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The top names of 1941

Mary led the girls and James the boys, out of 2,436,437 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1941

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	58,048	4.80%
2	Barbara	39,543	3.27%
3	Patricia	36,905	3.05%
4	Carol	24,187	2.00%
5	Linda	23,721	1.96%
6	Judith	23,320	1.93%
7	Betty	20,905	1.73%
8	Nancy	20,885	1.73%
9	Sandra	19,500	1.61%
10	Shirley	16,954	1.40%
11	Carolyn	16,273	1.35%
12	Margaret	15,696	1.30%
13	Joyce	15,684	1.30%
14	Dorothy	14,566	1.21%
15	Sharon	14,272	1.18%
16	Judy	13,968	1.16%
17	Joan	13,380	1.11%
18	Janet	11,136	0.92%
19	Karen	10,831	0.90%
20	Donna	10,446	0.86%
21	Elizabeth	10,267	0.85%
22	Janice	10,061	0.83%
23	Virginia	10,043	0.83%
24	Helen	9,887	0.82%
25	Martha	9,156	0.76%
26	Gloria	9,008	0.75%
27	Susan	8,889	0.74%
28	Ruth	8,863	0.73%
29	Beverly	8,727	0.72%
30	Marilyn	8,556	0.71%
31	Frances	8,468	0.70%
32	Jean	7,840	0.65%
33	Bonnie	7,762	0.64%
34	Alice	7,445	0.62%
35	Phyllis	7,346	0.61%
36	Kathleen	7,160	0.59%
37	Ann	7,121	0.59%
38	Doris	7,081	0.59%
39	Peggy	6,561	0.54%
40	Diane	6,427	0.53%
41	Brenda	6,332	0.52%
42	Marie	6,152	0.51%
43	Lois	6,105	0.51%
44	Elaine	5,376	0.44%
45	Geraldine	5,229	0.43%
46	Jane	5,090	0.42%
47	Norma	5,021	0.42%
48	Carole	4,966	0.41%
49	Rose	4,955	0.41%
50	Evelyn	4,928	0.41%

Boys, 1941

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	James	66,751	5.43%
2	Robert	64,247	5.23%
3	John	57,520	4.68%
4	William	47,798	3.89%
5	Richard	39,112	3.18%
6	Charles	32,742	2.67%
7	David	30,553	2.49%
8	Thomas	26,641	2.17%
9	Ronald	24,407	1.99%
10	Donald	22,641	1.84%
11	Larry	20,134	1.64%
12	Joseph	19,808	1.61%
13	George	19,260	1.57%
14	Jerry	16,799	1.37%
15	Kenneth	16,143	1.31%
16	Michael	15,935	1.30%
17	Edward	15,580	1.27%
18	Paul	15,166	1.23%
19	Gary	14,568	1.19%
20	Gerald	10,942	0.89%
21	Frank	10,795	0.88%
22	Raymond	9,951	0.81%
23	Dennis	9,562	0.78%
24	Harold	8,102	0.66%
25	Roger	8,095	0.66%
26	Walter	7,745	0.63%
27	Billy	7,655	0.62%
28	Henry	7,165	0.58%
29	Carl	7,160	0.58%
30	Joe	7,158	0.58%
31	Daniel	7,050	0.57%
32	Jack	6,950	0.57%
33	Arthur	6,739	0.55%
34	Lawrence	6,653	0.54%
35	Bobby	6,589	0.54%
36	Willie	6,526	0.53%
37	Wayne	6,112	0.50%
38	Ralph	6,040	0.49%
39	Roy	5,950	0.48%
40	Albert	5,927	0.48%
41	Stephen	5,811	0.47%
42	Eugene	5,754	0.47%
43	Fred	5,619	0.46%
44	Peter	5,607	0.46%
45	Jimmy	5,336	0.43%
46	Anthony	5,239	0.43%
47	Howard	5,067	0.41%
48	Harry	5,056	0.41%
49	Norman	4,459	0.36%
50	Louis	4,447	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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