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		 5.40% 0
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James		 4.71% +1
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John		 4.71% -1
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William		 4.32% 0
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Charles		 2.70% 0
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Richard		 2.67% 0
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Donald		 2.45% 0
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George		 2.08% 0
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Joseph		 1.91% 0
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Edward		 1.56% 0
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Thomas		 1.47% 0
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Frank		 1.17% 0
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Paul		 1.12% 0
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Jack		 1.10% +1
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Raymond		 1.08% +1
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Harold		 1.05% -2
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David		 1.02% +2
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Kenneth		 0.98% -1
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Walter		 0.89% -1
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Eugene		 0.82% 0
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Henry		 0.77% 0
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Arthur		 0.77% 0
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Billy		 0.75% +4
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Albert		 0.73% -1
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Herbert		 0.71% 0
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Mary		 5.49% 0
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Betty		 3.17% 0
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Dorothy		 2.72% 0
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Helen		 1.81% 0
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Margaret		 1.66% 0
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Doris		 1.43% +1
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Barbara		 1.39% +1
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Ruth		 1.38% -2
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Shirley		 1.26% +1
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Patricia		 1.18% +1
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Virginia		 1.14% -2
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Jean		 1.03% 0
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Joan		 1.01% +14
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Dolores		 0.99% +6
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Elizabeth		 0.97% -1
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Frances		 0.96% -3
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Lois		 0.89% +1
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Mildred		 0.89% -3
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Evelyn		 0.85% -2
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Anna		 0.84% -4
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Alice		 0.82% -2
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Marie		 0.79% -1
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Joyce		 0.74% +7
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Phyllis		 0.69% +2
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Norma		 0.68% -2
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Popularity extremes for the United States