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
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Rank Name Pct. Rank Num. Pct.
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Alexander		 0.17% +4 +152 +10.6%
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Maurice		 0.17% +2 +144 +10.0%
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Wayne		 0.17% -1 +70 +4.6%
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Morris		 0.18% -4 -42 -2.5%
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Hugh		 0.18% +15 +301 +22.8%
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Sidney		 0.18% -1 +44 +2.7%
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Wilbur		 0.18% -2 -5 -0.3%
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Claude		 0.19% +3 +128 +8.0%
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Harvey		 0.19% +3 +150 +9.3%
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Everett		 0.19% -2 +33 +1.9%
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Gordon		 0.19% 0 +75 +4.4%
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Arnold		 0.20% +2 +167 +9.9%
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Edgar		 0.20% -3 -21 -1.1%
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Stephen		 0.20% -1 +27 +1.5%
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Oscar		 0.21% +2 +128 +7.2%
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Leon		 0.21% -3 -23 -1.2%
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Glenn		 0.21% +3 +128 +6.9%
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Lee		 0.22% +1 +100 +5.2%
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Alvin		 0.23% -1 +87 +4.3%
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Martin		 0.23% -2 +52 +2.5%
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Cecil		 0.24% -4 0 0.0%
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Benjamin		 0.24% -8 -55 -2.5%
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Victor		 0.24% -4 +4 +0.2%
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Jesse		 0.24% 0 +119 +5.6%
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Gerald		 0.25% +2 +175 +8.4%
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Vernon		 0.25% +5 +228 +11.1%
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Sam		 0.25% -6 -26 -1.1%
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Ray		 0.25% -6 -31 -1.3%
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Milton		 0.25% +1 +120 +5.4%
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Lewis		 0.26% -1 +67 +2.9%
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Philip		 0.26% -1 +81 +3.5%
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Willard		 0.26% -11 -476 -16.5%
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Charlie		 0.26% +7 +223 +10.2%
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Vincent		 0.27% -2 +9 +0.4%
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Marvin		 0.27% +6 +302 +13.6%
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Theodore		 0.29% -1 +137 +5.5%
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Woodrow		 0.29% +19 +702 +35.7%
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Leroy		 0.29% +3 +249 +10.2%
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Clyde		 0.29% +1 +189 +7.5%
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Clifford		 0.30% 0 +26 +0.9%
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Floyd		 0.30% -1 -41 -1.5%
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Lester		 0.32% -2 -36 -1.2%
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Lloyd		 0.32% +4 +273 +10.3%
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Melvin		 0.32% +3 +204 +7.3%
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Herman		 0.33% 0 +60 +2.0%
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Daniel		 0.34% 0 +147 +4.9%
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Chester		 0.35% 0 +169 +5.6%
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Edwin		 0.36% 0 +148 +4.7%
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Frederick		 0.36% 0 +166 +5.3%
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Russell		 0.36% 0 +80 +2.5%
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Peter		 0.37% -2 +68 +2.1%
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Bernard		 0.38% -1 +174 +5.3%
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Norman		 0.39% +2 +347 +10.6%
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Leo		 0.39% 0 +94 +2.7%
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Andrew		 0.40% 0 +150 +4.2%
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Elmer		 0.43% 0 +134 +3.5%
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Michael		 0.46% -1 +129 +3.2%
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Alfred		 0.46% -1 +47 +1.1%
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Leonard		 0.47% +2 +335 +8.4%
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Samuel		 0.48% -2 +48 +1.1%
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Herbert		 0.48% 0 +122 +2.8%
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Eugene		 0.50% +2 +325 +7.5%
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Lawrence		 0.51% -1 +54 +1.2%
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Anthony		 0.51% -1 +27 +0.6%
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Ernest		 0.52% -1 +36 +0.8%
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Joe		 0.53% +3 +263 +5.7%
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Stanley		 0.56% 0 +323 +6.7%
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Roy		 0.58% -1 +275 +5.4%
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Earl		 0.60% +1 +645 +13.1%
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Francis		 0.61% -2 +58 +1.0%
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Willie		 0.61% 0 +226 +4.2%
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Fred		 0.62% -3 -33 -0.6%
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David		 0.63% +3 +419 +7.8%
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Kenneth		 0.65% +1 +331 +5.8%
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Jack		 0.67% +1 +414 +7.2%
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Howard		 0.67% 0 +68 +1.1%
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Clarence		 0.68% 0 +37 +0.6%
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Carl		 0.74% -1 +173 +2.6%
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Louis		 0.74% +1 +299 +4.6%
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Ralph		 0.77% 0 +270 +4.0%
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Donald		 0.84% 0 +622 +8.7%
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Harry		 0.92% 0 +6 +0.1%
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Arthur		 0.97% 0 +357 +4.2%
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Albert		 0.98% 0 +219 +2.5%
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Raymond		 1.04% 0 +585 +6.5%
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Richard		 1.10% 0 +991 +10.8%
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Henry		 1.15% 0 +518 +5.1%
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Harold		 1.16% -1 +254 +2.4%
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Paul		 1.17% +1 +462 +4.5%
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Walter		 1.27% 0 +505 +4.5%
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Thomas		 1.30% 0 +508 +4.4%
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Frank		 1.66% 0 +285 +1.9%
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Edward		 1.84% 0 +1,116 +7.0%
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George		 2.53% -1 +1,074 +4.8%
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Charles		 2.56% +1 +1,652 +7.5%
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Joseph		 2.59% 0 +832 +3.6%
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Robert		 3.44% 0 +3,004 +10.5%
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James		 3.85% 0 +1,795 +5.3%
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William		 4.38% 0 +1,854 +4.8%
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John		 5.42% 0 +2,467 +5.2%
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Girls
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Rank Name Pct. Rank Num. Pct.
