Popular Names in the United States

Information from the Social Security Administration. Different spellings of similar names are not combined.

Rank	Name	Pct.	Rank	Num.	Pct.
Boys			Change
1.	John	5.42%	0	+291,720	+345%
2.	William	4.36%	0	+233,698	+337%
3.	James	3.96%	0	+212,901	+342%
4.	Robert	3.44%	+2	+203,336	+567%
5.	Joseph	2.58%	+2	+144,127	+410%
6.	George	2.54%	-2	+133,020	+305%
7.	Charles	2.50%	-2	+137,350	+380%
8.	Edward	1.81%	+1	+101,204	+413%
9.	Frank	1.67%	-1	+86,971	+299%
10.	Thomas	1.32%	0	+69,836	+321%
11.	Walter	1.28%	+1	+69,148	+346%
12.	Harold	1.15%	+7	+66,926	+523%
13.	Henry	1.15%	-2	+57,895	+266%
14.	Paul	1.13%	+6	+65,580	+519%
15.	Richard	1.07%	+7	+63,927	+599%
16.	Raymond	1.03%	+5	+60,170	+516%
17.	Albert	0.98%	-1	+52,889	+345%
18.	Arthur	0.97%	-3	+52,069	+338%
19.	Harry	0.95%	-6	+47,968	+268%
20.	Donald	0.82%	+32	+52,370	+1,131%
21.	Ralph	0.76%	+6	+43,224	+465%
22.	Louis	0.73%	+3	+40,228	+388%
23.	Jack	0.71%	+6	+40,304	+437%
24.	Clarence	0.71%	-7	+35,623	+262%
25.	Carl	0.70%	+1	+38,589	+391%
26.	Willie	0.69%	-12	+29,944	+169%
27.	Howard	0.67%	+6	+38,582	+481%
28.	Fred	0.64%	-10	+31,269	+239%
29.	David	0.63%	+2	+35,233	+409%
30.	Kenneth	0.62%	+23	+38,669	+844%
31.	Francis	0.59%	+4	+34,032	+485%
32.	Roy	0.58%	-9	+29,708	+279%
33.	Earl	0.58%	-5	+31,022	+335%
34.	Joe	0.55%	-10	+27,784	+265%
35.	Ernest	0.53%	-5	+28,477	+329%
36.	Lawrence	0.52%	+1	+29,508	+431%
37.	Stanley	0.52%	+25	+31,752	+764%
38.	Anthony	0.51%	+10	+30,584	+606%
39.	Eugene	0.51%	+4	+29,251	+495%
40.	Samuel	0.49%	-8	+26,017	+319%
41.	Herbert	0.49%	-5	+26,903	+387%
42.	Alfred	0.47%	-3	+26,279	+413%
43.	Leonard	0.46%	+7	+26,856	+535%
44.	Michael	0.44%	+1	+25,640	+491%
45.	Elmer	0.41%	-4	+22,439	+364%
46.	Andrew	0.41%	-6	+21,874	+348%
47.	Leo	0.38%	-3	+21,027	+374%
48.	Bernard	0.37%	+27	+22,332	+678%
49.	Norman	0.36%	+29	+21,855	+688%
50.	Peter	0.36%	+8	+20,559	+470%

Rank	Name	Pct.	Rank	Num.	Pct.
Girls			Change
1.	Mary	5.62%	0	+317,132	+196%
2.	Helen	2.92%	0	+178,726	+257%
3.	Dorothy	2.44%	+4	+168,364	+430%
4.	Margaret	2.22%	-1	+131,314	+227%
5.	Ruth	2.04%	0	+122,665	+240%
6.	Mildred	1.46%	+4	+87,825	+243%
7.	Anna	1.40%	-3	+64,080	+117%
8.	Elizabeth	1.37%	-2	+75,103	+180%
9.	Frances	1.24%	+7	+77,100	+271%
10.	Virginia	1.11%	+43	+79,783	+549%
11.	Marie	1.08%	-3	+54,995	+148%
12.	Evelyn	1.08%	+26	+72,889	+392%
13.	Alice	1.01%	-2	+50,634	+144%
14.	Florence	0.96%	-5	+45,274	+125%
15.	Lillian	0.89%	-2	+43,395	+133%
16.	Rose	0.88%	+1	+46,584	+166%
17.	Irene	0.81%	+8	+45,312	+192%
18.	Louise	0.80%	+9	+45,111	+197%
19.	Edna	0.79%	-4	+37,065	+124%
20.	Catherine	0.77%	+8	+43,816	+199%
21.	Gladys	0.77%	-7	+35,527	+117%
22.	Ethel	0.75%	-10	+28,794	+82.6%
23.	Josephine	0.72%	+14	+42,570	+227%
24.	Ruby	0.71%	+18	+42,133	+232%
25.	Martha	0.70%	+4	+37,759	+174%
26.	Grace	0.68%	-7	+31,046	+115%
27.	Hazel	0.67%	-3	+33,266	+140%
28.	Thelma	0.67%	+13	+38,746	+212%
29.	Lucille	0.66%	+22	+41,106	+273%
30.	Edith	0.66%	+2	+35,175	+168%
31.	Eleanor	0.64%	+41	+44,133	+440%
32.	Doris	0.63%	+52	+44,997	+545%
33.	Annie	0.62%	-15	+24,553	+88.5%
34.	Pauline	0.59%	+21	+36,765	+276%
35.	Gertrude	0.58%	-9	+25,958	+110%
36.	Esther	0.58%	-3	+29,186	+146%
37.	Betty	0.53%	+49	+36,973	+467%
38.	Beatrice	0.52%	+9	+28,233	+173%
39.	Marjorie	0.52%	+58	+37,427	+533%
40.	Clara	0.52%	-17	+20,447	+85.6%
41.	Emma	0.49%	-20	+17,643	+73.0%
42.	Bernice	0.47%	+31	+30,336	+303%
43.	Bertha	0.47%	-23	+15,873	+65.5%
44.	Ann	0.46%	+31	+29,574	+298%
45.	Jean	0.46%	+64	+33,353	+562%
46.	Elsie	0.46%	-7	+20,822	+113%
47.	Julia	0.46%	+1	+23,152	+144%
48.	Agnes	0.46%	-5	+21,639	+123%
49.	Lois	0.45%	+40	+30,488	+396%
50.	Sarah	0.45%	-6	+20,778	+120%