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The top names of 1911

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 644,279 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1911

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	24,390	5.83%
2	Helen	11,801	2.82%
3	Margaret	9,279	2.22%
4	Dorothy	8,869	2.12%
5	Ruth	8,003	1.91%
6	Anna	6,753	1.61%
7	Elizabeth	6,298	1.51%
8	Mildred	6,271	1.50%
9	Marie	5,017	1.20%
10	Frances	4,967	1.19%
11	Alice	4,813	1.15%
12	Florence	4,424	1.06%
13	Lillian	4,367	1.04%
14	Rose	4,151	0.99%
15	Ethel	4,141	0.99%
16	Evelyn	4,076	0.97%
17	Edna	3,957	0.95%
18	Gladys	3,933	0.94%
19	Louise	3,725	0.89%
20	Catherine	3,565	0.85%
21	Irene	3,502	0.84%
22	Ruby	3,372	0.81%
23	Grace	3,304	0.79%
24	Annie	3,298	0.79%
25	Hazel	3,290	0.79%
26	Virginia	3,263	0.78%
27	Thelma	3,166	0.76%
28	Martha	3,019	0.72%
29	Josephine	3,011	0.72%
30	Gertrude	2,895	0.69%
31	Edith	2,825	0.68%
32	Lucille	2,740	0.66%
33	Clara	2,691	0.64%
34	Esther	2,676	0.64%
35	Emma	2,616	0.63%
36	Bertha	2,606	0.62%
37	Beatrice	2,522	0.60%
38	Pauline	2,345	0.56%
39	Agnes	2,315	0.55%
40	Bessie	2,279	0.54%
41	Elsie	2,224	0.53%
42	Sarah	2,201	0.53%
43	Mabel	2,171	0.52%
44	Julia	2,158	0.52%
45	Ida	2,119	0.51%
46	Eva	2,109	0.50%
47	Viola	2,083	0.50%
48	Pearl	2,075	0.50%
49	Eleanor	2,035	0.49%
50	Myrtle	2,033	0.49%

Boys, 1911

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	13,446	5.95%
2	William	10,593	4.69%
3	James	9,952	4.40%
4	George	6,586	2.91%
5	Robert	6,526	2.89%
6	Joseph	6,488	2.87%
7	Charles	5,725	2.53%
8	Frank	4,314	1.91%
9	Edward	4,164	1.84%
10	Thomas	3,292	1.46%
11	Henry	3,167	1.40%
12	Walter	3,074	1.36%
13	Harry	2,538	1.12%
14	Willie	2,492	1.10%
15	Albert	2,478	1.10%
16	Harold	2,448	1.08%
17	Paul	2,393	1.06%
18	Arthur	2,376	1.05%
19	Raymond	2,088	0.92%
20	Richard	2,030	0.90%
21	Louis	1,838	0.81%
22	Fred	1,808	0.80%
23	Clarence	1,775	0.79%
24	Ralph	1,674	0.74%
25	Jack	1,668	0.74%
26	Carl	1,574	0.70%
27	David	1,556	0.69%
28	Howard	1,467	0.65%
29	Joe	1,449	0.64%
30	Samuel	1,398	0.62%
31	Roy	1,394	0.62%
32	Ernest	1,338	0.59%
33	Francis	1,311	0.58%
34	Earl	1,305	0.58%
35	Anthony	1,288	0.57%
36	Donald	1,275	0.56%
37	Lawrence	1,221	0.54%
38	Michael	1,159	0.51%
39	Alfred	1,158	0.51%
40	Kenneth	1,148	0.51%
41	Herbert	1,125	0.50%
42	Andrew	1,098	0.49%
43	Eugene	1,060	0.47%
44	Stanley	997	0.44%
45	Charlie	978	0.43%
46	Leonard	953	0.42%
47	Sam	928	0.41%
48	Elmer	894	0.40%
49	Herman	853	0.38%
50	Peter	845	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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