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The top names of 1926

Mary led the girls and Robert the boys, out of 2,295,906 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1926

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	67,832	5.72%
2	Dorothy	36,618	3.09%
3	Betty	32,964	2.78%
4	Helen	26,886	2.27%
5	Margaret	23,072	1.95%
6	Ruth	20,225	1.71%
7	Doris	16,295	1.37%
8	Virginia	16,161	1.36%
9	Mildred	13,547	1.14%
10	Frances	13,355	1.13%
11	Elizabeth	12,837	1.08%
12	Jean	12,168	1.03%
13	Evelyn	11,780	0.99%
14	Shirley	11,762	0.99%
15	Anna	11,698	0.99%
16	Barbara	11,079	0.93%
17	Alice	10,956	0.92%
18	Marie	10,629	0.90%
19	Lois	9,816	0.83%
20	Gloria	9,198	0.78%
21	Irene	9,169	0.77%
22	Marjorie	8,640	0.73%
23	Patricia	8,586	0.72%
24	Martha	8,556	0.72%
25	Rose	8,509	0.72%
26	Florence	8,178	0.69%
27	Louise	7,979	0.67%
28	Lillian	7,661	0.65%
29	Norma	7,528	0.64%
30	Ruby	7,476	0.63%
31	Catherine	7,469	0.63%
32	Eleanor	7,305	0.62%
33	Phyllis	6,921	0.58%
34	Annie	6,877	0.58%
35	Gladys	6,634	0.56%
36	Thelma	6,585	0.56%
37	Josephine	6,410	0.54%
38	Edna	6,396	0.54%
39	Pauline	6,357	0.54%
40	June	6,077	0.51%
41	Ethel	5,856	0.49%
42	Edith	5,786	0.49%
43	Lucille	5,760	0.49%
44	Joyce	5,704	0.48%
45	Bernice	5,443	0.46%
46	Grace	5,427	0.46%
47	Marion	5,353	0.45%
48	Hazel	5,303	0.45%
49	Dolores	5,218	0.44%
50	Rita	5,015	0.42%

Boys, 1926

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Robert	61,130	5.50%
2	John	56,108	5.05%
3	James	53,196	4.79%
4	William	51,922	4.68%
5	Charles	29,521	2.66%
6	George	25,910	2.33%
7	Richard	25,143	2.26%
8	Joseph	23,756	2.14%
9	Donald	20,912	1.88%
10	Edward	19,375	1.74%
11	Thomas	16,592	1.49%
12	Frank	14,493	1.31%
13	Paul	13,653	1.23%
14	Harold	13,310	1.20%
15	Raymond	12,809	1.15%
16	Jack	12,195	1.10%
17	Walter	11,774	1.06%
18	Kenneth	10,342	0.93%
19	Henry	9,994	0.90%
20	Arthur	9,465	0.85%
21	Albert	9,146	0.82%
22	David	9,041	0.81%
23	Eugene	9,016	0.81%
24	Ralph	8,455	0.76%
25	Harry	8,216	0.74%
26	Carl	6,939	0.62%
27	Howard	6,836	0.62%
28	Willie	6,820	0.61%
29	Clarence	6,537	0.59%
30	Louis	6,513	0.59%
31	Fred	6,447	0.58%
32	Earl	6,441	0.58%
33	Joe	6,338	0.57%
34	Roy	6,224	0.56%
35	Francis	5,789	0.52%
36	Lawrence	5,582	0.50%
37	Ernest	5,436	0.49%
38	Leonard	5,402	0.49%
39	Norman	5,282	0.48%
40	Billy	5,180	0.47%
41	Gerald	5,123	0.46%
42	Anthony	5,058	0.46%
43	Stanley	4,966	0.45%
44	Herbert	4,939	0.44%
45	Alfred	4,726	0.43%
46	Daniel	4,516	0.41%
47	Melvin	4,194	0.38%
48	Samuel	4,180	0.38%
49	Bernard	4,172	0.38%
50	Marvin	4,111	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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