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The top names of 1930

Mary led the girls and Robert the boys, out of 2,223,305 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1930

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	64,153	5.70%
2	Betty	38,240	3.40%
3	Dorothy	30,411	2.70%
4	Helen	19,913	1.77%
5	Margaret	18,350	1.63%
6	Barbara	18,279	1.62%
7	Patricia	15,751	1.40%
8	Joan	15,478	1.37%
9	Doris	15,464	1.37%
10	Ruth	14,942	1.33%
11	Shirley	14,775	1.31%
12	Virginia	13,197	1.17%
13	Dolores	12,842	1.14%
14	Jean	11,986	1.06%
15	Elizabeth	10,995	0.98%
16	Frances	10,644	0.95%
17	Lois	10,114	0.90%
18	Joyce	9,658	0.86%
19	Evelyn	9,536	0.85%
20	Alice	9,516	0.85%
21	Mildred	9,356	0.83%
22	Marilyn	9,288	0.82%
23	Anna	9,081	0.81%
24	Nancy	9,068	0.81%
25	Norma	8,511	0.76%
26	Marie	8,426	0.75%
27	Martha	7,832	0.70%
28	Phyllis	7,770	0.69%
29	Rose	7,688	0.68%
30	Gloria	7,605	0.68%
31	Louise	6,942	0.62%
32	Marjorie	6,633	0.59%
33	Irene	6,464	0.57%
34	Beverly	6,455	0.57%
35	Catherine	6,299	0.56%
36	Ruby	5,993	0.53%
37	Donna	5,978	0.53%
38	Florence	5,867	0.52%
39	Eleanor	5,823	0.52%
40	Annie	5,756	0.51%
41	Ann	5,531	0.49%
42	Rita	5,470	0.49%
43	Geraldine	5,448	0.48%
44	Lillian	5,447	0.48%
45	Thelma	5,250	0.47%
46	Lorraine	5,166	0.46%
47	June	5,094	0.45%
48	Gladys	5,066	0.45%
49	Josephine	4,988	0.44%
50	Theresa	4,783	0.42%

Boys, 1930

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Robert	62,153	5.66%
2	James	53,957	4.92%
3	John	52,447	4.78%
4	William	47,271	4.31%
5	Richard	32,187	2.93%
6	Charles	31,867	2.90%
7	Donald	29,052	2.65%
8	George	22,788	2.08%
9	Joseph	20,981	1.91%
10	Edward	17,352	1.58%
11	Thomas	17,008	1.55%
12	Paul	12,955	1.18%
13	Frank	12,535	1.14%
14	Jack	12,430	1.13%
15	David	12,275	1.12%
16	Raymond	11,714	1.07%
17	Kenneth	11,705	1.07%
18	Harold	11,660	1.06%
19	Walter	9,731	0.89%
20	Billy	9,285	0.85%
21	Eugene	9,029	0.82%
22	Henry	8,594	0.78%
23	Arthur	8,284	0.75%
24	Albert	7,950	0.72%
25	Ralph	7,634	0.70%
26	Carl	6,951	0.63%
27	Joe	6,873	0.63%
28	Harry	6,847	0.62%
29	Willie	6,667	0.61%
30	Gerald	6,483	0.59%
31	Howard	6,341	0.58%
32	Fred	6,049	0.55%
33	Roy	5,917	0.54%
34	Louis	5,810	0.53%
35	Herbert	5,675	0.52%
36	Lawrence	5,639	0.51%
37	Ronald	5,635	0.51%
38	Earl	5,567	0.51%
39	Clarence	5,498	0.50%
40	Norman	5,289	0.48%
41	Bobby	5,181	0.47%
42	Francis	4,990	0.45%
43	Ernest	4,787	0.44%
44	Anthony	4,674	0.43%
45	Leonard	4,662	0.42%
46	Alfred	4,558	0.42%
47	Daniel	4,465	0.41%
48	Marvin	4,404	0.40%
49	Stanley	4,383	0.40%
50	Melvin	4,048	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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