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The top names of 1922

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 2,289,157 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1922

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	72,177	6.01%
2	Dorothy	37,716	3.14%
3	Helen	32,510	2.71%
4	Margaret	26,862	2.24%
5	Ruth	23,633	1.97%
6	Betty	20,895	1.74%
7	Virginia	19,144	1.59%
8	Mildred	16,412	1.37%
9	Elizabeth	15,244	1.27%
10	Frances	15,054	1.25%
11	Doris	13,798	1.15%
12	Anna	13,408	1.12%
13	Evelyn	13,320	1.11%
14	Marie	11,912	0.99%
15	Alice	11,277	0.94%
16	Marjorie	10,385	0.86%
17	Irene	10,173	0.85%
18	Florence	10,036	0.84%
19	Lillian	9,430	0.79%
20	Jean	9,109	0.76%
21	Martha	9,021	0.75%
22	Louise	8,886	0.74%
23	Rose	8,791	0.73%
24	Catherine	8,537	0.71%
25	Gladys	8,042	0.67%
26	Ruby	8,003	0.67%
27	Josephine	7,864	0.65%
28	Eleanor	7,852	0.65%
29	Edna	7,622	0.63%
30	Annie	7,476	0.62%
31	Thelma	7,254	0.60%
32	Ethel	7,246	0.60%
33	Lucille	7,151	0.60%
34	Edith	7,136	0.59%
35	Lois	6,946	0.58%
36	Pauline	6,811	0.57%
37	Hazel	6,757	0.56%
38	Grace	6,743	0.56%
39	Shirley	6,407	0.53%
40	Barbara	6,272	0.52%
41	Bernice	5,912	0.49%
42	Marion	5,667	0.47%
43	Beatrice	5,476	0.46%
44	Esther	5,474	0.46%
45	June	5,382	0.45%
46	Norma	5,238	0.44%
47	Clara	5,126	0.43%
48	Gertrude	5,082	0.42%
49	Ann	5,054	0.42%
50	Emma	5,013	0.42%

Boys, 1922

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	57,280	5.26%
2	Robert	53,796	4.94%
3	William	51,111	4.70%
4	James	49,802	4.58%
5	Charles	28,839	2.65%
6	George	27,350	2.51%
7	Joseph	25,699	2.36%
8	Edward	20,419	1.88%
9	Richard	17,537	1.61%
10	Frank	16,013	1.47%
11	Thomas	15,261	1.40%
12	Donald	14,913	1.37%
13	Harold	13,593	1.25%
14	Paul	12,922	1.19%
15	Walter	12,631	1.16%
16	Raymond	12,129	1.11%
17	Henry	11,207	1.03%
18	Jack	10,847	1.00%
19	Arthur	10,114	0.93%
20	Albert	9,896	0.91%
21	Kenneth	9,258	0.85%
22	Harry	9,077	0.83%
23	Ralph	8,484	0.78%
24	David	7,865	0.72%
25	Eugene	7,849	0.72%
26	Howard	7,296	0.67%
27	Louis	7,095	0.65%
28	Willie	6,903	0.63%
29	Clarence	6,861	0.63%
30	Carl	6,690	0.61%
31	Earl	6,461	0.59%
32	Roy	6,458	0.59%
33	Fred	6,245	0.57%
34	Francis	6,147	0.56%
35	Joe	6,089	0.56%
36	Lawrence	5,786	0.53%
37	Ernest	5,503	0.51%
38	Leonard	5,407	0.50%
39	Anthony	5,091	0.47%
40	Herbert	5,047	0.46%
41	Stanley	5,045	0.46%
42	Alfred	4,833	0.44%
43	Samuel	4,600	0.42%
44	Norman	4,527	0.42%
45	Warren	4,484	0.41%
46	Bernard	4,409	0.41%
47	Daniel	4,285	0.39%
48	Michael	3,990	0.37%
49	Russell	3,965	0.36%
50	Melvin	3,908	0.36%

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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