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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Clifford		 0.16% -1
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Curtis		 0.17% -2
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Gene		 0.17% +2
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Herbert		 0.17% -3
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Keith		 0.17% +12
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Ray		 0.19% -3
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Alfred		 0.20% -5
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Rodney		 0.20% +12
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Martin		 0.20% -2
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Lee		 0.20% -4
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Leroy		 0.21% -7
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Clarence		 0.22% -7
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Marvin		 0.22% -8
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Tom		 0.22% +1
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Melvin		 0.23% -8
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Eddie		 0.23% -4
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Andrew		 0.23% +2
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Phillip		 0.23% +2
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Earl		 0.23% -11
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Glenn		 0.24% +12
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Francis		 0.24% -5
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Don		 0.25% -6
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Jeffrey		 0.25% +13
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Tommy		 0.25% -1
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Norman		 0.25% -11
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Frederick		 0.26% +2
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Allen		 0.26% 0
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Jim		 0.26% -5
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Bill		 0.26% -6
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Ernest		 0.27% -11
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Samuel		 0.27% -8
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Steve		 0.28% +10
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Barry		 0.28% +16
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Leonard		 0.29% -10
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Russell		 0.29% -2
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Stanley		 0.29% -6
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Mike		 0.29% +5
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Louis		 0.30% -8
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Dale		 0.30% -1
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Philip		 0.31% -3
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Timothy		 0.31% +10
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Patrick		 0.32% +4
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Mark		 0.32% +14
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Eugene		 0.34% -7
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Gregory		 0.34% +40
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Howard		 0.35% -1
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Ronnie		 0.35% +13
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Bobby		 0.35% 0
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Albert		 0.36% -3
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Fred		 0.36% 0
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Harry		 0.37% -3
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Alan		 0.39% +3
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Ralph		 0.40% -4
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Johnny		 0.40% -2
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Danny		 0.40% +10
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Billy		 0.41% -3
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Anthony		 0.41% +2
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Roy		 0.42% -3
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Jimmy		 0.43% -1
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Henry		 0.44% -4
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Willie		 0.45% -9
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Carl		 0.45% 0
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Peter		 0.45% 0
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Joe		 0.46% -1
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Arthur		 0.46% -2
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Jack		 0.47% -3
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Douglas		 0.51% -5
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Harold		 0.51% -5
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Bruce		 0.51% +16
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Lawrence		 0.52% -1
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Walter		 0.53% -3
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Wayne		 0.53% +6
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Steven		 0.54% +15
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Gerald		 0.61% -2
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Terry		 0.65% +7
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Raymond		 0.68% -2
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Stephen		 0.72% +2
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Roger		 0.75% -1
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Frank		 0.77% -1
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Daniel		 0.78% +3
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Jerry		 1.06% 0
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Edward		 1.13% -1
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Paul		 1.28% -1
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Dennis		 1.30% +2
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George		 1.31% -1
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Kenneth		 1.34% +1
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Joseph		 1.47% 0
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Donald		 1.59% -1
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Gary		 1.63% +1
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Larry		 1.72% 0
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Ronald		 1.93% 0
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Charles		 2.32% -2
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Thomas		 2.36% 0
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Michael		 2.50% +2
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David		 2.81% 0
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Richard		 3.57% 0
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William		 3.64% 0
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John		 4.80% 0
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Robert		 5.10% 0
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James		 5.30% 0
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Constance		 0.21% +9
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Glenda		 0.22% -7
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Marsha		 0.22% +15
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Annie		 0.23% -28
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Maureen		 0.23% +10
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Theresa		 0.23% +1
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Lynn		 0.24% +8
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Lorraine		 0.24% -6
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Sarah		 0.24% -16
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Louise		 0.24% -13
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Joann		 0.25% -10
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Marcia		 0.25% -1
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Maria		 0.25% -2
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Anna		 0.25% -14
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Patsy		 0.25% -1
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Roberta		 0.25% -11
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Anita		 0.25% +16
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Jeanne		 0.25% +15
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Sylvia		 0.25% +1
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Anne		 0.26% 0
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Eileen		 0.26% -10
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Kathy		 0.26% +22
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Katherine		 0.26% +4
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Norma		 0.26% -3
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Dianne		 0.27% -4
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Laura		 0.28% +2
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Rosemary		 0.28% +5
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Sherry		 0.28% +31
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Carole		 0.29% -21
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Darlene		 0.29% 0
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Sheila		 0.29% +19
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Paula		 0.29% -2
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Rebecca		 0.30% +17
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Sally		 0.30% -3
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Geraldine		 0.30% -10
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Evelyn		 0.30% -8
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Charlotte		 0.31% -9
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Kathryn		 0.31% +2
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Jacqueline		 0.32% +1
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Sue		 0.32% +5
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Rose		 0.32% -6
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Ellen		 0.33% +3
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Wanda		 0.33% 0
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Joanne		 0.34% -4
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Rita		 0.34% +3
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Lois		 0.35% -7
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Marie		 0.36% -5
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Jo		 0.36% +7
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Suzanne		 0.37% +16
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Doris		 0.37% -5
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Christine		 0.39% +12
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Gail		 0.39% +3
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Catherine		 0.40% +2
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Elaine		 0.42% -3
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Cynthia		 0.43% +44
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Connie		 0.45% +2
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Alice		 0.46% -3
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Peggy		 0.46% +2
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Diana		 0.47% +1
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Phyllis		 0.50% -1
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Ann		 0.50% -1
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Frances		 0.52% -5
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Ruth		 0.53% -5
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Jean		 0.53% +1
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Helen		 0.55% -5
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Jane		 0.56% +1
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Pamela		 0.58% +8
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Bonnie		 0.59% +2
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Martha		 0.61% -2
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Virginia		 0.62% -3
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Beverly		 0.65% +7
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Marilyn		 0.66% -2
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Joan		 0.70% -3
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Cheryl		 0.72% +5
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Gloria		 0.73% -3
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Elizabeth		 0.73% +1
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Brenda		 0.79% +5
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Dorothy		 0.79% -3
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Janice		 0.87% +2
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Janet		 0.88% -1
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Joyce		 0.94% -2
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Diane		 0.98% +3
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Shirley		 1.11% -4
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Margaret		 1.12% -2
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Kathleen		 1.16% +3
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Karen		 1.22% +1
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Betty		 1.22% -3
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Donna		 1.23% +4
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Carolyn		 1.23% 0
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Judy		 1.27% +2
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Judith		 1.38% -1
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Sharon		 1.73% -1
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Susan		 1.75% +2
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Nancy		 1.76% 0
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Sandra		 1.97% 0
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Carol		 2.13% 0
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Barbara		 2.80% -1
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Patricia		 2.87% +1
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Linda		 3.27% 0
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Mary		 4.18% 0
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Popularity extremes for the United States