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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Wilbur		 0.15% -2 +14 +0.8%
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Roger		 0.16% +4 +112 +6.6%
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Virgil		 0.16% +3 +119 +7.0%
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Stephen		 0.16% -1 +97 +5.5%
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Claude		 0.17% -4 -6 -0.3%
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Everett		 0.17% 0 +86 +4.7%
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Allen		 0.17% 0 +71 +3.8%
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Dale		 0.17% +12 +276 +16.4%
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Oscar		 0.17% -2 -28 -1.4%
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Arnold		 0.17% 0 +71 +3.7%
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Edgar		 0.18% -1 -15 -0.7%
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Willard		 0.18% -1 -12 -0.6%
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Wallace		 0.18% +5 +218 +11.6%
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Harvey		 0.20% 0 +121 +5.6%
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Lee		 0.21% -4 +32 +1.4%
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Sam		 0.21% -1 +83 +3.6%
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Gordon		 0.21% +1 +105 +4.6%
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Victor		 0.21% -2 +58 +2.5%
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Benjamin		 0.21% +1 +103 +4.5%
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Wayne		 0.21% +5 +237 +10.9%
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Glenn		 0.22% 0 +74 +3.1%
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Cecil		 0.22% -2 -3 -0.1%
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Martin		 0.22% 0 +22 +0.9%
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Jesse		 0.22% +2 +66 +2.7%
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Charlie		 0.23% -6 -211 -7.6%
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Milton		 0.23% -1 -4 -0.2%
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Leon		 0.23% +1 +64 +2.5%
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Alvin		 0.24% +3 +164 +6.5%
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Philip		 0.24% -1 +3 +0.1%
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Lewis		 0.24% +1 +24 +0.9%
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Vincent		 0.24% +3 +118 +4.4%
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Clyde		 0.27% -1 -46 -1.5%
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Vernon		 0.27% -3 -77 -2.4%
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Ray		 0.27% 0 -11 -0.4%
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Lester		 0.27% +2 +8 +0.3%
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Theodore		 0.28% -2 -48 -1.5%
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Herman		 0.28% +2 +110 +3.5%
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Floyd		 0.29% -2 -5 -0.2%
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Clifford		 0.29% -3 -29 -0.9%
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Frederick		 0.30% -1 +101 +3.1%
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Gerald		 0.30% +4 +226 +7.2%
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Marvin		 0.31% +3 +246 +7.6%
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Lloyd		 0.31% 0 +83 +2.4%
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Peter		 0.31% 0 +51 +1.5%
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Chester		 0.31% -1 -149 -4.0%
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Leroy		 0.33% +1 +200 +5.6%
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Edwin		 0.33% -1 +16 +0.4%
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Melvin		 0.34% +1 +168 +4.5%
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Russell		 0.35% -1 +45 +1.2%
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Andrew		 0.35% -2 -11 -0.3%
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Leo		 0.36% -2 +12 +0.3%
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Daniel		 0.36% +3 +192 +4.9%
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Elmer		 0.36% -3 -60 -1.4%
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Michael		 0.37% +3 +195 +4.9%
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Norman		 0.39% +1 +370 +9.0%
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Bernard		 0.39% +1 +320 +7.7%
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Samuel		 0.42% 0 +101 +2.2%
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Alfred		 0.43% -1 -82 -1.6%
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Herbert		 0.46% -1 -32 -0.6%
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Stanley		 0.46% -1 -82 -1.5%
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Anthony		 0.46% +3 +295 +6.0%
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Leonard		 0.50% -1 +140 +2.5%
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Ernest		 0.50% -1 +131 +2.4%
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Lawrence		 0.53% -1 +250 +4.4%
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Joe		 0.55% -1 +133 +2.2%
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Francis		 0.55% -1 +52 +0.8%
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Willie		 0.57% -5 -398 -5.8%
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Fred		 0.57% 0 +197 +3.1%
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Roy		 0.58% 0 +190 +3.0%
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Earl		 0.59% 0 +222 +3.4%
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Carl		 0.62% -3 +67 +1.0%
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Louis		 0.64% -1 +281 +4.0%
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Clarence		 0.64% -2 +111 +1.5%
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Howard		 0.68% -3 +248 +3.3%
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Eugene		 0.68% +4 +852 +12.4%
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David		 0.68% 0 +321 +4.3%
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Warren		 0.69% +15 +2,306 +42.0%
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Ralph		 0.78% -1 +304 +3.6%
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Kenneth		 0.79% +1 +1,120 +14.3%
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Harry		 0.86% 0 +325 +3.5%
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Albert		 0.89% -1 +161 +1.6%
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Arthur		 0.93% -1 +291 +2.8%
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Jack		 0.95% +2 +1,157 +12.1%
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Henry		 1.00% 0 +106 +0.9%
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Raymond		 1.11% -1 +452 +3.7%
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Walter		 1.14% -2 -289 -2.2%
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Paul		 1.16% 0 +597 +4.7%
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Donald		 1.21% +3 +1,834 +15.4%
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Harold		 1.21% 0 +133 +1.0%
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Thomas		 1.35% 0 +369 +2.5%
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Richard		 1.44% 0 +1,366 +9.1%
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Frank		 1.47% 0 +277 +1.7%
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Edward		 1.83% 0 +722 +3.6%
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Joseph		 2.30% 0 +592 +2.3%
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George		 2.42% 0 +585 +2.2%
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Charles		 2.57% 0 +934 +3.3%
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James		 4.37% 0 +1,840 +3.8%
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William		 4.56% -1 +1,714 +3.4%
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Robert		 4.64% +1 +4,106 +8.4%
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John		 5.12% 0 +1,301 +2.3%
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Girls
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Rank Name Pct. Rank Num. Pct.
