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
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Rank Name Pct. Rank Num. Pct.
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John		 8.10% 0 -886 -9.2%
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William		 7.87% 0 -1,008 -10.6%
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James		 5.03% 0 -486 -8.2%
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George		 4.31% +1 -462 -9.0%
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Charles		 4.28% -1 -712 -13.3%
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Frank		 2.62% 0 -408 -12.6%
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Joseph		 2.27% 0 -176 -6.7%
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Henry		 2.16% +1 -105 -4.3%
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Thomas		 2.11% -1 -252 -9.9%
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Edward		 2.01% +1 -187 -7.9%
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Robert		 1.98% -1 -275 -11.4%
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Harry		 1.85% 0 -150 -7.0%
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Walter		 1.54% 0 -85 -4.8%
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Arthur		 1.46% 0 -24 -1.5%
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Fred		 1.31% 0 -151 -9.6%
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Albert		 1.22% 0 -174 -11.7%
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Samuel		 0.85% 0 -105 -10.3%
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David		 0.69% 0 -119 -13.7%
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Louis		 0.69% 0 -82 -9.9%
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Charlie		 0.62% +1 -62 -8.5%
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Clarence		 0.62% +1 -62 -8.5%
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Richard		 0.59% +1 -87 -12.0%
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Joe		 0.59% -3 -92 -12.6%
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Andrew		 0.54% 0 -56 -8.7%
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Ernest		 0.53% +1 -44 -7.2%
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Will		 0.51% +1 -38 -6.5%
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Jesse		 0.50% +1 -33 -5.8%
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Oscar		 0.49% +1 -14 -2.6%
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Daniel		 0.49% -4 -116 -18.0%
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Willie		 0.46% +4 +22 +4.6%
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Benjamin		 0.44% +1 -9 -1.8%
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Sam		 0.44% +5 +24 +5.3%
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Alfred		 0.43% +2 -3 -0.6%
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Roy		 0.41% +3 0 0.0%
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Lewis		 0.41% -5 -78 -15.1%
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Frederick		 0.40% -3 -50 -10.4%
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Peter		 0.40% -6 -68 -13.7%
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Elmer		 0.36% +3 +15 +4.0%
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Jacob		 0.35% 0 -23 -5.7%
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Herbert		 0.34% -2 -55 -13.0%
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Carl		 0.33% +1 -13 -3.5%
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Howard		 0.33% +3 +2 +0.6%
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Tom		 0.32% -3 -50 -12.5%
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Lee		 0.32% -1 -19 -5.3%
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Ralph		 0.30% +9 +12 +3.8%
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Martin		 0.30% -2 -30 -8.4%
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Jim		 0.30% +2 -22 -6.4%
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Earl		 0.29% +4 -21 -6.3%
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Eugene		 0.29% +5 -14 -4.3%
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Bert		 0.29% -3 -36 -10.3%
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Edgar		 0.29% +11 +29 +10.2%
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Herman		 0.28% -4 -43 -12.4%
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Claude		 0.28% +3 -7 -2.3%
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Michael		 0.28% -8 -56 -15.8%
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Paul		 0.27% +5 -10 -3.3%
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Ben		 0.27% +2 -16 -5.2%
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Ira		 0.26% +9 +37 +14.9%
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Harvey		 0.26% -8 -62 -18.0%
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Chester		 0.25% +26 +106 +63.1%
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Edwin		 0.25% -3 -35 -11.3%
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Ed		 0.25% -6 -38 -12.3%
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Charley		 0.25% -4 -39 -12.8%
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Francis		 0.24% -13 -85 -24.7%
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Isaac		 0.24% -2 -16 -5.8%
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Luther		 0.23% -1 -11 -4.2%
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Lawrence		 0.23% -1 -13 -5.1%
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Oliver		 0.22% +2 +4 +1.7%
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Clyde		 0.21% +4 +11 +5.0%
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Otto		 0.20% -6 -50 -18.5%
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Hugh		 0.20% +1 -5 -2.2%
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Alexander		 0.19% +2 -2 -0.9%
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Leonard		 0.19% +6 +6 +3.0%
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Jack		 0.18% +4 -7 -3.4%
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Raymond		 0.18% +13 +30 +18.2%
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Patrick		 0.17% -8 -60 -24.2%
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Guy		 0.17% -8 -53 -22.2%
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Homer		 0.17% -1 -24 -11.7%
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Floyd		 0.16% -3 -28 -13.6%
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Theodore		 0.16% -8 -54 -23.3%
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Allen		 0.16% +2 -12 -6.5%
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August		 0.16% -6 -38 -18.1%
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Marion		 0.15% -2 -27 -14.3%
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Philip		 0.14% -2 -30 -16.1%
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Warren		 0.14% +6 -2 -1.3%
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Horace		 0.14% -6 -47 -23.6%
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Dan		 0.14% +11 +8 +5.7%
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Ray		 0.14% +9 +6 +4.2%
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Garfield		 0.14% +22 +25 +20.5%
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Stephen		 0.14% -4 -29 -16.5%
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Emil		 0.13% +23 +26 +21.8%
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Jessie		 0.13% -1 -11 -7.1%
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Milton		 0.13% 0 -6 -4.0%
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Willis		 0.13% -7 -24 -14.5%
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Calvin		 0.13% +6 +4 +3.0%
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Dave		 0.13% +7 +4 +3.1%
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Bernard		 0.12% +1 -10 -7.1%
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Julius		 0.12% -3 -14 -9.8%
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Leroy		 0.12% +11 +5 +4.0%
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Sidney		 0.12% -2 -13 -9.2%
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Anthony		 0.12% +3 -2 -1.5%
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Girls
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Rank Name Pct. Rank Num. Pct.
