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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Jack		 0.72% -2
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Billy		 0.73% -2
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Harold		 0.75% -2
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Gary		 0.78% +7
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Michael		 0.80% +6
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Raymond		 0.86% -1
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Gerald		 0.88% +1
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Frank		 0.90% 0
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Jerry		 1.07% 0
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Larry		 1.09% 0
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Paul		 1.18% 0
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Kenneth		 1.27% 0
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Edward		 1.28% 0
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Joseph		 1.56% 0
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George		 1.62% -1
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Ronald		 1.79% +1
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Thomas		 1.88% 0
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David		 2.02% 0
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Donald		 2.35% 0
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Charles		 2.74% 0
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Richard		 3.03% 0
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William		 3.73% 0
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John		 4.45% 0
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James		 5.20% 0
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Robert		 5.48% 0
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Doris		 0.75% -3
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Janice		 0.76% +1
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Frances		 0.78% -4
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Virginia		 0.81% -6
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Ruth		 0.82% -6
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Donna		 0.85% +1
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Marilyn		 0.85% -6
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Beverly		 0.86% -4
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Elizabeth		 0.86% 0
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Janet		 0.87% +2
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Carolyn		 0.93% +5
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Sandra		 0.95% +12
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Helen		 0.95% -1
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Judith		 0.95% +22
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Joyce		 1.11% 0
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Joan		 1.25% -1
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Margaret		 1.34% +1
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Dorothy		 1.43% 0
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Nancy		 1.66% 0
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Carol		 1.70% 0
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Shirley		 2.08% -1
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Betty		 2.24% +1
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Patricia		 2.41% 0
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Barbara		 3.44% 0
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Mary		 4.93% 0
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Popularity extremes for the United States