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The top names of 1913

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 1,137,112 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1913

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	36,642	5.87%
2	Helen	18,888	3.02%
3	Dorothy	14,674	2.35%
4	Margaret	14,486	2.32%
5	Ruth	12,609	2.02%
6	Mildred	9,921	1.59%
7	Anna	9,687	1.55%
8	Elizabeth	9,505	1.52%
9	Frances	7,694	1.23%
10	Marie	7,353	1.18%
11	Alice	6,934	1.11%
12	Evelyn	6,683	1.07%
13	Florence	6,279	1.01%
14	Rose	6,171	0.99%
15	Virginia	6,036	0.97%
16	Lillian	6,015	0.96%
17	Louise	5,577	0.89%
18	Edna	5,558	0.89%
19	Gladys	5,428	0.87%
20	Ethel	5,369	0.86%
21	Irene	5,335	0.85%
22	Catherine	5,302	0.85%
23	Ruby	4,913	0.79%
24	Josephine	4,822	0.77%
25	Grace	4,669	0.75%
26	Thelma	4,595	0.74%
27	Hazel	4,589	0.73%
28	Martha	4,538	0.73%
29	Edith	4,366	0.70%
30	Annie	4,267	0.68%
31	Lucille	4,098	0.66%
32	Esther	4,090	0.65%
33	Gertrude	4,015	0.64%
34	Eleanor	3,938	0.63%
35	Pauline	3,636	0.58%
36	Clara	3,633	0.58%
37	Beatrice	3,567	0.57%
38	Emma	3,474	0.56%
39	Bertha	3,345	0.54%
40	Elsie	3,209	0.51%
41	Agnes	3,206	0.51%
42	Julia	3,195	0.51%
43	Sarah	3,178	0.51%
44	Doris	3,049	0.49%
45	Bernice	3,036	0.49%
46	Ann	2,998	0.48%
47	Bessie	2,952	0.47%
48	Marjorie	2,922	0.47%
49	Ida	2,916	0.47%
50	Eva	2,891	0.46%

Boys, 1913

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	29,329	5.72%
2	William	23,538	4.59%
3	James	20,832	4.06%
4	Robert	15,684	3.06%
5	Joseph	14,471	2.82%
6	George	13,874	2.71%
7	Charles	13,191	2.57%
8	Edward	9,474	1.85%
9	Frank	9,237	1.80%
10	Thomas	7,096	1.38%
11	Walter	6,890	1.34%
12	Henry	6,391	1.25%
13	Harold	6,157	1.20%
14	Paul	5,966	1.16%
15	Harry	5,458	1.06%
16	Albert	5,449	1.06%
17	Arthur	5,422	1.06%
18	Raymond	5,310	1.04%
19	Richard	5,107	1.00%
20	Louis	4,258	0.83%
21	Clarence	4,046	0.79%
22	Ralph	3,963	0.77%
23	Carl	3,935	0.77%
24	Willie	3,760	0.73%
25	Donald	3,702	0.72%
26	Howard	3,663	0.71%
27	Fred	3,624	0.71%
28	Jack	3,538	0.69%
29	David	3,282	0.64%
30	Francis	3,205	0.63%
31	Earl	3,110	0.61%
32	Roy	3,090	0.60%
33	Kenneth	3,065	0.60%
34	Ernest	2,940	0.57%
35	Lawrence	2,853	0.56%
36	Samuel	2,850	0.56%
37	Joe	2,806	0.55%
38	Anthony	2,781	0.54%
39	Herbert	2,723	0.53%
40	Michael	2,607	0.51%
41	Stanley	2,595	0.51%
42	Alfred	2,577	0.50%
43	Eugene	2,525	0.49%
44	Woodrow	2,333	0.46%
45	Elmer	2,323	0.45%
46	Leonard	2,276	0.44%
47	Andrew	2,222	0.43%
48	Leo	2,031	0.40%
49	Frederick	1,996	0.39%
50	Russell	1,946	0.38%

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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