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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Howard		 0.69% +1
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Clarence		 0.71% -2
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Louis		 0.74% -3
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Carl		 0.75% +2
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Ralph		 0.77% 0
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Donald		 0.81% +3
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Harry		 0.96% 0
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Arthur		 0.97% 0
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Albert		 1.00% -2
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Raymond		 1.02% 0
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Richard		 1.04% +2
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Henry		 1.15% -2
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Paul		 1.17% 0
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Harold		 1.19% +2
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Walter		 1.28% -1
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Thomas		 1.30% +1
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Frank		 1.70% 0
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Edward		 1.80% 0
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Charles		 2.49% 0
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George		 2.53% 0
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Joseph		 2.62% 0
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Robert		 3.26% 0
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James		 3.83% 0
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William		 4.38% 0
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John		 5.40% 0
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Martha		 0.71% +2
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Ruby		 0.71% 0
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Ethel		 0.72% -2
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Josephine		 0.74% +1
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Gladys		 0.77% -1
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Edna		 0.80% -1
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Catherine		 0.80% -1
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Louise		 0.81% -1
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Irene		 0.81% +5
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Rose		 0.92% -1
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Lillian		 0.93% +1
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Florence		 0.99% -1
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Alice		 1.03% -1
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Virginia		 1.07% +2
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Marie		 1.11% -1
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Evelyn		 1.13% +1
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Frances		 1.25% 0
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Elizabeth		 1.38% 0
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Anna		 1.48% -1
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Mildred		 1.49% +1
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Ruth		 2.14% 0
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Margaret		 2.25% 0
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Dorothy		 2.46% 0
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Helen		 3.02% 0
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Mary		 5.68% 0
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Popularity extremes for the United States