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The top names of 1915

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 1,832,427 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1915

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	58,187	5.91%
2	Helen	30,866	3.14%
3	Dorothy	25,154	2.56%
4	Margaret	23,054	2.34%
5	Ruth	21,878	2.22%
6	Mildred	15,254	1.55%
7	Anna	15,119	1.54%
8	Elizabeth	14,103	1.43%
9	Frances	12,786	1.30%
10	Evelyn	11,595	1.18%
11	Marie	11,363	1.15%
12	Virginia	10,952	1.11%
13	Alice	10,525	1.07%
14	Florence	10,105	1.03%
15	Lillian	9,546	0.97%
16	Rose	9,375	0.95%
17	Irene	8,323	0.85%
18	Louise	8,313	0.84%
19	Catherine	8,181	0.83%
20	Edna	8,144	0.83%
21	Gladys	7,857	0.80%
22	Josephine	7,606	0.77%
23	Ethel	7,379	0.75%
24	Ruby	7,237	0.74%
25	Martha	7,216	0.73%
26	Hazel	7,092	0.72%
27	Grace	7,044	0.72%
28	Eleanor	7,036	0.72%
29	Lucille	7,006	0.71%
30	Thelma	6,762	0.69%
31	Edith	6,761	0.69%
32	Pauline	6,334	0.64%
33	Esther	6,321	0.64%
34	Doris	6,292	0.64%
35	Gertrude	6,077	0.62%
36	Annie	5,936	0.60%
37	Beatrice	5,342	0.54%
38	Clara	5,285	0.54%
39	Marjorie	5,119	0.52%
40	Emma	5,044	0.51%
41	Elsie	4,967	0.50%
42	Bernice	4,937	0.50%
43	Ann	4,895	0.50%
44	Julia	4,831	0.49%
45	Agnes	4,795	0.49%
46	Bertha	4,785	0.49%
47	Lois	4,775	0.49%
48	Jean	4,603	0.47%
49	Katherine	4,488	0.46%
50	Marion	4,456	0.45%

Boys, 1915

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	47,576	5.61%
2	William	38,563	4.54%
3	James	33,773	3.98%
4	Robert	28,737	3.39%
5	Joseph	23,051	2.72%
6	George	22,307	2.63%
7	Charles	21,960	2.59%
8	Edward	15,889	1.87%
9	Frank	15,006	1.77%
10	Thomas	11,490	1.35%
11	Walter	11,255	1.33%
12	Harold	10,444	1.23%
13	Paul	10,328	1.22%
14	Henry	10,138	1.19%
15	Richard	9,143	1.08%
16	Raymond	8,981	1.06%
17	Albert	8,825	1.04%
18	Arthur	8,564	1.01%
19	Harry	8,470	1.00%
20	Donald	7,116	0.84%
21	Ralph	6,816	0.80%
22	Carl	6,613	0.78%
23	Louis	6,518	0.77%
24	Clarence	6,267	0.74%
25	Howard	6,103	0.72%
26	Fred	5,778	0.68%
27	Jack	5,749	0.68%
28	Kenneth	5,681	0.67%
29	Francis	5,594	0.66%
30	Willie	5,434	0.64%
31	David	5,394	0.64%
32	Roy	5,052	0.60%
33	Earl	4,908	0.58%
34	Stanley	4,807	0.57%
35	Ernest	4,787	0.56%
36	Anthony	4,722	0.56%
37	Lawrence	4,688	0.55%
38	Joe	4,648	0.55%
39	Samuel	4,351	0.51%
40	Herbert	4,341	0.51%
41	Eugene	4,321	0.51%
42	Alfred	4,231	0.50%
43	Michael	4,079	0.48%
44	Leonard	3,993	0.47%
45	Elmer	3,802	0.45%
46	Andrew	3,573	0.42%
47	Leo	3,527	0.42%
48	Bernard	3,302	0.39%
49	Peter	3,302	0.39%
50	Norman	3,262	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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