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The top names of 1928

Mary led the girls and Robert the boys, out of 2,260,931 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1928

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	66,871	5.80%
2	Betty	36,083	3.13%
3	Dorothy	33,733	2.92%
4	Helen	22,937	1.99%
5	Margaret	20,295	1.76%
6	Ruth	17,859	1.55%
7	Doris	16,575	1.44%
8	Barbara	14,872	1.29%
9	Virginia	14,500	1.26%
10	Shirley	14,215	1.23%
11	Patricia	12,331	1.07%
12	Jean	12,209	1.06%
13	Frances	12,137	1.05%
14	Elizabeth	11,767	1.02%
15	Mildred	11,653	1.01%
16	Anna	10,575	0.92%
17	Evelyn	10,533	0.91%
18	Lois	10,425	0.90%
19	Alice	10,139	0.88%
20	Dolores	9,615	0.83%
21	Marie	9,286	0.81%
22	Martha	8,252	0.72%
23	Norma	8,166	0.71%
24	Rose	8,161	0.71%
25	Gloria	8,119	0.70%
26	Phyllis	7,924	0.69%
27	Joan	7,854	0.68%
28	Irene	7,731	0.67%
29	Marjorie	7,632	0.66%
30	Joyce	7,244	0.63%
31	Louise	7,053	0.61%
32	Florence	6,970	0.60%
33	Catherine	6,910	0.60%
34	Ruby	6,692	0.58%
35	Lillian	6,577	0.57%
36	Eleanor	6,535	0.57%
37	Annie	6,329	0.55%
38	Marilyn	6,066	0.53%
39	Lorraine	5,982	0.52%
40	Thelma	5,978	0.52%
41	Gladys	5,791	0.50%
42	Josephine	5,671	0.49%
43	Nancy	5,537	0.48%
44	June	5,517	0.48%
45	Edna	5,473	0.47%
46	Beverly	5,437	0.47%
47	Marion	5,420	0.47%
48	Pauline	5,391	0.47%
49	Theresa	5,330	0.46%
50	Geraldine	5,156	0.45%

Boys, 1928

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Robert	60,701	5.48%
2	John	53,760	4.85%
3	James	52,752	4.76%
4	William	49,118	4.43%
5	Charles	31,243	2.82%
6	Richard	28,793	2.60%
7	Donald	25,704	2.32%
8	George	24,391	2.20%
9	Joseph	22,322	2.02%
10	Edward	18,492	1.67%
11	Thomas	16,582	1.50%
12	Frank	13,570	1.23%
13	Paul	13,160	1.19%
14	Harold	12,670	1.14%
15	Jack	12,494	1.13%
16	Raymond	11,946	1.08%
17	Kenneth	11,167	1.01%
18	Walter	10,651	0.96%
19	David	9,990	0.90%
20	Eugene	9,708	0.88%
21	Henry	9,313	0.84%
22	Arthur	8,880	0.80%
23	Albert	8,812	0.80%
24	Ralph	8,100	0.73%
25	Herbert	8,065	0.73%
26	Harry	7,604	0.69%
27	Billy	7,310	0.66%
28	Carl	6,946	0.63%
29	Willie	6,817	0.62%
30	Joe	6,682	0.60%
31	Howard	6,496	0.59%
32	Louis	6,299	0.57%
33	Alfred	6,252	0.56%
34	Roy	6,229	0.56%
35	Clarence	6,068	0.55%
36	Fred	6,036	0.54%
37	Earl	5,966	0.54%
38	Lawrence	5,597	0.51%
39	Norman	5,590	0.50%
40	Francis	5,516	0.50%
41	Gerald	5,487	0.50%
42	Leonard	5,131	0.46%
43	Ernest	4,941	0.45%
44	Anthony	4,719	0.43%
45	Stanley	4,481	0.40%
46	Marvin	4,452	0.40%
47	Daniel	4,426	0.40%
48	Melvin	4,249	0.38%
49	Bernard	4,067	0.37%
50	Ronald	3,969	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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