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The top names of 1923

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 2,302,468 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1923

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	71,634	5.94%
2	Dorothy	39,043	3.24%
3	Helen	31,486	2.61%
4	Margaret	26,134	2.17%
5	Betty	25,989	2.15%
6	Ruth	23,637	1.96%
7	Virginia	18,325	1.52%
8	Mildred	15,989	1.33%
9	Elizabeth	15,459	1.28%
10	Frances	14,881	1.23%
11	Doris	14,610	1.21%
12	Evelyn	13,173	1.09%
13	Anna	12,865	1.07%
14	Marie	11,513	0.95%
15	Alice	11,331	0.94%
16	Marjorie	10,220	0.85%
17	Irene	10,054	0.83%
18	Florence	9,746	0.81%
19	Jean	9,511	0.79%
20	Lillian	9,328	0.77%
21	Martha	8,961	0.74%
22	Louise	8,882	0.74%
23	Rose	8,440	0.70%
24	Catherine	8,437	0.70%
25	Ruby	8,232	0.68%
26	Shirley	7,918	0.66%
27	Lois	7,814	0.65%
28	Eleanor	7,772	0.64%
29	Gladys	7,695	0.64%
30	Josephine	7,560	0.63%
31	Thelma	7,379	0.61%
32	Edna	7,299	0.61%
33	Barbara	7,209	0.60%
34	Annie	7,095	0.59%
35	Lucille	6,914	0.57%
36	Edith	6,836	0.57%
37	Pauline	6,707	0.56%
38	Ethel	6,541	0.54%
39	Grace	6,316	0.52%
40	Hazel	6,246	0.52%
41	Norma	5,885	0.49%
42	June	5,810	0.48%
43	Bernice	5,809	0.48%
44	Marion	5,711	0.47%
45	Phyllis	5,476	0.45%
46	Beatrice	5,464	0.45%
47	Esther	5,315	0.44%
48	Gloria	5,310	0.44%
49	Clara	5,134	0.43%
50	Rita	5,095	0.42%

Boys, 1923

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	57,467	5.24%
2	Robert	56,111	5.12%
3	William	52,136	4.76%
4	James	50,462	4.60%
5	Charles	28,966	2.64%
6	George	27,025	2.47%
7	Joseph	25,561	2.33%
8	Edward	20,597	1.88%
9	Richard	18,887	1.72%
10	Donald	16,433	1.50%
11	Frank	15,903	1.45%
12	Thomas	15,886	1.45%
13	Harold	13,874	1.27%
14	Paul	13,362	1.22%
15	Raymond	12,460	1.14%
16	Walter	12,433	1.13%
17	Jack	11,190	1.02%
18	Henry	11,067	1.01%
19	Arthur	9,924	0.91%
20	Albert	9,825	0.90%
21	Kenneth	9,734	0.89%
22	Harry	9,261	0.84%
23	Ralph	8,629	0.79%
24	David	8,230	0.75%
25	Eugene	7,947	0.73%
26	Howard	7,156	0.65%
27	Louis	7,074	0.65%
28	Carl	6,871	0.63%
29	Clarence	6,801	0.62%
30	Willie	6,665	0.61%
31	Earl	6,339	0.58%
32	Roy	6,316	0.58%
33	Fred	6,314	0.58%
34	Francis	6,087	0.56%
35	Joe	6,003	0.55%
36	Lawrence	5,913	0.54%
37	Leonard	5,486	0.50%
38	Ernest	5,372	0.49%
39	Anthony	5,121	0.47%
40	Herbert	5,071	0.46%
41	Stanley	5,036	0.46%
42	Alfred	5,005	0.46%
43	Warren	4,820	0.44%
44	Norman	4,706	0.43%
45	Samuel	4,578	0.42%
46	Bernard	4,376	0.40%
47	Daniel	4,264	0.39%
48	Melvin	4,012	0.37%
49	Leo	3,973	0.36%
50	Michael	3,915	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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