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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Homer		 0.16% +4 +175 +11.3%
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Johnnie		 0.16% -4 +11 +0.6%
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Wilbur		 0.16% 0 +52 +3.1%
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Gilbert		 0.16% +5 +171 +10.7%
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Stephen		 0.16% +1 +79 +4.7%
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Everett		 0.17% -3 +55 +3.1%
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Allen		 0.17% +7 +213 +12.9%
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Wallace		 0.17% +14 +396 +26.7%
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Claude		 0.17% 0 +121 +6.8%
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Arnold		 0.17% +3 +144 +8.1%
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Oscar		 0.18% -2 +15 +0.8%
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Edgar		 0.18% 0 +43 +2.2%
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Willard		 0.19% -1 +75 +3.7%
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Harvey		 0.20% -2 +138 +6.8%
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Wayne		 0.20% +4 +225 +11.5%
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Gordon		 0.21% +1 +260 +12.9%
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Sam		 0.21% -9 -101 -4.2%
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Benjamin		 0.21% -4 +30 +1.3%
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Lee		 0.21% 0 +133 +6.1%
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Victor		 0.21% -13 -402 -14.6%
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Glenn		 0.22% +4 +222 +10.3%
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Jesse		 0.22% -2 +64 +2.7%
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Martin		 0.22% +3 +235 +10.7%
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Cecil		 0.22% +1 +159 +6.9%
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Alvin		 0.23% 0 +140 +5.9%
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Leon		 0.23% +5 +304 +13.5%
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Milton		 0.24% -1 +144 +5.9%
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Vincent		 0.24% -2 +130 +5.1%
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Lewis		 0.24% +2 +259 +10.7%
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Philip		 0.25% 0 +169 +6.7%
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Charlie		 0.25% -4 -106 -3.7%
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Clyde		 0.28% -1 +183 +6.3%
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Lester		 0.28% -6 +48 +1.6%
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Ray		 0.28% +2 +364 +13.4%
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Herman		 0.28% -5 +82 +2.7%
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Vernon		 0.29% 0 +216 +7.4%
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Gerald		 0.29% +6 +468 +17.4%
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Theodore		 0.29% -9 -205 -6.0%
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Marvin		 0.30% +1 +247 +8.2%
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Floyd		 0.30% -2 +139 +4.5%
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Frederick		 0.30% +4 +342 +11.7%
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Clifford		 0.30% +1 +251 +8.3%
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Lloyd		 0.31% 0 +216 +6.7%
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Peter		 0.32% 0 +122 +3.6%
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Leroy		 0.32% -1 +127 +3.7%
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Chester		 0.34% -2 +266 +7.8%
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Melvin		 0.34% +2 +334 +9.9%
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Edwin		 0.34% -1 +284 +8.2%
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Daniel		 0.35% -1 +368 +10.4%
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Russell		 0.35% -1 +255 +7.0%
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Michael		 0.36% -4 +93 +2.4%
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Andrew		 0.37% -2 +175 +4.5%
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Leo		 0.37% +1 +252 +6.6%
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Norman		 0.37% +1 +300 +7.9%
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Bernard		 0.38% -1 +249 +6.4%
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Elmer		 0.38% -1 +224 +5.6%
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Samuel		 0.42% -1 +182 +4.1%
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Anthony		 0.45% -2 +207 +4.4%
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Alfred		 0.46% 0 +392 +8.5%
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Herbert		 0.48% -1 +289 +5.8%
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Stanley		 0.48% -3 +76 +1.5%
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Warren		 0.50% +44 +3,312 +152%
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Leonard		 0.50% +1 +501 +10.0%
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Ernest		 0.51% -1 +270 +5.1%
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Lawrence		 0.52% +2 +522 +10.0%
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Joe		 0.55% 0 +362 +6.3%
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Francis		 0.57% 0 +515 +9.0%
