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The top names of 1934

Mary led the girls and Robert the boys, out of 2,076,821 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1934

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	56,929	5.45%
2	Betty	31,089	2.98%
3	Barbara	29,239	2.80%
4	Shirley	22,841	2.19%
5	Dorothy	21,281	2.04%
6	Patricia	20,844	2.00%
7	Joan	19,465	1.86%
8	Margaret	15,144	1.45%
9	Helen	14,100	1.35%
10	Nancy	13,520	1.29%
11	Doris	11,627	1.11%
12	Joyce	11,459	1.10%
13	Ruth	10,565	1.01%
14	Carol	10,273	0.98%
15	Virginia	10,002	0.96%
16	Jean	9,718	0.93%
17	Marilyn	9,382	0.90%
18	Elizabeth	9,346	0.90%
19	Frances	9,206	0.88%
20	Lois	8,387	0.80%
21	Janet	8,071	0.77%
22	Beverly	7,886	0.76%
23	Donna	7,870	0.75%
24	Norma	7,788	0.75%
25	Alice	7,784	0.75%
26	Dolores	7,689	0.74%
27	Martha	7,604	0.73%
28	Phyllis	7,180	0.69%
29	Evelyn	6,983	0.67%
30	Gloria	6,813	0.65%
31	Anna	6,680	0.64%
32	Ann	6,641	0.64%
33	Carolyn	6,472	0.62%
34	Marie	6,326	0.61%
35	Mildred	6,180	0.59%
36	Peggy	6,027	0.58%
37	Rose	5,583	0.53%
38	Annie	5,018	0.48%
39	Ruby	4,978	0.48%
40	Louise	4,973	0.48%
41	Marjorie	4,972	0.48%
42	Catherine	4,933	0.47%
43	Geraldine	4,837	0.46%
44	Eleanor	4,718	0.45%
45	Joanne	4,543	0.44%
46	June	4,387	0.42%
47	Wanda	4,368	0.42%
48	Jane	4,358	0.42%
49	Irene	4,346	0.42%
50	Joann	4,149	0.40%

Boys, 1934

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Robert	55,843	5.41%
2	James	54,270	5.26%
3	John	46,743	4.53%
4	William	40,175	3.89%
5	Richard	33,167	3.21%
6	Donald	30,408	2.94%
7	Charles	29,790	2.88%
8	George	18,500	1.79%
9	Thomas	17,373	1.68%
10	Joseph	17,111	1.66%
11	Ronald	14,088	1.36%
12	David	14,003	1.36%
13	Edward	13,917	1.35%
14	Paul	12,196	1.18%
15	Kenneth	11,800	1.14%
16	Frank	10,640	1.03%
17	Jack	9,985	0.97%
18	Harold	9,926	0.96%
19	Raymond	9,588	0.93%
20	Billy	9,562	0.93%
21	Walter	8,092	0.78%
22	Gerald	7,816	0.76%
23	Bobby	7,532	0.73%
24	Eugene	7,145	0.69%
25	Jerry	7,134	0.69%
26	Joe	7,090	0.69%
27	Henry	6,735	0.65%
28	Carl	6,683	0.65%
29	Arthur	6,443	0.62%
30	Willie	6,348	0.61%
31	Ralph	6,282	0.61%
32	Albert	6,003	0.58%
33	Fred	5,466	0.53%
34	Lawrence	5,324	0.52%
35	Roy	5,104	0.49%
36	Harry	5,099	0.49%
37	Howard	5,068	0.49%
38	Norman	4,989	0.48%
39	Roger	4,766	0.46%
40	Louis	4,682	0.45%
41	Earl	4,628	0.45%
42	Daniel	4,502	0.44%
43	Larry	4,474	0.43%
44	Marvin	4,217	0.41%
45	Clarence	4,213	0.41%
46	Franklin	4,156	0.40%
47	Michael	4,108	0.40%
48	Wayne	4,035	0.39%
49	Francis	4,006	0.39%
50	Don	3,926	0.38%

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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