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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Robert		 5.07% +3
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John		 4.96% -1
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James		 4.53% 0
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William		 4.51% -2
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Charles		 2.62% +2
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George		 2.30% 0
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Joseph		 2.14% -2
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Richard		 1.96% +7
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Edward		 1.74% -1
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Donald		 1.69% +10
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Thomas		 1.42% -1
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Frank		 1.34% -3
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Harold		 1.18% -1
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Paul		 1.16% 0
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Raymond		 1.09% +1
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Walter		 1.05% -5
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Jack		 1.02% +6
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Henry		 0.92% -5
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Kenneth		 0.88% +11
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Arthur		 0.85% -2
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Albert		 0.83% -4
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David		 0.78% +7
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Harry		 0.76% -4
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Eugene		 0.75% +15
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Ralph		 0.74% -4
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Howard		 0.62% +1
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Carl		 0.61% -2
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Willie		 0.60% -2
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Louis		 0.60% -7
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Clarence		 0.59% -6
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Earl		 0.56% +2
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Roy		 0.56% 0
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Fred		 0.55% -5
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Joe		 0.55% 0
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Francis		 0.52% -4
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Lawrence		 0.50% 0
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Herbert		 0.50% +4
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Leonard		 0.47% +5
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Ernest		 0.47% -4
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Alfred		 0.44% +2
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Anthony		 0.44% -3
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Stanley		 0.44% -5
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Norman		 0.43% +6
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Gerald		 0.39% +33
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Daniel		 0.38% +7
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Samuel		 0.38% -6
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Bernard		 0.37% +1
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Billy		 0.37% +201
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Melvin		 0.36% +9
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Marvin		 0.35% +20
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Mary		 5.66% 0
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Dorothy		 2.97% +1
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Helen		 2.34% -1
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Betty		 2.28% +33
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Margaret		 1.98% -1
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Ruth		 1.76% -1
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Virginia		 1.37% +3
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Doris		 1.22% +24
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Mildred		 1.19% -3
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Frances		 1.13% -1
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Elizabeth		 1.13% -3
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Evelyn		 1.00% 0
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Anna		 1.00% -6
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Marie		 0.89% -3
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Alice		 0.89% -2
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Jean		 0.86% +29
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Shirley		 0.80% +112
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Barbara		 0.78% +58
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Irene		 0.75% -2
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Marjorie		 0.74% +19
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Florence		 0.71% -7
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Lois		 0.71% +27
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Martha		 0.70% +2
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Rose		 0.69% -8
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Lillian		 0.67% -10
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Louise		 0.67% -8
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Catherine		 0.64% -7
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Ruby		 0.62% -4
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Eleanor		 0.60% +2
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Patricia		 0.60% +130
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Gladys		 0.59% -10
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Annie		 0.56% +1
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Josephine		 0.56% -10
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Thelma		 0.55% -6
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Edna		 0.55% -16
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Norma		 0.53% +77
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Pauline		 0.52% -3
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Lucille		 0.52% -9
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Edith		 0.51% -9
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Gloria		 0.51% +288
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Ethel		 0.51% -19
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Phyllis		 0.50% +57
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Grace		 0.48% -17
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Hazel		 0.48% -17
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June		 0.46% +48
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Bernice		 0.45% -4
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Marion		 0.45% +4
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Dolores		 0.42% +100
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Rita		 0.41% +25
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Lorraine		 0.40% +60
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