Popular Names in the United States

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Information from the Social Security Administration. Different spellings of similar names are not combined.
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Boys · Girls
Boys
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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John		 6.55% 0
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William		 5.87% 0
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James		 4.12% 0
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George		 3.52% 0
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Charles		 2.99% 0
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Joseph		 2.36% +1
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Frank		 2.33% -1
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Robert		 2.12% +1
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Edward		 1.79% +2
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Henry		 1.76% -2
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Harry		 1.73% +1
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Thomas		 1.72% -2
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Walter		 1.58% 0
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Arthur		 1.33% 0
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Fred		 1.16% 0
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Albert		 1.12% 0
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Clarence		 0.97% +1
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Willie		 0.80% +12
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Roy		 0.79% +6
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Louis		 0.69% -1
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Earl		 0.67% +15
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Paul		 0.66% +22
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Carl		 0.65% +10
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Ernest		 0.64% 0
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Samuel		 0.64% -8
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Raymond		 0.62% +31
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Richard		 0.62% -3
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Joe		 0.61% -7
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David		 0.60% -9
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Charlie		 0.59% -8
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Harold		 0.57% +53
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Ralph		 0.57% +10
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Howard		 0.48% +7
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Andrew		 0.46% -7
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Herbert		 0.46% +8
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Elmer		 0.46% +2
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Oscar		 0.46% -8
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Jesse		 0.44% -10
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Alfred		 0.44% -4
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Will		 0.42% -14
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Daniel		 0.42% -10
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Sam		 0.40% -8
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Leo		 0.38% +38
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Jack		 0.38% +22
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Lawrence		 0.37% +18
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Francis		 0.37% +9
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Benjamin		 0.36% -15
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Lee		 0.36% -3
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Eugene		 0.35% +5
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Herman		 0.34% -3
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Peter		 0.33% -14
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Frederick		 0.32% -13
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Floyd		 0.32% +18
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Michael		 0.32% -4
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Ray		 0.31% +18
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Lewis		 0.30% -15
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Claude		 0.30% -5
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Clyde		 0.29% +1
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Edwin		 0.29% +1
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Tom		 0.27% -14
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Martin		 0.26% -13
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Leonard		 0.26% +18
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Ben		 0.26% -10
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Chester		 0.25% +1
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Edgar		 0.24% -4
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Jim		 0.23% -15
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Harvey		 0.23% -9
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Russell		 0.23% +63
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Lester		 0.22% +34
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Clifford		 0.22% +27
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Luther		 0.22% -3
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Homer		 0.21% +6
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Jacob		 0.21% -24
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Leroy		 0.21% +22
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Otto		 0.21% -8
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Guy		 0.20% -6
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Lloyd		 0.20% +36
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Anthony		 0.20% +15
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Jessie		 0.20% +7
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Hugh		 0.20% -6
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Ed		 0.19% -19
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Bernard		 0.19% +10
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Theodore		 0.19% -4
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Stanley		 0.19% +52
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Eddie		 0.19% +13
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Patrick		 0.18% -9
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Philip		 0.17% +1
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Leon		 0.17% +13
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Archie		 0.17% -2
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Leslie		 0.17% +19
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Oliver		 0.17% -15
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Allen		 0.16% -7
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Alexander		 0.16% -11
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Dewey		 0.16% +991
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Ira		 0.16% -23
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Everett		 0.15% +11
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Norman		 0.15% +19
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Horace		 0.15% -8
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Victor		 0.15% +15
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Cecil		 0.15% +87
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Mary		 5.57% 0
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Anna		 2.35% 0
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Margaret		 1.61% +2
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Helen		 1.61% +20
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Elizabeth		 1.44% -1
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Ruth		 1.40% +60
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Florence		 1.37% +5
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Ethel		 1.34% +7
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Emma		 1.22% -6
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Marie		 1.10% +35
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Clara		 1.08% -2
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Bertha		 1.07% -4
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Minnie		 1.05% -7
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Bessie		 1.04% -1
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Alice		 1.04% -5
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Lillian		 1.02% +10
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Edna		 1.02% +12
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Grace		 1.01% -4
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Annie		 0.98% -8
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Mabel		 0.93% 0
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Ida		 0.90% -14
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Rose		 0.90% +6
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Hazel		 0.86% +61
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Gertrude		 0.85% +3
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Martha		 0.83% -7
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Pearl		 0.81% +4
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Frances		 0.77% +14
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Myrtle		 0.75% +9
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Edith		 0.75% +2
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Nellie		 0.73% -11
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Sarah		 0.73% -15
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Ella		 0.73% -15
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Eva		 0.70% +2
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Laura		 0.70% -13
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Elsie		 0.70% +20
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Louise		 0.65% +2
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Esther		 0.63% +49
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Catherine		 0.62% +4
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Agnes		 0.61% +12
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Carrie		 0.61% -18
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Lillie		 0.60% -2
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Mildred		 0.59% +60
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Gladys		 0.58% +108
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Irene		 0.58% +32
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Julia		 0.57% -10
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Hattie		 0.55% -13
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Cora		 0.55% -24
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Lena		 0.53% -4
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Josephine		 0.53% -2
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Mattie		 0.53% -16
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Jennie		 0.51% -19
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Jessie		 0.50% -12
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Maude		 0.48% -28
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Alma		 0.48% +13
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Mae		 0.46% +8
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Blanche		 0.46% -3
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Dorothy		 0.46% +70
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Ada		 0.44% -12
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Lucy		 0.44% -10
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Lula		 0.44% -17
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Mamie		 0.43% -4
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Fannie		 0.42% -14
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Stella		 0.42% -4
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Katherine		 0.40% -10
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Viola		 0.40% +16
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Ruby		 0.37% +42
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Dora		 0.37% -17
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Maggie		 0.37% -16
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Nora		 0.35% -13
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Rosa		 0.34% -12
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Beatrice		 0.32% +59
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Ellen		 0.32% -8
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Sadie		 0.31% -3
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Marion		 0.31% +49
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Willie		 0.30% +14
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Effie		 0.30% -14
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May		 0.29% -16
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Beulah		 0.29% +25
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Pauline		 0.28% +30
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Nettie		 0.28% -15
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Susie		 0.28% -8
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Della		 0.27% -14
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Vera		 0.27% +73
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Marguerite		 0.27% +82
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Daisy		 0.27% -25
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Lydia		 0.25% -7
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Virginia		 0.25% +14
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Olive		 0.24% 0
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Kathryn		 0.24% +5
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Evelyn		 0.24% +46
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Sallie		 0.24% -20
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Lizzie		 0.24% -23
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Lottie		 0.23% -13
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Emily		 0.23% -3
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Georgia		 0.23% -10
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Flora		 0.23% -21
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Nancy		 0.23% -25
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Katie		 0.22% -20
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Lucille		 0.22% +75
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Leona		 0.22% +16
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