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The top names of 1924

Mary led the girls and Robert the boys, out of 2,381,614 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1924

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	73,534	5.89%
2	Dorothy	39,996	3.20%
3	Helen	31,194	2.50%
4	Betty	30,600	2.45%
5	Margaret	26,547	2.13%
6	Ruth	23,601	1.89%
7	Virginia	18,620	1.49%
8	Mildred	15,853	1.27%
9	Doris	15,786	1.26%
10	Frances	15,183	1.22%
11	Elizabeth	14,950	1.20%
12	Evelyn	13,358	1.07%
13	Anna	13,076	1.05%
14	Marie	11,575	0.93%
15	Alice	11,537	0.92%
16	Jean	10,721	0.86%
17	Marjorie	10,069	0.81%
18	Irene	9,928	0.79%
19	Shirley	9,489	0.76%
20	Florence	9,472	0.76%
21	Martha	9,320	0.75%
22	Lois	9,300	0.74%
23	Lillian	9,100	0.73%
24	Louise	8,854	0.71%
25	Rose	8,479	0.68%
26	Ruby	8,406	0.67%
27	Catherine	8,363	0.67%
28	Barbara	8,305	0.67%
29	Eleanor	8,193	0.66%
30	Gladys	7,790	0.62%
31	Edna	7,408	0.59%
32	Annie	7,347	0.59%
33	Thelma	7,316	0.59%
34	Josephine	7,274	0.58%
35	Patricia	6,957	0.56%
36	Edith	6,890	0.55%
37	Lucille	6,744	0.54%
38	Pauline	6,722	0.54%
39	Ethel	6,586	0.53%
40	Norma	6,542	0.52%
41	Gloria	6,534	0.52%
42	Hazel	6,342	0.51%
43	Grace	6,327	0.51%
44	Phyllis	6,267	0.50%
45	June	6,150	0.49%
46	Marion	6,047	0.48%
47	Bernice	6,033	0.48%
48	Juanita	5,404	0.43%
49	Rita	5,381	0.43%
50	Beatrice	5,271	0.42%

Boys, 1924

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Robert	60,802	5.37%
2	John	59,052	5.21%
3	William	53,506	4.72%
4	James	52,942	4.67%
5	Charles	30,460	2.69%
6	George	27,373	2.42%
7	Joseph	25,421	2.24%
8	Richard	21,244	1.88%
9	Edward	21,126	1.87%
10	Donald	17,929	1.58%
11	Thomas	16,555	1.46%
12	Frank	16,044	1.42%
13	Harold	14,149	1.25%
14	Paul	13,338	1.18%
15	Raymond	12,873	1.14%
16	Walter	12,696	1.12%
17	Jack	11,921	1.05%
18	Henry	11,195	0.99%
19	Kenneth	10,355	0.91%
20	Arthur	10,172	0.90%
21	Albert	9,880	0.87%
22	Harry	9,115	0.80%
23	Ralph	8,766	0.77%
24	David	8,758	0.77%
25	Eugene	8,346	0.74%
26	Howard	7,371	0.65%
27	Carl	7,085	0.63%
28	Louis	7,043	0.62%
29	Clarence	6,895	0.61%
30	Willie	6,700	0.59%
31	Roy	6,557	0.58%
32	Fred	6,532	0.58%
33	Earl	6,529	0.58%
34	Francis	6,131	0.54%
35	Joe	6,044	0.53%
36	Lawrence	5,775	0.51%
37	Ernest	5,683	0.50%
38	Leonard	5,601	0.49%
39	Anthony	5,191	0.46%
40	Stanley	5,186	0.46%
41	Herbert	5,121	0.45%
42	Norman	5,045	0.45%
43	Alfred	4,929	0.44%
44	Calvin	4,918	0.43%
45	Samuel	4,591	0.41%
46	Bernard	4,505	0.40%
47	Daniel	4,403	0.39%
48	Melvin	4,168	0.37%
49	Gerald	4,151	0.37%
50	Marvin	4,024	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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