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		 5.34% 0
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John		 4.90% 0
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James		 4.65% +1
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William		 4.53% -1
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Charles		 2.58% 0
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George		 2.26% 0
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Richard		 2.20% +1
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Joseph		 2.07% -1
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Donald		 1.83% +1
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Edward		 1.69% -1
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Thomas		 1.45% 0
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Frank		 1.27% 0
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Paul		 1.19% 0
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Harold		 1.16% 0
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Raymond		 1.12% 0
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Jack		 1.07% +1
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Walter		 1.03% -1
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Kenneth		 0.90% +1
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Henry		 0.87% -1
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Arthur		 0.83% 0
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Albert		 0.80% 0
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David		 0.79% 0
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Eugene		 0.79% +1
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Ralph		 0.74% +1
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Harry		 0.72% -2
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Mary		 5.51% 0
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Dorothy		 2.98% 0
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Betty		 2.68% 0
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Helen		 2.19% 0
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Margaret		 1.88% 0
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Ruth		 1.64% 0
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Doris		 1.33% +1
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Virginia		 1.31% -1
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Mildred		 1.10% 0
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Frances		 1.09% +1
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Elizabeth		 1.04% -1
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Jean		 0.99% +2
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Evelyn		 0.96% -1
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Shirley		 0.96% +3
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Anna		 0.95% -2
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Barbara		 0.90% +6
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Alice		 0.89% -2
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Marie		 0.86% -2
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Lois		 0.80% -1
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Gloria		 0.75% 0
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Irene		 0.75% -2
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Marjorie		 0.70% -1
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Patricia		 0.70% +5
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Martha		 0.70% -1
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Rose		 0.69% +1
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Popularity extremes for the United States