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The top names of 1932

Mary led the girls and Robert the boys, out of 2,111,305 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1932

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	59,883	5.61%
2	Betty	34,420	3.23%
3	Barbara	26,318	2.47%
4	Dorothy	24,974	2.34%
5	Joan	21,044	1.97%
6	Patricia	17,992	1.69%
7	Margaret	16,556	1.55%
8	Helen	16,376	1.53%
9	Shirley	14,476	1.36%
10	Doris	12,910	1.21%
11	Ruth	12,257	1.15%
12	Joyce	11,362	1.06%
13	Nancy	10,948	1.03%
14	Virginia	10,755	1.01%
15	Jean	10,670	1.00%
16	Marilyn	10,567	0.99%
17	Elizabeth	9,999	0.94%
18	Dolores	9,630	0.90%
19	Frances	9,552	0.90%
20	Lois	9,519	0.89%
21	Alice	8,537	0.80%
22	Norma	8,406	0.79%
23	Evelyn	7,958	0.75%
24	Anna	7,924	0.74%
25	Gloria	7,813	0.73%
26	Mildred	7,643	0.72%
27	Martha	7,579	0.71%
28	Beverly	7,527	0.71%
29	Donna	7,362	0.69%
30	Phyllis	7,308	0.68%
31	Marie	6,913	0.65%
32	Carol	6,570	0.62%
33	Rose	6,476	0.61%
34	Ann	6,195	0.58%
35	Janet	5,786	0.54%
36	Louise	5,643	0.53%
37	Marjorie	5,608	0.53%
38	Ruby	5,469	0.51%
39	Catherine	5,449	0.51%
40	Peggy	5,445	0.51%
41	Annie	5,385	0.50%
42	Geraldine	5,332	0.50%
43	Irene	5,200	0.49%
44	June	4,845	0.45%
45	Eleanor	4,836	0.45%
46	Carolyn	4,587	0.43%
47	Florence	4,542	0.43%
48	Lillian	4,351	0.41%
49	Jane	4,348	0.41%
50	Edna	4,279	0.40%

Boys, 1932

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Robert	59,268	5.68%
2	James	51,930	4.97%
3	John	48,624	4.66%
4	William	42,124	4.03%
5	Richard	31,809	3.05%
6	Charles	31,092	2.98%
7	Donald	29,794	2.85%
8	George	20,439	1.96%
9	Joseph	18,566	1.78%
10	Thomas	16,834	1.61%
11	Edward	15,191	1.45%
12	David	12,139	1.16%
13	Paul	12,066	1.16%
14	Kenneth	11,742	1.12%
15	Frank	11,497	1.10%
16	Ronald	11,143	1.07%
17	Jack	10,716	1.03%
18	Harold	10,433	1.00%
19	Raymond	10,346	0.99%
20	Billy	9,436	0.90%
21	Walter	8,667	0.83%
22	Eugene	8,046	0.77%
23	Henry	7,470	0.72%
24	Gerald	7,347	0.70%
25	Arthur	6,916	0.66%
26	Albert	6,863	0.66%
27	Ralph	6,727	0.64%
28	Carl	6,714	0.64%
29	Joe	6,690	0.64%
30	Bobby	6,597	0.63%
31	Willie	6,547	0.63%
32	Harry	5,706	0.55%
33	Fred	5,525	0.53%
34	Jerry	5,303	0.51%
35	Lawrence	5,295	0.51%
36	Howard	5,292	0.51%
37	Norman	5,268	0.50%
38	Roy	5,238	0.50%
39	Louis	5,134	0.49%
40	Clarence	4,895	0.47%
41	Earl	4,822	0.46%
42	Daniel	4,449	0.43%
43	Francis	4,388	0.42%
44	Herbert	4,368	0.42%
45	Anthony	4,223	0.40%
46	Marvin	4,187	0.40%
47	Ernest	4,166	0.40%
48	Leonard	4,101	0.39%
49	Alfred	3,899	0.37%
50	Roger	3,788	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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