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The top names of 1925

Mary led the girls and Robert the boys, out of 2,333,303 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1925

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	70,586	5.80%
2	Dorothy	38,570	3.17%
3	Betty	32,812	2.70%
4	Helen	29,173	2.40%
5	Margaret	24,463	2.01%
6	Ruth	22,247	1.83%
7	Virginia	17,490	1.44%
8	Doris	16,075	1.32%
9	Mildred	14,453	1.19%
10	Elizabeth	13,936	1.14%
11	Frances	13,824	1.14%
12	Evelyn	12,505	1.03%
13	Anna	12,250	1.01%
14	Jean	11,598	0.95%
15	Alice	11,576	0.95%
16	Marie	10,930	0.90%
17	Shirley	10,513	0.86%
18	Lois	9,573	0.79%
19	Irene	9,440	0.78%
20	Gloria	9,381	0.77%
21	Marjorie	9,306	0.76%
22	Barbara	9,155	0.75%
23	Martha	8,762	0.72%
24	Florence	8,585	0.71%
25	Lillian	8,351	0.69%
26	Rose	8,280	0.68%
27	Louise	8,275	0.68%
28	Patricia	8,096	0.67%
29	Catherine	7,867	0.65%
30	Ruby	7,843	0.64%
31	Eleanor	7,724	0.63%
32	Annie	7,350	0.60%
33	Gladys	7,231	0.59%
34	Norma	6,941	0.57%
35	Thelma	6,823	0.56%
36	Josephine	6,810	0.56%
37	Edna	6,781	0.56%
38	Pauline	6,728	0.55%
39	June	6,649	0.55%
40	Phyllis	6,486	0.53%
41	Lucille	6,397	0.53%
42	Edith	6,275	0.52%
43	Ethel	6,176	0.51%
44	Grace	5,983	0.49%
45	Hazel	5,778	0.47%
46	Bernice	5,728	0.47%
47	Marion	5,577	0.46%
48	Rita	5,323	0.44%
49	Juanita	5,232	0.43%
50	Beatrice	4,992	0.41%

Boys, 1925

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Robert	60,895	5.46%
2	John	57,195	5.13%
3	William	53,310	4.78%
4	James	52,680	4.72%
5	Charles	29,580	2.65%
6	George	26,560	2.38%
7	Joseph	24,613	2.21%
8	Richard	23,269	2.09%
9	Edward	20,090	1.80%
10	Donald	19,193	1.72%
11	Thomas	16,688	1.50%
12	Frank	15,329	1.37%
13	Paul	14,175	1.27%
14	Harold	13,597	1.22%
15	Raymond	12,441	1.11%
16	Walter	12,130	1.09%
17	Jack	12,011	1.08%
18	Henry	10,618	0.95%
19	Kenneth	10,146	0.91%
20	Arthur	9,986	0.89%
21	Albert	9,511	0.85%
22	David	8,915	0.80%
23	Harry	8,610	0.77%
24	Eugene	8,517	0.76%
25	Ralph	8,467	0.76%
26	Howard	7,173	0.64%
27	Willie	7,124	0.64%
28	Carl	7,061	0.63%
29	Louis	6,798	0.61%
30	Clarence	6,670	0.60%
31	Earl	6,436	0.58%
32	Roy	6,376	0.57%
33	Fred	6,205	0.56%
34	Joe	6,107	0.55%
35	Francis	5,978	0.54%
36	Lawrence	5,633	0.50%
37	Ernest	5,494	0.49%
38	Leonard	5,465	0.49%
39	Anthony	5,041	0.45%
40	Stanley	5,030	0.45%
41	Norman	4,975	0.45%
42	Herbert	4,924	0.44%
43	Alfred	4,796	0.43%
44	Daniel	4,548	0.41%
45	Gerald	4,507	0.40%
46	Samuel	4,405	0.39%
47	Calvin	4,302	0.39%
48	Bernard	4,259	0.38%
49	Billy	4,207	0.38%
50	Melvin	4,146	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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