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The top names of 1938

Mary led the girls and Robert the boys, out of 2,212,603 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1938

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	56,225	5.10%
2	Barbara	39,277	3.56%
3	Patricia	27,560	2.50%
4	Betty	25,506	2.31%
5	Shirley	23,766	2.15%
6	Carol	19,421	1.76%
7	Nancy	18,951	1.72%
8	Dorothy	16,358	1.48%
9	Margaret	15,330	1.39%
10	Joan	14,303	1.30%
11	Joyce	12,698	1.15%
12	Judith	10,878	0.99%
13	Helen	10,837	0.98%
14	Sandra	10,806	0.98%
15	Carolyn	10,586	0.96%
16	Janet	9,870	0.89%
17	Elizabeth	9,803	0.89%
18	Beverly	9,770	0.89%
19	Marilyn	9,745	0.88%
20	Donna	9,693	0.88%
21	Ruth	9,303	0.84%
22	Virginia	9,269	0.84%
23	Frances	8,921	0.81%
24	Janice	8,711	0.79%
25	Doris	8,603	0.78%
26	Martha	8,578	0.78%
27	Jean	7,764	0.70%
28	Phyllis	7,644	0.69%
29	Alice	7,490	0.68%
30	Sharon	7,244	0.66%
31	Linda	7,047	0.64%
32	Ann	6,990	0.63%
33	Lois	6,502	0.59%
34	Norma	6,368	0.58%
35	Peggy	6,343	0.57%
36	Gloria	6,299	0.57%
37	Marie	5,958	0.54%
38	Evelyn	5,688	0.52%
39	Rose	5,292	0.48%
40	Anna	5,145	0.47%
41	Judy	4,992	0.45%
42	Elaine	4,835	0.44%
43	Dolores	4,809	0.44%
44	Jane	4,786	0.43%
45	Geraldine	4,652	0.42%
46	Carole	4,616	0.42%
47	Annie	4,562	0.41%
48	Catherine	4,525	0.41%
49	Wanda	4,513	0.41%
50	Karen	4,508	0.41%

Boys, 1938

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Robert	62,271	5.61%
2	James	59,102	5.33%
3	John	50,517	4.55%
4	William	42,433	3.83%
5	Richard	34,385	3.10%
6	Charles	31,151	2.81%
7	Donald	26,677	2.41%
8	David	22,994	2.07%
9	Thomas	21,381	1.93%
10	Ronald	20,295	1.83%
11	George	18,435	1.66%
12	Joseph	17,742	1.60%
13	Edward	14,551	1.31%
14	Kenneth	14,399	1.30%
15	Paul	13,360	1.20%
16	Larry	12,394	1.12%
17	Jerry	12,172	1.10%
18	Frank	10,260	0.93%
19	Gerald	9,972	0.90%
20	Raymond	9,725	0.88%
21	Michael	9,077	0.82%
22	Gary	8,861	0.80%
23	Harold	8,563	0.77%
24	Billy	8,253	0.74%
25	Jack	8,144	0.73%
26	Walter	7,560	0.68%
27	Bobby	7,498	0.68%
28	Joe	7,438	0.67%
29	Carl	6,849	0.62%
30	Henry	6,557	0.59%
31	Roger	6,551	0.59%
32	Arthur	6,525	0.59%
33	Eugene	6,112	0.55%
34	Willie	6,081	0.55%
35	Ralph	6,013	0.54%
36	Lawrence	5,873	0.53%
37	Albert	5,796	0.52%
38	Fred	5,768	0.52%
39	Daniel	5,583	0.50%
40	Wayne	5,226	0.47%
41	Roy	5,041	0.45%
42	Howard	5,018	0.45%
43	Norman	4,953	0.45%
44	Harry	4,824	0.43%
45	Jimmy	4,730	0.43%
46	Anthony	4,689	0.42%
47	Louis	4,390	0.40%
48	Peter	4,293	0.39%
49	Dennis	4,236	0.38%
50	Earl	4,007	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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