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The top names of 1946

Mary led the girls and James the boys, out of 3,195,328 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1946

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	67,471	4.29%
2	Linda	52,710	3.35%
3	Patricia	46,297	2.95%
4	Barbara	45,126	2.87%
5	Carol	34,284	2.18%
6	Sandra	31,692	2.02%
7	Nancy	28,345	1.80%
8	Susan	28,267	1.80%
9	Sharon	27,824	1.77%
10	Judith	22,310	1.42%
11	Judy	20,477	1.30%
12	Carolyn	19,902	1.27%
13	Donna	19,770	1.26%
14	Betty	19,711	1.25%
15	Karen	19,647	1.25%
16	Kathleen	18,760	1.19%
17	Margaret	18,136	1.15%
18	Shirley	17,870	1.14%
19	Diane	15,835	1.01%
20	Joyce	15,209	0.97%
21	Janet	14,142	0.90%
22	Janice	14,039	0.89%
23	Dorothy	12,797	0.81%
24	Brenda	12,690	0.81%
25	Elizabeth	11,753	0.75%
26	Gloria	11,686	0.74%
27	Cheryl	11,526	0.73%
28	Joan	11,218	0.71%
29	Marilyn	10,711	0.68%
30	Beverly	10,430	0.66%
31	Virginia	10,015	0.64%
32	Martha	9,759	0.62%
33	Bonnie	9,510	0.61%
34	Pamela	9,367	0.60%
35	Jane	8,971	0.57%
36	Helen	8,852	0.56%
37	Jean	8,554	0.54%
38	Ruth	8,474	0.54%
39	Frances	8,450	0.54%
40	Ann	8,077	0.51%
41	Phyllis	8,048	0.51%
42	Diana	7,544	0.48%
43	Peggy	7,400	0.47%
44	Alice	7,363	0.47%
45	Connie	7,215	0.46%
46	Cynthia	6,895	0.44%
47	Elaine	6,803	0.43%
48	Catherine	6,367	0.41%
49	Gail	6,227	0.40%
50	Christine	6,202	0.39%

Boys, 1946

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	James	87,438	5.38%
2	Robert	84,136	5.18%
3	John	79,267	4.88%
4	William	60,034	3.70%
5	Richard	58,870	3.62%
6	David	46,444	2.86%
7	Michael	41,194	2.54%
8	Thomas	38,877	2.39%
9	Charles	38,215	2.35%
10	Ronald	31,858	1.96%
11	Larry	28,447	1.75%
12	Gary	26,931	1.66%
13	Donald	26,273	1.62%
14	Joseph	24,284	1.50%
15	Kenneth	22,042	1.36%
16	George	21,575	1.33%
17	Dennis	21,447	1.32%
18	Paul	21,063	1.30%
19	Edward	18,585	1.14%
20	Jerry	17,567	1.08%
21	Daniel	12,867	0.79%
22	Frank	12,667	0.78%
23	Roger	12,411	0.76%
24	Stephen	11,832	0.73%
25	Raymond	11,289	0.70%
26	Terry	10,678	0.66%
27	Gerald	10,033	0.62%
28	Steven	8,878	0.55%
29	Wayne	8,807	0.54%
30	Walter	8,668	0.53%
31	Lawrence	8,517	0.52%
32	Bruce	8,459	0.52%
33	Harold	8,373	0.52%
34	Douglas	8,336	0.51%
35	Jack	7,801	0.48%
36	Arthur	7,537	0.46%
37	Joe	7,536	0.46%
38	Peter	7,483	0.46%
39	Carl	7,380	0.45%
40	Willie	7,339	0.45%
41	Henry	7,317	0.45%
42	Jimmy	7,128	0.44%
43	Roy	6,925	0.43%
44	Anthony	6,771	0.42%
45	Billy	6,716	0.41%
46	Danny	6,650	0.41%
47	Johnny	6,611	0.41%
48	Ralph	6,587	0.41%
49	Alan	6,490	0.40%
50	Harry	6,027	0.37%

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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