Popular Names in the United States

Information from the Social Security Administration. Different spellings of similar names are not combined.
Boys
Rank Name Pct.
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John		 7.64%
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William		 7.21%
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James		 4.59%
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George		 4.05%
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Charles		 3.96%
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Frank		 2.63%
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Joseph		 2.23%
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Henry		 2.05%
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Robert		 2.05%
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Thomas		 2.02%
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Edward		 1.97%
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Harry		 1.92%
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Walter		 1.55%
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Arthur		 1.38%
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Fred		 1.33%
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Albert		 1.22%
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Samuel		 0.78%
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Clarence		 0.74%
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Louis		 0.70%
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David		 0.64%
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Joe		 0.60%
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Charlie		 0.60%
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Richard		 0.60%
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Ernest		 0.57%
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Roy		 0.56%
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Will		 0.53%
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Andrew		 0.51%
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Jesse		 0.51%
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Oscar		 0.51%
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Willie		 0.50%
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Daniel		 0.48%
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Benjamin		 0.46%
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Carl		 0.44%
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Sam		 0.43%
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Alfred		 0.41%
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Earl		 0.41%
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Peter		 0.40%
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Elmer		 0.39%
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Frederick		 0.39%
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Howard		 0.37%
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Lewis		 0.37%
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Ralph		 0.36%
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Herbert		 0.36%
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Paul		 0.36%
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Lee		 0.34%
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Tom		 0.32%
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Herman		 0.31%
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Martin		 0.31%
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Jacob		 0.30%
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Michael		 0.30%
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Girls
Rank Name Pct.
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Mary		 6.55%
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Anna		 2.73%
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Emma		 1.82%
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Elizabeth		 1.79%
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Margaret		 1.56%
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Minnie		 1.55%
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Ida		 1.31%
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Bertha		 1.31%
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Clara		 1.27%
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Alice		 1.23%
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Annie		 1.22%
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Florence		 1.19%
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Bessie		 1.10%
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Grace		 1.09%
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Ethel		 1.06%
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Sarah		 1.05%
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Ella		 1.00%
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Martha		 0.99%
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Nellie		 0.98%
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Mabel		 0.94%
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Laura		 0.92%
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Carrie		 0.89%
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Cora		 0.85%
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Helen		 0.82%
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Maude		 0.82%
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Lillian		 0.81%
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Gertrude		 0.79%
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Rose		 0.79%
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Edna		 0.79%
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Pearl		 0.78%
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Edith		 0.78%
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Jennie		 0.73%
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Hattie		 0.73%
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Mattie		 0.70%
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Eva		 0.70%
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Julia		 0.70%
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Myrtle		 0.70%
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Louise		 0.69%
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Lillie		 0.68%
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Jessie		 0.66%
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Frances		 0.66%
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Catherine		 0.64%
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Lula		 0.64%
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Lena		 0.62%
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Marie		 0.61%
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Ada		 0.60%
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Josephine		 0.55%
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Fannie		 0.54%
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Lucy		 0.54%
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Dora		 0.52%
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