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Fred		 0.57% -3 +206 +3.4%
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Roy		 0.58% 0 +385 +6.4%
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Earl		 0.59% 0 +557 +9.3%
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Eugene		 0.62% +3 +974 +16.5%
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Willie		 0.63% -6 -54 -0.8%
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Louis		 0.63% 0 +305 +4.6%
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Carl		 0.64% +2 +535 +8.3%
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Clarence		 0.66% -1 +396 +5.8%
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David		 0.68% +2 +728 +10.8%
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Howard		 0.68% 0 +621 +9.1%
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Kenneth		 0.71% +3 +1,044 +15.4%
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Ralph		 0.78% 0 +846 +11.0%
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Harry		 0.85% -1 +416 +4.6%
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Jack		 0.87% +1 +1,336 +16.2%
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Albert		 0.91% -1 +390 +4.1%
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Arthur		 0.93% +1 +696 +7.3%
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Henry		 1.03% -1 +692 +6.5%
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Donald		 1.09% +1 +2,039 +20.6%
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Raymond		 1.11% -1 +811 +7.1%
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Paul		 1.14% +1 +1,266 +11.2%
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Walter		 1.21% -2 +413 +3.2%
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Harold		 1.24% +1 +1,657 +13.8%
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Thomas		 1.36% -1 +1,504 +11.2%
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Richard		 1.36% +2 +2,569 +20.6%
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Frank		 1.49% 0 +728 +4.6%
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Edward		 1.83% 0 +1,560 +8.4%
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Joseph		 2.33% 0 +1,326 +5.5%
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George		 2.44% 0 +1,720 +6.8%
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Charles		 2.57% 0 +3,117 +12.4%
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James		 4.35% -1 +5,518 +13.0%
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Robert		 4.42% +1 +7,651 +18.6%
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William		 4.56% 0 +6,178 +14.1%
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John		 5.17% 0 +3,388 +6.3%
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Girls
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Rank Name Pct. Rank Num. Pct.
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Eileen		 0.22% +3 +372 +15.9%
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Mae		 0.22% 0 +96 +3.6%
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Lena		 0.22% -4 -87 -3.0%
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Jennie		 0.23% -4 -120 -4.1%
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Mattie		 0.23% -1 +46 +1.6%
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Nancy		 0.24% +5 +353 +13.4%
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Lucy		 0.24% -3 +11 +0.4%
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Marguerite		 0.25% +3 +220 +7.8%
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Ellen		 0.25% 0 +147 +5.0%
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Kathleen		 0.25% +10 +571 +22.1%
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Lillie		 0.25% -9 -100 -3.1%
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Leona		 0.25% +1 +133 +4.4%
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Ella		 0.26% -1 +74 +2.3%
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Minnie		 0.26% -7 -28 -0.9%
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Genevieve		 0.26% +2 +103 +3.3%
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Sylvia		 0.27% -8 -95 -2.8%
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Jessie		 0.27% -9 -201 -5.7%
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Mabel		 0.27% -5 -41 -1.2%
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Stella		 0.28% -12 -208 -5.6%
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Maxine		 0.28% +4 +324 +10.2%
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Alma		 0.29% -4 +146 +4.2%
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Charlotte		 0.29% 0 +271 +8.1%
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Wilma		 0.30% +8 +501 +15.8%
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Violet		 0.30% -3 +97 +2.7%
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Nellie		 0.30% -7 +36 +1.0%
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Vera		 0.30% -10 -63 -1.6%
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Willie		 0.31% -13 -234 -5.8%
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Marian		 0.31% +9 +584 +17.9%
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Phyllis		 0.31% +12 +663 +20.8%
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Bessie		 0.31% -12 -200 -4.9%
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Lorraine		 0.32% -8 -48 -1.2%
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Norma		 0.32% +14 +751 +23.5%
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Myrtle		 0.32% -1 +139 +3.6%
