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The top names of 1949

Linda led the girls and James the boys, out of 3,484,816 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1949

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Linda	91,015	5.32%
2	Mary	66,874	3.91%
3	Patricia	46,324	2.71%
4	Barbara	42,600	2.49%
5	Susan	37,709	2.20%
6	Sandra	30,643	1.79%
7	Nancy	29,249	1.71%
8	Carol	26,780	1.57%
9	Kathleen	26,357	1.54%
10	Sharon	25,713	1.50%
11	Karen	22,468	1.31%
12	Donna	22,056	1.29%
13	Brenda	20,543	1.20%
14	Margaret	19,452	1.14%
15	Deborah	19,209	1.12%
16	Judith	17,610	1.03%
17	Carolyn	17,404	1.02%
18	Shirley	17,281	1.01%
19	Diane	17,252	1.01%
20	Judy	15,979	0.93%
21	Pamela	15,132	0.88%
22	Betty	14,936	0.87%
23	Janet	14,860	0.87%
24	Janice	14,453	0.84%
25	Elizabeth	13,714	0.80%
26	Joyce	13,572	0.79%
27	Cynthia	12,901	0.75%
28	Cheryl	12,007	0.70%
29	Gloria	11,879	0.69%
30	Christine	11,797	0.69%
31	Beverly	10,552	0.62%
32	Dorothy	10,410	0.61%
33	Marilyn	9,865	0.58%
34	Martha	9,808	0.57%
35	Bonnie	9,732	0.57%
36	Joan	9,206	0.54%
37	Catherine	9,137	0.53%
38	Peggy	9,118	0.53%
39	Virginia	8,896	0.52%
40	Rebecca	8,778	0.51%
41	Jane	8,719	0.51%
42	Kathy	8,451	0.49%
43	Connie	8,219	0.48%
44	Ann	7,870	0.46%
45	Jean	7,760	0.45%
46	Helen	7,707	0.45%
47	Ruth	7,651	0.45%
48	Diana	7,535	0.44%
49	Frances	7,440	0.43%
50	Phyllis	7,315	0.43%

Boys, 1949

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	James	86,858	4.90%
2	Robert	83,873	4.73%
3	John	81,178	4.58%
4	William	61,506	3.47%
5	Michael	60,047	3.38%
6	David	59,611	3.36%
7	Richard	50,946	2.87%
8	Thomas	45,192	2.55%
9	Charles	40,052	2.26%
10	Larry	31,819	1.79%
11	Ronald	31,502	1.78%
12	Gary	28,935	1.63%
13	Donald	27,121	1.53%
14	Joseph	26,408	1.49%
15	Kenneth	23,589	1.33%
16	Dennis	21,746	1.23%
17	Paul	21,589	1.22%
18	George	21,308	1.20%
19	Stephen	20,488	1.15%
20	Steven	19,923	1.12%
21	Edward	19,174	1.08%
22	Daniel	18,240	1.03%
23	Jerry	15,871	0.89%
24	Mark	13,725	0.77%
25	Roger	12,821	0.72%
26	Bruce	12,265	0.69%
27	Frank	11,960	0.67%
28	Terry	11,457	0.65%
29	Douglas	11,322	0.64%
30	Raymond	11,305	0.64%
31	Gregory	10,979	0.62%
32	Lawrence	10,253	0.58%
33	Gerald	9,808	0.55%
34	Timothy	9,346	0.53%
35	Wayne	8,927	0.50%
36	Anthony	8,452	0.48%
37	Walter	8,297	0.47%
38	Peter	8,266	0.47%
39	Patrick	8,075	0.46%
40	Danny	8,023	0.45%
41	Willie	7,916	0.45%
42	Harold	7,817	0.44%
43	Carl	7,689	0.43%
44	Arthur	7,482	0.42%
45	Alan	7,255	0.41%
46	Henry	7,183	0.40%
47	Jack	7,128	0.40%
48	Jeffrey	6,987	0.39%
49	Johnny	6,968	0.39%
50	Ralph	6,748	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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