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		 5.50% 0
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James		 4.78% 0
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John		 4.64% 0
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William		 4.19% 0
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Richard		 2.85% +1
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Charles		 2.82% -1
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Donald		 2.57% 0
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George		 2.02% 0
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Joseph		 1.86% 0
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Edward		 1.54% 0
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Thomas		 1.51% 0
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Paul		 1.15% +1
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Frank		 1.11% -1
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Jack		 1.10% 0
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David		 1.09% +2
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Raymond		 1.04% -1
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Kenneth		 1.04% +1
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Harold		 1.03% -2
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Walter		 0.86% 0
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Billy		 0.82% +3
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Eugene		 0.80% -1
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Henry		 0.76% -1
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Arthur		 0.73% -1
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Albert		 0.70% 0
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Ralph		 0.68% +1
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Mary		 5.50% 0
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Betty		 3.28% 0
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Dorothy		 2.61% 0
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Helen		 1.71% 0
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Margaret		 1.57% 0
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Barbara		 1.57% +1
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Patricia		 1.35% +3
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Joan		 1.33% +5
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Doris		 1.33% -3
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Ruth		 1.28% -2
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Shirley		 1.27% -2
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Virginia		 1.13% -1
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Dolores		 1.10% +1
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Jean		 1.03% -2
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Elizabeth		 0.94% 0
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Frances		 0.91% 0
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Lois		 0.87% 0
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Joyce		 0.83% +5
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Evelyn		 0.82% 0
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Alice		 0.82% +1
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Mildred		 0.80% -3
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Marilyn		 0.80% +11
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Anna		 0.78% -3
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Nancy		 0.78% +8
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Norma		 0.73% 0
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Popularity extremes for the United States