Baby names of 1992

Ashley and Michael topped the lists in 1992, out of 3,841,340 births recorded across 23,362 different names. That is 1.4% fewer than the 1991 files hold. About 3.7 million of them are alive today.

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Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Ashley	38,460
2	Jessica	38,361
3	Amanda	25,039
4	Brittany	24,983
5	Sarah	24,634
6	Samantha	24,407
7	Emily	21,835
8	Stephanie	19,680
9	Elizabeth	19,035
10	Megan	17,842
11	Jennifer	17,819
12	Lauren	17,215
13	Kayla	16,517
14	Nicole	16,327
15	Chelsea	16,177
16	Rachel	15,840
17	Taylor	14,954
18	Danielle	14,098
19	Amber	13,917
20	Rebecca	13,110
21	Courtney	12,604
22	Victoria	11,907
23	Kelsey	11,713
24	Melissa	11,710
25	Michelle	11,512

All 200 girls’ names of 1992 (15,610 recorded)

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	Michael	54,410
2	Christopher	42,468
3	Matthew	37,733
4	Joshua	36,221
5	Andrew	30,542
6	Brandon	29,628
7	Daniel	29,157
8	Tyler	28,806
9	James	28,513
10	David	28,425
11	Joseph	27,904
12	Nicholas	27,762
13	Ryan	27,022
14	John	26,253
15	Jacob	25,665
16	Zachary	24,802
17	Robert	24,094
18	Justin	23,620
19	Anthony	23,174
20	William	23,066
21	Jonathan	21,413
22	Kyle	20,714
23	Alexander	20,069
24	Cody	19,876
25	Kevin	19,647

All 200 boys’ names of 1992 (9,820 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 1991:

Darian #2,989 → #707 +2,282
Payton #2,660 → #702 +1,958
Peyton #2,034 → #584 +1,450
Chandler #1,656 → #541 +1,115
Brianda #1,857 → #777 +1,080
Dallas #1,505 → #642 +863
Bria #988 → #334 +654
Shaniece #1,505 → #933 +572

Darian, Chandler and Dallas are here because the girls’ file records them: 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 1991:

Dalvin #7,271 → #923 +6,348
Jalen #3,813 → #378 +3,435
Davante #2,828 → #802 +2,026
Davonta #2,469 → #914 +1,555
Juwan #2,344 → #961 +1,383
Dondre #2,227 → #850 +1,377
Montel #2,052 → #892 +1,160
Caden #1,895 → #871 +1,024

First recorded in 1992, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 1992:

Akeiba 49
Elantra 36
Iniki 28
Yoseline 24
Anaiza 21
Josselin 18
Caleesha 17
Lucely 16
Shivangi 15
Nautica 15

First recorded in 1992, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 1992:

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.