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
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John		 5.97% 0
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William		 5.18% 0
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James		 4.10% 0
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George		 3.12% 0
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Charles		 2.64% 0
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Joseph		 2.39% +1
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Robert		 2.20% -1
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Frank		 2.08% 0
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Edward		 1.66% 0
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Henry		 1.62% 0
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Thomas		 1.57% 0
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Walter		 1.49% 0
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Harry		 1.38% 0
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Arthur		 1.15% +1
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Albert		 1.14% +1
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Willie		 1.12% -2
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Clarence		 1.04% +1
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Fred		 0.98% -1
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Paul		 0.80% 0
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Roy		 0.79% +1
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Harold		 0.79% -1
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Raymond		 0.77% +1
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Earl		 0.71% +5
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Carl		 0.71% +5
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Louis		 0.69% +1
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Richard		 0.68% -2
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Joe		 0.65% -5
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Ernest		 0.60% +2
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Ralph		 0.59% +2
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David		 0.58% +2
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Charlie		 0.57% -6
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Jack		 0.56% -5
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Samuel		 0.54% 0
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Howard		 0.51% +1
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Herbert		 0.50% +1
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Francis		 0.47% +5
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Lawrence		 0.46% +3
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Elmer		 0.45% 0
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Alfred		 0.44% +3
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Andrew		 0.41% -3
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Sam		 0.41% -6
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Leo		 0.39% +4
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Theodore		 0.39% +18
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Eugene		 0.39% +1
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Lee		 0.37% -6
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Floyd		 0.37% +2
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Oscar		 0.37% 0
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Daniel		 0.36% -4
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Jesse		 0.36% +1
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Russell		 0.34% +12
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Herman		 0.34% -2
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Michael		 0.33% -1
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Will		 0.32% -10
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Leonard		 0.31% 0
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Clyde		 0.31% +1
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Benjamin		 0.30% +1
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Peter		 0.30% +2
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Claude		 0.30% +1
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Ray		 0.29% -4
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Frederick		 0.29% +4
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Lester		 0.29% -1
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Anthony		 0.28% +5
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Lewis		 0.27% -11
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Martin		 0.26% +6
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Edwin		 0.26% +9
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Eddie		 0.26% -3
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Tom		 0.25% -15
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Lloyd		 0.25% +10
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Clifford		 0.24% -3
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Cecil		 0.24% +6
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Edgar		 0.23% 0
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Leroy		 0.23% -7
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Ben		 0.22% 0
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Homer		 0.22% +6
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Chester		 0.22% -3
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Harvey		 0.22% +6
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Donald		 0.22% +2
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Kenneth		 0.21% +12
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Luther		 0.21% +3
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Bernard		 0.21% +6
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Jim		 0.21% -13
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Stanley		 0.21% -4
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Norman		 0.21% -1
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Philip		 0.20% +10
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Jessie		 0.20% -16
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Everett		 0.19% +14
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Leon		 0.18% -2
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Allen		 0.17% +16
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Leslie		 0.17% +2
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Milton		 0.17% +8
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Hugh		 0.17% -3
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Oliver		 0.16% +3
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Patrick		 0.16% -4
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Glenn		 0.16% +24
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Alvin		 0.16% +9
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Horace		 0.15% +1
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Melvin		 0.15% +5
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Jacob		 0.15% +3
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Guy		 0.15% 0
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Victor		 0.15% -8
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Mary		 5.17% 0
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Helen		 2.06% 0
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Anna		 1.94% 0
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Margaret		 1.74% 0
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Ruth		 1.56% 0
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Elizabeth		 1.27% 0
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Marie		 1.24% +2
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Florence		 1.23% -1
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Ethel		 1.21% -1
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Lillian		 1.06% 0
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Gladys		 1.05% +10
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Alice		 1.01% +2
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Edna		 0.98% -1
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Mildred		 0.95% +6
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Grace		 0.94% +2
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Annie		 0.94% -5
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Emma		 0.93% -4
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Clara		 0.91% +1
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Bertha		 0.89% -3
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Rose		 0.87% -2
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Bessie		 0.86% -6
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Dorothy		 0.86% +5
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Hazel		 0.83% +6
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Mabel		 0.83% +2
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Frances		 0.82% +1
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Minnie		 0.80% -4
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Gertrude		 0.77% -4
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Myrtle		 0.74% +4
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Martha		 0.74% -1
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Irene		 0.74% +1
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Pearl		 0.73% -7
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Edith		 0.73% +4
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Esther		 0.73% +6
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Ida		 0.72% -4
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Elsie		 0.69% +3
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Louise		 0.65% -1
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Eva		 0.64% -4
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Catherine		 0.63% -4
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Agnes		 0.60% +2
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Sarah		 0.60% -3
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Nellie		 0.57% +2
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Ella		 0.56% 0
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Josephine		 0.56% +4
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Laura		 0.55% +1
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Lillie		 0.54% -5
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Julia		 0.54% 0
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Viola		 0.52% +2
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Carrie		 0.49% 0
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Ruby		 0.48% +2
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Mattie		 0.48% -6
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Lena		 0.48% +1
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Alma		 0.47% +5
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Beatrice		 0.47% +3
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Mae		 0.45% 0
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Jessie		 0.44% -2
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Hattie		 0.44% -6
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Thelma		 0.43% +16
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Cora		 0.40% -3
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Blanche		 0.40% +1
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Mamie		 0.39% -1
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Lucy		 0.39% 0
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Evelyn		 0.38% +8
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Marion		 0.38% +3
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Pauline		 0.37% +7
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Stella		 0.37% +3
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Ada		 0.36% +6
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Lula		 0.36% -5
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Willie		 0.35% -10
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Jennie		 0.35% -5
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Lucille		 0.35% -3
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Katherine		 0.35% -6
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Fannie		 0.34% -10
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Vera		 0.34% +3
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Beulah		 0.34% +4
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Rosa		 0.33% -6
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Virginia		 0.33% -2
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Maude		 0.32% 0
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Leona		 0.31% +7
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Dora		 0.30% 0
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Maggie		 0.29% -5
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Nora		 0.29% +2
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Ellen		 0.28% 0
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Marguerite		 0.28% +3
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Eleanor		 0.27% +4
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Sadie		 0.27% -1
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Bernice		 0.26% +10
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Daisy		 0.26% -6
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Susie		 0.26% -8
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Ann		 0.25% +3
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Kathryn		 0.24% +3
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Violet		 0.24% +17
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Hilda		 0.23% +9
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Nettie		 0.22% +1
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Theresa		 0.22% +8
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May		 0.22% -4
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Georgia		 0.22% -9
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Effie		 0.21% -8
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Olive		 0.21% -3
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Emily		 0.21% +6
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Della		 0.21% -10
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Popularity extremes for the United States