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The top names of 1909

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 511,224 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1909

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	19,259	5.55%
2	Helen	9,250	2.66%
3	Margaret	7,358	2.12%
4	Ruth	6,509	1.87%
5	Dorothy	6,253	1.80%
6	Anna	5,804	1.67%
7	Elizabeth	5,176	1.49%
8	Mildred	5,054	1.46%
9	Marie	4,301	1.24%
10	Alice	4,170	1.20%
11	Florence	3,789	1.09%
12	Frances	3,780	1.09%
13	Ethel	3,661	1.05%
14	Lillian	3,596	1.04%
15	Gladys	3,538	1.02%
16	Edna	3,429	0.99%
17	Rose	3,374	0.97%
18	Evelyn	3,157	0.91%
19	Louise	3,019	0.87%
20	Irene	2,961	0.85%
21	Grace	2,912	0.84%
22	Annie	2,904	0.84%
23	Catherine	2,897	0.83%
24	Hazel	2,708	0.78%
25	Gertrude	2,622	0.76%
26	Thelma	2,612	0.75%
27	Ruby	2,524	0.73%
28	Martha	2,510	0.72%
29	Bertha	2,444	0.70%
30	Virginia	2,420	0.70%
31	Josephine	2,416	0.70%
32	Clara	2,403	0.69%
33	Edith	2,371	0.68%
34	Emma	2,338	0.67%
35	Bessie	2,276	0.66%
36	Lucille	2,192	0.63%
37	Esther	2,185	0.63%
38	Beatrice	2,105	0.61%
39	Elsie	2,064	0.59%
40	Pearl	2,048	0.59%
41	Mabel	2,007	0.58%
42	Agnes	1,974	0.57%
43	Myrtle	1,950	0.56%
44	Ida	1,943	0.56%
45	Julia	1,931	0.56%
46	Viola	1,926	0.55%
47	Eva	1,896	0.55%
48	Pauline	1,896	0.55%
49	Sarah	1,845	0.53%
50	Minnie	1,779	0.51%

Boys, 1909

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	9,590	5.85%
2	William	7,913	4.83%
3	James	7,595	4.63%
4	George	4,688	2.86%
5	Robert	4,563	2.78%
6	Joseph	4,348	2.65%
7	Charles	4,029	2.46%
8	Frank	3,244	1.98%
9	Edward	2,935	1.79%
10	Thomas	2,468	1.50%
11	Henry	2,411	1.47%
12	Walter	2,287	1.39%
13	Willie	2,175	1.33%
14	Harry	1,924	1.17%
15	Albert	1,816	1.11%
16	Harold	1,725	1.05%
17	Paul	1,676	1.02%
18	Arthur	1,665	1.02%
19	Clarence	1,518	0.93%
20	Raymond	1,441	0.88%
21	Richard	1,427	0.87%
22	Fred	1,355	0.83%
23	Joe	1,292	0.79%
24	Louis	1,231	0.75%
25	Carl	1,215	0.74%
26	Howard	1,166	0.71%
27	Jack	1,150	0.70%
28	Roy	1,135	0.69%
29	David	1,094	0.67%
30	Ralph	1,091	0.67%
31	Earl	1,007	0.61%
32	Samuel	983	0.60%
33	Francis	886	0.54%
34	Ernest	885	0.54%
35	Lawrence	854	0.52%
36	Charlie	833	0.51%
37	Herbert	831	0.51%
38	Andrew	766	0.47%
39	Alfred	763	0.47%
40	Anthony	758	0.46%
41	Kenneth	746	0.45%
42	Donald	725	0.44%
43	Eugene	724	0.44%
44	Sam	700	0.43%
45	Elmer	687	0.42%
46	Leonard	665	0.41%
47	Michael	635	0.39%
48	Herman	618	0.38%
49	Leo	609	0.37%
50	Stanley	607	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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