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The top names of 1950

Linda led the girls and James the boys, out of 3,503,316 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1950

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Linda	80,433	4.70%
2	Mary	65,481	3.82%
3	Patricia	47,944	2.80%
4	Barbara	41,556	2.43%
5	Susan	38,017	2.22%
6	Nancy	29,617	1.73%
7	Deborah	29,063	1.70%
8	Sandra	28,896	1.69%
9	Carol	26,163	1.53%
10	Kathleen	25,706	1.50%
11	Sharon	24,612	1.44%
12	Karen	24,132	1.41%
13	Donna	21,629	1.26%
14	Brenda	20,799	1.21%
15	Margaret	18,110	1.06%
16	Diane	17,636	1.03%
17	Pamela	16,202	0.95%
18	Janet	16,193	0.95%
19	Shirley	15,891	0.93%
20	Carolyn	15,588	0.91%
21	Judith	15,352	0.90%
22	Janice	15,012	0.88%
23	Cynthia	14,447	0.84%
24	Elizabeth	14,334	0.84%
25	Judy	14,207	0.83%
26	Betty	13,615	0.79%
27	Joyce	13,415	0.78%
28	Christine	12,673	0.74%
29	Cheryl	11,823	0.69%
30	Gloria	11,037	0.64%
31	Beverly	10,503	0.61%
32	Martha	9,839	0.57%
33	Bonnie	9,746	0.57%
34	Catherine	9,655	0.56%
35	Dorothy	9,551	0.56%
36	Rebecca	9,425	0.55%
37	Marilyn	9,285	0.54%
38	Kathy	9,090	0.53%
39	Jane	8,964	0.52%
40	Joan	8,860	0.52%
41	Peggy	8,532	0.50%
42	Gail	8,350	0.49%
43	Virginia	8,312	0.49%
44	Connie	8,145	0.48%
45	Ann	7,921	0.46%
46	Kathryn	7,863	0.46%
47	Diana	7,447	0.43%
48	Jean	7,432	0.43%
49	Ruth	7,128	0.42%
50	Helen	7,061	0.41%

Boys, 1950

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	James	86,228	4.82%
2	Robert	83,553	4.67%
3	John	79,412	4.44%
4	Michael	65,136	3.64%
5	David	60,729	3.39%
6	William	60,680	3.39%
7	Richard	51,003	2.85%
8	Thomas	45,596	2.55%
9	Charles	39,095	2.18%
10	Gary	33,737	1.88%
11	Larry	31,480	1.76%
12	Ronald	29,908	1.67%
13	Joseph	27,022	1.51%
14	Donald	26,999	1.51%
15	Kenneth	23,813	1.33%
16	Steven	23,250	1.30%
17	Dennis	22,862	1.28%
18	Paul	21,742	1.21%
19	Stephen	20,511	1.15%
20	George	20,183	1.13%
21	Daniel	19,189	1.07%
22	Edward	18,714	1.05%
23	Mark	16,604	0.93%
24	Jerry	15,261	0.85%
25	Gregory	13,311	0.74%
26	Bruce	12,674	0.71%
27	Roger	12,552	0.70%
28	Douglas	12,264	0.69%
29	Frank	11,606	0.65%
30	Terry	11,433	0.64%
31	Raymond	11,180	0.62%
32	Timothy	10,499	0.59%
33	Lawrence	10,173	0.57%
34	Gerald	9,726	0.54%
35	Wayne	9,259	0.52%
36	Anthony	8,612	0.48%
37	Peter	8,362	0.47%
38	Patrick	8,179	0.46%
39	Danny	8,143	0.45%
40	Walter	7,798	0.44%
41	Alan	7,737	0.43%
42	Willie	7,717	0.43%
43	Jeffrey	7,644	0.43%
44	Carl	7,288	0.41%
45	Harold	7,214	0.40%
46	Arthur	7,161	0.40%
47	Henry	6,963	0.39%
48	Jack	6,840	0.38%
49	Dale	6,785	0.38%
50	Johnny	6,581	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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