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The top names of 1944

Mary led the girls and James the boys, out of 2,690,098 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1944

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	62,476	4.71%
2	Barbara	39,196	2.95%
3	Linda	38,415	2.89%
4	Patricia	36,874	2.78%
5	Carol	30,456	2.29%
6	Sandra	26,024	1.96%
7	Nancy	23,218	1.75%
8	Sharon	22,433	1.69%
9	Judith	22,431	1.69%
10	Betty	19,761	1.49%
11	Carolyn	18,670	1.41%
12	Judy	17,119	1.29%
13	Susan	16,330	1.23%
14	Margaret	16,320	1.23%
15	Shirley	16,309	1.23%
16	Karen	15,944	1.20%
17	Donna	15,173	1.14%
18	Joyce	14,770	1.11%
19	Dorothy	13,379	1.01%
20	Kathleen	13,004	0.98%
21	Janet	12,592	0.95%
22	Joan	11,920	0.90%
23	Elizabeth	11,034	0.83%
24	Diane	10,710	0.81%
25	Gloria	9,968	0.75%
26	Virginia	9,895	0.75%
27	Marilyn	9,738	0.73%
28	Janice	9,733	0.73%
29	Martha	9,335	0.70%
30	Brenda	8,999	0.68%
31	Helen	8,696	0.66%
32	Ruth	8,674	0.65%
33	Frances	8,487	0.64%
34	Bonnie	8,456	0.64%
35	Beverly	8,292	0.62%
36	Cheryl	7,972	0.60%
37	Jean	7,650	0.58%
38	Alice	7,102	0.54%
39	Ann	7,081	0.53%
40	Phyllis	7,022	0.53%
41	Jane	6,564	0.49%
42	Doris	6,324	0.48%
43	Carole	6,268	0.47%
44	Pamela	6,204	0.47%
45	Peggy	6,019	0.45%
46	Elaine	5,629	0.42%
47	Lois	5,529	0.42%
48	Marie	5,297	0.40%
49	Catherine	5,256	0.40%
50	Charlotte	4,928	0.37%

Boys, 1944

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	James	76,951	5.65%
2	Robert	70,855	5.20%
3	John	66,616	4.89%
4	William	52,375	3.84%
5	Richard	45,643	3.35%
6	David	37,382	2.74%
7	Charles	34,662	2.54%
8	Thomas	31,604	2.32%
9	Michael	26,717	1.96%
10	Ronald	25,513	1.87%
11	Donald	23,468	1.72%
12	Larry	22,026	1.62%
13	Joseph	21,176	1.55%
14	George	20,419	1.50%
15	Gary	20,058	1.47%
16	Kenneth	18,093	1.33%
17	Paul	16,661	1.22%
18	Edward	16,482	1.21%
19	Jerry	16,282	1.19%
20	Dennis	13,676	1.00%
21	Frank	11,340	0.83%
22	Raymond	10,635	0.78%
23	Roger	10,581	0.78%
24	Gerald	10,023	0.74%
25	Daniel	9,314	0.68%
26	Walter	8,159	0.60%
27	Harold	7,980	0.59%
28	Stephen	7,793	0.57%
29	Arthur	7,255	0.53%
30	Jack	7,253	0.53%
31	Willie	7,195	0.53%
32	Lawrence	7,130	0.52%
33	Joe	7,062	0.52%
34	Douglas	6,998	0.51%
35	Henry	6,975	0.51%
36	Carl	6,825	0.50%
37	Wayne	6,724	0.49%
38	Billy	6,545	0.48%
39	Roy	6,533	0.48%
40	Peter	6,340	0.47%
41	Jimmy	6,320	0.46%
42	Ralph	6,273	0.46%
43	Terry	5,974	0.44%
44	Albert	5,855	0.43%
45	Johnny	5,661	0.42%
46	Anthony	5,604	0.41%
47	Fred	5,580	0.41%
48	Eugene	5,505	0.40%
49	Harry	5,478	0.40%
50	Bobby	5,410	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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