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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John		 6.88% 0
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William		 5.92% 0
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James		 4.11% 0
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George		 3.62% 0
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Charles		 3.29% 0
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Frank		 2.40% 0
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Joseph		 2.33% 0
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Robert		 2.06% 0
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Harry		 1.87% 0
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Henry		 1.87% 0
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Edward		 1.84% 0
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Thomas		 1.84% 0
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Walter		 1.70% 0
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Arthur		 1.35% 0
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Fred		 1.24% 0
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Albert		 1.14% 0
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Clarence		 0.97% 0
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Roy		 0.80% 0
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Willie		 0.72% +2
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Samuel		 0.69% 0
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Earl		 0.68% +4
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Louis		 0.66% -3
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Joe		 0.62% +6
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David		 0.62% +2
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Carl		 0.62% -1
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Ernest		 0.61% -4
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Richard		 0.61% 0
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Charlie		 0.58% -5
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Paul		 0.57% +2
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Ralph		 0.55% -2
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Raymond		 0.52% -1
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Andrew		 0.49% +1
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Oscar		 0.48% -1
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Will		 0.46% 0
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Jesse		 0.46% 0
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Elmer		 0.45% 0
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Harold		 0.44% +5
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Sam		 0.42% +5
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Howard		 0.42% +1
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Alfred		 0.41% -1
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Daniel		 0.41% -4
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Benjamin		 0.40% -1
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Herbert		 0.39% -5
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Lawrence		 0.36% +2
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Peter		 0.35% 0
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Lee		 0.35% +6
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Grover		 0.35% +52
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Frederick		 0.35% -4
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Leo		 0.34% +2
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Francis		 0.33% +4
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Herman		 0.32% -4
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Floyd		 0.32% +1
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Eugene		 0.32% -5
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Jack		 0.31% +8
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Lewis		 0.30% -5
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Clyde		 0.30% +1
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Ray		 0.29% -8
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Tom		 0.29% +2
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Michael		 0.29% -5
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Ben		 0.28% +1
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Martin		 0.27% -5
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Claude		 0.27% -5
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Edwin		 0.26% -6
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Jim		 0.25% -1
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Guy		 0.24% +2
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Ed		 0.23% +4
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Edgar		 0.23% -3
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Homer		 0.23% +6
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Harvey		 0.23% -4
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Luther		 0.22% +1
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Leonard		 0.22% +1
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Chester		 0.22% -4
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Jacob		 0.22% -4
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Otto		 0.21% -9
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Russell		 0.21% +11
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Lloyd		 0.20% +12
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Hugh		 0.20% -4
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Anthony		 0.19% +18
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Jessie		 0.19% -4
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Clifford		 0.18% +1
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Lester		 0.18% +3
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Philip		 0.18% -2
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Theodore		 0.18% -6
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Oliver		 0.18% -7
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Bernard		 0.18% 0
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Patrick		 0.18% -9
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Leroy		 0.18% -3
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Ira		 0.18% +2
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Allen		 0.17% +5
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Eddie		 0.17% 0
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Archie		 0.16% -12
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Charley		 0.16% -10
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Leslie		 0.16% +5
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Isaac		 0.15% +7
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Alexander		 0.15% 0
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Bert		 0.15% -7
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Victor		 0.15% +7
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Norman		 0.15% +1
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Julius		 0.15% +3
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Horace		 0.14% -3
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Leon		 0.14% +4
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Mary		 5.86% 0
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Anna		 2.46% 0
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Elizabeth		 1.54% +1
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Margaret		 1.53% -1
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Ruth		 1.46% +14
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Florence		 1.40% 0
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Emma		 1.39% -2
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Ethel		 1.35% -1
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Helen		 1.31% 0
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Clara		 1.18% +1
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Bertha		 1.16% -1
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Minnie		 1.16% -4
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Bessie		 1.13% -1
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Alice		 1.06% +2
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Annie		 1.04% -2
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Grace		 1.02% -2
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Ida		 1.00% 0
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Edna		 0.99% 0
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Mabel		 0.97% -4
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Lillian		 0.96% 0
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Marie		 0.92% +7
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Rose		 0.90% 0
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Gertrude		 0.86% +3
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Martha		 0.85% -3
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Hazel		 0.84% +7
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Pearl		 0.81% +1
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Ella		 0.80% -4
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Sarah		 0.80% -4
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Laura		 0.78% 0
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Nellie		 0.77% -5
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Frances		 0.74% +3
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Myrtle		 0.74% -1
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Edith		 0.72% -4
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Eva		 0.72% -1
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Carrie		 0.71% +1
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Lillie		 0.67% +3
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Elsie		 0.66% +1
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Louise		 0.64% -1
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Cora		 0.63% -4
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Hattie		 0.61% +1
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Julia		 0.61% +2
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Catherine		 0.59% -1
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Agnes		 0.59% +4
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Mattie		 0.58% +2
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Maude		 0.57% -1
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Jessie		 0.55% +2
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Lena		 0.55% -2
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Jennie		 0.54% -8
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Josephine		 0.54% 0
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Ada		 0.50% +1
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Irene		 0.49% +1
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Mae		 0.49% +2
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Lula		 0.49% -3
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Blanche		 0.49% +2
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Lucy		 0.47% -2
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Alma		 0.47% -1
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Fannie		 0.46% 0
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Mamie		 0.44% +3
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Stella		 0.43% 0
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Katherine		 0.43% +2
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Dora		 0.43% -3
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Mildred		 0.43% +2
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Nora		 0.40% 0
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Maggie		 0.39% -4
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Gladys		 0.39% +5
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Viola		 0.37% +7
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Esther		 0.37% -1
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Rosa		 0.35% -3
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Ellen		 0.34% 0
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May		 0.34% -2
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Sadie		 0.32% +1
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Effie		 0.32% -5
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Nettie		 0.31% -2
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Ruby		 0.31% +6
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Susie		 0.30% +1
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Della		 0.30% -2
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Beulah		 0.28% +4
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Willie		 0.28% 0
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Dorothy		 0.28% -3
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Lizzie		 0.27% +2
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Nancy		 0.26% +2
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Flora		 0.26% +7
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Olive		 0.26% +2
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Sallie		 0.26% -9
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Daisy		 0.25% -6
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Katie		 0.25% +4
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Georgia		 0.25% +8
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Kathryn		 0.24% -1
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Lottie		 0.24% -1
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Beatrice		 0.24% +1
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Marguerite		 0.24% -7
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Pauline		 0.23% +1
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Lydia		 0.23% -7
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Emily		 0.23% +1
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Marion		 0.22% +4
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Addie		 0.22% -4
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Etta		 0.22% -3
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Charlotte		 0.22% +3
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Vera		 0.22% 0
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Caroline		 0.21% 0
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Popularity extremes for the United States