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Eileen		 0.22% 0 +144 +5.3%
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Jennie		 0.23% -2 +81 +2.9%
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Marguerite		 0.23% -5 -158 -5.2%
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Elaine		 0.23% +10 +489 +20.1%
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Minnie		 0.23% -9 -246 -7.6%
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Ellen		 0.24% -3 -11 -0.4%
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Lillie		 0.24% -4 -44 -1.4%
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Lucy		 0.25% +1 +139 +4.6%
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Leona		 0.25% -3 +44 +1.4%
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Jessie		 0.25% -7 -104 -3.1%
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Genevieve		 0.25% -4 -23 -0.7%
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Ella		 0.25% -1 +5 +0.2%
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Sylvia		 0.26% -3 -20 -0.6%
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Nancy		 0.26% +8 +341 +11.4%
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Stella		 0.26% -4 -157 -4.5%
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Mabel		 0.26% -2 -28 -0.8%
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Patricia		 0.26% +20 +879 +35.1%
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Kathleen		 0.27% +8 +261 +8.3%
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Audrey		 0.27% +21 +768 +28.8%
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Violet		 0.27% -4 -225 -6.1%
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Nellie		 0.28% -4 -249 -6.6%
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Charlotte		 0.28% 0 -37 -1.0%
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Alma		 0.28% +2 +5 +0.1%
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Maxine		 0.28% +4 +123 +3.5%
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Vera		 0.28% -1 -154 -4.1%
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Bessie		 0.29% -4 -228 -5.8%
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Willie		 0.29% 0 -68 -1.8%
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Myrtle		 0.30% -5 -164 -4.1%
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Wilma		 0.30% +6 +152 +4.1%
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Laura		 0.31% -8 -173 -4.1%
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Anne		 0.31% -5 -107 -2.6%
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Marian		 0.32% +4 +219 +5.7%
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Vivian		 0.32% -4 -25 -0.6%
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Ida		 0.32% -1 +56 +1.4%
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Viola		 0.33% -7 -132 -3.1%
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Pearl		 0.33% -3 -29 -0.7%
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Kathryn		 0.33% +3 +119 +2.9%
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Eva		 0.34% -5 -173 -3.8%
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Geraldine		 0.35% -2 +257 +6.0%
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Lorraine		 0.35% +9 +605 +15.4%
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Phyllis		 0.36% +12 +738 +19.2%
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Bertha		 0.36% -2 +4 +0.1%
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Julia		 0.37% -3 -152 -3.1%
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Juanita		 0.37% +4 +541 +12.8%
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Agnes		 0.38% -2 -109 -2.2%
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Elsie		 0.38% -4 -115 -2.3%
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Sarah		 0.39% -4 -7 -0.1%
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Ann		 0.40% -4 +17 +0.3%
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Emma		 0.40% -6 -164 -3.1%
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Norma		 0.40% +18 +1,152 +29.2%
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June		 0.40% +3 +244 +5.0%
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Katherine		 0.40% -4 -120 -2.3%
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Rita		 0.40% +4 +178 +3.6%
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Jane		 0.41% +1 +132 +2.6%
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Gertrude		 0.42% -4 -447 -7.7%
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Clara		 0.44% -1 +136 +2.5%
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Shirley		 0.45% +12 +981 +20.8%
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Marion		 0.45% 0 +69 +1.2%
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Esther		 0.46% -3 -142 -2.3%
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Beatrice		 0.47% 0 +164 +2.8%
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Barbara		 0.47% +7 +907 +17.8%
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Bernice		 0.48% +1 +262 +4.4%
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Lois		 0.54% 0 +339 +5.2%
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Pauline		 0.56% -1 -38 -0.5%
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Annie		 0.56% -1 -60 -0.8%
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Grace		 0.57% +2 +58 +0.8%
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Hazel		 0.57% 0 +33 +0.5%
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Edith		 0.59% -1 -184 -2.4%
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Ethel		 0.59% -2 -265 -3.4%
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Lucille		 0.60% -2 -291 -3.6%
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Thelma		 0.61% +1 +25 +0.3%
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Eleanor		 0.63% -4 -443 -5.2%
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Josephine		 0.64% 0 +41 +0.5%
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Edna		 0.65% 0 -29 -0.3%
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Ruby		 0.65% 0 -3 -0.0%
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Jean		 0.67% +8 +879 +11.4%
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Gladys		 0.69% -2 -5 -0.1%
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Catherine		 0.69% -2 +9 +0.1%
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Louise		 0.72% -3 +1 +0.0%
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Martha		 0.72% +2 +555 +6.4%
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Rose		 0.73% 0 +341 +3.8%
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Lillian		 0.76% -1 -279 -2.8%
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Irene		 0.83% -1 +552 +5.5%
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Florence		 0.84% -1 -13 -0.1%
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Marjorie		 0.88% +8 +2,551 +29.5%
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Alice		 0.93% 0 +359 +3.1%
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Marie		 0.98% -1 -242 -1.9%
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Doris		 1.03% +1 +1,260 +10.6%
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Evelyn		 1.12% 0 +440 +3.2%
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Anna		 1.13% -1 -104 -0.7%
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Elizabeth		 1.24% -2 -108 -0.7%
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Frances		 1.25% 0 +110 +0.7%
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Betty		 1.38% +3 +3,622 +25.8%
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Mildred		 1.40% -1 -178 -1.0%
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Virginia		 1.49% +1 +1,718 +9.9%
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Ruth		 2.02% 0 -317 -1.2%
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Margaret		 2.23% 0 +474 +1.7%
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Helen		 2.72% 0 -275 -0.8%
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Dorothy		 3.05% 0 +2,444 +6.7%
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Mary		 5.78% 0 +3,003 +4.2%
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Popularity extremes for the United States