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The top names of 1918

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 2,171,111 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1918

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	67,365	5.82%
2	Helen	36,148	3.12%
3	Dorothy	32,030	2.77%
4	Margaret	27,139	2.34%
5	Ruth	25,535	2.21%
6	Mildred	17,258	1.49%
7	Virginia	16,421	1.42%
8	Frances	16,132	1.39%
9	Elizabeth	15,853	1.37%
10	Anna	15,666	1.35%
11	Evelyn	13,493	1.17%
12	Marie	12,589	1.09%
13	Alice	11,590	1.00%
14	Florence	11,318	0.98%
15	Lillian	9,986	0.86%
16	Irene	9,774	0.84%
17	Rose	9,568	0.83%
18	Louise	9,111	0.79%
19	Doris	9,061	0.78%
20	Catherine	8,842	0.76%
21	Betty	8,803	0.76%
22	Gladys	8,734	0.75%
23	Edna	8,698	0.75%
24	Josephine	8,682	0.75%
25	Martha	8,341	0.72%
26	Eleanor	8,176	0.71%
27	Ruby	8,134	0.70%
28	Ethel	8,075	0.70%
29	Lucille	7,902	0.68%
30	Edith	7,858	0.68%
31	Grace	7,770	0.67%
32	Thelma	7,740	0.67%
33	Hazel	7,615	0.66%
34	Marjorie	7,517	0.65%
35	Pauline	7,222	0.62%
36	Annie	6,743	0.58%
37	Jean	6,600	0.57%
38	Esther	6,574	0.57%
39	Gertrude	6,264	0.54%
40	Beatrice	5,907	0.51%
41	Bernice	5,892	0.51%
42	Lois	5,877	0.51%
43	Clara	5,778	0.50%
44	Ann	5,613	0.48%
45	Marion	5,583	0.48%
46	Emma	5,324	0.46%
47	Agnes	5,291	0.46%
48	Julia	5,268	0.46%
49	Elsie	5,194	0.45%
50	Katherine	5,191	0.45%

Boys, 1918

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	56,558	5.58%
2	William	45,291	4.47%
3	James	42,115	4.16%
4	Robert	40,619	4.01%
5	Charles	26,921	2.66%
6	George	26,318	2.60%
7	Joseph	26,261	2.59%
8	Edward	19,489	1.92%
9	Frank	17,018	1.68%
10	Thomas	13,910	1.37%
11	Walter	13,338	1.32%
12	Richard	12,323	1.22%
13	Harold	12,185	1.20%
14	Paul	11,755	1.16%
15	Raymond	11,604	1.14%
16	Henry	11,354	1.12%
17	Arthur	10,105	1.00%
18	Donald	9,972	0.98%
19	Albert	9,935	0.98%
20	Harry	9,896	0.98%
21	Jack	8,341	0.82%
22	Ralph	8,162	0.81%
23	Clarence	7,187	0.71%
24	Louis	7,082	0.70%
25	Carl	7,004	0.69%
26	Howard	6,928	0.68%
27	Kenneth	6,809	0.67%
28	David	6,627	0.65%
29	Willie	6,537	0.65%
30	Francis	6,347	0.63%
31	Earl	6,321	0.62%
32	Roy	6,211	0.61%
33	Fred	6,182	0.61%
34	Joe	5,805	0.57%
35	Eugene	5,631	0.56%
36	Stanley	5,618	0.55%
37	Ernest	5,527	0.55%
38	Lawrence	5,372	0.53%
39	Anthony	5,168	0.51%
40	Herbert	5,128	0.51%
41	Leonard	4,980	0.49%
42	Alfred	4,873	0.48%
43	Samuel	4,772	0.47%
44	Elmer	4,373	0.43%
45	Michael	4,296	0.42%
46	Andrew	4,138	0.41%
47	Bernard	4,098	0.40%
48	Leo	4,036	0.40%
49	Norman	3,867	0.38%
50	Russell	3,833	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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