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The top names of 1939

Mary led the girls and Robert the boys, out of 2,203,464 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1939

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	54,900	5.01%
2	Barbara	37,257	3.40%
3	Patricia	29,701	2.71%
4	Betty	23,639	2.16%
5	Shirley	20,447	1.86%
6	Carol	20,166	1.84%
7	Nancy	19,723	1.80%
8	Judith	16,625	1.52%
9	Dorothy	15,169	1.38%
10	Margaret	14,949	1.36%
11	Joan	14,143	1.29%
12	Joyce	13,394	1.22%
13	Sandra	11,970	1.09%
14	Carolyn	11,290	1.03%
15	Linda	10,713	0.98%
16	Helen	10,420	0.95%
17	Janet	10,120	0.92%
18	Elizabeth	9,709	0.89%
19	Marilyn	9,538	0.87%
20	Donna	9,371	0.85%
21	Virginia	9,227	0.84%
22	Ruth	9,062	0.83%
23	Sharon	9,014	0.82%
24	Janice	8,778	0.80%
25	Beverly	8,706	0.79%
26	Frances	8,577	0.78%
27	Martha	8,493	0.77%
28	Judy	8,081	0.74%
29	Doris	7,687	0.70%
30	Phyllis	7,590	0.69%
31	Alice	7,365	0.67%
32	Jean	7,292	0.66%
33	Ann	6,551	0.60%
34	Peggy	6,050	0.55%
35	Lois	6,034	0.55%
36	Gloria	5,939	0.54%
37	Marie	5,890	0.54%
38	Norma	5,827	0.53%
39	Karen	5,541	0.51%
40	Evelyn	5,332	0.49%
41	Geraldine	5,160	0.47%
42	Rose	5,040	0.46%
43	Anna	4,929	0.45%
44	Susan	4,887	0.45%
45	Elaine	4,785	0.44%
46	Jane	4,771	0.44%
47	Carole	4,679	0.43%
48	Kathleen	4,656	0.42%
49	Catherine	4,577	0.42%
50	Wanda	4,557	0.42%

Boys, 1939

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Robert	59,666	5.39%
2	James	59,636	5.39%
3	John	51,025	4.61%
4	William	42,071	3.80%
5	Richard	35,386	3.20%
6	Charles	30,789	2.78%
7	David	25,360	2.29%
8	Donald	24,056	2.17%
9	Thomas	22,129	2.00%
10	Ronald	19,837	1.79%
11	George	17,886	1.62%
12	Joseph	17,722	1.60%
13	Kenneth	14,715	1.33%
14	Larry	14,532	1.31%
15	Edward	14,427	1.30%
16	Jerry	13,729	1.24%
17	Paul	13,337	1.20%
18	Michael	10,828	0.98%
19	Gerald	10,057	0.91%
20	Frank	9,991	0.90%
21	Gary	9,684	0.87%
22	Raymond	9,252	0.84%
23	Harold	8,299	0.75%
24	Billy	7,474	0.68%
25	Walter	7,322	0.66%
26	Jack	7,306	0.66%
27	Joe	7,189	0.65%
28	Roger	7,155	0.65%
29	Bobby	7,057	0.64%
30	Carl	6,593	0.60%
31	Henry	6,561	0.59%
32	Arthur	6,380	0.58%
33	Willie	6,308	0.57%
34	Dennis	6,212	0.56%
35	Ralph	5,959	0.54%
36	Lawrence	5,882	0.53%
37	Eugene	5,869	0.53%
38	Daniel	5,797	0.52%
39	Wayne	5,653	0.51%
40	Fred	5,538	0.50%
41	Albert	5,477	0.49%
42	Roy	5,156	0.47%
43	Jimmy	4,753	0.43%
44	Norman	4,742	0.43%
45	Harry	4,661	0.42%
46	Peter	4,639	0.42%
47	Howard	4,613	0.42%
48	Anthony	4,610	0.42%
49	Louis	4,224	0.38%
50	Earl	3,896	0.35%

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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