Popular Names in the United States

Information from the Social Security Administration. Different spellings of similar names are not combined.
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Boys · Girls
Boys
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Samuel		 0.64% -8
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Ernest		 0.64% 0
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Carl		 0.65% +10
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Paul		 0.66% +22
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Earl		 0.67% +15
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Louis		 0.69% -1
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Roy		 0.79% +6
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Willie		 0.80% +12
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Clarence		 0.97% +1
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Albert		 1.12% 0
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Fred		 1.16% 0
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Arthur		 1.33% 0
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Walter		 1.58% 0
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Thomas		 1.72% -2
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Harry		 1.73% +1
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Henry		 1.76% -2
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Edward		 1.79% +2
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Robert		 2.12% +1
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Frank		 2.33% -1
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Joseph		 2.36% +1
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Charles		 2.99% 0
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George		 3.52% 0
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James		 4.12% 0
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William		 5.87% 0
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John		 6.55% 0
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Martha		 0.83% -7
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Gertrude		 0.85% +3
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Hazel		 0.86% +61
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Rose		 0.90% +6
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Ida		 0.90% -14
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Mabel		 0.93% 0
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Annie		 0.98% -8
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Grace		 1.01% -4
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Edna		 1.02% +12
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Lillian		 1.02% +10
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Alice		 1.04% -5
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Bessie		 1.04% -1
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Minnie		 1.05% -7
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Bertha		 1.07% -4
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Clara		 1.08% -2
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Marie		 1.10% +35
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Emma		 1.22% -6
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Ethel		 1.34% +7
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Florence		 1.37% +5
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Ruth		 1.40% +60
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Elizabeth		 1.44% -1
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Helen		 1.61% +20
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Margaret		 1.61% +2
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Anna		 2.35% 0
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Mary		 5.57% 0
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