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The top names of 1935

Mary led the girls and Robert the boys, out of 2,089,928 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1935

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	55,076	5.25%
2	Shirley	42,366	4.04%
3	Barbara	30,698	2.93%
4	Betty	28,674	2.73%
5	Patricia	22,879	2.18%
6	Dorothy	19,406	1.85%
7	Joan	18,220	1.74%
8	Margaret	14,727	1.40%
9	Nancy	14,544	1.39%
10	Helen	12,785	1.22%
11	Carol	11,735	1.12%
12	Joyce	11,368	1.08%
13	Doris	10,604	1.01%
14	Marilyn	10,418	0.99%
15	Ruth	9,988	0.95%
16	Virginia	9,867	0.94%
17	Elizabeth	9,075	0.87%
18	Jean	8,852	0.84%
19	Frances	8,770	0.84%
20	Beverly	7,992	0.76%
21	Lois	7,990	0.76%
22	Janet	7,856	0.75%
23	Donna	7,793	0.74%
24	Martha	7,621	0.73%
25	Alice	7,443	0.71%
26	Dolores	7,375	0.70%
27	Phyllis	7,370	0.70%
28	Carolyn	6,967	0.66%
29	Norma	6,869	0.66%
30	Ann	6,706	0.64%
31	Evelyn	6,560	0.63%
32	Gloria	6,348	0.61%
33	Marie	6,292	0.60%
34	Anna	6,162	0.59%
35	Mildred	5,546	0.53%
36	Peggy	5,270	0.50%
37	Rose	5,232	0.50%
38	Annie	4,849	0.46%
39	Marlene	4,830	0.46%
40	Geraldine	4,818	0.46%
41	Ruby	4,764	0.45%
42	Catherine	4,698	0.45%
43	Jane	4,646	0.44%
44	Joanne	4,565	0.44%
45	Louise	4,563	0.44%
46	Marjorie	4,482	0.43%
47	Janice	4,442	0.42%
48	Eleanor	4,166	0.40%
49	Wanda	4,102	0.39%
50	Sandra	4,089	0.39%

Boys, 1935

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Robert	56,527	5.43%
2	James	55,005	5.28%
3	John	47,509	4.56%
4	William	40,204	3.86%
5	Richard	33,946	3.26%
6	Charles	29,983	2.88%
7	Donald	29,674	2.85%
8	George	18,564	1.78%
9	Thomas	17,684	1.70%
10	Joseph	17,181	1.65%
11	David	15,663	1.50%
12	Ronald	15,489	1.49%
13	Edward	13,844	1.33%
14	Paul	12,563	1.21%
15	Kenneth	12,067	1.16%
16	Frank	10,420	1.00%
17	Raymond	9,564	0.92%
18	Jack	9,438	0.91%
19	Billy	9,241	0.89%
20	Harold	9,170	0.88%
21	Gerald	8,458	0.81%
22	Jerry	8,452	0.81%
23	Walter	7,816	0.75%
24	Bobby	7,726	0.74%
25	Joe	7,555	0.73%
26	Eugene	6,859	0.66%
27	Henry	6,856	0.66%
28	Carl	6,693	0.64%
29	Arthur	6,547	0.63%
30	Willie	6,327	0.61%
31	Albert	6,094	0.59%
32	Ralph	6,090	0.58%
33	Larry	5,975	0.57%
34	Fred	5,493	0.53%
35	Lawrence	5,351	0.51%
36	Roger	5,152	0.49%
37	Harry	5,054	0.49%
38	Norman	5,043	0.48%
39	Howard	4,970	0.48%
40	Roy	4,939	0.47%
41	Michael	4,906	0.47%
42	Louis	4,622	0.44%
43	Daniel	4,591	0.44%
44	Gary	4,490	0.43%
45	Marvin	4,278	0.41%
46	Earl	4,224	0.41%
47	Jimmy	4,171	0.40%
48	Clarence	4,080	0.39%
49	Wayne	4,057	0.39%
50	Leroy	3,919	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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