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The top names of 1904

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 403,484 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1904

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	14,961	5.43%
2	Helen	6,488	2.36%
3	Anna	5,330	1.94%
4	Margaret	5,302	1.93%
5	Ruth	4,900	1.78%
6	Elizabeth	3,833	1.39%
7	Marie	3,595	1.31%
8	Florence	3,572	1.30%
9	Mildred	3,525	1.28%
10	Dorothy	3,477	1.26%
11	Ethel	3,296	1.20%
12	Lillian	3,139	1.14%
13	Alice	3,131	1.14%
14	Gladys	2,976	1.08%
15	Edna	2,762	1.00%
16	Frances	2,657	0.96%
17	Annie	2,631	0.96%
18	Rose	2,631	0.96%
19	Grace	2,513	0.91%
20	Bertha	2,363	0.86%
21	Bessie	2,340	0.85%
22	Emma	2,312	0.84%
23	Hazel	2,301	0.84%
24	Clara	2,281	0.83%
25	Gertrude	2,269	0.82%
26	Irene	2,212	0.80%
27	Mabel	2,172	0.79%
28	Louise	2,136	0.78%
29	Martha	2,019	0.73%
30	Pearl	2,015	0.73%
31	Catherine	1,982	0.72%
32	Esther	1,957	0.71%
33	Edith	1,944	0.71%
34	Myrtle	1,905	0.69%
35	Minnie	1,885	0.68%
36	Eva	1,858	0.67%
37	Thelma	1,757	0.64%
38	Ida	1,751	0.64%
39	Elsie	1,719	0.62%
40	Josephine	1,701	0.62%
41	Ruby	1,701	0.62%
42	Agnes	1,672	0.61%
43	Sarah	1,594	0.58%
44	Nellie	1,560	0.57%
45	Beatrice	1,549	0.56%
46	Viola	1,545	0.56%
47	Laura	1,508	0.55%
48	Ella	1,432	0.52%
49	Julia	1,426	0.52%
50	Evelyn	1,372	0.50%

Boys, 1904

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	8,108	6.33%
2	William	6,416	5.01%
3	James	5,855	4.57%
4	George	4,219	3.29%
5	Robert	3,414	2.66%
6	Charles	3,406	2.66%
7	Joseph	3,291	2.57%
8	Frank	2,799	2.18%
9	Edward	2,335	1.82%
10	Henry	2,085	1.63%
11	Thomas	2,057	1.61%
12	Walter	1,873	1.46%
13	Harry	1,722	1.34%
14	Willie	1,675	1.31%
15	Arthur	1,495	1.17%
16	Albert	1,453	1.13%
17	Clarence	1,310	1.02%
18	Fred	1,223	0.95%
19	Paul	1,194	0.93%
20	Harold	1,186	0.93%
21	Roy	1,123	0.88%
22	Raymond	1,093	0.85%
23	Joe	959	0.75%
24	Richard	957	0.75%
25	Carl	953	0.74%
26	Louis	936	0.73%
27	Jack	908	0.71%
28	Ralph	899	0.70%
29	Earl	854	0.67%
30	Theodore	834	0.65%
31	David	817	0.64%
32	Ernest	749	0.58%
33	Charlie	739	0.58%
34	Samuel	727	0.57%
35	Howard	726	0.57%
36	Francis	686	0.54%
37	Herbert	680	0.53%
38	Lawrence	662	0.52%
39	Elmer	620	0.48%
40	Sam	603	0.47%
41	Alfred	600	0.47%
42	Leo	552	0.43%
43	Andrew	546	0.43%
44	Eugene	541	0.42%
45	Lee	532	0.42%
46	Leonard	508	0.40%
47	Herman	497	0.39%
48	Russell	473	0.37%
49	Daniel	472	0.37%
50	Michael	462	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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