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The top names of 1901

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 345,812 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1901

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	13,136	5.49%
2	Helen	5,247	2.19%
3	Anna	4,923	2.06%
4	Margaret	4,424	1.85%
5	Ruth	3,974	1.66%
6	Elizabeth	3,216	1.34%
7	Marie	3,157	1.32%
8	Florence	3,131	1.31%
9	Ethel	3,067	1.28%
10	Lillian	2,681	1.12%
11	Gladys	2,676	1.12%
12	Alice	2,562	1.07%
13	Edna	2,488	1.04%
14	Mildred	2,424	1.01%
15	Grace	2,398	1.00%
16	Annie	2,396	1.00%
17	Emma	2,374	0.99%
18	Clara	2,319	0.97%
19	Bertha	2,257	0.94%
20	Rose	2,212	0.92%
21	Bessie	2,183	0.91%
22	Dorothy	2,173	0.91%
23	Hazel	2,097	0.88%
24	Mabel	2,097	0.88%
25	Frances	2,071	0.87%
26	Minnie	2,026	0.85%
27	Gertrude	1,964	0.82%
28	Myrtle	1,892	0.79%
29	Martha	1,886	0.79%
30	Irene	1,879	0.79%
31	Pearl	1,866	0.78%
32	Edith	1,863	0.78%
33	Esther	1,844	0.77%
34	Ida	1,835	0.77%
35	Elsie	1,747	0.73%
36	Louise	1,640	0.69%
37	Eva	1,617	0.68%
38	Catherine	1,599	0.67%
39	Agnes	1,525	0.64%
40	Sarah	1,514	0.63%
41	Nellie	1,454	0.61%
42	Ella	1,435	0.60%
43	Josephine	1,434	0.60%
44	Laura	1,402	0.59%
45	Lillie	1,382	0.58%
46	Julia	1,362	0.57%
47	Viola	1,331	0.56%
48	Carrie	1,247	0.52%
49	Ruby	1,225	0.51%
50	Mattie	1,224	0.51%

Boys, 1901

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	6,900	6.48%
2	William	5,990	5.63%
3	James	4,735	4.45%
4	George	3,609	3.39%
5	Charles	3,049	2.86%
6	Joseph	2,766	2.60%
7	Robert	2,543	2.39%
8	Frank	2,402	2.26%
9	Edward	1,917	1.80%
10	Henry	1,870	1.76%
11	Thomas	1,820	1.71%
12	Walter	1,718	1.61%
13	Harry	1,594	1.50%
14	Arthur	1,329	1.25%
15	Albert	1,317	1.24%
16	Willie	1,294	1.22%
17	Clarence	1,196	1.12%
18	Fred	1,133	1.06%
19	Paul	924	0.87%
20	Roy	917	0.86%
21	Harold	915	0.86%
22	Raymond	888	0.83%
23	Earl	818	0.77%
24	Carl	817	0.77%
25	Louis	797	0.75%
26	Richard	784	0.74%
27	Joe	756	0.71%
28	Ernest	691	0.65%
29	Ralph	682	0.64%
30	David	672	0.63%
31	Charlie	654	0.61%
32	Jack	645	0.61%
33	Samuel	628	0.59%
34	Howard	584	0.55%
35	Herbert	573	0.54%
36	Francis	543	0.51%
37	Lawrence	535	0.50%
38	Elmer	520	0.49%
39	Alfred	506	0.48%
40	Andrew	479	0.45%
41	Sam	479	0.45%
42	Leo	456	0.43%
43	Theodore	450	0.42%
44	Eugene	445	0.42%
45	Lee	424	0.40%
46	Floyd	423	0.40%
47	Oscar	422	0.40%
48	Daniel	416	0.39%
49	Jesse	411	0.39%
50	Russell	395	0.37%

United States national data, Social Security Administration. The file counts Social Security applications, so its early decades undercount; the share column is a name's part of the names recorded for that sex that year, not of all births. How we use it.

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