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		 6.57% 0
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William		 5.75% 0
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James		 4.21% 0
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George		 3.39% 0
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Charles		 2.87% 0
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Frank		 2.38% +1
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Joseph		 2.36% -1
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Robert		 2.08% 0
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Henry		 1.75% 0
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Edward		 1.74% +1
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Thomas		 1.70% +1
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Harry		 1.68% -2
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Walter		 1.59% 0
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Arthur		 1.32% 0
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Fred		 1.17% 0
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Albert		 1.10% 0
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Clarence		 1.05% 0
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Willie		 0.85% +1
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Roy		 0.81% -1
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Paul		 0.74% +3
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Louis		 0.72% 0
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Carl		 0.67% 0
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Earl		 0.67% -2
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Ernest		 0.66% 0
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Samuel		 0.64% +1
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Raymond		 0.64% +1
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Charlie		 0.61% +3
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Joe		 0.60% 0
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Harold		 0.60% +3
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Ralph		 0.58% +1
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Richard		 0.57% -6
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David		 0.56% -3
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Howard		 0.51% 0
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Elmer		 0.48% +3
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Jesse		 0.46% +3
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Herbert		 0.45% 0
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Andrew		 0.44% -2
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Alfred		 0.44% +2
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Oscar		 0.43% -5
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Daniel		 0.41% +1
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Lawrence		 0.40% +8
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Leo		 0.40% 0
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Sam		 0.39% 0
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Will		 0.38% -5
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Francis		 0.38% +5
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Jack		 0.38% +1
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Lee		 0.38% -2
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Benjamin		 0.36% -4
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Herman		 0.35% -1
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Eugene		 0.34% +2
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Floyd		 0.34% -5
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Michael		 0.33% -2
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Peter		 0.33% +2
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Frederick		 0.32% 0
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Claude		 0.31% -2
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Ray		 0.30% +1
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Chester		 0.30% +6
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Lewis		 0.30% +2
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Clyde		 0.29% -3
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Edwin		 0.27% -2
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Leonard		 0.27% -1
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Tom		 0.27% -2
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Ben		 0.26% -1
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Edgar		 0.26% 0
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Martin		 0.25% +1
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Russell		 0.24% +6
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Homer		 0.23% +6
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Lester		 0.23% +1
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Otto		 0.22% +5
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Harvey		 0.22% -3
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Jim		 0.22% -1
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Clifford		 0.22% -7
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Luther		 0.21% -2
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Jacob		 0.21% -6
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Lloyd		 0.21% +5
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Guy		 0.21% 0
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Bernard		 0.21% +1
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Leroy		 0.20% +5
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Jessie		 0.19% 0
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Hugh		 0.19% -5
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Leslie		 0.19% +6
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Patrick		 0.18% +3
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Stanley		 0.18% +8
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Ed		 0.18% -3
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Eddie		 0.18% +9
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Anthony		 0.18% -9
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Leon		 0.17% -3
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Oliver		 0.17% 0
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Archie		 0.17% +3
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Horace		 0.17% +7
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Norman		 0.17% +5
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Philip		 0.17% +1
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Theodore		 0.16% -12
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Everett		 0.16% -8
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Ira		 0.16% -1
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Donald		 0.16% +10
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Alexander		 0.16% -2
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Allen		 0.16% -9
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Victor		 0.16% +2
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Cecil		 0.15% +2
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Girls
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Mary		 5.44% 0
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Anna		 2.41% 0
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Helen		 1.63% +1
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Margaret		 1.59% -1
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Elizabeth		 1.46% 0
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Ruth		 1.44% 0
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Florence		 1.41% +1
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Ethel		 1.37% -1
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Marie		 1.22% +1
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Emma		 1.20% -1
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Bertha		 1.06% +3
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Clara		 1.06% -1
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Minnie		 1.04% -1
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Edna		 1.04% +1
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Bessie		 1.03% -2
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Lillian		 1.01% 0
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Alice		 0.99% 0
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Grace		 0.99% +1
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Annie		 0.97% -1
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Mabel		 0.96% 0
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Rose		 0.92% +1
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Hazel		 0.91% +1
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Ida		 0.88% -2
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Gertrude		 0.86% +1
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Martha		 0.85% -1
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Pearl		 0.79% +2
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Edith		 0.79% -1
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Myrtle		 0.78% -1
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Frances		 0.74% 0
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Nellie		 0.74% +1
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Esther		 0.73% +5
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Elsie		 0.73% +1
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Sarah		 0.72% +1
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Eva		 0.72% +1
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Ella		 0.69% -4
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Laura		 0.67% -4
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Louise		 0.64% 0
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Catherine		 0.61% +3
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Mildred		 0.60% +11
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Agnes		 0.59% -2
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Gladys		 0.59% +6
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Carrie		 0.59% -3
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Irene		 0.58% 0
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Lillie		 0.57% -4
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Julia		 0.56% 0
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Hattie		 0.54% -2
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Josephine		 0.54% +1
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Jessie		 0.53% +7
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Cora		 0.52% -3
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Lena		 0.52% -8
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Mattie		 0.52% -2
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Mae		 0.48% +2
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Jennie		 0.48% -2
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Blanche		 0.47% +2
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Alma		 0.46% -3
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Maude		 0.46% -3
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Dorothy		 0.46% +1
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Ada		 0.46% +4
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Mamie		 0.45% 0
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Stella		 0.42% +1
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Lucy		 0.41% -4
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Fannie		 0.41% +1
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Viola		 0.41% +2
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Lula		 0.40% -4
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Katherine		 0.39% -1
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Ruby		 0.39% +1
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Maggie		 0.36% -1
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Dora		 0.36% +1
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Marion		 0.35% +20
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Nora		 0.34% -2
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Rosa		 0.34% -1
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Sadie		 0.34% +1
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Beatrice		 0.33% +3
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Beulah		 0.31% +5
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Ellen		 0.30% -3
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Pauline		 0.30% +4
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Vera		 0.30% +8
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Willie		 0.29% -3
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Effie		 0.29% -5
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May		 0.28% -9
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Marguerite		 0.28% +2
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Nettie		 0.27% 0
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Susie		 0.27% -5
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Daisy		 0.27% -3
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Lydia		 0.27% 0
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Della		 0.26% -9
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Evelyn		 0.26% +12
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Virginia		 0.25% +3
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Emily		 0.25% +4
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Kathryn		 0.24% +6
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Olive		 0.23% -3
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Sallie		 0.23% -2
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Nancy		 0.23% +5
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Georgia		 0.23% 0
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Lottie		 0.22% -8
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Flora		 0.22% -12
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Ann		 0.22% +8
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Eleanor		 0.22% +10
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Lizzie		 0.22% -7
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Katie		 0.22% -5
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Popularity extremes for the United States