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Top 1,004 Girls' Names of 1998

This list combines 6,480 spelling variations into 1,004 grouped names based on shared pronunciations. Learn more about how this works.

The name with the most spelling variations is "Kaylee" with 52 different spellings.

"Kaliyah" showed the biggest improvement in rank, moving up 380 positions from 796 to 416 as a result of combining spelling variations.

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Rank
Name
1Y Change
Grouping Impact
Total Births
Spellings
Confusion Index
Momentum
#1
28,700
↑ 36%
#2
↑ 2
↑ 33
26,433
↑ 22%
#3
↓ 1
↑ 1
26,308
↓ 22%
#4
↑ 2
↓ -2
23,569
↑ 106%
#5
↑ 12
23,092
↑ 73%
#6
↓ 3
↓ -1
23,059
↓ 47%
#7
↑ 5
↓ -1
20,409
↑ 159%
#8
↑ 1
↓ -5
20,285
↓ 8%
#9
↓ 1
↓ -2
19,779
↑ 81%
#10
↑ 4
↓ -1
19,319
↑ 398%
#11
↓ 4
↓ -3
18,692
↓ 51%
#12
↓ 2
↑ 1
18,351
↓ 24%
#13
↓ 2
↑ 23
17,784
↑ 101%
#14
↑ 5
↓ -3
16,988
↑ 36%
#15
↓ 2
↑ 18
16,427
↓ 24%
#16
↓ -6
15,963
↓ 17%
#17
↑ 3
↑ 9
15,664
↑ 19%