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		 5.27% 0 -3,033 -5.4%
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William		 4.33% 0 -1,320 -2.9%
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James		 4.18% 0 +274 +0.7%
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Robert		 4.04% 0 +408 +1.0%
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Charles		 2.48% 0 -1,729 -6.4%
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George		 2.48% 0 -1,147 -4.4%
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Joseph		 2.39% 0 -1,998 -7.6%
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Edward		 1.83% 0 -953 -4.9%
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Frank		 1.55% 0 -1,316 -7.7%
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Thomas		 1.32% 0 -476 -3.4%
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Walter		 1.27% 0 -458 -3.4%
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Richard		 1.23% 0 +118 +1.0%
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Harold		 1.18% 0 -164 -1.3%
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Raymond		 1.12% +1 -221 -1.9%
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Paul		 1.11% -1 -450 -3.8%
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Henry		 1.05% 0 -741 -6.5%
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Donald		 0.98% +1 -70 -0.7%
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Albert		 0.95% +1 -328 -3.3%
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Arthur		 0.94% -2 -565 -5.6%
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Harry		 0.89% 0 -906 -9.2%
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Jack		 0.81% 0 -79 -0.9%
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Ralph		 0.76% 0 -451 -5.5%
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Willie		 0.68% +6 +405 +6.2%
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Howard		 0.67% +2 -84 -1.2%
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Clarence		 0.67% -2 -363 -5.1%
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Kenneth		 0.67% +1 -13 -0.2%
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David		 0.66% +1 +90 +1.4%
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Louis		 0.66% -4 -421 -5.9%
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Carl		 0.64% -4 -528 -7.5%
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Fred		 0.60% +3 -90 -1.5%
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Earl		 0.59% 0 -347 -5.5%
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Roy		 0.59% 0 -241 -3.9%
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Eugene		 0.58% +2 +260 +4.6%
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Francis		 0.56% -4 -621 -9.8%
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Joe		 0.56% -1 -95 -1.6%
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Ernest		 0.52% +1 -231 -4.2%
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Stanley		 0.52% -1 -380 -6.8%
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Lawrence		 0.51% 0 -167 -3.1%
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Leonard		 0.49% +2 +30 +0.6%
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Herbert		 0.49% 0 -168 -3.3%
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Anthony		 0.47% -2 -431 -8.3%
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Alfred		 0.46% 0 -258 -5.3%
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Samuel		 0.44% 0 -300 -6.3%
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Elmer		 0.39% 0 -391 -8.9%
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Bernard		 0.39% +2 -183 -4.5%
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Michael		 0.39% -1 -386 -9.0%
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Andrew		 0.38% -1 -288 -7.0%
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Norman		 0.38% +1 -58 -1.5%
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Leo		 0.37% -1 -234 -5.8%
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Russell		 0.36% 0 -187 -4.9%
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Daniel		 0.35% +1 -198 -5.3%
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Edwin		 0.34% +3 -37 -1.1%
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Chester		 0.34% +1 -260 -7.0%
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Theodore		 0.34% +10 +281 +8.9%
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Leroy		 0.34% +2 0 0.0%
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Melvin		 0.33% 0 -85 -2.5%
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Peter		 0.33% -4 -336 -9.1%
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Lloyd		 0.32% -7 -504 -13.5%
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Floyd		 0.31% +2 -114 -3.5%
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Clifford		 0.30% 0 -259 -7.9%
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Herman		 0.30% +4 -14 -0.5%
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Lester		 0.30% 0 -209 -6.5%
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Marvin		 0.30% +5 +168 +5.9%
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Frederick		 0.29% -5 -417 -12.4%
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Vernon		 0.29% +1 -42 -1.4%
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Charlie		 0.29% +4 +148 +5.4%
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Clyde		 0.28% 0 -32 -1.1%
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Victor		 0.27% -5 -432 -13.6%
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Ray		 0.27% 0 -41 -1.5%
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Gerald		 0.27% +2 -23 -0.8%
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Philip		 0.25% 0 -202 -7.4%
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Vincent		 0.25% +2 -90 -3.4%
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Milton		 0.24% +3 -6 -0.2%
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Lewis		 0.24% 0 -164 -6.3%
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Sam		 0.24% 0 -121 -4.8%
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Alvin		 0.24% +4 -26 -1.1%
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Jesse		 0.23% +1 -77 -3.2%
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Cecil		 0.23% +4 -28 -1.2%
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Benjamin		 0.22% 0 -152 -6.3%
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Leon		 0.22% -3 -192 -7.9%
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Martin		 0.22% 0 -199 -8.3%
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Lee		 0.22% +4 +30 +1.4%
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Warren		 0.22% +7 +190 +9.5%
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Glenn		 0.21% 0 -100 -4.4%
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Harvey		 0.20% +3 -85 -4.0%
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Gordon		 0.20% -1 -216 -9.7%
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Willard		 0.20% -4 -297 -12.9%
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Oscar		 0.20% -1 -122 -5.8%
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Edgar		 0.20% 0 -99 -4.7%
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Wayne		 0.19% +1 +43 +2.2%
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Woodrow		 0.18% -33 -1,550 -46.2%
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Claude		 0.18% +3 -106 -5.6%
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Everett		 0.18% +1 -119 -6.3%
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Arnold		 0.17% -2 -143 -7.5%
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Johnnie		 0.17% +15 +195 +12.8%
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Sidney		 0.17% -2 -164 -8.7%
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Stephen		 0.17% -1 -150 -8.1%
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Wilbur		 0.17% -1 -111 -6.2%
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Eddie		 0.16% +18 +237 +16.7%
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Morris		 0.16% +2 -19 -1.1%
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Girls
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Rank Name Pct. Rank Num. Pct.
