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The top names of 1947

Linda led the girls and James the boys, out of 3,602,365 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1947

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Linda	99,692	5.62%
2	Mary	71,690	4.04%
3	Patricia	51,278	2.89%
4	Barbara	48,800	2.75%
5	Sandra	34,779	1.96%
6	Carol	33,543	1.89%
7	Nancy	32,445	1.83%
8	Susan	31,952	1.80%
9	Sharon	28,533	1.61%
10	Donna	23,517	1.33%
11	Kathleen	22,095	1.25%
12	Judith	21,996	1.24%
13	Karen	21,648	1.22%
14	Judy	21,037	1.19%
15	Carolyn	20,742	1.17%
16	Margaret	20,101	1.13%
17	Betty	18,966	1.07%
18	Diane	17,775	1.00%
19	Shirley	17,648	1.00%
20	Joyce	15,915	0.90%
21	Brenda	15,830	0.89%
22	Janice	15,409	0.87%
23	Janet	15,236	0.86%
24	Cheryl	13,890	0.78%
25	Elizabeth	13,440	0.76%
26	Dorothy	12,753	0.72%
27	Gloria	12,627	0.71%
28	Pamela	12,398	0.70%
29	Marilyn	11,881	0.67%
30	Joan	11,277	0.64%
31	Beverly	11,205	0.63%
32	Martha	10,651	0.60%
33	Cynthia	10,530	0.59%
34	Virginia	10,407	0.59%
35	Bonnie	10,214	0.58%
36	Jane	9,943	0.56%
37	Phyllis	9,187	0.52%
38	Helen	8,979	0.51%
39	Frances	8,943	0.50%
40	Jean	8,940	0.50%
41	Ann	8,894	0.50%
42	Peggy	8,877	0.50%
43	Connie	8,645	0.49%
44	Ruth	8,482	0.48%
45	Christine	8,379	0.47%
46	Catherine	7,889	0.45%
47	Alice	7,849	0.44%
48	Diana	7,622	0.43%
49	Gail	7,242	0.41%
50	Elaine	7,059	0.40%

Boys, 1947

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	James	94,767	5.18%
2	Robert	91,655	5.01%
3	John	88,324	4.83%
4	William	67,002	3.66%
5	Richard	58,532	3.20%
6	David	57,810	3.16%
7	Michael	50,506	2.76%
8	Thomas	44,842	2.45%
9	Charles	40,781	2.23%
10	Larry	34,946	1.91%
11	Ronald	34,899	1.91%
12	Gary	30,029	1.64%
13	Donald	28,260	1.54%
14	Joseph	27,520	1.50%
15	Kenneth	24,586	1.34%
16	George	23,916	1.31%
17	Dennis	23,686	1.29%
18	Paul	22,796	1.25%
19	Edward	20,539	1.12%
20	Jerry	18,794	1.03%
21	Stephen	15,328	0.84%
22	Daniel	15,189	0.83%
23	Frank	13,994	0.76%
24	Steven	13,528	0.74%
25	Roger	12,760	0.70%
26	Terry	12,751	0.70%
27	Raymond	12,352	0.68%
28	Gerald	10,750	0.59%
29	Bruce	10,524	0.58%
30	Wayne	10,169	0.56%
31	Douglas	9,895	0.54%
32	Lawrence	9,582	0.52%
33	Gregory	9,327	0.51%
34	Walter	9,218	0.50%
35	Harold	8,904	0.49%
36	Peter	8,590	0.47%
37	Jack	8,507	0.46%
38	Arthur	8,255	0.45%
39	Danny	8,069	0.44%
40	Carl	8,050	0.44%
41	Anthony	8,014	0.44%
42	Willie	7,997	0.44%
43	Joe	7,904	0.43%
44	Jimmy	7,881	0.43%
45	Alan	7,823	0.43%
46	Henry	7,807	0.43%
47	Mark	7,773	0.42%
48	Roy	7,560	0.41%
49	Johnny	7,441	0.41%
50	Ralph	7,389	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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