Popular Names in the United States

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

Rank	Name	Pct.
Boys
1.	John	8.16%
2.	William	8.05%
3.	James	5.01%
4.	Charles	4.52%
5.	George	4.33%
6.	Frank	2.74%
7.	Joseph	2.22%
8.	Thomas	2.14%
9.	Henry	2.06%
10.	Robert	2.04%
11.	Edward	2.00%
12.	Harry	1.82%
13.	Walter	1.48%
14.	Arthur	1.35%
15.	Fred	1.33%
16.	Albert	1.26%
17.	Samuel	0.87%
18.	David	0.73%
19.	Louis	0.70%
20.	Joe	0.62%
21.	Charlie	0.62%
21.	Clarence	0.62%
23.	Richard	0.62%
24.	Andrew	0.54%
25.	Daniel	0.54%
26.	Ernest	0.52%
27.	Will	0.50%
28.	Jesse	0.48%
29.	Oscar	0.46%
30.	Lewis	0.44%
31.	Peter	0.42%
32.	Benjamin	0.41%
33.	Frederick	0.41%
34.	Willie	0.40%
35.	Alfred	0.40%
36.	Sam	0.39%
37.	Roy	0.37%
38.	Herbert	0.36%
39.	Jacob	0.34%
40.	Tom	0.34%
41.	Elmer	0.32%
42.	Carl	0.31%
43.	Lee	0.31%
44.	Howard	0.30%
44.	Martin	0.30%
46.	Michael	0.30%
47.	Bert	0.29%
48.	Herman	0.29%
49.	Jim	0.29%
50.	Francis	0.29%
50.	Harvey	0.29%
52.	Earl	0.28%
53.	Eugene	0.28%
54.	Ralph	0.27%
55.	Ed	0.26%
56.	Claude	0.26%
56.	Edwin	0.26%
58.	Ben	0.26%
58.	Charley	0.26%
60.	Paul	0.25%
61.	Edgar	0.24%
62.	Isaac	0.23%
63.	Otto	0.23%
64.	Luther	0.22%
65.	Lawrence	0.22%
66.	Ira	0.21%
67.	Patrick	0.21%
68.	Guy	0.20%
69.	Oliver	0.20%
70.	Theodore	0.20%
71.	Hugh	0.19%
72.	Clyde	0.19%
73.	Alexander	0.18%
74.	August	0.18%
75.	Floyd	0.17%
76.	Homer	0.17%
77.	Jack	0.17%
78.	Leonard	0.17%
79.	Horace	0.17%
80.	Marion	0.16%
81.	Philip	0.16%
82.	Allen	0.16%
83.	Archie	0.16%
84.	Stephen	0.15%
85.	Chester	0.14%
86.	Willis	0.14%
87.	Raymond	0.14%
88.	Rufus	0.14%
89.	Warren	0.13%
90.	Jessie	0.13%
91.	Milton	0.13%
92.	Alex	0.12%
92.	Leo	0.12%
94.	Julius	0.12%
95.	Ray	0.12%
95.	Sidney	0.12%
97.	Bernard	0.12%
97.	Dan	0.12%
99.	Jerry	0.12%
100.	Calvin	0.11%
100.	Perry	0.11%

Rank	Name	Pct.
Girls
1.	Mary	7.24%
2.	Anna	2.67%
3.	Emma	2.05%
4.	Elizabeth	1.99%
5.	Minnie	1.79%
6.	Margaret	1.62%
7.	Ida	1.51%
8.	Alice	1.45%
9.	Bertha	1.35%
10.	Sarah	1.32%
11.	Annie	1.29%
12.	Clara	1.26%
13.	Ella	1.18%
14.	Florence	1.09%
15.	Cora	1.07%
16.	Martha	1.07%
17.	Laura	1.04%
18.	Nellie	1.02%
19.	Grace	1.01%
20.	Carrie	0.97%
21.	Maude	0.88%
22.	Mabel	0.83%
23.	Bessie	0.82%
24.	Jennie	0.81%
25.	Gertrude	0.81%
26.	Julia	0.80%
27.	Hattie	0.79%
28.	Edith	0.79%
29.	Mattie	0.72%
30.	Rose	0.72%
31.	Catherine	0.71%
32.	Lillian	0.69%
33.	Ada	0.67%
34.	Lillie	0.66%
35.	Helen	0.65%
36.	Jessie	0.65%
36.	Louise	0.65%
38.	Ethel	0.65%
39.	Lula	0.64%
40.	Myrtle	0.63%
41.	Eva	0.63%
42.	Frances	0.62%
43.	Lena	0.62%
44.	Lucy	0.60%
45.	Edna	0.60%
46.	Maggie	0.60%
47.	Pearl	0.58%
48.	Daisy	0.58%
49.	Fannie	0.57%
50.	Josephine	0.56%
51.	Dora	0.54%
52.	Rosa	0.52%
53.	Katherine	0.51%
54.	Agnes	0.49%
55.	Marie	0.48%
55.	Nora	0.48%
57.	May	0.47%
58.	Mamie	0.45%
59.	Blanche	0.44%
60.	Stella	0.42%
61.	Ellen	0.42%
62.	Nancy	0.42%
63.	Effie	0.42%
64.	Sallie	0.41%
65.	Nettie	0.41%
66.	Della	0.40%
67.	Lizzie	0.40%
68.	Flora	0.37%
69.	Susie	0.37%
70.	Maud	0.35%
71.	Mae	0.35%
72.	Etta	0.33%
73.	Harriet	0.33%
74.	Sadie	0.33%
75.	Caroline	0.31%
76.	Katie	0.31%
77.	Lydia	0.31%
78.	Elsie	0.31%
79.	Kate	0.31%
80.	Susan	0.29%
81.	Mollie	0.29%
82.	Alma	0.28%
83.	Addie	0.28%
84.	Georgia	0.27%
85.	Eliza	0.26%
86.	Lulu	0.26%
87.	Nannie	0.25%
88.	Lottie	0.25%
89.	Amanda	0.25%
90.	Belle	0.24%
91.	Charlotte	0.24%
92.	Rebecca	0.24%
93.	Ruth	0.24%
94.	Viola	0.24%
95.	Olive	0.23%
96.	Amelia	0.23%
96.	Hannah	0.23%
98.	Jane	0.22%
99.	Virginia	0.22%
100.	Emily	0.22%
100.	Matilda	0.22%

Popularity extremes for the United States