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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John		 5.41% 0 +1,809 +3.6%
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William		 4.42% 0 +2,004 +5.0%
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James		 3.89% 0 +1,770 +5.0%
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Robert		 3.67% 0 +3,479 +11.0%
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Joseph		 2.58% 0 +879 +3.7%
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George		 2.52% +1 +815 +3.5%
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Charles		 2.52% -1 +531 +2.2%
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Edward		 1.82% 0 +496 +2.9%
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Frank		 1.64% 0 +478 +3.1%
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Thomas		 1.32% 0 +613 +5.1%
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Walter		 1.31% 0 +822 +7.0%
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Harold		 1.17% +1 +496 +4.6%
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Paul		 1.16% -1 +366 +3.4%
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Richard		 1.14% +1 +780 +7.7%
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Henry		 1.12% -1 +40 +0.4%
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Raymond		 1.04% 0 +390 +4.1%
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Arthur		 0.97% +1 +361 +4.0%
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Albert		 0.96% -1 +113 +1.2%
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Harry		 0.92% 0 +380 +4.5%
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Donald		 0.91% 0 +992 +12.8%
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Ralph		 0.77% 0 +305 +4.3%
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Jack		 0.72% +4 +712 +11.6%
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Louis		 0.71% -1 -46 -0.7%
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Carl		 0.70% -1 -87 -1.3%
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Clarence		 0.69% -1 +282 +4.5%
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Howard		 0.67% -1 +239 +3.9%
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Kenneth		 0.64% 0 +129 +2.1%
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David		 0.64% 0 +287 +4.9%
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Fred		 0.62% 0 +241 +4.2%
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Francis		 0.61% +1 +149 +2.6%
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Willie		 0.60% -1 +91 +1.6%
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Earl		 0.59% 0 +79 +1.4%
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Roy		 0.58% 0 +259 +4.9%
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Stanley		 0.54% 0 +56 +1.1%
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Joe		 0.54% 0 +232 +4.7%
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Lawrence		 0.53% +2 +352 +7.4%
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Ernest		 0.53% -1 +232 +4.8%
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Anthony		 0.52% -1 +278 +5.9%
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Eugene		 0.51% 0 +227 +4.9%
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Herbert		 0.50% 0 +282 +6.3%
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Leonard		 0.49% +1 +366 +8.5%
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Samuel		 0.47% -1 +91 +2.1%
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Alfred		 0.46% 0 +146 +3.4%
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Michael		 0.45% 0 +79 +1.9%
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Elmer		 0.40% 0 -124 -3.2%
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Norman		 0.40% +2 +179 +5.0%
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Leo		 0.39% 0 +158 +4.4%
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Andrew		 0.39% -2 +29 +0.8%
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Bernard		 0.39% 0 +235 +6.8%
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Peter		 0.36% 0 +94 +2.8%
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Frederick		 0.36% +1 +130 +3.9%
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Russell		 0.36% -1 +106 +3.2%
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Lloyd		 0.36% +5 +491 +16.8%
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Daniel		 0.35% +1 +211 +6.7%
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Edwin		 0.35% -2 +47 +1.4%
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Chester		 0.35% -2 +126 +3.9%
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Melvin		 0.33% 0 +171 +5.7%
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Herman		 0.31% -2 -69 -2.3%
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Clifford		 0.31% +2 +202 +7.3%
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Leroy		 0.31% +3 +252 +9.3%
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Lester		 0.30% -2 -53 -1.8%
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Floyd		 0.29% -2 +37 +1.3%
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Theodore		 0.29% +2 +168 +6.4%
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Clyde		 0.28% -2 +12 +0.4%
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Vincent		 0.28% +2 +136 +5.4%
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Philip		 0.27% +4 +135 +5.6%
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Charlie		 0.26% +1 +120 +5.0%
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Marvin		 0.26% -2 -12 -0.5%
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Gerald		 0.26% +7 +226 +10.0%
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Lewis		 0.26% +1 +103 +4.3%
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Vernon		 0.26% +4 +175 +7.6%
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Sam		 0.26% +2 +142 +6.1%
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Woodrow		 0.25% -9 -240 -9.0%
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Ray		 0.25% -1 +92 +3.9%
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Milton		 0.25% -3 +49 +2.1%
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Benjamin		 0.25% +3 +200 +9.1%
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Martin		 0.24% +4 +214 +10.1%
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Victor		 0.23% 0 -8 -0.4%
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Jesse		 0.23% -2 -30 -1.3%
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Willard		 0.23% -11 -225 -9.3%
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Alvin		 0.22% +1 +49 +2.3%
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Leon		 0.22% +3 +148 +7.6%
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Cecil		 0.22% -3 -80 -3.7%
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Gordon		 0.21% +6 +227 +12.7%
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Lee		 0.21% -2 -12 -0.6%
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Glenn		 0.21% -2 +27 +1.4%
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Oscar		 0.20% -1 +45 +2.3%
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Edgar		 0.20% 0 +46 +2.5%
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Stephen		 0.20% -2 +15 +0.8%
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Harvey		 0.19% +2 +45 +2.6%
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Arnold		 0.19% -2 -77 -4.1%
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Wilbur		 0.18% +2 +69 +4.1%
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Warren		 0.18% +9 +194 +12.5%
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Everett		 0.18% -3 -30 -1.7%
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Sidney		 0.18% 0 +68 +4.1%
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Wayne		 0.18% +2 +128 +8.1%
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Alexander		 0.17% +2 +80 +5.1%
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Claude		 0.17% -5 -108 -6.2%
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Morris		 0.17% -2 +6 +0.4%
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Allen		 0.17% +1 +20 +1.3%
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Girls
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Rank Name Pct. Rank Num. Pct.
