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The top names of 1919

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 2,110,239 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1919

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	65,836	5.83%
2	Helen	33,706	2.98%
3	Dorothy	31,733	2.81%
4	Margaret	26,238	2.32%
5	Ruth	24,562	2.17%
6	Mildred	17,300	1.53%
7	Virginia	15,636	1.38%
8	Elizabeth	15,287	1.35%
9	Frances	15,106	1.34%
10	Anna	14,498	1.28%
11	Evelyn	13,321	1.18%
12	Marie	12,008	1.06%
13	Alice	11,141	0.99%
14	Florence	10,482	0.93%
15	Betty	10,106	0.89%
16	Irene	9,712	0.86%
17	Lillian	9,516	0.84%
18	Doris	9,433	0.83%
19	Rose	9,195	0.81%
20	Louise	8,812	0.78%
21	Gladys	8,717	0.77%
22	Edna	8,404	0.74%
23	Catherine	8,335	0.74%
24	Ruby	8,334	0.74%
25	Martha	8,322	0.74%
26	Josephine	8,104	0.72%
27	Lucille	7,856	0.70%
28	Ethel	7,809	0.69%
29	Edith	7,767	0.69%
30	Eleanor	7,611	0.67%
31	Thelma	7,558	0.67%
32	Hazel	7,430	0.66%
33	Marjorie	7,335	0.65%
34	Grace	7,195	0.64%
35	Annie	7,146	0.63%
36	Pauline	6,973	0.62%
37	Jean	6,799	0.60%
38	Esther	6,248	0.55%
39	Gertrude	6,014	0.53%
40	Lois	5,976	0.53%
41	Beatrice	5,856	0.52%
42	Bernice	5,793	0.51%
43	Clara	5,404	0.48%
44	Marion	5,158	0.46%
45	Emma	5,087	0.45%
46	Sarah	5,022	0.44%
47	Elsie	4,995	0.44%
48	Julia	4,950	0.44%
49	Ann	4,924	0.44%
50	Agnes	4,901	0.43%

Boys, 1919

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	53,522	5.46%
2	William	43,969	4.49%
3	James	42,392	4.33%
4	Robert	41,025	4.19%
5	Charles	25,192	2.57%
6	George	25,170	2.57%
7	Joseph	24,266	2.48%
8	Edward	18,536	1.89%
9	Frank	15,701	1.60%
10	Thomas	13,434	1.37%
11	Walter	12,879	1.31%
12	Richard	12,441	1.27%
13	Harold	12,021	1.23%
14	Raymond	11,384	1.16%
15	Paul	11,305	1.15%
16	Henry	10,613	1.08%
17	Donald	9,904	1.01%
18	Albert	9,607	0.98%
19	Arthur	9,540	0.97%
20	Harry	8,990	0.92%
21	Jack	8,263	0.84%
22	Ralph	7,709	0.79%
23	Willie	6,942	0.71%
24	Howard	6,843	0.70%
25	Clarence	6,825	0.70%
26	Kenneth	6,796	0.69%
27	David	6,716	0.69%
28	Louis	6,661	0.68%
29	Carl	6,474	0.66%
30	Fred	6,091	0.62%
31	Earl	5,975	0.61%
32	Roy	5,970	0.61%
33	Eugene	5,892	0.60%
34	Francis	5,726	0.58%
35	Joe	5,709	0.58%
36	Ernest	5,296	0.54%
37	Stanley	5,238	0.53%
38	Lawrence	5,205	0.53%
39	Leonard	5,010	0.51%
40	Herbert	4,960	0.51%
41	Anthony	4,737	0.48%
42	Alfred	4,615	0.47%
43	Samuel	4,472	0.46%
44	Elmer	3,982	0.41%
45	Bernard	3,915	0.40%
46	Michael	3,909	0.40%
47	Andrew	3,851	0.39%
48	Norman	3,809	0.39%
49	Leo	3,802	0.39%
50	Russell	3,645	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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