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The top names of 1943

Mary led the girls and James the boys, out of 2,822,590 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1943

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	66,174	4.74%
2	Barbara	43,432	3.11%
3	Patricia	39,620	2.84%
4	Linda	38,439	2.75%
5	Carol	31,686	2.27%
6	Sandra	25,990	1.86%
7	Judith	25,214	1.81%
8	Sharon	24,712	1.77%
9	Nancy	23,988	1.72%
10	Betty	21,596	1.55%
11	Carolyn	20,365	1.46%
12	Shirley	17,816	1.28%
13	Judy	17,383	1.25%
14	Margaret	17,153	1.23%
15	Karen	16,816	1.21%
16	Joyce	16,485	1.18%
17	Donna	14,912	1.07%
18	Susan	14,888	1.07%
19	Dorothy	14,793	1.06%
20	Janet	13,316	0.95%
21	Joan	13,232	0.95%
22	Kathleen	12,153	0.87%
23	Elizabeth	11,644	0.83%
24	Diane	11,326	0.81%
25	Virginia	10,847	0.78%
26	Janice	10,651	0.76%
27	Marilyn	10,145	0.73%
28	Helen	9,800	0.70%
29	Martha	9,704	0.70%
30	Gloria	9,684	0.69%
31	Frances	9,449	0.68%
32	Beverly	9,435	0.68%
33	Ruth	9,370	0.67%
34	Bonnie	8,870	0.64%
35	Brenda	8,435	0.60%
36	Jean	8,096	0.58%
37	Ann	7,829	0.56%
38	Alice	7,648	0.55%
39	Phyllis	7,610	0.55%
40	Doris	7,128	0.51%
41	Peggy	6,511	0.47%
42	Carole	6,506	0.47%
43	Lois	6,132	0.44%
44	Jane	6,032	0.43%
45	Marie	5,980	0.43%
46	Elaine	5,966	0.43%
47	Charlotte	5,482	0.39%
48	Catherine	5,427	0.39%
49	Joanne	5,270	0.38%
50	Rose	5,206	0.37%

Boys, 1943

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	James	80,278	5.62%
2	Robert	74,892	5.25%
3	John	68,929	4.83%
4	William	55,904	3.92%
5	Richard	46,339	3.25%
6	David	37,240	2.61%
7	Charles	36,632	2.57%
8	Thomas	32,874	2.30%
9	Ronald	29,239	2.05%
10	Michael	24,745	1.73%
11	Donald	24,421	1.71%
12	Larry	22,978	1.61%
13	Joseph	22,828	1.60%
14	George	21,692	1.52%
15	Kenneth	19,112	1.34%
16	Gary	17,868	1.25%
17	Jerry	17,730	1.24%
18	Edward	17,713	1.24%
19	Paul	17,253	1.21%
20	Dennis	14,116	0.99%
21	Frank	12,246	0.86%
22	Raymond	11,391	0.80%
23	Gerald	11,367	0.80%
24	Roger	10,773	0.75%
25	Daniel	9,168	0.64%
26	Walter	9,035	0.63%
27	Harold	8,670	0.61%
28	Douglas	8,236	0.58%
29	Stephen	7,932	0.56%
30	Arthur	7,785	0.55%
31	Henry	7,631	0.53%
32	Lawrence	7,583	0.53%
33	Carl	7,472	0.52%
34	Jack	7,398	0.52%
35	Joe	7,308	0.51%
36	Willie	7,178	0.50%
37	Billy	7,012	0.49%
38	Roy	6,932	0.49%
39	Peter	6,877	0.48%
40	Ralph	6,771	0.47%
41	Wayne	6,761	0.47%
42	Jimmy	6,444	0.45%
43	Albert	6,307	0.44%
44	Anthony	6,202	0.43%
45	Fred	6,168	0.43%
46	Bobby	6,121	0.43%
47	Eugene	5,902	0.41%
48	Howard	5,739	0.40%
49	Terry	5,737	0.40%
50	Harry	5,720	0.40%

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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