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		 5.88% 0
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William		 4.88% 0
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James		 4.24% 0
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George		 3.06% 0
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Charles		 2.48% 0
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Joseph		 2.41% +1
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Robert		 2.35% -1
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Frank		 2.05% 0
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Edward		 1.75% 0
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Thomas		 1.52% +1
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Henry		 1.49% -1
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Walter		 1.42% 0
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Harry		 1.27% 0
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Willie		 1.12% 0
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Arthur		 1.11% 0
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Albert		 1.03% 0
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Clarence		 0.98% 0
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Fred		 0.93% 0
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Paul		 0.84% +1
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Harold		 0.82% -1
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Raymond		 0.81% 0
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Roy		 0.75% 0
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Carl		 0.70% +1
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Joe		 0.69% -1
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Louis		 0.69% 0
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Richard		 0.67% 0
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Earl		 0.65% 0
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Jack		 0.64% +4
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Ralph		 0.62% -1
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Ernest		 0.59% -1
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Samuel		 0.57% +2
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Charlie		 0.57% -2
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David		 0.55% -3
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Herbert		 0.52% +2
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Francis		 0.51% +3
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Theodore		 0.51% -2
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Howard		 0.49% -2
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Leo		 0.49% +6
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Alfred		 0.43% 0
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Elmer		 0.43% 0
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Sam		 0.43% 0
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Andrew		 0.43% 0
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Lawrence		 0.41% -6
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Eugene		 0.37% 0
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Lee		 0.37% +1
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Floyd		 0.37% +1
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Michael		 0.36% +1
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Herman		 0.35% +1
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Leonard		 0.35% +3
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Daniel		 0.33% -5
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Oscar		 0.33% +4
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Clyde		 0.32% +8
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Lester		 0.31% +5
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Anthony		 0.31% 0
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Ray		 0.31% +2
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Russell		 0.30% -3
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Jesse		 0.30% -7
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Peter		 0.29% -7
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Stanley		 0.28% +10
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Donald		 0.28% +3
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Clifford		 0.27% +10
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Edwin		 0.27% -6
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Frederick		 0.26% +7
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Leroy		 0.26% -2
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Lewis		 0.26% -7
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Cecil		 0.26% -1
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Kenneth		 0.26% +11
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Chester		 0.25% +6
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Benjamin		 0.25% -8
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Eddie		 0.24% -4
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Claude		 0.23% -3
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Lloyd		 0.23% -5
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Tom		 0.23% +2
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Harvey		 0.23% +8
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Will		 0.23% -10
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Leon		 0.22% +10
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Martin		 0.22% -5
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Jessie		 0.22% -5
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Bernard		 0.21% +4
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Luther		 0.21% +1
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Ben		 0.20% -2
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Edgar		 0.20% -5
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Homer		 0.20% -3
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Jim		 0.20% -6
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Philip		 0.19% +5
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Norman		 0.18% -2
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Johnnie		 0.18% +4
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Melvin		 0.18% -2
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Leslie		 0.18% -4
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Alvin		 0.17% +9
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Allen		 0.17% -2
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Milton		 0.16% +3
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Oliver		 0.16% +15
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Patrick		 0.16% +6
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Everett		 0.16% -7
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Stephen		 0.16% -2
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Glenn		 0.15% +9
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Roosevelt		 0.15% +17
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Victor		 0.15% -1
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Alexander		 0.15% -7
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Mary		 5.13% 0
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Helen		 2.20% 0
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Anna		 1.83% 0
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Margaret		 1.81% 0
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Ruth		 1.62% 0
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Elizabeth		 1.34% 0
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Marie		 1.25% +1
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Florence		 1.25% -1
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Ethel		 1.17% 0
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Mildred		 1.11% +4
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Dorothy		 1.11% +4
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Alice		 1.08% -2
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Lillian		 1.07% -2
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Gladys		 0.96% -2
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Edna		 0.96% -2
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Grace		 0.94% +1
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Annie		 0.92% -1
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Rose		 0.89% +2
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Frances		 0.85% +4
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Clara		 0.84% +1
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Bessie		 0.84% -2
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Bertha		 0.83% 0
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Emma		 0.83% -5
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Gertrude		 0.81% +3
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Mabel		 0.78% -1
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Hazel		 0.77% -1
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Pearl		 0.74% +1
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Irene		 0.72% -2
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Martha		 0.71% +1
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Myrtle		 0.71% +3
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Louise		 0.70% +5
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Catherine		 0.69% -1
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Edith		 0.68% 0
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Esther		 0.68% +1
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Minnie		 0.66% -6
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Eva		 0.64% +1
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Ida		 0.64% -3
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Elsie		 0.62% 0
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Agnes		 0.58% +1
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Josephine		 0.57% +2
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Sarah		 0.56% -2
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Ruby		 0.55% +5
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Laura		 0.54% 0
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Viola		 0.54% +4
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Nellie		 0.54% -4
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Lillie		 0.53% -2
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Thelma		 0.53% +5
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Julia		 0.52% -2
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Beatrice		 0.52% 0
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Ella		 0.51% -5
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Mattie		 0.46% 0
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Carrie		 0.45% -2
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Alma		 0.45% +2
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Evelyn		 0.44% +5
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Jessie		 0.43% -1
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Lena		 0.43% 0
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Lucille		 0.43% +4
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Mae		 0.43% -5
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Blanche		 0.42% -1
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Hattie		 0.40% -3
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Marion		 0.38% +5
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Pauline		 0.38% +8
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Virginia		 0.37% +4
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Fannie		 0.37% +8
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Stella		 0.37% -1
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Katherine		 0.37% +2
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Willie		 0.36% -3
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Lucy		 0.36% -3
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Mamie		 0.36% -8
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Cora		 0.35% -8
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Jennie		 0.34% -2
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Beulah		 0.33% +5
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Lula		 0.33% -2
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Rosa		 0.33% +1
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Vera		 0.32% -2
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Leona		 0.32% 0
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Bernice		 0.31% +4
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Ada		 0.30% -4
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Eleanor		 0.30% 0
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Maggie		 0.28% -2
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Dora		 0.28% +1
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Daisy		 0.28% +3
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Maude		 0.28% -2
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Ann		 0.28% -1
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Ellen		 0.28% -2
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Kathryn		 0.26% +1
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Nora		 0.26% -1
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Hilda		 0.25% +6
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Sadie		 0.25% 0
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Susie		 0.24% -3
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Marguerite		 0.24% -1
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Lois		 0.24% +6
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Violet		 0.23% +1
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Georgia		 0.23% -3
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Doris		 0.23% -2
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Della		 0.22% 0
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Olive		 0.22% +2
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Betty		 0.21% +3
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Velma		 0.21% +14
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Anne		 0.21% +6
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Popularity extremes for the United States