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The top names of 1933

Mary led the girls and Robert the boys, out of 1,999,456 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1933

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	55,517	5.51%
2	Betty	31,531	3.13%
3	Barbara	26,949	2.67%
4	Dorothy	22,054	2.19%
5	Joan	19,294	1.91%
6	Patricia	18,632	1.85%
7	Margaret	15,241	1.51%
8	Helen	14,644	1.45%
9	Shirley	14,320	1.42%
10	Doris	12,025	1.19%
11	Nancy	11,869	1.18%
12	Joyce	11,191	1.11%
13	Ruth	11,136	1.10%
14	Jean	9,966	0.99%
15	Virginia	9,719	0.96%
16	Marilyn	9,126	0.91%
17	Elizabeth	9,016	0.89%
18	Frances	8,883	0.88%
19	Lois	8,655	0.86%
20	Carol	8,220	0.82%
21	Dolores	8,022	0.80%
22	Alice	7,697	0.76%
23	Norma	7,482	0.74%
24	Donna	7,360	0.73%
25	Janet	7,342	0.73%
26	Beverly	7,186	0.71%
27	Martha	7,164	0.71%
28	Phyllis	7,111	0.71%
29	Anna	7,072	0.70%
30	Evelyn	6,947	0.69%
31	Gloria	6,752	0.67%
32	Mildred	6,569	0.65%
33	Marie	6,242	0.62%
34	Ann	6,209	0.62%
35	Rose	5,770	0.57%
36	Peggy	5,534	0.55%
37	Annie	5,123	0.51%
38	Eleanor	5,106	0.51%
39	Louise	5,079	0.50%
40	Carolyn	5,043	0.50%
41	Marjorie	5,043	0.50%
42	Geraldine	4,962	0.49%
43	Ruby	4,944	0.49%
44	Catherine	4,908	0.49%
45	June	4,677	0.46%
46	Irene	4,506	0.45%
47	Jane	4,377	0.43%
48	Wanda	4,268	0.42%
49	Florence	4,078	0.40%
50	Marlene	4,045	0.40%

Boys, 1933

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Robert	54,221	5.47%
2	James	51,112	5.15%
3	John	46,224	4.66%
4	William	39,049	3.94%
5	Richard	31,331	3.16%
6	Charles	28,991	2.92%
7	Donald	28,450	2.87%
8	George	18,356	1.85%
9	Joseph	17,162	1.73%
10	Thomas	16,508	1.66%
11	Edward	13,797	1.39%
12	Ronald	12,061	1.22%
13	David	12,026	1.21%
14	Paul	11,854	1.20%
15	Kenneth	11,410	1.15%
16	Frank	10,962	1.11%
17	Jack	9,838	0.99%
18	Harold	9,543	0.96%
19	Raymond	9,512	0.96%
20	Billy	8,938	0.90%
21	Walter	7,756	0.78%
22	Gerald	7,422	0.75%
23	Eugene	7,352	0.74%
24	Henry	6,726	0.68%
25	Arthur	6,525	0.66%
26	Bobby	6,490	0.65%
27	Joe	6,411	0.65%
28	Carl	6,188	0.62%
29	Ralph	6,185	0.62%
30	Albert	6,091	0.61%
31	Jerry	6,066	0.61%
32	Willie	5,983	0.60%
33	Franklin	5,363	0.54%
34	Fred	5,287	0.53%
35	Harry	5,134	0.52%
36	Howard	4,995	0.50%
37	Norman	4,959	0.50%
38	Lawrence	4,911	0.50%
39	Roy	4,906	0.49%
40	Louis	4,695	0.47%
41	Earl	4,374	0.44%
42	Daniel	4,310	0.43%
43	Clarence	4,280	0.43%
44	Marvin	4,132	0.42%
45	Francis	4,093	0.41%
46	Anthony	3,974	0.40%
47	Leonard	3,955	0.40%
48	Roger	3,917	0.40%
49	Herbert	3,685	0.37%
50	Ernest	3,674	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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