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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Joe		 0.71% -2
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Bobby		 0.71% 0
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Jack		 0.75% -3
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Billy		 0.76% 0
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Harold		 0.78% 0
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Gerald		 0.86% -1
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Raymond		 0.88% -2
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Frank		 0.93% -2
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Jerry		 0.94% +1
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Larry		 0.94% +9
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Paul		 1.18% 0
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Kenneth		 1.21% 0
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Edward		 1.37% 0
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Joseph		 1.58% -1
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Ronald		 1.66% +1
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George		 1.69% -1
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Thomas		 1.81% -1
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David		 1.92% +2
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Donald		 2.55% 0
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Charles		 2.79% 0
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Richard		 3.02% 0
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William		 3.72% 0
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John		 4.46% 0
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James		 5.17% 0
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Robert		 5.66% 0
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Janice		 0.71% +6
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Martha		 0.72% 0
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Jean		 0.76% -3
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Doris		 0.81% -7
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Donna		 0.81% +1
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Carolyn		 0.81% +3
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Frances		 0.82% 0
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Janet		 0.85% +3
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Elizabeth		 0.85% +1
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Virginia		 0.86% -2
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Ruth		 0.87% +1
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Beverly		 0.87% +3
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Marilyn		 0.88% 0
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Helen		 1.04% -1
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Joyce		 1.07% +1
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Margaret		 1.37% -1
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Joan		 1.39% -2
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Dorothy		 1.50% -2
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Nancy		 1.55% +1
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Carol		 1.57% +4
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Betty		 2.30% -1
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Shirley		 2.43% -2
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Patricia		 2.44% +2
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Barbara		 3.17% +1
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Mary		 5.05% 0
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Popularity extremes for the United States