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The top names of 1917

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 2,006,749 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1917

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	64,280	5.94%
2	Helen	34,251	3.17%
3	Dorothy	28,852	2.67%
4	Margaret	25,560	2.36%
5	Ruth	23,568	2.18%
6	Mildred	16,256	1.50%
7	Anna	15,160	1.40%
8	Elizabeth	15,131	1.40%
9	Frances	14,363	1.33%
10	Virginia	14,261	1.32%
11	Evelyn	12,532	1.16%
12	Marie	11,813	1.09%
13	Alice	10,990	1.02%
14	Florence	10,538	0.97%
15	Lillian	9,843	0.91%
16	Rose	9,783	0.90%
17	Irene	9,163	0.85%
18	Catherine	8,689	0.80%
19	Louise	8,584	0.79%
20	Edna	8,422	0.78%
21	Josephine	8,326	0.77%
22	Martha	8,261	0.76%
23	Gladys	8,075	0.75%
24	Ethel	7,865	0.73%
25	Doris	7,819	0.72%
26	Eleanor	7,669	0.71%
27	Ruby	7,662	0.71%
28	Edith	7,532	0.70%
29	Lucille	7,529	0.70%
30	Grace	7,373	0.68%
31	Hazel	7,285	0.67%
32	Thelma	7,245	0.67%
33	Pauline	6,896	0.64%
34	Betty	6,639	0.61%
35	Annie	6,404	0.59%
36	Marjorie	6,399	0.59%
37	Gertrude	6,300	0.58%
38	Esther	6,281	0.58%
39	Beatrice	5,839	0.54%
40	Jean	5,692	0.53%
41	Clara	5,626	0.52%
42	Bernice	5,546	0.51%
43	Lois	5,485	0.51%
44	Ann	5,455	0.50%
45	Marion	5,371	0.50%
46	Emma	5,121	0.47%
47	Julia	5,078	0.47%
48	Agnes	5,066	0.47%
49	Katherine	4,956	0.46%
50	Elsie	4,939	0.46%

Boys, 1917

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	51,852	5.60%
2	William	42,422	4.58%
3	James	37,337	4.03%
4	Robert	35,220	3.81%
5	Joseph	24,761	2.68%
6	George	24,196	2.61%
7	Charles	24,143	2.61%
8	Edward	17,501	1.89%
9	Frank	15,768	1.70%
10	Thomas	12,611	1.36%
11	Walter	12,582	1.36%
12	Harold	11,194	1.21%
13	Paul	11,156	1.21%
14	Richard	10,914	1.18%
15	Henry	10,696	1.16%
16	Raymond	9,956	1.08%
17	Arthur	9,282	1.00%
18	Albert	9,157	0.99%
19	Harry	8,856	0.96%
20	Donald	8,729	0.94%
21	Ralph	7,391	0.80%
22	Jack	6,875	0.74%
23	Louis	6,771	0.73%
24	Carl	6,699	0.72%
25	Clarence	6,587	0.71%
26	Howard	6,410	0.69%
27	Kenneth	6,141	0.66%
28	David	6,099	0.66%
29	Fred	5,986	0.65%
30	Francis	5,801	0.63%
31	Willie	5,751	0.62%
32	Earl	5,632	0.61%
33	Roy	5,586	0.60%
34	Stanley	5,186	0.56%
35	Joe	5,142	0.56%
36	Lawrence	5,094	0.55%
37	Ernest	5,055	0.55%
38	Anthony	5,027	0.54%
39	Eugene	4,873	0.53%
40	Herbert	4,745	0.51%
41	Leonard	4,694	0.51%
42	Samuel	4,490	0.49%
43	Alfred	4,424	0.48%
44	Michael	4,288	0.46%
45	Elmer	3,812	0.41%
46	Norman	3,788	0.41%
47	Leo	3,779	0.41%
48	Andrew	3,752	0.41%
49	Bernard	3,711	0.40%
50	Peter	3,464	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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