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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Theodore		 0.17% +4
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Scott		 0.17% +23
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Don		 0.17% -7
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Curtis		 0.17% +4
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Alfred		 0.18% 0
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Kevin		 0.18% +32
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Clarence		 0.19% -7
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Lee		 0.20% 0
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Randy		 0.20% +7
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Earl		 0.20% -8
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Norman		 0.20% -5
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Marvin		 0.21% +1
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Mike		 0.21% -20
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Rodney		 0.21% +5
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Brian		 0.21% +9
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Keith		 0.22% +4
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Tommy		 0.22% -5
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Martin		 0.22% +5
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Melvin		 0.22% -1
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Christopher		 0.22% +21
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Eddie		 0.23% -2
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Randall		 0.23% +19
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Francis		 0.24% +2
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Craig		 0.24% +5
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Ernest		 0.24% 0
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Andrew		 0.25% +2
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Leonard		 0.25% -3
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Barry		 0.26% +1
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Fred		 0.26% -6
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Allen		 0.26% +1
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Frederick		 0.26% +5
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Russell		 0.28% -2
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Steve		 0.28% -8
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Bobby		 0.28% -5
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Phillip		 0.29% +3
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Louis		 0.29% -1
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Ronnie		 0.29% -5
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Howard		 0.29% 0
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Samuel		 0.30% +8
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Glenn		 0.30% +12
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Stanley		 0.31% +5
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Harry		 0.31% -2
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Eugene		 0.31% +3
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Billy		 0.32% -4
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Albert		 0.34% -1
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Philip		 0.35% -1
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Dale		 0.35% +2
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Jimmy		 0.36% -3
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Joe		 0.36% -5
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Roy		 0.37% -2
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Ralph		 0.37% +1
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Johnny		 0.39% +3
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Jeffrey		 0.39% +10
47.
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Jack		 0.40% -4
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Henry		 0.40% -1
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Alan		 0.40% +1
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Arthur		 0.42% 0
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Carl		 0.43% -1
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Harold		 0.43% -6
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Willie		 0.44% -1
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Danny		 0.45% -1
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Patrick		 0.45% +9
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Peter		 0.46% -1
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Walter		 0.46% -2
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Anthony		 0.47% +5
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Wayne		 0.50% -1
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Timothy		 0.52% +4
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Gerald		 0.54% -3
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Lawrence		 0.57% -1
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Gregory		 0.61% +1
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Raymond		 0.63% -3
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Douglas		 0.63% +4
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Terry		 0.64% -2
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Frank		 0.66% -2
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Bruce		 0.68% +2
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Roger		 0.71% -1
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Mark		 0.76% +5
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Jerry		 0.88% -2
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Daniel		 1.01% 0
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Edward		 1.06% -2
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Steven		 1.11% +3
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Stephen		 1.14% +1
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George		 1.18% -2
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Paul		 1.20% +1
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Dennis		 1.21% +1
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Kenneth		 1.31% 0
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Joseph		 1.47% -1
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Donald		 1.51% +1
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Gary		 1.61% 0
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Ronald		 1.75% -1
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Larry		 1.77% +1
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Charles		 2.22% 0
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Thomas		 2.51% 0
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Richard		 2.83% 0
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David		 3.31% -1
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Michael		 3.33% +1
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William		 3.41% 0
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John		 4.51% 0
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Robert		 4.66% 0
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James		 4.82% 0
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Charlene		 0.20% +5
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Anita		 0.20% +3
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Rosemary		 0.21% -8
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Roberta		 0.21% +4
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Victoria		 0.21% +12
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Eileen		 0.21% -4
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Sylvia		 0.22% +6
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Lynda		 0.22% -9
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Jeanne		 0.22% +3
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Anna		 0.22% -2
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Geraldine		 0.22% -7
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Maureen		 0.22% -1
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Sue		 0.22% -10
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Glenda		 0.23% +5
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Anne		 0.23% +1
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Dianne		 0.24% +1
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Sarah		 0.25% +1
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Constance		 0.25% +10
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Teresa		 0.25% 0
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Cathy		 0.25% +23
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Evelyn		 0.26% -6
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Marsha		 0.26% -3
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Marcia		 0.27% +1
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Sally		 0.27% -5
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Sheila		 0.27% -5
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Darlene		 0.27% +2
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Lynn		 0.28% +6
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Lois		 0.28% -3
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Maria		 0.29% +3
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Charlotte		 0.29% -2
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Vicki		 0.30% +11
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Doris		 0.30% -5
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Sherry		 0.30% -7
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Marie		 0.30% -7
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Rose		 0.31% -3
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Laura		 0.31% +8
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Ellen		 0.31% +3
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Theresa		 0.32% -1
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Suzanne		 0.32% +4
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Joanne		 0.33% +4
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Jo		 0.33% -4
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Jacqueline		 0.34% 0
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Katherine		 0.34% +10
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Elaine		 0.35% -4
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Wanda		 0.36% +1
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Paula		 0.38% -3
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Rita		 0.38% +5
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Alice		 0.38% -4
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Kathryn		 0.41% +2
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Gail		 0.41% 0
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Phyllis		 0.42% -4
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Frances		 0.42% -7
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Diana		 0.43% 0
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Ruth		 0.44% -2
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Helen		 0.44% -6
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Jean		 0.44% +2
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Ann		 0.45% 0
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Connie		 0.47% 0
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Kathy		 0.48% +13
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Jane		 0.50% -2
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Rebecca		 0.50% +10
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Virginia		 0.51% -3
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Peggy		 0.52% 0
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Catherine		 0.52% +4
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Joan		 0.52% +1
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Bonnie		 0.55% -1
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Martha		 0.56% -2
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Marilyn		 0.56% 0
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Dorothy		 0.59% -3
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Beverly		 0.60% 0
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Christine		 0.67% +5
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Gloria		 0.68% -1
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Cheryl		 0.68% -3
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Cynthia		 0.74% 0
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Joyce		 0.77% -5
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Elizabeth		 0.78% +1
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Janice		 0.82% -1
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Janet		 0.85% +1
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Betty		 0.85% -4
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Pamela		 0.86% +1
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Judy		 0.91% -4
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Diane		 0.98% 0
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Shirley		 0.98% +2
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Carolyn		 0.99% -3
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Judith		 1.00% -1
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Deborah		 1.09% +15
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Margaret		 1.11% -1
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Brenda		 1.17% +4
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Donna		 1.26% -1
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Karen		 1.28% +1
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Sharon		 1.47% -1
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Kathleen		 1.50% +1
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Carol		 1.53% 0
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Nancy		 1.67% 0
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Sandra		 1.75% 0
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Susan		 2.15% 0
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Barbara		 2.43% -1
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Patricia		 2.64% +1
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Mary		 3.81% 0
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Linda		 5.19% 0
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Popularity extremes for the United States