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The top names of 1945

Mary led the girls and James the boys, out of 2,652,945 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1945

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	59,278	4.54%
2	Linda	41,465	3.17%
3	Barbara	38,273	2.93%
4	Patricia	35,844	2.74%
5	Carol	30,389	2.32%
6	Sandra	24,700	1.89%
7	Nancy	21,456	1.64%
8	Sharon	20,838	1.59%
9	Judith	20,192	1.54%
10	Susan	19,222	1.47%
11	Betty	18,387	1.41%
12	Carolyn	17,244	1.32%
13	Judy	17,001	1.30%
14	Shirley	16,150	1.24%
15	Margaret	15,685	1.20%
16	Karen	15,680	1.20%
17	Donna	15,397	1.18%
18	Joyce	13,950	1.07%
19	Kathleen	13,802	1.06%
20	Janet	12,326	0.94%
21	Dorothy	12,323	0.94%
22	Diane	12,223	0.94%
23	Gloria	11,037	0.84%
24	Janice	10,781	0.82%
25	Joan	10,394	0.80%
26	Elizabeth	10,343	0.79%
27	Marilyn	9,534	0.73%
28	Virginia	9,244	0.71%
29	Brenda	9,203	0.70%
30	Martha	8,752	0.67%
31	Helen	8,301	0.64%
32	Cheryl	8,149	0.62%
33	Ruth	8,046	0.62%
34	Frances	7,940	0.61%
35	Bonnie	7,745	0.59%
36	Jane	7,639	0.58%
37	Beverly	7,618	0.58%
38	Jean	7,429	0.57%
39	Ann	7,038	0.54%
40	Phyllis	6,530	0.50%
41	Alice	6,359	0.49%
42	Pamela	6,169	0.47%
43	Diana	6,047	0.46%
44	Elaine	5,887	0.45%
45	Peggy	5,839	0.45%
46	Doris	5,820	0.45%
47	Connie	5,337	0.41%
48	Lois	5,148	0.39%
49	Marie	5,084	0.39%
50	Catherine	5,031	0.38%

Boys, 1945

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	James	74,464	5.53%
2	Robert	69,947	5.20%
3	John	66,117	4.91%
4	William	50,218	3.73%
5	Richard	46,046	3.42%
6	David	37,110	2.76%
7	Charles	32,469	2.41%
8	Thomas	31,874	2.37%
9	Michael	29,902	2.22%
10	Ronald	23,665	1.76%
11	Larry	22,824	1.70%
12	Donald	22,138	1.64%
13	Gary	21,345	1.59%
14	Joseph	20,823	1.55%
15	George	19,327	1.44%
16	Kenneth	18,096	1.34%
17	Paul	16,995	1.26%
18	Edward	15,870	1.18%
19	Dennis	14,990	1.11%
20	Jerry	14,704	1.09%
21	Frank	10,874	0.81%
22	Roger	10,571	0.79%
23	Raymond	9,858	0.73%
24	Daniel	9,708	0.72%
25	Gerald	8,857	0.66%
26	Stephen	8,641	0.64%
27	Walter	7,574	0.56%
28	Harold	7,524	0.56%
29	Douglas	7,394	0.55%
30	Lawrence	7,163	0.53%
31	Willie	7,030	0.52%
32	Jack	6,857	0.51%
33	Terry	6,834	0.51%
34	Arthur	6,802	0.51%
35	Wayne	6,738	0.50%
36	Joe	6,625	0.49%
37	Henry	6,606	0.49%
38	Peter	6,483	0.48%
39	Carl	6,314	0.47%
40	Roy	6,183	0.46%
41	Jimmy	6,159	0.46%
42	Billy	6,022	0.45%
43	Steven	5,974	0.44%
44	Ralph	5,785	0.43%
45	Johnny	5,699	0.42%
46	Anthony	5,686	0.42%
47	Harry	5,650	0.42%
48	Bruce	5,615	0.42%
49	Albert	5,432	0.40%
50	Eugene	5,167	0.38%

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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