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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Jesse		 0.17% -1
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Victor		 0.17% +19
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Curtis		 0.17% +2
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Warren		 0.17% +8
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Lloyd		 0.18% 0
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Clifford		 0.18% -1
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Jimmie		 0.18% -5
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Leon		 0.18% 0
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Gordon		 0.19% 0
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Theodore		 0.19% +4
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Bernard		 0.19% -3
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Tom		 0.20% -1
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Glenn		 0.21% -2
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Lee		 0.21% -6
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Eddie		 0.21% -8
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Martin		 0.22% 0
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Ray		 0.22% -1
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Herbert		 0.22% -7
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Gene		 0.22% -10
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Alan		 0.22% +3
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Andrew		 0.22% +2
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Barry		 0.23% +12
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Ronnie		 0.24% +1
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Phillip		 0.24% 0
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Alfred		 0.24% -2
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Steven		 0.25% +15
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Jim		 0.25% +6
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Tommy		 0.25% -2
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Don		 0.25% -6
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Allen		 0.25% +2
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Russell		 0.26% +5
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Leroy		 0.26% -2
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Frederick		 0.27% +1
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Clarence		 0.27% -5
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Marvin		 0.27% -3
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Bill		 0.27% +3
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Patrick		 0.27% +6
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Dale		 0.27% -4
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Earl		 0.29% -4
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Ernest		 0.29% 0
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Melvin		 0.30% -4
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Samuel		 0.30% +6
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Francis		 0.31% +2
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Leonard		 0.31% -3
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Johnny		 0.33% 0
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Stanley		 0.33% +2
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Philip		 0.33% -2
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Norman		 0.33% -4
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Terry		 0.34% +12
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Louis		 0.37% -1
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Bruce		 0.38% +1
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Howard		 0.40% -2
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Harry		 0.40% 0
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Jimmy		 0.42% -2
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Fred		 0.43% -3
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Eugene		 0.43% -3
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Anthony		 0.44% +2
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Bobby		 0.44% -8
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Roy		 0.45% -3
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Wayne		 0.46% -4
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Albert		 0.46% 0
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Peter		 0.47% +5
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Ralph		 0.47% 0
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Willie		 0.50% -1
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Carl		 0.52% -7
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Billy		 0.52% -8
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Jack		 0.52% -2
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Joe		 0.52% -3
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Stephen		 0.53% +9
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Henry		 0.54% -3
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Lawrence		 0.54% +4
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Arthur		 0.57% +4
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Daniel		 0.60% +3
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Harold		 0.61% -3
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Walter		 0.62% 0
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Roger		 0.65% 0
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Raymond		 0.79% -2
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Douglas		 0.80% +30
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Gerald		 0.82% -2
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Frank		 0.87% 0
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Dennis		 0.94% +3
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Paul		 1.17% -1
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Gary		 1.21% +1
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Edward		 1.24% 0
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Jerry		 1.24% -2
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Kenneth		 1.29% 0
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George		 1.51% -1
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Michael		 1.54% +3
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Larry		 1.57% -1
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Joseph		 1.59% +1
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Donald		 1.70% 0
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Ronald		 1.93% 0
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Thomas		 2.21% 0
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Charles		 2.55% -1
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David		 2.55% +1
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Richard		 3.10% 0
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William		 3.90% 0
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John		 4.69% 0
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Robert		 5.10% 0
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James		 5.48% 0
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Josephine		 0.20% -8
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Edna		 0.20% -10
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Theresa		 0.20% -3
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Maria		 0.20% +5
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Christine		 0.21% +5
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Julia		 0.21% -7
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Sheila		 0.21% +16
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Anita		 0.22% -2
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Rosemary		 0.22% +2
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Lorraine		 0.22% +2
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Juanita		 0.22% -6
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Glenda		 0.22% +7
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Eileen		 0.22% +33
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Eleanor		 0.23% -9
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Delores		 0.23% -6
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Rebecca		 0.23% +1
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Marlene		 0.23% -1
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Arlene		 0.24% -6
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Kathryn		 0.24% +5
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Katherine		 0.24% +4
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Irene		 0.24% -6
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Loretta		 0.25% +2
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Darlene		 0.25% -2
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Ruby		 0.25% -8
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Anne		 0.25% +6
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Kay		 0.26% -5
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Marjorie		 0.26% -3
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Sue		 0.26% +2
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Sylvia		 0.27% -7
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Mildred		 0.27% -7
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Connie		 0.28% +9
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Jacqueline		 0.28% +4
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Diana		 0.28% +32
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Sarah		 0.30% -7
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Roberta		 0.30% +6
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Jo		 0.30% +1
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Ellen		 0.30% +3
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Dolores		 0.31% -6
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Annie		 0.31% -3
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Louise		 0.31% +1
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Gail		 0.32% +8
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Anna		 0.32% -3
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Joann		 0.32% 0
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Patsy		 0.33% -5
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Sally		 0.34% +5
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Rita		 0.34% +8
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Wanda		 0.35% -1
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Evelyn		 0.36% -3
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Norma		 0.36% -5
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Charlotte		 0.36% +4
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Rose		 0.38% -1
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Catherine		 0.38% +2
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Joanne		 0.38% +6
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Geraldine		 0.39% -2
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Jane		 0.41% 0
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Elaine		 0.43% -1
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Lois		 0.46% -1
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Marie		 0.47% -1
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Peggy		 0.47% -3
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Doris		 0.52% -3
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Brenda		 0.52% +1
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Alice		 0.53% -5
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Ann		 0.55% -1
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Phyllis		 0.56% -2
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Jean		 0.59% -4
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Carole		 0.61% +13
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Bonnie		 0.64% -1
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Ruth		 0.67% -5
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Beverly		 0.68% -3
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Gloria		 0.68% -5
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Frances		 0.68% +1
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Martha		 0.68% -4
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Diane		 0.69% +12
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Marilyn		 0.71% +3
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Helen		 0.72% -2
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Janice		 0.74% -3
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Kathleen		 0.77% +12
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Virginia		 0.78% 0
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Elizabeth		 0.80% -1
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Susan		 0.86% +6
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Donna		 0.93% 0
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Janet		 0.94% -1
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Joan		 1.04% -1
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Dorothy		 1.08% -3
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Karen		 1.11% +3
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Judy		 1.13% +1
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Margaret		 1.19% -2
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Joyce		 1.20% 0
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Shirley		 1.28% -2
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Sharon		 1.41% +4
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Carolyn		 1.44% +1
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Betty		 1.56% -2
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Nancy		 1.68% 0
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Judith		 1.78% -1
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Sandra		 1.80% +3
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Carol		 2.18% -1
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Linda		 2.27% +1
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Patricia		 2.84% 0
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Barbara		 3.22% 0
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Mary		 4.55% 0
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Popularity extremes for the United States