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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Homer		 0.17% -18
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Allen		 0.17% -8
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Wayne		 0.17% +70
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Warren		 0.17% +27
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Wilbur		 0.18% +21
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Morris		 0.18% +10
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Arnold		 0.18% +47
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Everett		 0.18% -3
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Claude		 0.18% -23
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Sidney		 0.18% +19
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Harvey		 0.19% -10
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Stephen		 0.19% +7
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Gordon		 0.20% +44
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Edgar		 0.20% -8
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Glenn		 0.21% +17
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Oscar		 0.21% -28
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Leon		 0.22% 0
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Willard		 0.22% +36
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Lee		 0.22% -36
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Alvin		 0.22% +12
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Cecil		 0.23% -9
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Martin		 0.23% -5
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Jesse		 0.23% -24
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Gerald		 0.24% +32
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Vernon		 0.24% +30
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Victor		 0.25% +19
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Benjamin		 0.25% -9
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Milton		 0.25% +16
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Lewis		 0.26% -8
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Ray		 0.26% -10
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Marvin		 0.26% +25
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Philip		 0.26% +17
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Vincent		 0.26% +46
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Woodrow		 0.26% +887
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Sam		 0.27% -25
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Charlie		 0.29% -31
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Clyde		 0.29% -8
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Clifford		 0.30% 0
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Theodore		 0.30% -24
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Leroy		 0.31% -1
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Floyd		 0.31% -9
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Lester		 0.31% 0
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Melvin		 0.31% +27
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Lloyd		 0.31% +15
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Herman		 0.33% -9
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Chester		 0.34% +13
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Frederick		 0.34% +13
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Edwin		 0.34% +13
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Daniel		 0.35% -3
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Russell		 0.36% +4
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Peter		 0.36% +8
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Norman		 0.36% +29
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Bernard		 0.37% +27
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Leo		 0.38% -3
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Andrew		 0.41% -6
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Elmer		 0.41% -4
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Michael		 0.44% +1
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Leonard		 0.46% +7
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Alfred		 0.47% -3
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Herbert		 0.49% -5
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Samuel		 0.49% -8
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Eugene		 0.51% +4
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Anthony		 0.51% +10
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Stanley		 0.52% +25
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Lawrence		 0.52% +1
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Ernest		 0.53% -5
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Joe		 0.55% -10
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Earl		 0.58% -5
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Roy		 0.58% -9
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Francis		 0.59% +4
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Kenneth		 0.62% +23
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David		 0.63% +2
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Fred		 0.64% -10
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Howard		 0.67% +6
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Willie		 0.69% -12
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Carl		 0.70% +1
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Clarence		 0.71% -7
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Jack		 0.71% +6
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Louis		 0.73% +3
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Ralph		 0.76% +6
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Donald		 0.82% +32
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Harry		 0.95% -6
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Arthur		 0.97% -3
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Albert		 0.98% -1
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Raymond		 1.03% +5
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Richard		 1.07% +7
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Paul		 1.13% +6
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Henry		 1.15% -2
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Harold		 1.15% +7
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Walter		 1.28% +1
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Thomas		 1.32% 0
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Frank		 1.67% -1
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Edward		 1.81% +1
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Charles		 2.50% -2
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George		 2.54% -2
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Joseph		 2.58% +2
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Robert		 3.44% +2
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James		 3.96% 0
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William		 4.36% 0
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John		 5.42% 0
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Maxine		 0.21% +179
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Phyllis		 0.21% +122
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Carrie		 0.21% -42
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Theresa		 0.22% +5
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Velma		 0.22% +4
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Beulah		 0.22% -18
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Geraldine		 0.22% +95
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June		 0.23% +171
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Opal		 0.24% +6
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Juanita		 0.25% +65
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Wilma		 0.25% +57
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Ellen		 0.25% -8
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Mae		 0.25% -29
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Blanche		 0.26% -24
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Marian		 0.26% +49
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Mattie		 0.26% -31
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Charlotte		 0.27% +19
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Marguerite		 0.27% +4
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Genevieve		 0.27% +38
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Jennie		 0.27% -7
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Lucy		 0.27% -14
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Violet		 0.27% +9
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Lena		 0.28% -18
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Vivian		 0.28% +52
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Barbara		 0.28% +73
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Leona		 0.28% +1
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Rita		 0.28% +150
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Lillie		 0.29% -23
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Ella		 0.29% -20
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Sylvia		 0.30% +42
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Minnie		 0.32% -36
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Alma		 0.32% -12
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Jane		 0.33% +69
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Jessie		 0.33% -9
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Willie		 0.33% -5
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Vera		 0.33% +4
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Stella		 0.34% +3
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Kathryn		 0.34% +19
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Laura		 0.36% -13
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Mabel		 0.36% -31
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Nellie		 0.36% -14
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Myrtle		 0.38% -24
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Viola		 0.39% -13
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Anne		 0.39% +34
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Pearl		 0.40% -25
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Bessie		 0.40% -33
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Ida		 0.41% -18
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Eva		 0.41% -13
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Katherine		 0.43% +10
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Marion		 0.45% +14
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Sarah		 0.45% -6
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Lois		 0.45% +40
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Agnes		 0.46% -5
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Julia		 0.46% +1
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Elsie		 0.46% -7
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Jean		 0.46% +64
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Ann		 0.46% +31
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Bertha		 0.47% -23
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Bernice		 0.47% +31
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Emma		 0.49% -20
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Clara		 0.52% -17
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Marjorie		 0.52% +58
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Beatrice		 0.52% +9
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Betty		 0.53% +49
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Esther		 0.58% -3
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Gertrude		 0.58% -9
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Pauline		 0.59% +21
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Annie		 0.62% -15
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Doris		 0.63% +52
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Eleanor		 0.64% +41
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Edith		 0.66% +2
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Lucille		 0.66% +22
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Thelma		 0.67% +13
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Hazel		 0.67% -3
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Grace		 0.68% -7
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Martha		 0.70% +4
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Ruby		 0.71% +18
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Josephine		 0.72% +14
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Ethel		 0.75% -10
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Gladys		 0.77% -7
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Catherine		 0.77% +8
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Edna		 0.79% -4
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Louise		 0.80% +9
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Irene		 0.81% +8
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Rose		 0.88% +1
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Lillian		 0.89% -2
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Florence		 0.96% -5
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Alice		 1.01% -2
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Evelyn		 1.08% +26
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Marie		 1.08% -3
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Virginia		 1.11% +43
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Frances		 1.24% +7
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Elizabeth		 1.37% -2
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Anna		 1.40% -3
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Mildred		 1.46% +4
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Ruth		 2.04% 0
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Margaret		 2.22% -1
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Dorothy		 2.44% +4
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Helen		 2.92% 0
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Mary		 5.62% 0
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