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The top names of 1948

Linda led the girls and James the boys, out of 3,452,526 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1948

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Linda	96,220	5.67%
2	Mary	68,597	4.04%
3	Barbara	46,826	2.76%
4	Patricia	46,140	2.72%
5	Susan	35,988	2.12%
6	Sandra	31,063	1.83%
7	Nancy	29,411	1.73%
8	Carol	28,977	1.71%
9	Sharon	26,143	1.54%
10	Kathleen	23,257	1.37%
11	Donna	22,033	1.30%
12	Karen	21,996	1.30%
13	Margaret	18,873	1.11%
14	Carolyn	18,623	1.10%
15	Judith	17,787	1.05%
16	Judy	17,706	1.04%
17	Brenda	17,700	1.04%
18	Betty	16,625	0.98%
19	Diane	16,607	0.98%
20	Shirley	16,121	0.95%
21	Joyce	14,380	0.85%
22	Pamela	14,281	0.84%
23	Janice	14,162	0.83%
24	Janet	13,977	0.82%
25	Cheryl	13,220	0.78%
26	Elizabeth	13,215	0.78%
27	Cynthia	12,240	0.72%
28	Gloria	11,690	0.69%
29	Dorothy	11,324	0.67%
30	Deborah	11,244	0.66%
31	Beverly	10,795	0.64%
32	Martha	10,011	0.59%
33	Marilyn	9,937	0.59%
34	Bonnie	9,817	0.58%
35	Christine	9,677	0.57%
36	Virginia	9,296	0.55%
37	Joan	9,275	0.55%
38	Peggy	9,089	0.54%
39	Jane	8,781	0.52%
40	Helen	8,301	0.49%
41	Catherine	8,244	0.49%
42	Frances	8,179	0.48%
43	Connie	8,055	0.47%
44	Ann	8,025	0.47%
45	Ruth	7,903	0.47%
46	Phyllis	7,876	0.46%
47	Jean	7,774	0.46%
48	Diana	7,706	0.45%
49	Alice	6,981	0.41%
50	Rebecca	6,795	0.40%

Boys, 1948

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	James	88,605	5.05%
2	Robert	85,478	4.87%
3	John	82,834	4.72%
4	William	61,972	3.53%
5	David	56,627	3.23%
6	Michael	52,566	3.00%
7	Richard	50,970	2.90%
8	Thomas	43,780	2.50%
9	Charles	38,676	2.20%
10	Ronald	33,527	1.91%
11	Larry	33,436	1.91%
12	Gary	28,397	1.62%
13	Joseph	26,801	1.53%
14	Donald	26,442	1.51%
15	Kenneth	23,550	1.34%
16	George	21,926	1.25%
17	Dennis	21,765	1.24%
18	Paul	21,252	1.21%
19	Edward	18,983	1.08%
20	Stephen	17,061	0.97%
21	Jerry	16,809	0.96%
22	Daniel	16,510	0.94%
23	Steven	15,979	0.91%
24	Roger	12,818	0.73%
25	Frank	12,698	0.72%
26	Terry	12,136	0.69%
27	Raymond	11,612	0.66%
28	Bruce	11,065	0.63%
29	Mark	10,267	0.59%
30	Gerald	9,842	0.56%
31	Lawrence	9,768	0.56%
32	Gregory	9,724	0.55%
33	Douglas	9,468	0.54%
34	Wayne	8,682	0.49%
35	Walter	8,627	0.49%
36	Harold	8,144	0.46%
37	Peter	8,048	0.46%
38	Timothy	8,043	0.46%
39	Danny	8,009	0.46%
40	Willie	7,971	0.45%
41	Anthony	7,878	0.45%
42	Carl	7,829	0.45%
43	Jack	7,612	0.43%
44	Arthur	7,576	0.43%
45	Henry	7,421	0.42%
46	Alan	7,394	0.42%
47	Joe	7,288	0.42%
48	Patrick	7,192	0.41%
49	Roy	7,067	0.40%
50	Jimmy	6,927	0.39%

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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