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Mary		 7.00% 0 -146 -2.1%
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Anna		 2.73% 0 +94 +3.6%
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Emma		 2.06% 0 +31 +1.5%
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Elizabeth		 1.87% 0 -87 -4.5%
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Margaret		 1.68% +1 +80 +5.1%
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Minnie		 1.67% -1 -93 -5.3%
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Ida		 1.46% 0 -33 -2.2%
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Annie		 1.34% +3 +68 +5.4%
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Bertha		 1.34% 0 +4 +0.3%
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Alice		 1.32% -2 -106 -7.5%
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Clara		 1.26% +1 +16 +1.3%
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Sarah		 1.24% -2 -62 -4.8%
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Ella		 1.16% 0 -8 -0.7%
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Nellie		 1.11% +4 +101 +10.2%
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Grace		 1.10% +4 +107 +10.9%
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Florence		 1.06% -2 -17 -1.6%
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Martha		 1.06% -1 +4 +0.4%
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Cora		 0.98% -3 -76 -7.3%
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Laura		 0.97% -2 -50 -4.9%
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Carrie		 0.97% 0 +9 +0.9%
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Maude		 0.93% 0 +64 +7.5%
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Bessie		 0.91% +1 +107 +13.4%
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Mabel		 0.90% -1 +85 +10.5%
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Gertrude		 0.80% +1 +4 +0.5%
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Ethel		 0.80% +13 +155 +24.5%
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Jennie		 0.79% -2 -9 -1.1%
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Edith		 0.79% +1 +10 +1.3%
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Hattie		 0.78% -1 +6 +0.8%
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Mattie		 0.76% 0 +50 +7.1%
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Julia		 0.75% -4 -46 -5.9%
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Rose		 0.74% -1 +34 +4.9%
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Lillian		 0.73% 0 +51 +7.6%
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Lillie		 0.69% +1 +31 +4.8%
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Eva		 0.67% +7 +47 +7.7%
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Jessie		 0.67% +2 +26 +4.1%
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Lula		 0.66% +3 +34 +5.5%
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Myrtle		 0.65% +3 +28 +4.6%
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Pearl		 0.65% +9 +72 +12.7%
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Edna		 0.64% +6 +49 +8.3%
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Catherine		 0.64% -9 -53 -7.7%
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Ada		 0.64% -8 -24 -3.7%
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Louise		 0.62% -6 -18 -2.8%
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Helen		 0.62% -8 -24 -3.8%
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Lucy		 0.62% 0 +21 +3.6%
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Frances		 0.59% -3 -19 -3.1%
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Dora		 0.59% +5 +61 +11.6%
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Fannie		 0.57% +2 +5 +0.9%
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Josephine		 0.57% +2 +19 +3.5%
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Daisy		 0.57% -1 -2 -0.4%
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Lena		 0.56% -7 -48 -8.0%
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Maggie		 0.54% -5 -50 -8.6%
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Katherine		 0.51% +1 +2 +0.4%
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Rosa		 0.51% -1 -7 -1.4%
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Marie		 0.51% +1 +28 +5.9%
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Nora		 0.50% 0 +27 +5.7%
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Effie		 0.47% +7 +57 +14.0%
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Blanche		 0.46% +2 +29 +6.8%
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May		 0.46% -1 -11 -2.4%
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Nancy		 0.43% +3 +19 +4.6%
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Della		 0.43% +6 +37 +9.5%
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Agnes		 0.43% -7 -49 -10.4%
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Nettie		 0.42% +3 +16 +4.0%
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Sallie		 0.42% +1 +12 +3.0%
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Stella		 0.42% -3 +2 +0.5%
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Ellen		 0.42% -4 +2 +0.5%
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Mamie		 0.42% -8 -24 -5.5%
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Lizzie		 0.40% 0 +8 +2.1%
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Susie		 0.37% +1 +6 +1.7%
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Sadie		 0.37% +5 +49 +15.5%
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Elsie		 0.35% +8 +43 +14.3%
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Maud		 0.33% -1 -17 -4.9%
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Flora		 0.32% -4 -48 -13.2%
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Caroline		 0.32% +2 +10 +3.3%
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Etta		 0.32% -1 -7 -2.2%
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Mae		 0.32% -4 -30 -8.7%
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Lulu		 0.32% +10 +64 +25.7%
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Lydia		 0.30% 0 -3 -1.0%
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Alma		 0.30% +4 +16 +5.8%
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Susan		 0.30% +1 +6 +2.1%
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Lottie		 0.29% +8 +44 +18.0%
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Addie		 0.29% +2 +13 +4.7%
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Mollie		 0.28% -1 -2 -0.7%
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Katie		 0.28% -7 -24 -7.9%
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Ruth		 0.28% +9 +41 +17.5%
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Harriet		 0.27% -12 -49 -15.4%
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Kate		 0.27% -7 -32 -10.7%
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Amanda		 0.27% +2 +22 +9.1%
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Nannie		 0.26% -1 +10 +4.0%
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Georgia		 0.26% -5 -3 -1.2%
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Emily		 0.25% +10 +34 +16.2%
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Eliza		 0.24% -6 -14 -5.6%
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Viola		 0.24% +2 +8 +3.5%
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Amelia		 0.24% +3 +14 +6.3%
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Willie		 0.23% +11 +37 +19.3%
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Charlotte		 0.23% -4 -10 -4.2%
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Rebecca		 0.23% -4 -10 -4.2%
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Belle		 0.22% -7 -19 -8.0%
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Kathryn		 0.22% +4 +14 +6.9%
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Jane		 0.22% -1 +1 +0.5%
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Olive		 0.21% -5 -13 -5.8%
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Popularity extremes for the United States