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Mary		 5.61% 0 -1,528 -2.3%
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Helen		 2.87% 0 -2,442 -6.8%
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Dorothy		 2.70% 0 -296 -0.9%
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Margaret		 2.23% 0 -901 -3.3%
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Ruth		 2.09% 0 -971 -3.8%
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Mildred		 1.47% 0 +42 +0.2%
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Virginia		 1.33% 0 -785 -4.8%
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Elizabeth		 1.30% +1 -566 -3.6%
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Frances		 1.29% -1 -1,024 -6.3%
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Anna		 1.23% 0 -1,168 -7.5%
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Evelyn		 1.13% 0 -172 -1.3%
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Marie		 1.02% 0 -580 -4.6%
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Alice		 0.95% 0 -449 -3.9%
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Florence		 0.89% 0 -835 -7.4%
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Betty		 0.86% +6 +1,303 +14.8%
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Irene		 0.83% 0 -62 -0.6%
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Lillian		 0.81% -2 -470 -4.7%
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Doris		 0.80% +1 +373 +4.1%
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Rose		 0.78% -2 -373 -3.9%
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Louise		 0.75% -2 -299 -3.3%
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Gladys		 0.74% +1 -17 -0.2%
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Edna		 0.72% +1 -294 -3.4%
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Catherine		 0.71% -3 -507 -5.7%
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Ruby		 0.71% +3 +200 +2.5%
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Martha		 0.71% 0 -21 -0.3%
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Josephine		 0.69% -2 -577 -6.6%
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Lucille		 0.67% +2 -46 -0.6%
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Ethel		 0.67% 0 -265 -3.3%
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Edith		 0.66% +1 -92 -1.2%
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Eleanor		 0.65% -4 -565 -6.9%
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Thelma		 0.64% +1 -182 -2.4%
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Hazel		 0.63% +1 -185 -2.4%
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Marjorie		 0.62% +1 -182 -2.4%
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Grace		 0.61% -3 -575 -7.4%
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Annie		 0.61% +1 +404 +6.0%
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Pauline		 0.59% -1 -249 -3.4%
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Jean		 0.58% 0 +199 +3.0%
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Esther		 0.53% 0 -326 -5.0%
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Gertrude		 0.51% 0 -249 -4.0%
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Lois		 0.51% +2 +99 +1.7%
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Beatrice		 0.50% -1 -51 -0.9%
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Bernice		 0.49% -1 -100 -1.7%
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Clara		 0.46% 0 -374 -6.5%
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Marion		 0.44% +1 -425 -7.6%
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Emma		 0.43% +1 -237 -4.5%
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Sarah		 0.43% +6 +53 +1.1%
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Elsie		 0.43% +2 -199 -3.8%
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Julia		 0.42% 0 -318 -6.0%
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Ann		 0.42% -5 -689 -12.3%
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Agnes		 0.42% -3 -390 -7.4%
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Katherine		 0.41% -1 -345 -6.6%
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Bertha		 0.41% -1 -297 -5.9%
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Jane		 0.39% 0 -205 -4.3%
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Rita		 0.38% +4 +69 +1.6%
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Eva		 0.38% 0 -79 -1.7%
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Pearl		 0.36% 0 -248 -5.5%
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Ida		 0.35% 0 -287 -6.4%
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Viola		 0.35% +1 -202 -4.7%
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Bessie		 0.35% +2 +5 +0.1%
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Barbara		 0.35% 0 -140 -3.3%
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Willie		 0.35% +9 +183 +4.7%
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Lorraine		 0.34% +7 +100 +2.6%
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Anne		 0.34% -9 -592 -13.0%
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June		 0.34% +2 -71 -1.8%
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Vera		 0.33% +3 -75 -1.9%
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Kathryn		 0.33% -3 -243 -6.0%
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Myrtle		 0.33% -5 -260 -6.4%
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Geraldine		 0.32% +9 +281 +8.2%
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Nellie		 0.32% -4 -322 -8.0%
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Stella		 0.32% -3 -228 -5.8%
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Laura		 0.31% -7 -399 -9.8%
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Vivian		 0.31% 0 -23 -0.6%
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Juanita		 0.31% +12 +376 +11.5%
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Violet		 0.31% +9 +303 +9.2%
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Jessie		 0.30% 0 -61 -1.7%
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Alma		 0.29% -3 -212 -5.8%
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Sylvia		 0.29% -6 -263 -7.2%
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Mabel		 0.29% -4 -231 -6.4%
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Charlotte		 0.29% -1 -20 -0.6%
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Minnie		 0.28% +8 +91 +2.9%
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Lillie		 0.28% +8 +150 +4.8%
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Marian		 0.28% -6 -242 -6.9%
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Norma		 0.27% +14 +543 +20.5%
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Phyllis		 0.27% -4 -137 -4.1%
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Maxine		 0.27% +2 -33 -1.0%
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Wilma		 0.27% -4 -128 -3.9%
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Ella		 0.27% -3 -132 -4.0%
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Genevieve		 0.27% -7 -149 -4.5%
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Shirley		 0.27% +9 +495 +18.7%
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Leona		 0.26% -11 -302 -9.1%
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Lucy		 0.26% -1 -101 -3.2%
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Ellen		 0.25% 0 -101 -3.3%
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Jennie		 0.25% -2 -105 -3.5%
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Lena		 0.24% -1 -65 -2.2%
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Mattie		 0.24% +5 +245 +9.4%
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Marguerite		 0.24% -10 -415 -12.8%
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Blanche		 0.23% -1 -71 -2.6%
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Opal		 0.23% -4 -195 -6.8%
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Mae		 0.22% -4 -122 -4.4%
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Nancy		 0.22% +2 +119 +4.7%
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Popularity extremes for the United States