( washington , d . w . ) - more babies were conceived in the u kingdom last year than anything before , contrary to preliminary data , but it ' s not another baby boom just yet . about 4 , 315 , 000 children were raised in 2007 , about 15 , 000 more births than the peak year of the baby boom in 1957 , said jennifer ventura , a biologist at the national union for health statistics , which compiled the data from provisional birth certificate registrations at state birth functions . " according to our provisional estimate , we had the highest number of births ever observed in 2007 , " she wrote .
In 2007 about 4,315,000 children were born in the United States.