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Kathryn		 0.33% -1 +257 +6.7%
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Ida		 0.33% -9 -73 -1.8%
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Anne		 0.33% -2 +139 +3.5%
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Vivian		 0.33% +8 +488 +13.4%
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Laura		 0.34% +8 +508 +13.9%
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Pearl		 0.34% -6 -69 -1.6%
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Juanita		 0.34% +12 +602 +16.6%
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Geraldine		 0.34% +8 +538 +14.4%
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Viola		 0.35% -1 +163 +3.9%
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Eva		 0.36% -3 +14 +0.3%
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Bertha		 0.37% -5 -150 -3.2%
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Shirley		 0.38% +33 +1,564 +49.7%
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Julia		 0.39% -7 -61 -1.2%
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Agnes		 0.39% -4 +6 +0.1%
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June		 0.40% +11 +948 +23.9%
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Rita		 0.40% +2 +463 +10.3%
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Elsie		 0.40% -4 -2 -0.0%
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Sarah		 0.40% -4 +9 +0.2%
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Ann		 0.41% 0 +117 +2.4%
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Jane		 0.41% +5 +529 +11.7%
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Barbara		 0.41% +13 +1,022 +25.0%
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Emma		 0.42% -1 +150 +2.9%
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Katherine		 0.42% +6 +430 +8.9%
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Clara		 0.44% -1 +66 +1.2%
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Marion		 0.46% +1 +587 +11.4%
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Gertrude		 0.47% -3 -218 -3.6%
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Beatrice		 0.47% 0 -52 -0.9%
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Bernice		 0.48% +2 +135 +2.3%
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Esther		 0.49% -1 -180 -2.9%
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Lois		 0.53% +2 +584 +9.8%
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Grace		 0.58% -3 -23 -0.3%
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Pauline		 0.58% 0 +207 +3.0%
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Annie		 0.58% 0 +123 +1.7%
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Hazel		 0.59% -2 -122 -1.6%
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Jean		 0.62% +4 +915 +13.5%
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Edith		 0.63% -3 +6 +0.1%
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Thelma		 0.63% 0 +256 +3.4%
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Ethel		 0.63% -2 +58 +0.7%
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Lucille		 0.64% -2 +133 +1.7%
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Josephine		 0.65% -2 -12 -0.1%
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Edna		 0.67% -5 -73 -0.9%
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Ruby		 0.67% -2 +2 +0.0%
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Eleanor		 0.68% +5 +886 +11.6%
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Marjorie		 0.70% +9 +1,323 +18.0%
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Martha		 0.70% +2 +388 +4.7%
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Gladys		 0.71% -1 +102 +1.2%
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Catherine		 0.71% +2 +543 +6.5%
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Rose		 0.72% -1 -184 -2.0%
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Louise		 0.74% +1 +367 +4.2%
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Lillian		 0.81% -1 +533 +5.6%
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Irene		 0.81% -1 +360 +3.7%
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Florence		 0.86% -2 +250 +2.4%
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Alice		 0.93% -2 +455 +4.1%
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Doris		 0.96% +4 +2,458 +26.1%
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Marie		 1.02% -1 +734 +6.1%
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Evelyn		 1.11% -1 +517 +3.9%
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Betty		 1.13% +4 +3,910 +38.7%
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Anna		 1.17% 0 +83 +0.6%
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Frances		 1.28% 0 +776 +5.1%
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Elizabeth		 1.28% 0 +622 +4.1%
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Virginia		 1.39% 0 +1,678 +10.7%
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Mildred		 1.45% 0 +759 +4.4%
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Ruth		 2.10% 0 +1,538 +6.3%
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Margaret		 2.25% 0 +1,756 +6.7%
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Helen		 2.82% -1 +1,391 +4.1%
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Dorothy		 2.95% +1 +4,909 +15.5%
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Mary		 5.71% 0 +5,144 +7.8%
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Popularity extremes for the United States