Baby names of 1995

Jessica and Michael topped the lists in 1995, out of 3,662,249 births recorded across 23,966 different names. That is 1.5% fewer than the 1994 files hold. About 3.6 million of them are alive today.

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Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Jessica	27,941
2	Ashley	26,606
3	Emily	24,382
4	Samantha	21,644
5	Sarah	21,395
6	Taylor	20,426
7	Hannah	17,018
8	Brittany	16,477
9	Amanda	16,354
10	Elizabeth	16,192
11	Kayla	16,087
12	Rachel	16,047
13	Megan	15,530
14	Alexis	14,334
15	Lauren	13,443
16	Stephanie	12,977
17	Courtney	12,775
18	Jennifer	12,683
19	Nicole	12,277
20	Victoria	12,252
21	Brianna	11,881
22	Amber	10,965
23	Morgan	10,877
24	Danielle	10,653
25	Jasmine	10,279

All 200 girls’ names of 1995 (15,753 recorded)

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	Michael	41,409
2	Matthew	32,882
3	Christopher	32,679
4	Jacob	31,134
5	Joshua	30,720
6	Tyler	29,161
7	Nicholas	29,160
8	Brandon	26,904
9	Daniel	26,728
10	Austin	25,908
11	Andrew	25,860
12	Joseph	25,354
13	John	23,244
14	Zachary	23,131
15	Ryan	23,089
16	David	23,045
17	James	22,739
18	Justin	21,581
19	Anthony	20,482
20	William	20,160
21	Alexander	19,456
22	Robert	18,586
23	Jonathan	18,155
24	Kyle	16,761
25	Kevin	15,860

All 200 boys’ names of 1995 (10,330 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 1994:

Iridian #7,604 → #886 +6,718
Daija #3,615 → #926 +2,689
Lyric #2,752 → #633 +2,119
Daja #2,877 → #967 +1,910
Shania #2,047 → #445 +1,602
Tristen #1,905 → #908 +997
Alondra #1,184 → #238 +946
Dasia #1,688 → #765 +923

Tristen 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 1994:

Tristin #2,307 → #604 +1,703
Raekwon #2,082 → #588 +1,494
Tristian #2,219 → #862 +1,357
Triston #1,795 → #526 +1,269
Rashaan #2,123 → #937 +1,186
Tristen #1,362 → #383 +979
Draven #1,664 → #796 +868
Anfernee #1,275 → #669 +606

First recorded in 1995, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 1995:

Yamilex 130
Irania 91
Natori 64
Iridiana 61
Yomira 44
Jamilex 36
Ismenia 23
Kennadi 23
Deianeira 22
Dazha 20

First recorded in 1995, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 1995:

Daekwon 26
Monteco 18
Natrone 17
Kaelon 16
Natron 15
Gajuan 15
Saadiq 14
Airion 13
Trevahn 13
Jamiroquan 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.