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The top names of 1929

Mary led the girls and Robert the boys, out of 2,192,176 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1929

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	63,512	5.69%
2	Betty	36,675	3.28%
3	Dorothy	31,476	2.82%
4	Helen	20,983	1.88%
5	Margaret	19,212	1.72%
6	Doris	16,498	1.48%
7	Barbara	16,038	1.44%
8	Ruth	16,021	1.43%
9	Shirley	14,576	1.31%
10	Patricia	13,624	1.22%
11	Virginia	13,234	1.19%
12	Jean	11,865	1.06%
13	Joan	11,666	1.04%
14	Dolores	11,508	1.03%
15	Elizabeth	11,248	1.01%
16	Frances	11,093	0.99%
17	Lois	10,295	0.92%
18	Mildred	10,255	0.92%
19	Evelyn	9,886	0.89%
20	Anna	9,751	0.87%
21	Alice	9,480	0.85%
22	Marie	9,158	0.82%
23	Joyce	8,596	0.77%
24	Phyllis	7,995	0.72%
25	Norma	7,893	0.71%
26	Rose	7,785	0.70%
27	Martha	7,639	0.68%
28	Gloria	7,539	0.68%
29	Irene	7,039	0.63%
30	Marjorie	6,987	0.63%
31	Louise	6,903	0.62%
32	Nancy	6,872	0.62%
33	Marilyn	6,731	0.60%
34	Catherine	6,277	0.56%
35	Florence	6,212	0.56%
36	Ruby	6,153	0.55%
37	Annie	5,955	0.53%
38	Eleanor	5,865	0.53%
39	Beverly	5,862	0.53%
40	Lillian	5,712	0.51%
41	Thelma	5,476	0.49%
42	Lorraine	5,352	0.48%
43	Geraldine	5,334	0.48%
44	Gladys	5,327	0.48%
45	Josephine	5,298	0.47%
46	Ann	5,172	0.46%
47	Donna	5,139	0.46%
48	June	5,093	0.46%
49	Theresa	5,068	0.45%
50	Pauline	5,026	0.45%

Boys, 1929

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Robert	59,807	5.56%
2	James	52,135	4.85%
3	John	52,112	4.84%
4	William	47,815	4.45%
5	Charles	29,930	2.78%
6	Richard	29,572	2.75%
7	Donald	27,181	2.53%
8	George	23,020	2.14%
9	Joseph	21,165	1.97%
10	Edward	17,220	1.60%
11	Thomas	16,272	1.51%
12	Frank	12,966	1.21%
13	Paul	12,431	1.16%
14	Jack	12,167	1.13%
15	Raymond	11,909	1.11%
16	Harold	11,677	1.09%
17	David	11,302	1.05%
18	Kenneth	10,841	1.01%
19	Walter	9,850	0.92%
20	Eugene	9,046	0.84%
21	Henry	8,571	0.80%
22	Arthur	8,470	0.79%
23	Billy	8,320	0.77%
24	Albert	8,078	0.75%
25	Herbert	7,881	0.73%
26	Ralph	7,715	0.72%
27	Harry	7,144	0.66%
28	Carl	6,895	0.64%
29	Willie	6,616	0.62%
30	Joe	6,596	0.61%
31	Howard	6,010	0.56%
32	Louis	5,995	0.56%
33	Gerald	5,965	0.55%
34	Fred	5,856	0.54%
35	Roy	5,812	0.54%
36	Earl	5,737	0.53%
37	Clarence	5,729	0.53%
38	Lawrence	5,305	0.49%
39	Francis	5,270	0.49%
40	Norman	5,157	0.48%
41	Alfred	4,928	0.46%
42	Leonard	4,829	0.45%
43	Ernest	4,753	0.44%
44	Anthony	4,733	0.44%
45	Ronald	4,479	0.42%
46	Marvin	4,389	0.41%
47	Daniel	4,366	0.41%
48	Stanley	4,265	0.40%
49	Melvin	4,100	0.38%
50	Bobby	3,925	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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