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The top names of 1921

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 2,334,507 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1921

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	73,984	6.00%
2	Dorothy	39,087	3.17%
3	Helen	34,822	2.82%
4	Margaret	28,468	2.31%
5	Ruth	25,783	2.09%
6	Virginia	19,032	1.54%
7	Mildred	17,880	1.45%
8	Betty	17,638	1.43%
9	Frances	15,993	1.30%
10	Elizabeth	15,800	1.28%
11	Anna	14,476	1.17%
12	Evelyn	14,278	1.16%
13	Doris	13,152	1.07%
14	Marie	12,501	1.01%
15	Alice	11,955	0.97%
16	Marjorie	11,209	0.91%
17	Florence	10,720	0.87%
18	Irene	10,624	0.86%
19	Lillian	9,770	0.79%
20	Rose	9,352	0.76%
21	Martha	9,264	0.75%
22	Louise	9,180	0.74%
23	Catherine	8,887	0.72%
24	Gladys	8,814	0.71%
25	Jean	8,592	0.70%
26	Ruby	8,333	0.68%
27	Edna	8,302	0.67%
28	Josephine	8,135	0.66%
29	Eleanor	8,054	0.65%
30	Thelma	7,839	0.64%
31	Lucille	7,698	0.62%
32	Ethel	7,603	0.62%
33	Edith	7,589	0.62%
34	Hazel	7,341	0.60%
35	Grace	7,230	0.59%
36	Annie	7,209	0.58%
37	Pauline	7,142	0.58%
38	Lois	6,899	0.56%
39	Bernice	6,190	0.50%
40	Barbara	6,013	0.49%
41	Beatrice	5,968	0.48%
42	Esther	5,926	0.48%
43	Marion	5,814	0.47%
44	Shirley	5,695	0.46%
45	Clara	5,606	0.45%
46	Gertrude	5,349	0.43%
47	Jane	5,188	0.42%
48	Rita	5,157	0.42%
49	Katherine	5,156	0.42%
50	June	5,155	0.42%

Boys, 1921

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	58,216	5.29%
2	Robert	52,779	4.79%
3	William	51,862	4.71%
4	James	49,750	4.52%
5	Charles	29,242	2.65%
6	George	27,476	2.49%
7	Joseph	26,182	2.38%
8	Edward	20,817	1.89%
9	Frank	16,705	1.52%
10	Richard	16,376	1.49%
11	Thomas	15,308	1.39%
12	Harold	13,811	1.25%
13	Donald	13,776	1.25%
14	Paul	13,169	1.20%
15	Walter	13,004	1.18%
16	Raymond	12,645	1.15%
17	Henry	11,411	1.04%
18	Jack	10,757	0.98%
19	Arthur	10,527	0.96%
20	Albert	10,158	0.92%
21	Harry	9,731	0.88%
22	Kenneth	8,959	0.81%
23	Ralph	8,860	0.80%
24	Warren	7,798	0.71%
25	David	7,765	0.70%
26	Eugene	7,717	0.70%
27	Howard	7,713	0.70%
28	Clarence	7,332	0.67%
29	Louis	7,247	0.66%
30	Carl	7,077	0.64%
31	Earl	6,754	0.61%
32	Roy	6,545	0.59%
33	Fred	6,496	0.59%
34	Willie	6,492	0.59%
35	Francis	6,293	0.57%
36	Joe	6,204	0.56%
37	Lawrence	5,977	0.54%
38	Ernest	5,697	0.52%
39	Leonard	5,650	0.51%
40	Anthony	5,239	0.48%
41	Stanley	5,231	0.47%
42	Herbert	5,217	0.47%
43	Alfred	4,925	0.45%
44	Samuel	4,754	0.43%
45	Bernard	4,485	0.41%
46	Norman	4,479	0.41%
47	Michael	4,198	0.38%
48	Elmer	4,146	0.38%
49	Daniel	4,087	0.37%
50	Leo	4,066	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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