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Mary		 5.72% 0 +2,842 +4.6%
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Helen		 3.05% 0 +1,589 +4.9%
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Dorothy		 2.57% 0 +1,434 +5.2%
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Margaret		 2.28% 0 +607 +2.4%
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Ruth		 2.10% 0 +378 +1.6%
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Mildred		 1.45% 0 +624 +4.0%
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Anna		 1.35% 0 -68 -0.4%
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Elizabeth		 1.35% 0 +192 +1.3%
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Frances		 1.28% 0 +617 +4.5%
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Virginia		 1.27% 0 +1,774 +14.2%
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Evelyn		 1.12% 0 +643 +5.4%
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Marie		 1.05% 0 +131 +1.1%
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Alice		 0.98% 0 +271 +2.5%
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Florence		 0.94% 0 +127 +1.2%
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Lillian		 0.88% +1 +251 +2.6%
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Rose		 0.87% -1 +178 +1.9%
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Irene		 0.82% 0 +128 +1.4%
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Catherine		 0.77% +2 +220 +2.6%
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Louise		 0.76% -1 -46 -0.5%
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Edna		 0.75% -1 -203 -2.4%
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Josephine		 0.74% 0 +199 +2.4%
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Martha		 0.74% +2 +651 +8.6%
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Gladys		 0.72% -1 +56 +0.7%
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Ethel		 0.70% +1 +263 +3.5%
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Doris		 0.70% +7 +658 +9.2%
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Eleanor		 0.68% +1 +263 +3.6%
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Ruby		 0.68% -4 -24 -0.3%
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Edith		 0.67% 0 +226 +3.1%
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Lucille		 0.67% +1 +288 +4.0%
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Grace		 0.66% -4 -88 -1.2%
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Hazel		 0.65% 0 +71 +1.0%
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Thelma		 0.65% -3 -45 -0.6%
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Pauline		 0.61% 0 +241 +3.6%
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Betty		 0.59% +10 +1,503 +29.3%
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Annie		 0.57% +1 +299 +4.9%
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Marjorie		 0.57% +1 +533 +9.1%
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Gertrude		 0.56% -2 +57 +0.9%
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Esther		 0.56% -4 -140 -2.2%
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Beatrice		 0.52% -1 +253 +4.5%
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Jean		 0.51% +5 +611 +12.0%
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Clara		 0.50% -2 +82 +1.5%
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Bernice		 0.49% 0 +363 +7.0%
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Lois		 0.49% 0 +336 +6.5%
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Ann		 0.49% -4 +112 +2.1%
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Marion		 0.48% +2 +338 +6.7%
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Emma		 0.46% -5 -96 -1.8%
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Julia		 0.45% -1 +12 +0.2%
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Agnes		 0.45% +2 +213 +4.4%
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Katherine		 0.44% +2 +155 +3.2%
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Elsie		 0.44% -2 -88 -1.8%
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Bertha		 0.43% -2 -19 -0.4%
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Sarah		 0.42% 0 -32 -0.7%
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Anne		 0.41% 0 +32 +0.7%
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Eva		 0.38% +1 -51 -1.2%
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Jane		 0.38% +7 +432 +11.3%
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Ida		 0.38% -2 -117 -2.7%
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Pearl		 0.38% 0 +159 +3.9%
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Myrtle		 0.36% 0 +86 +2.2%
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Viola		 0.36% 0 +92 +2.3%
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Kathryn		 0.36% 0 +51 +1.3%
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Bessie		 0.35% -5 -195 -4.7%
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Stella		 0.35% +1 +54 +1.4%
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Rita		 0.34% +4 +393 +11.3%
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Nellie		 0.34% -3 -54 -1.4%
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Laura		 0.34% -1 +63 +1.7%
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Vera		 0.33% 0 +92 +2.5%
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Barbara		 0.32% +7 +423 +13.6%
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Mabel		 0.31% -3 -181 -4.9%
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Sylvia		 0.31% -1 +55 +1.6%
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Jessie		 0.31% -2 +51 +1.5%
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Alma		 0.30% -1 +4 +0.1%
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Willie		 0.30% +1 +265 +8.5%
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June		 0.30% +13 +530 +18.7%
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Marian		 0.29% -2 +69 +2.2%
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Minnie		 0.29% -4 -12 -0.4%
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Charlotte		 0.29% +4 +234 +7.8%
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Genevieve		 0.28% -1 +129 +4.2%
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Marguerite		 0.28% 0 +127 +4.2%
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Vivian		 0.28% -2 +70 +2.3%
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Leona		 0.28% -5 +29 +0.9%
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Jennie		 0.28% -2 +99 +3.3%
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Wilma		 0.27% 0 +109 +3.7%
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Ella		 0.27% -2 +89 +3.0%
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Violet		 0.27% -1 +105 +3.6%
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Lena		 0.27% 0 +135 +4.7%
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Lillie		 0.26% +2 +106 +3.8%
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Juanita		 0.26% +3 +285 +10.8%
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Lucy		 0.26% -3 +52 +1.8%
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Geraldine		 0.26% +5 +348 +13.7%
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Ellen		 0.25% -3 +17 +0.6%
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Blanche		 0.25% -2 +122 +4.5%
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Phyllis		 0.24% +3 +269 +11.1%
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Maxine		 0.24% +3 +223 +9.2%
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Mattie		 0.23% -1 +16 +0.6%
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Opal		 0.23% -4 -95 -3.6%
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Mae		 0.22% -4 -100 -3.8%
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Theresa		 0.22% +1 +142 +6.0%
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Nancy		 0.22% +4 +245 +11.3%
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Velma		 0.22% +1 +92 +4.0%
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Sophie		 0.21% +1 +184 +8.4%
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Popularity extremes for the United States