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Emily		 0.20% -1 +122 +5.8%
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Velma		 0.21% -5 +32 +1.4%
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Theresa		 0.22% -5 +39 +1.7%
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Beulah		 0.22% -2 +133 +5.9%
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Maxine		 0.22% +2 +314 +14.9%
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Phyllis		 0.22% +5 +339 +16.2%
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Geraldine		 0.24% +14 +683 +36.6%
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Mattie		 0.24% -2 +122 +5.0%
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Mae		 0.24% -3 +121 +4.9%
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Opal		 0.24% -1 +154 +6.2%
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Juanita		 0.24% +2 +246 +10.3%
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Blanche		 0.25% -2 +124 +4.8%
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Lillie		 0.26% -4 +138 +5.1%
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Ellen		 0.26% +1 +257 +10.0%
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June		 0.26% +10 +701 +32.8%
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Lena		 0.26% -8 -58 -2.0%
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Lucy		 0.27% -5 +63 +2.2%
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Violet		 0.27% -1 +169 +6.1%
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Wilma		 0.27% -2 +189 +6.8%
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Ella		 0.27% -6 +11 +0.4%
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Charlotte		 0.28% +1 +238 +8.6%
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Jennie		 0.28% -6 -5 -0.2%
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Marguerite		 0.28% +6 +347 +12.9%
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Vivian		 0.28% +1 +192 +6.7%
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Genevieve		 0.28% 0 +135 +4.6%
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Leona		 0.28% -1 +114 +3.8%
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Barbara		 0.29% +9 +408 +15.1%
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Willie		 0.29% -1 +75 +2.5%
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Marian		 0.30% +14 +586 +22.4%
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Minnie		 0.30% -3 +4 +0.1%
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Alma		 0.31% 0 +155 +4.8%
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Jessie		 0.31% -2 +58 +1.7%
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Sylvia		 0.31% -1 +130 +4.0%
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Rita		 0.32% +4 +414 +13.5%
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Vera		 0.33% -1 +162 +4.7%
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Mabel		 0.34% -3 -3 -0.1%
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Laura		 0.35% -3 +21 +0.6%
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Stella		 0.35% +1 +161 +4.4%
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Jane		 0.35% +7 +562 +17.2%
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Nellie		 0.36% +2 +183 +5.0%
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Kathryn		 0.36% 0 +155 +4.1%
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Viola		 0.36% 0 +93 +2.4%
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Myrtle		 0.37% 0 +95 +2.5%
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Pearl		 0.38% -1 +97 +2.4%
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Bessie		 0.38% +1 +234 +6.0%
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Eva		 0.40% 0 +258 +6.3%
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Ida		 0.40% 0 +239 +5.8%
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Anne		 0.42% -1 +238 +5.5%
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Sarah		 0.44% -1 +383 +8.7%
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Katherine		 0.44% -2 +313 +7.0%
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Agnes		 0.45% -5 +58 +1.2%
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Bertha		 0.45% -3 +115 +2.4%
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Elsie		 0.46% -7 +60 +1.2%
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Marion		 0.46% +3 +577 +12.9%
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Julia		 0.47% -2 +235 +4.9%
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Jean		 0.47% +3 +478 +10.4%
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Betty		 0.47% +9 +955 +22.8%
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Lois		 0.47% +4 +374 +7.8%
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Bernice		 0.48% 0 +246 +5.0%
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Emma		 0.48% -1 +173 +3.4%
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Ann		 0.49% +3 +448 +9.2%
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Clara		 0.51% -1 +259 +4.9%
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Beatrice		 0.51% -1 +244 +4.6%
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Marjorie		 0.54% +2 +747 +14.6%
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Annie		 0.56% 0 +169 +2.8%
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Gertrude		 0.58% 0 +166 +2.7%
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Esther		 0.59% -1 +100 +1.6%
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Pauline		 0.61% -1 +321 +5.1%
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Doris		 0.66% +2 +869 +13.8%
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Hazel		 0.66% -5 +122 +1.7%
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Lucille		 0.67% -1 +235 +3.4%
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Thelma		 0.67% +1 +528 +7.8%
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Edith		 0.67% +3 +545 +8.1%
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Eleanor		 0.68% +1 +370 +5.3%
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Grace		 0.69% +1 +417 +5.9%
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Ethel		 0.70% -2 +222 +3.0%
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Martha		 0.70% +1 +394 +5.5%
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Ruby		 0.71% +1 +449 +6.2%
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Gladys		 0.74% -1 +162 +2.1%
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Josephine		 0.75% +1 +521 +6.8%
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Catherine		 0.78% -1 +288 +3.5%
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Edna		 0.79% +1 +481 +5.9%
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Louise		 0.80% 0 +317 +3.8%
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Irene		 0.83% 0 +712 +8.6%
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Lillian		 0.88% -1 +46 +0.5%
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Rose		 0.89% +1 +230 +2.5%
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Florence		 0.96% 0 +307 +3.0%
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Alice		 0.99% 0 +194 +1.8%
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Marie		 1.08% -1 +319 +2.8%
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Evelyn		 1.10% -1 +294 +2.5%
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Virginia		 1.15% +2 +1,535 +14.0%
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Frances		 1.27% 0 +959 +7.5%
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Elizabeth		 1.38% 0 +836 +5.9%
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Anna		 1.40% 0 +109 +0.7%
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Mildred		 1.44% 0 +379 +2.5%
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Ruth		 2.14% 0 +1,312 +6.0%
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Margaret		 2.30% 0 +1,899 +8.2%
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Dorothy		 2.53% 0 +2,264 +9.0%
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Helen		 3.01% 0 +1,796 +5.8%
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Mary		 5.66% 0 +3,251 +5.6%
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Popularity extremes for the United States