	Brandon	23,519	↑ 1
18	Adam	23,488	↑ 1
19	Jonathan	22,756	↓ 3
20	Eric	20,347	–
21	Nicholas	19,891	↑ 1
22	Anthony	19,830	↓ 1
23	Steven	18,307	↑ 3
24	Thomas	17,565	↓ 1
25	Kevin	17,377	–
26	Timothy	16,363	↓ 2
27	Richard	15,888	–
28	Jeffrey	15,649	↑ 1
29	Aaron	14,460	↑ 1
30	Jeremy	14,254	↓ 2
31	Mark	13,815	↑ 1
32	Benjamin	13,285	↑ 1
33	Charles	13,212	↓ 2
34	Kyle	12,372	↑ 13
35	Stephen	11,564	↑ 3
36	Jacob	10,999	↑ 5
37	Patrick	10,876	–
38	Scott	10,846	↓ 4
39	Paul	10,828	↓ 4
40	Nathan	10,557	↓ 4
41	Travis	10,478	↓ 2
42	Gregory	9,980	↓ 2
43	Dustin	9,678	↓ 1
44	Sean	9,615	–
45	Kenneth	8,965	–
46	Jesse	8,469	↓ 3
47	Bryan	8,191	↑ 2
48	Jose	8,073	↓ 2
49	Chad	7,390	↓ 1
50	Zachary	7,309	↑ 5
51	Derek	6,986	↓ 1
52	Bradley	6,738	↓ 1
53	Shawn	6,359	↓ 1
54	Samuel	6,195	↑ 2
55	Edward	6,005	↓ 2
56	Jared	5,853	↓ 2
57	Tyler	5,821	↑ 9
58	Marcus	5,637	↑ 5
59	Peter	5,482	↓ 2
60	Donald	5,327	↓ 2
61	Keith	5,313	↓ 2
62	Juan	4,894	↓ 1
63	Alexander	4,806	↑ 2
64	Ronald	4,702	↓ 4
65	George	4,495	↓ 3
66	Phillip	4,470	↑ 1
67	Joel	4,345	↑ 2
68	Gary	4,266	↓ 4
69	Douglas	4,182	↓ 1
70	Craig	4,084	↑ 3
71	Raymond	4,016	↓ 1
72	Jordan	4,014	↑ 13
73	Brett	3,975	↓ 1
74	Corey	3,967	–
75	Carlos	3,912	↓ 4
76	Antonio	3,683	–
77	Ian	3,665	↑ 6
78	Derrick	3,656	–
79	Nathaniel	3,641	↓ 4
80	Erik	3,636	–
81	Cody	3,505	↑ 14
82	Philip	3,488	↓ 3
83	Cory	3,404	↑ 10
84	Shane	3,404	–
85	Larry	3,381	↓ 8
86	Frank	3,361	↓ 5
87	Todd	3,334	↓ 5
88	Luis	3,321	↑ 2
89	Gabriel	3,269	↓ 1
90	Casey	3,228	↓ 4
91	Jeffery	3,154	↑ 1
92	Dennis	3,047	↓ 5
93	Evan	3,046	↑ 15
94	Brent	3,030	↓ 3
95	Victor	2,970	↑ 4
96	Randy	2,926	↓ 2
97	Vincent	2,893	↑ 6
98	Seth	2,857	↑ 4
99	Jeremiah	2,849	↓ 10
100	Curtis	2,847	↑ 1

Biggest movers of 1983

Changes in rank within the top 1,000 compared with the year before.

Rising Girls

Trista ↑ 686 #285
Ashly ↑ 368 #562
Meghann ↑ 311 #601
Chelsie ↑ 288 #647
Kaitlin ↑ 268 #427
Delilah ↑ 261 #677
Arielle ↑ 247 #682
Katelyn ↑ 246 #472
Ashlie ↑ 229 #474
Cassidy ↑ 226 #530

Falling Girls

Toccara ↓ 399 #941
Brook ↓ 263 #942
Lawanda ↓ 261 #957
Alexia ↓ 208 #918
Cody ↓ 192 #968
Magdalena ↓ 185 #999
Irma ↓ 172 #747
Ida ↓ 172 #961
Wendi ↓ 165 #784
Jessi ↓ 164 #974

New in the top 1,000 (Girls)

Marquita, Mallory, Savannah, Kaitlyn, Hanna, Ciji, Elyse, Ashely, Kirby, Giselle, Stephaine, Tess, Maegan, Echo, Stevie

Dropped out of the top 1,000 (Girls)

Syreeta, Jenilee, Lorie, Tawana, Sommer, Chantal, Sunny, Niki, Joanie, Letitia, Mildred, Jeanie, Kesha, Angeline, Shelia

Rising Boys

Jameson ↑ 316 #462
Connor ↑ 227 #726
Coy ↑ 203 #731
Cale ↑ 188 #764
Duncan ↑ 169 #753
Dane ↑ 167 #252
Eliot ↑ 165 #801
Deangelo ↑ 160 #622
Hank ↑ 152 #830
Dirk ↑ 143 #766

Falling Boys

Anwar ↓ 216 #957
Stevie ↓ 201 #941
Bart ↓ 176 #833
Jeremey ↓ 175 #894
Andrae ↓ 175 #908
Hubert ↓ 162 #899
Russel ↓ 156 #978
Tim ↓ 155 #904
Scottie ↓ 145 #760
Bret ↓ 135 #352

New in the top 1,000 (Boys)

Akeem, Cassidy, Kirby, Devan, Martell, Remington, Irvin, Lars, Lauren, Stephanie, Jacoby, Asher, Jakob, Mariano, Stephon

Dropped out of the top 1,000 (Boys)

Maria, Schuyler, Sedrick, Rasheed, Augustine, Boyd, Jude, Buck, Kip, Garth, Lenny, Billie, Shad, Wilbur, Jessy

Other years

Trend lists

Source: US Social Security Administration. Ranks are computed from birth counts for each sex; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are not published.