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The top names of 1920

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 2,262,645 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1920

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	70,983	5.92%
2	Dorothy	36,643	3.06%
3	Helen	35,097	2.93%
4	Margaret	27,994	2.34%
5	Ruth	26,102	2.18%
6	Mildred	18,060	1.51%
7	Virginia	17,314	1.44%
8	Elizabeth	15,908	1.33%
9	Frances	15,883	1.33%
10	Anna	14,581	1.22%
11	Betty	14,016	1.17%
12	Evelyn	13,838	1.15%
13	Marie	12,743	1.06%
14	Doris	11,892	0.99%
15	Alice	11,596	0.97%
16	Florence	10,731	0.90%
17	Irene	10,072	0.84%
18	Lillian	10,049	0.84%
19	Louise	9,179	0.77%
20	Rose	9,011	0.75%
21	Catherine	8,878	0.74%
22	Gladys	8,819	0.74%
23	Martha	8,709	0.73%
24	Marjorie	8,658	0.72%
25	Eleanor	8,497	0.71%
26	Ruby	8,336	0.70%
27	Edna	8,331	0.70%
28	Josephine	8,093	0.68%
29	Lucille	7,989	0.67%
30	Ethel	7,868	0.66%
31	Thelma	7,814	0.65%
32	Edith	7,773	0.65%
33	Jean	7,714	0.64%
34	Hazel	7,308	0.61%
35	Annie	7,268	0.61%
36	Pauline	7,180	0.60%
37	Grace	7,172	0.60%
38	Lois	6,560	0.55%
39	Esther	6,068	0.51%
40	Bernice	5,928	0.49%
41	Beatrice	5,804	0.48%
42	Gertrude	5,797	0.48%
43	Marion	5,745	0.48%
44	Clara	5,470	0.46%
45	Katherine	5,276	0.44%
46	Emma	5,238	0.44%
47	Barbara	5,106	0.43%
48	Jane	5,054	0.42%
49	Ann	5,041	0.42%
50	Sarah	5,031	0.42%

Boys, 1920

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	56,913	5.35%
2	William	50,146	4.71%
3	Robert	48,679	4.57%
4	James	47,908	4.50%
5	Charles	28,309	2.66%
6	George	26,891	2.53%
7	Joseph	25,587	2.40%
8	Edward	20,097	1.89%
9	Frank	16,430	1.54%
10	Richard	15,010	1.41%
11	Thomas	14,936	1.40%
12	Harold	13,678	1.29%
13	Walter	13,294	1.25%
14	Paul	12,570	1.18%
15	Raymond	12,193	1.15%
16	Donald	11,941	1.12%
17	Henry	11,305	1.06%
18	Arthur	10,236	0.96%
19	Albert	9,997	0.94%
20	Jack	9,599	0.90%
21	Harry	9,406	0.88%
22	Ralph	8,556	0.80%
23	Kenneth	7,840	0.74%
24	Howard	7,466	0.70%
25	David	7,444	0.70%
26	Clarence	7,221	0.68%
27	Carl	7,010	0.66%
28	Louis	6,966	0.65%
29	Willie	6,887	0.65%
30	Eugene	6,867	0.65%
31	Earl	6,533	0.61%
32	Roy	6,355	0.60%
33	Fred	6,298	0.59%
34	Francis	6,241	0.59%
35	Joe	6,071	0.57%
36	Lawrence	5,727	0.54%
37	Ernest	5,566	0.52%
38	Leonard	5,511	0.52%
39	Warren	5,492	0.52%
40	Stanley	5,314	0.50%
41	Herbert	5,249	0.49%
42	Alfred	5,006	0.47%
43	Anthony	4,944	0.46%
44	Samuel	4,654	0.44%
45	Elmer	4,206	0.40%
46	Bernard	4,163	0.39%
47	Norman	4,109	0.39%
48	Leo	4,054	0.38%
49	Andrew	4,026	0.38%
50	Michael	4,003	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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