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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Johnnie		 0.15% +1
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Oscar		 0.15% 0
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Roland		 0.16% 0
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Willard		 0.16% 0
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Edgar		 0.16% 0
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Arnold		 0.17% 0
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Allen		 0.18% 0
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Benjamin		 0.18% -4
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Wallace		 0.18% -5
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Sam		 0.18% 0
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Roger		 0.18% +3
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Victor		 0.18% +1
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Harvey		 0.19% 0
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Cecil		 0.20% -2
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Dale		 0.20% -2
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Jesse		 0.21% +1
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Bill		 0.21% +8
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Martin		 0.21% -1
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Lee		 0.22% +1
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Lester		 0.22% -9
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Milton		 0.22% +1
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Lewis		 0.22% -2
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Charlie		 0.22% +2
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Glenn		 0.23% +2
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Leon		 0.23% 0
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Philip		 0.23% -4
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Wayne		 0.24% 0
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Chester		 0.24% -6
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Gordon		 0.24% +3
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Vincent		 0.24% +7
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Alvin		 0.24% +3
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Herman		 0.25% +1
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Clyde		 0.25% +1
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Vernon		 0.25% +1
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Warren		 0.26% -8
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Frederick		 0.27% -3
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Ray		 0.28% -4
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Theodore		 0.28% +2
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Lloyd		 0.29% -1
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Elmer		 0.29% -4
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Peter		 0.29% -1
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Clifford		 0.30% +5
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Floyd		 0.31% +8
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Edwin		 0.31% -2
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Andrew		 0.31% 0
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Michael		 0.33% -1
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Leo		 0.33% -3
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Russell		 0.33% -1
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Leroy		 0.34% +1
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Marvin		 0.36% -1
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Melvin		 0.36% -2
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Billy		 0.37% +14
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Bernard		 0.37% -2
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Calvin		 0.37% -3
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Samuel		 0.38% -1
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Gerald		 0.39% +4
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Daniel		 0.40% +3
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Alfred		 0.42% 0
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Herbert		 0.43% -1
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Norman		 0.43% +1
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Stanley		 0.44% 0
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Anthony		 0.44% 0
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Leonard		 0.48% 0
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Ernest		 0.48% 0
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Lawrence		 0.49% 0
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Francis		 0.52% -1
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Joe		 0.53% +1
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Fred		 0.54% -1
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Roy		 0.55% -1
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Earl		 0.56% +2
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Clarence		 0.58% -1
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Louis		 0.59% -1
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Carl		 0.61% -1
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Willie		 0.62% +3
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Howard		 0.62% 0
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Ralph		 0.74% -2
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Eugene		 0.74% +1
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Harry		 0.75% -1
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David		 0.77% +2
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Albert		 0.83% 0
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Arthur		 0.87% 0
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Kenneth		 0.88% 0
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Henry		 0.92% 0
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Jack		 1.04% 0
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Walter		 1.05% 0
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Raymond		 1.08% 0
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Harold		 1.18% -1
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Paul		 1.23% +1
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Frank		 1.33% 0
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Thomas		 1.45% 0
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Donald		 1.67% 0
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Edward		 1.75% 0
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Richard		 2.02% 0
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Joseph		 2.14% 0
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George		 2.31% 0
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Charles		 2.57% 0
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James		 4.58% 0
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William		 4.63% 0
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John		 4.97% 0
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Robert		 5.29% 0
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Mattie		 0.22% +9
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Margie		 0.23% +3
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Nellie		 0.23% -6
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Jessie		 0.23% -6
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Eileen		 0.24% -3
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Myrtle		 0.24% -6
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Alma		 0.24% -7
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Ella		 0.24% +1
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Violet		 0.24% -4
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Lillie		 0.25% +6
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Pearl		 0.25% -12
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Jeanne		 0.26% +1
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Kathryn		 0.26% -7
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Bessie		 0.26% -1
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Vera		 0.26% -1
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Anne		 0.26% -6
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Viola		 0.26% -2
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Marilyn		 0.27% +18
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Ida		 0.28% -12
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Kathleen		 0.28% -5
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Theresa		 0.28% +16
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Maxine		 0.28% -2
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Audrey		 0.28% +6
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Charlotte		 0.28% +3
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Vivian		 0.28% -5
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Laura		 0.28% -3
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Bertha		 0.30% -9
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Elaine		 0.30% 0
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Wanda		 0.30% +2
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Eva		 0.31% -5
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Gertrude		 0.31% -10
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Agnes		 0.31% -6
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Willie		 0.31% 0
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Marian		 0.32% -3
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Joan		 0.32% +29
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Julia		 0.32% -3
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Dolores		 0.33% +11
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Elsie		 0.33% -2
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Wilma		 0.33% +5
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Katherine		 0.34% -2
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Nancy		 0.34% +9
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Joyce		 0.35% +24
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Sarah		 0.37% -4
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Emma		 0.37% 0
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Esther		 0.37% -5
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Clara		 0.38% +1
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Geraldine		 0.38% +4
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Jane		 0.39% 0
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Ann		 0.39% +3
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Lorraine		 0.40% +1
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Beatrice		 0.40% 0
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Juanita		 0.41% -1
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Rita		 0.42% +1
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Marion		 0.44% -1
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Bernice		 0.45% +1
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Hazel		 0.46% -3
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Grace		 0.47% -1
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Ethel		 0.49% -4
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Edith		 0.50% -6
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Lucille		 0.51% -4
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Phyllis		 0.51% +4
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June		 0.53% +6
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Pauline		 0.53% 0
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Edna		 0.54% -6
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Josephine		 0.54% -2
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Thelma		 0.54% -2
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Norma		 0.55% +6
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Gladys		 0.57% -3
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Annie		 0.58% 0
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Eleanor		 0.61% -2
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Ruby		 0.62% -4
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Catherine		 0.62% -2
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Patricia		 0.64% +7
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Louise		 0.66% -3
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Rose		 0.66% -1
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Lillian		 0.66% -2
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Florence		 0.68% -4
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Martha		 0.69% -2
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Barbara		 0.73% +6
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Marjorie		 0.74% -4
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Gloria		 0.74% +21
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Irene		 0.75% -1
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Lois		 0.76% +4
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Shirley		 0.83% +2
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Marie		 0.87% -2
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Alice		 0.92% 0
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Jean		 0.92% +2
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Anna		 0.97% 0
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Evelyn		 0.99% 0
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Frances		 1.09% -1
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Elizabeth		 1.10% +1
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Mildred		 1.14% -1
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Doris		 1.27% +1
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Virginia		 1.39% 0
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Ruth		 1.76% 0
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Margaret		 1.94% 0
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Helen		 2.31% -1
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Betty		 2.60% +1
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Dorothy		 3.05% 0
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Mary		 5.59% 0
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Popularity extremes for the United States