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
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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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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