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The top names of 1927

Mary led the girls and Robert the boys, out of 2,319,346 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1927

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	70,642	5.92%
2	Dorothy	35,993	3.02%
3	Betty	35,424	2.97%
4	Helen	25,316	2.12%
5	Margaret	21,964	1.84%
6	Ruth	19,412	1.63%
7	Doris	16,512	1.38%
8	Virginia	15,734	1.32%
9	Shirley	13,314	1.12%
10	Barbara	13,161	1.10%
11	Mildred	13,053	1.09%
12	Frances	12,988	1.09%
13	Elizabeth	12,523	1.05%
14	Jean	12,512	1.05%
15	Evelyn	11,495	0.96%
16	Anna	11,215	0.94%
17	Alice	10,679	0.90%
18	Patricia	10,554	0.89%
19	Lois	10,505	0.88%
20	Marie	10,317	0.87%
21	Irene	8,606	0.72%
22	Gloria	8,535	0.72%
23	Rose	8,497	0.71%
24	Martha	8,304	0.70%
25	Marjorie	8,115	0.68%
26	Norma	7,997	0.67%
27	Louise	7,704	0.65%
28	Florence	7,645	0.64%
29	Phyllis	7,425	0.62%
30	Ruby	7,264	0.61%
31	Catherine	7,256	0.61%
32	Lillian	7,182	0.60%
33	Eleanor	6,963	0.58%
34	Dolores	6,769	0.57%
35	Joyce	6,684	0.56%
36	Annie	6,562	0.55%
37	Gladys	6,418	0.54%
38	Thelma	6,303	0.53%
39	Josephine	6,108	0.51%
40	Edna	6,086	0.51%
41	Joan	6,032	0.51%
42	Pauline	6,011	0.50%
43	June	5,738	0.48%
44	Lorraine	5,729	0.48%
45	Lucille	5,634	0.47%
46	Marilyn	5,554	0.47%
47	Ethel	5,483	0.46%
48	Edith	5,403	0.45%
49	Bernice	5,305	0.44%
50	Grace	5,304	0.44%

Boys, 1927

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Robert	61,674	5.47%
2	John	55,949	4.96%
3	James	53,674	4.76%
4	William	51,476	4.57%
5	Charles	31,941	2.83%
6	Richard	26,768	2.38%
7	George	25,949	2.30%
8	Donald	23,834	2.11%
9	Joseph	23,503	2.09%
10	Edward	19,115	1.70%
11	Thomas	17,027	1.51%
12	Frank	14,377	1.28%
13	Paul	13,604	1.21%
14	Harold	13,226	1.17%
15	Raymond	12,807	1.14%
16	Jack	12,802	1.14%
17	Walter	11,346	1.01%
18	Kenneth	10,848	0.96%
19	Henry	9,871	0.88%
20	Eugene	9,742	0.86%
21	David	9,426	0.84%
22	Arthur	9,338	0.83%
23	Albert	9,128	0.81%
24	Ralph	8,434	0.75%
25	Harry	8,019	0.71%
26	Carl	7,277	0.65%
27	Willie	6,969	0.62%
28	Howard	6,831	0.61%
29	Louis	6,663	0.59%
30	Joe	6,542	0.58%
31	Billy	6,463	0.57%
32	Clarence	6,460	0.57%
33	Earl	6,406	0.57%
34	Roy	6,387	0.57%
35	Fred	6,313	0.56%
36	Francis	5,644	0.50%
37	Lawrence	5,572	0.49%
38	Gerald	5,511	0.49%
39	Norman	5,494	0.49%
40	Leonard	5,311	0.47%
41	Ernest	5,208	0.46%
42	Herbert	5,017	0.45%
43	Anthony	4,917	0.44%
44	Stanley	4,902	0.43%
45	Alfred	4,756	0.42%
46	Daniel	4,615	0.41%
47	Marvin	4,397	0.39%
48	Melvin	4,202	0.37%
49	Samuel	4,189	0.37%
50	Bernard	4,165	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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