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 · Girls
Boys
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Robert		 5.20% +1
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John		 5.05% -1
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William		 4.58% 0
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James		 4.53% 0
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Charles		 2.61% 0
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George		 2.34% 0
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Joseph		 2.18% 0
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Richard		 1.82% +1
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Edward		 1.81% -1
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Donald		 1.53% 0
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Thomas		 1.42% +1
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Frank		 1.37% -1
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Harold		 1.21% 0
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Paul		 1.14% 0
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Raymond		 1.10% 0
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Walter		 1.09% 0
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Jack		 1.02% 0
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Henry		 0.96% 0
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Kenneth		 0.89% +2
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Arthur		 0.87% -1
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Albert		 0.85% -1
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Harry		 0.78% 0
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Ralph		 0.75% 0
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David		 0.75% 0
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Eugene		 0.71% 0
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Mary		 5.68% 0
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Dorothy		 3.09% 0
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Helen		 2.41% 0
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Betty		 2.36% +1
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Margaret		 2.05% -1
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Ruth		 1.82% 0
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Virginia		 1.44% 0
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Mildred		 1.22% 0
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Doris		 1.22% +2
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Frances		 1.17% 0
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Elizabeth		 1.15% -2
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Evelyn		 1.03% 0
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Anna		 1.01% 0
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Marie		 0.89% 0
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Alice		 0.89% 0
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Jean		 0.83% +3
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Marjorie		 0.78% -1
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Irene		 0.77% -1
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Shirley		 0.73% +7
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Florence		 0.73% -2
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Martha		 0.72% 0
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Lois		 0.72% +5
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Lillian		 0.70% -3
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Louise		 0.68% -2
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Rose		 0.65% -2
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Popularity extremes for the United States