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The top names of 1936

Mary led the girls and Robert the boys, out of 2,077,595 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1936

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	54,377	5.23%
2	Shirley	35,161	3.38%
3	Barbara	31,682	3.05%
4	Betty	25,868	2.49%
5	Patricia	23,916	2.30%
6	Dorothy	17,666	1.70%
7	Joan	17,072	1.64%
8	Nancy	16,755	1.61%
9	Margaret	14,596	1.40%
10	Carol	14,520	1.40%
11	Helen	12,234	1.18%
12	Joyce	11,988	1.15%
13	Marilyn	11,064	1.06%
14	Virginia	9,650	0.93%
15	Doris	9,226	0.89%
16	Ruth	9,217	0.89%
17	Beverly	8,901	0.86%
18	Elizabeth	8,860	0.85%
19	Frances	8,789	0.84%
20	Jean	8,536	0.82%
21	Janet	8,080	0.78%
22	Donna	7,932	0.76%
23	Carolyn	7,906	0.76%
24	Martha	7,392	0.71%
25	Phyllis	7,374	0.71%
26	Lois	7,232	0.70%
27	Alice	7,201	0.69%
28	Ann	6,666	0.64%
29	Norma	6,633	0.64%
30	Dolores	6,417	0.62%
31	Janice	6,150	0.59%
32	Gloria	6,140	0.59%
33	Marie	6,132	0.59%
34	Evelyn	6,108	0.59%
35	Peggy	6,068	0.58%
36	Anna	5,727	0.55%
37	Rose	5,699	0.55%
38	Sandra	5,526	0.53%
39	Marlene	5,332	0.51%
40	Mildred	5,051	0.49%
41	Geraldine	4,864	0.47%
42	Jane	4,719	0.45%
43	Judith	4,580	0.44%
44	Catherine	4,537	0.44%
45	Annie	4,529	0.44%
46	Louise	4,355	0.42%
47	Eleanor	4,341	0.42%
48	Joanne	4,305	0.41%
49	Marjorie	4,279	0.41%
50	Elaine	4,259	0.41%

Boys, 1936

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Robert	58,500	5.64%
2	James	54,694	5.27%
3	John	47,683	4.60%
4	William	39,398	3.80%
5	Richard	33,494	3.23%
6	Charles	29,101	2.81%
7	Donald	28,639	2.76%
8	Thomas	18,342	1.77%
9	George	18,197	1.75%
10	David	17,476	1.68%
11	Joseph	17,453	1.68%
12	Ronald	16,917	1.63%
13	Edward	14,194	1.37%
14	Kenneth	12,486	1.20%
15	Paul	12,307	1.19%
16	Frank	10,186	0.98%
17	Raymond	9,459	0.91%
18	Jerry	9,271	0.89%
19	Gerald	9,018	0.87%
20	Jack	8,857	0.85%
21	Harold	8,628	0.83%
22	Billy	8,587	0.83%
23	Joe	8,023	0.77%
24	Bobby	7,735	0.75%
25	Larry	7,611	0.73%
26	Walter	7,536	0.73%
27	Carl	6,591	0.64%
28	Henry	6,447	0.62%
29	Eugene	6,376	0.61%
30	Arthur	6,264	0.60%
31	Ralph	6,029	0.58%
32	Willie	6,011	0.58%
33	Michael	5,800	0.56%
34	Albert	5,759	0.56%
35	Roger	5,702	0.55%
36	Fred	5,602	0.54%
37	Lawrence	5,339	0.51%
38	Gary	5,192	0.50%
39	Harry	4,931	0.48%
40	Howard	4,874	0.47%
41	Daniel	4,817	0.46%
42	Roy	4,815	0.46%
43	Norman	4,645	0.45%
44	Louis	4,418	0.43%
45	Wayne	4,409	0.43%
46	Jimmy	4,214	0.41%
47	Earl	4,106	0.40%
48	Anthony	3,978	0.38%
49	Marvin	3,936	0.38%
50	Francis	3,876	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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