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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Louis		 0.71% -5
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Joe		 0.71% +4
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Roy		 0.73% -4
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Richard		 0.73% +4
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Raymond		 0.79% +5
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Paul		 0.86% +2
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Harold		 0.87% +12
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Fred		 0.89% -3
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Clarence		 0.93% 0
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Albert		 1.04% 0
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Arthur		 1.05% -1
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Willie		 1.21% +4
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Harry		 1.22% -2
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Walter		 1.36% +1
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Henry		 1.48% -1
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Thomas		 1.48% +2
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Edward		 1.67% 0
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Frank		 1.98% -1
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Joseph		 2.40% -1
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Robert		 2.44% +2
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Charles		 2.47% 0
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George		 2.97% 0
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James		 4.24% 0
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William		 4.72% 0
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John		 5.77% 0
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Irene		 0.76% +19
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Hazel		 0.77% -1
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Clara		 0.77% -12
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Bessie		 0.77% -8
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Emma		 0.78% -12
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Bertha		 0.78% -8
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Grace		 0.87% -1
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Annie		 0.89% +1
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Rose		 0.91% +5
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Frances		 0.92% +11
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Edna		 0.96% +2
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Gladys		 0.98% +29
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Lillian		 1.05% +3
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Ethel		 1.12% -4
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Alice		 1.13% +4
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Mildred		 1.17% +32
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Florence		 1.17% -2
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Marie		 1.19% +2
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Dorothy		 1.26% +50
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Elizabeth		 1.34% -1
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Ruth		 1.64% +1
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Anna		 1.77% -2
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Margaret		 1.87% 0
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Helen		 2.24% +2
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Mary		 5.20% 0
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