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The top names of 1937

Mary led the girls and Robert the boys, out of 2,130,692 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1937

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	55,641	5.23%
2	Barbara	34,917	3.28%
3	Patricia	26,838	2.52%
4	Shirley	26,823	2.52%
5	Betty	25,337	2.38%
6	Carol	17,336	1.63%
7	Nancy	17,074	1.60%
8	Dorothy	16,572	1.56%
9	Joan	15,301	1.44%
10	Margaret	15,144	1.42%
11	Joyce	11,808	1.11%
12	Helen	11,453	1.08%
13	Marilyn	9,739	0.92%
14	Beverly	9,634	0.91%
15	Ruth	9,602	0.90%
16	Virginia	9,517	0.89%
17	Elizabeth	9,385	0.88%
18	Janet	9,363	0.88%
19	Frances	9,057	0.85%
20	Carolyn	8,941	0.84%
21	Donna	8,887	0.84%
22	Doris	8,883	0.83%
23	Jean	8,392	0.79%
24	Martha	7,953	0.75%
25	Janice	7,768	0.73%
26	Sandra	7,520	0.71%
27	Phyllis	7,245	0.68%
28	Alice	7,120	0.67%
29	Lois	6,932	0.65%
30	Ann	6,713	0.63%
31	Peggy	6,378	0.60%
32	Gloria	6,333	0.60%
33	Norma	6,235	0.59%
34	Judith	6,146	0.58%
35	Marie	6,075	0.57%
36	Evelyn	5,760	0.54%
37	Dolores	5,568	0.52%
38	Rose	5,450	0.51%
39	Anna	5,449	0.51%
40	Marlene	5,037	0.47%
41	Sharon	4,704	0.44%
42	Jane	4,702	0.44%
43	Mildred	4,646	0.44%
44	Geraldine	4,556	0.43%
45	Elaine	4,526	0.43%
46	Annie	4,479	0.42%
47	Catherine	4,459	0.42%
48	Louise	4,382	0.41%
49	Linda	4,378	0.41%
50	Sylvia	4,371	0.41%

Boys, 1937

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Robert	61,842	5.80%
2	James	56,561	5.30%
3	John	48,755	4.57%
4	William	40,725	3.82%
5	Richard	32,975	3.09%
6	Charles	30,520	2.86%
7	Donald	27,868	2.61%
8	David	20,981	1.97%
9	Thomas	19,772	1.85%
10	George	18,439	1.73%
11	Ronald	18,141	1.70%
12	Joseph	17,322	1.62%
13	Edward	14,930	1.40%
14	Kenneth	13,219	1.24%
15	Paul	12,881	1.21%
16	Larry	10,320	0.97%
17	Jerry	10,301	0.97%
18	Frank	10,127	0.95%
19	Raymond	9,571	0.90%
20	Gerald	9,425	0.88%
21	Harold	8,550	0.80%
22	Billy	8,301	0.78%
23	Jack	8,194	0.77%
24	Bobby	7,745	0.73%
25	Joe	7,745	0.73%
26	Walter	7,488	0.70%
27	Michael	7,094	0.67%
28	Carl	6,914	0.65%
29	Gary	6,763	0.63%
30	Henry	6,668	0.63%
31	Arthur	6,321	0.59%
32	Willie	6,231	0.58%
33	Eugene	5,999	0.56%
34	Ralph	5,923	0.56%
35	Fred	5,738	0.54%
36	Roger	5,713	0.54%
37	Albert	5,665	0.53%
38	Lawrence	5,507	0.52%
39	Daniel	5,124	0.48%
40	Roy	4,890	0.46%
41	Harry	4,814	0.45%
42	Howard	4,700	0.44%
43	Norman	4,673	0.44%
44	Wayne	4,613	0.43%
45	Jimmy	4,517	0.42%
46	Louis	4,356	0.41%
47	Anthony	4,339	0.41%
48	Earl	3,942	0.37%
49	Marvin	3,913	0.37%
50	Melvin	3,890	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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