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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John		 7.91% 0
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William		 7.46% 0
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James		 4.64% 0
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Charles		 4.29% +1
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George		 4.21% -1
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Frank		 2.66% 0
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Joseph		 2.24% 0
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Henry		 2.12% +1
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Robert		 2.08% +1
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Thomas		 2.06% -2
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Edward		 2.00% 0
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Harry		 1.88% 0
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Walter		 1.52% 0
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Arthur		 1.42% 0
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Fred		 1.34% 0
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Albert		 1.33% 0
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Samuel		 0.83% 0
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Clarence		 0.74% +2
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Louis		 0.71% -1
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David		 0.65% -1
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Richard		 0.58% +1
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Charlie		 0.57% -1
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Ernest		 0.57% +4
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Andrew		 0.55% 0
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Daniel		 0.55% +4
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Joe		 0.54% -3
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Oscar		 0.54% +2
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Jesse		 0.52% -2
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Will		 0.51% -4
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Roy		 0.49% +3
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Benjamin		 0.45% +3
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Carl		 0.43% +2
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Sam		 0.42% -3
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Willie		 0.42% -3
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Alfred		 0.41% -3
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Peter		 0.40% 0
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Frederick		 0.39% 0
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Lewis		 0.38% 0
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Howard		 0.38% +3
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Elmer		 0.38% -2
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Herbert		 0.38% -1
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Earl		 0.35% +7
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Lee		 0.35% -2
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Tom		 0.34% +2
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Ralph		 0.34% -2
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Martin		 0.34% +2
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Herman		 0.32% +4
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Paul		 0.32% -4
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Jacob		 0.32% -3
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Clyde		 0.30% +12
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Eugene		 0.29% +1
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Jim		 0.29% -7
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Harvey		 0.28% +7
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Claude		 0.28% -4
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Michael		 0.27% +2
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Ben		 0.27% -1
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Edwin		 0.27% +2
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Edgar		 0.26% 0
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Chester		 0.26% +1
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Francis		 0.25% -4
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Lawrence		 0.25% +2
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Bert		 0.24% -10
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Charley		 0.23% +4
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Ed		 0.22% -10
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Jack		 0.22% +1
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Otto		 0.21% +3
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Ira		 0.21% +4
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Raymond		 0.21% +10
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Luther		 0.20% -5
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Isaac		 0.20% -5
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Guy		 0.20% -3
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Oliver		 0.20% -1
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Floyd		 0.19% +3
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Hugh		 0.19% -1
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Patrick		 0.19% -5
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Homer		 0.19% +9
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August		 0.19% -3
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Ray		 0.18% +4
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Leonard		 0.18% -3
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Alexander		 0.17% -1
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Theodore		 0.16% -6
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Allen		 0.16% -2
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Horace		 0.15% +5
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Archie		 0.15% -2
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Philip		 0.15% +3
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Sidney		 0.15% +13
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Marion		 0.15% +5
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Julius		 0.14% +3
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Jessie		 0.13% -5
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Milton		 0.13% +4
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Warren		 0.13% -5
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Anthony		 0.13% +13
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Everett		 0.13% +13
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Leroy		 0.13% +4
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Leo		 0.13% +4
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Bernard		 0.13% +7
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Leon		 0.12% +17
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Stephen		 0.12% -16
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Emil		 0.12% -7
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Clifford		 0.12% -6
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Mary		 6.67% 0
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Anna		 2.75% 0
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Emma		 1.97% 0
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Elizabeth		 1.88% 0
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Minnie		 1.70% 0
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Margaret		 1.57% 0
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Bertha		 1.40% +2
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Ida		 1.36% -1
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Annie		 1.32% +1
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Clara		 1.29% +1
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Alice		 1.24% -3
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Sarah		 1.13% 0
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Grace		 1.09% +3
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Florence		 1.08% -1
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Martha		 1.05% -1
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Ella		 1.04% -1
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Nellie		 1.04% +2
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Bessie		 1.03% 0
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Laura		 0.99% -2
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Ethel		 0.94% +4
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Carrie		 0.92% +1
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Maude		 0.91% -2
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Mabel		 0.91% 0
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Cora		 0.90% -3
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Gertrude		 0.77% +1
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Lillian		 0.76% +6
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Jennie		 0.75% 0
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Hattie		 0.75% +2
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Pearl		 0.74% +4
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Mattie		 0.74% -5
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Edith		 0.73% -2
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Eva		 0.73% +9
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Rose		 0.73% -5
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Julia		 0.73% +1
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Helen		 0.72% -4
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Catherine		 0.71% +6
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Myrtle		 0.71% +1
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Louise		 0.71% -4
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Lillie		 0.70% -3
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Jessie		 0.69% -3
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Edna		 0.69% -2
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Lena		 0.67% +1
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Lula		 0.66% -3
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Ada		 0.65% 0
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Frances		 0.59% 0
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Josephine		 0.58% +3
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Fannie		 0.58% 0
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Lucy		 0.55% -2
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Maggie		 0.55% +2
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Daisy		 0.55% -2
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Dora		 0.53% 0
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Agnes		 0.52% +2
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Marie		 0.52% -1
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Blanche		 0.51% +2
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Nora		 0.49% +3
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Katherine		 0.49% -4
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May		 0.44% +2
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Mamie		 0.44% +2
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Stella		 0.44% +2
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Effie		 0.42% -5
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Rosa		 0.42% -3
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Ellen		 0.42% +2
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Lizzie		 0.41% -1
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Nettie		 0.41% +3
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Elsie		 0.40% 0
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Della		 0.38% 0
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Susie		 0.36% +3
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Maud		 0.35% +1
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Sadie		 0.35% +4
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Mae		 0.35% +1
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Nancy		 0.34% -4
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Sallie		 0.34% -9
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Flora		 0.32% 0
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Ruth		 0.32% +7
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Lydia		 0.32% +1
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Lottie		 0.31% +6
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Addie		 0.30% 0
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Katie		 0.30% 0
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Alma		 0.30% -5
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Etta		 0.29% -5
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Emily		 0.29% +14
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Harriet		 0.28% +8
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Viola		 0.28% 0
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Georgia		 0.27% -3
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Susan		 0.27% -6
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Caroline		 0.27% -1
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Nannie		 0.25% -1
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Lulu		 0.25% +5
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Mollie		 0.25% -5
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Kate		 0.25% -3
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Olive		 0.25% -2
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Charlotte		 0.24% +8
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Kathryn		 0.24% +2
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Amanda		 0.24% -3
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Eliza		 0.23% -3
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Willie		 0.22% -8
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Amelia		 0.22% +5
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Belle		 0.22% +1
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Esther		 0.22% -2
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Irene		 0.22% +5
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Popularity extremes for the United States