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The top names of 1905

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 423,923 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1905

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	16,067	5.51%
2	Helen	6,811	2.34%
3	Margaret	5,690	1.95%
4	Anna	5,424	1.86%
5	Ruth	5,068	1.74%
6	Elizabeth	4,121	1.41%
7	Dorothy	3,937	1.35%
8	Mildred	3,758	1.29%
9	Marie	3,643	1.25%
10	Alice	3,610	1.24%
11	Florence	3,478	1.19%
12	Ethel	3,401	1.17%
13	Lillian	3,185	1.09%
14	Gladys	2,996	1.03%
15	Edna	2,953	1.01%
16	Frances	2,887	0.99%
17	Annie	2,793	0.96%
18	Rose	2,724	0.93%
19	Grace	2,630	0.90%
20	Bessie	2,446	0.84%
21	Bertha	2,434	0.83%
22	Clara	2,397	0.82%
23	Louise	2,367	0.81%
24	Irene	2,357	0.81%
25	Hazel	2,351	0.81%
26	Emma	2,298	0.79%
27	Gertrude	2,276	0.78%
28	Catherine	2,198	0.75%
29	Mabel	2,178	0.75%
30	Edith	2,137	0.73%
31	Pearl	2,108	0.72%
32	Martha	2,091	0.72%
33	Myrtle	2,026	0.69%
34	Esther	1,993	0.68%
35	Minnie	1,950	0.67%
36	Thelma	1,945	0.67%
37	Josephine	1,894	0.65%
38	Ruby	1,885	0.65%
39	Eva	1,815	0.62%
40	Elsie	1,811	0.62%
41	Sarah	1,762	0.60%
42	Ida	1,757	0.60%
43	Agnes	1,718	0.59%
44	Viola	1,697	0.58%
45	Beatrice	1,661	0.57%
46	Evelyn	1,661	0.57%
47	Julia	1,642	0.56%
48	Nellie	1,626	0.56%
49	Laura	1,566	0.54%
50	Lucille	1,533	0.53%

Boys, 1905

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	8,059	6.09%
2	William	6,495	4.91%
3	James	6,042	4.57%
4	George	4,256	3.22%
5	Charles	3,608	2.73%
6	Robert	3,410	2.58%
7	Joseph	3,302	2.50%
8	Frank	2,837	2.14%
9	Edward	2,366	1.79%
10	Thomas	2,135	1.61%
11	Henry	2,126	1.61%
12	Walter	1,902	1.44%
13	Willie	1,782	1.35%
14	Harry	1,619	1.22%
15	Albert	1,532	1.16%
16	Arthur	1,505	1.14%
17	Clarence	1,377	1.04%
18	Fred	1,284	0.97%
19	Paul	1,262	0.95%
20	Harold	1,258	0.95%
21	Raymond	1,159	0.88%
22	Richard	1,033	0.78%
23	Joe	1,024	0.77%
24	Roy	1,016	0.77%
25	Louis	981	0.74%
26	Carl	959	0.72%
27	Ralph	938	0.71%
28	Jack	907	0.69%
29	Earl	904	0.68%
30	Samuel	856	0.65%
31	Ernest	845	0.64%
32	David	838	0.63%
33	Theodore	834	0.63%
34	Charlie	801	0.61%
35	Howard	735	0.56%
36	Francis	685	0.52%
37	Herbert	681	0.51%
38	Lawrence	669	0.51%
39	Sam	620	0.47%
40	Andrew	619	0.47%
41	Elmer	602	0.46%
42	Eugene	593	0.45%
43	Alfred	591	0.45%
44	Floyd	523	0.40%
45	Michael	513	0.39%
46	Leo	512	0.39%
47	Leonard	495	0.37%
48	Anthony	490	0.37%
49	Lee	486	0.37%
50	Daniel	484	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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