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The top names of 1903

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 381,200 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1903

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	14,275	5.45%
2	Helen	6,129	2.34%
3	Anna	5,098	1.95%
4	Margaret	5,045	1.93%
5	Ruth	4,517	1.72%
6	Elizabeth	3,724	1.42%
7	Marie	3,469	1.32%
8	Florence	3,468	1.32%
9	Ethel	3,257	1.24%
10	Mildred	3,088	1.18%
11	Dorothy	3,078	1.17%
12	Alice	2,996	1.14%
13	Lillian	2,972	1.13%
14	Gladys	2,674	1.02%
15	Edna	2,667	1.02%
16	Grace	2,616	1.00%
17	Annie	2,551	0.97%
18	Rose	2,478	0.95%
19	Frances	2,365	0.90%
20	Clara	2,342	0.89%
21	Bessie	2,339	0.89%
22	Bertha	2,309	0.88%
23	Emma	2,308	0.88%
24	Gertrude	2,253	0.86%
25	Mabel	2,163	0.83%
26	Hazel	2,139	0.82%
27	Pearl	2,046	0.78%
28	Irene	2,001	0.76%
29	Martha	1,980	0.76%
30	Myrtle	1,980	0.76%
31	Louise	1,935	0.74%
32	Catherine	1,916	0.73%
33	Edith	1,901	0.73%
34	Esther	1,883	0.72%
35	Minnie	1,846	0.70%
36	Eva	1,783	0.68%
37	Ida	1,774	0.68%
38	Elsie	1,720	0.66%
39	Agnes	1,616	0.62%
40	Josephine	1,587	0.61%
41	Sarah	1,553	0.59%
42	Ruby	1,538	0.59%
43	Laura	1,503	0.57%
44	Viola	1,495	0.57%
45	Nellie	1,491	0.57%
46	Lillie	1,485	0.57%
47	Thelma	1,479	0.56%
48	Julia	1,447	0.55%
49	Beatrice	1,439	0.55%
50	Ella	1,419	0.54%

Boys, 1903

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	7,608	6.38%
2	William	6,311	5.29%
3	James	5,479	4.60%
4	George	3,961	3.32%
5	Charles	3,213	2.69%
6	Joseph	3,121	2.62%
7	Robert	3,044	2.55%
8	Frank	2,644	2.22%
9	Edward	2,268	1.90%
10	Thomas	1,962	1.65%
11	Henry	1,922	1.61%
12	Walter	1,840	1.54%
13	Harry	1,647	1.38%
14	Willie	1,454	1.22%
15	Arthur	1,435	1.20%
16	Albert	1,337	1.12%
17	Clarence	1,261	1.06%
18	Fred	1,204	1.01%
19	Paul	1,081	0.91%
20	Harold	1,065	0.89%
21	Raymond	1,051	0.88%
22	Roy	975	0.82%
23	Carl	910	0.76%
24	Joe	895	0.75%
25	Louis	889	0.75%
26	Richard	862	0.72%
27	Earl	837	0.70%
28	Jack	831	0.70%
29	Ralph	807	0.68%
30	Ernest	764	0.64%
31	Samuel	741	0.62%
32	Charlie	739	0.62%
33	David	716	0.60%
34	Herbert	668	0.56%
35	Francis	665	0.56%
36	Theodore	663	0.56%
37	Howard	636	0.53%
38	Leo	636	0.53%
39	Alfred	557	0.47%
40	Elmer	556	0.47%
41	Sam	552	0.46%
42	Andrew	550	0.46%
43	Lawrence	536	0.45%
44	Eugene	478	0.40%
45	Lee	477	0.40%
46	Floyd	472	0.40%
47	Michael	466	0.39%
48	Herman	449	0.38%
49	Leonard	448	0.38%
50	Daniel	432	0.36%

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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