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The top names of 1951

Linda led the girls and James the boys, out of 3,683,696 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1951

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Linda	73,982	4.11%
2	Mary	65,721	3.65%
3	Patricia	56,446	3.13%
4	Deborah	42,053	2.34%
5	Barbara	40,617	2.26%
6	Susan	40,228	2.23%
7	Nancy	30,346	1.69%
8	Karen	27,998	1.55%
9	Sandra	27,665	1.54%
10	Kathleen	26,716	1.48%
11	Carol	24,781	1.38%
12	Donna	24,074	1.34%
13	Sharon	23,920	1.33%
14	Brenda	21,717	1.21%
15	Diane	19,840	1.10%
16	Pamela	18,570	1.03%
17	Margaret	17,692	0.98%
18	Debra	17,064	0.95%
19	Janet	16,947	0.94%
20	Cynthia	16,295	0.90%
21	Janice	15,958	0.89%
22	Carolyn	15,206	0.84%
23	Elizabeth	15,118	0.84%
24	Christine	15,017	0.83%
25	Judith	14,935	0.83%
26	Judy	14,017	0.78%
27	Shirley	13,919	0.77%
28	Joyce	13,472	0.75%
29	Betty	12,822	0.71%
30	Cheryl	11,986	0.67%
31	Gloria	10,951	0.61%
32	Rebecca	10,932	0.61%
33	Beverly	10,860	0.60%
34	Catherine	10,566	0.59%
35	Kathy	10,406	0.58%
36	Gail	9,886	0.55%
37	Bonnie	9,706	0.54%
38	Martha	9,605	0.53%
39	Joan	9,403	0.52%
40	Peggy	9,208	0.51%
41	Marilyn	9,148	0.51%
42	Dorothy	9,089	0.50%
43	Jane	8,942	0.50%
44	Connie	8,722	0.48%
45	Kathryn	8,460	0.47%
46	Ann	8,423	0.47%
47	Virginia	8,180	0.45%
48	Denise	8,116	0.45%
49	Jean	7,627	0.42%
50	Diana	7,396	0.41%

Boys, 1951

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	James	87,256	4.63%
2	Robert	86,353	4.59%
3	John	81,569	4.33%
4	Michael	72,807	3.87%
5	David	64,788	3.44%
6	William	62,781	3.33%
7	Richard	54,541	2.90%
8	Thomas	48,275	2.56%
9	Charles	39,406	2.09%
10	Gary	38,160	2.03%
11	Larry	30,558	1.62%
12	Ronald	29,049	1.54%
13	Steven	28,363	1.51%
14	Joseph	28,147	1.49%
15	Donald	27,916	1.48%
16	Kenneth	25,841	1.37%
17	Dennis	24,264	1.29%
18	Paul	22,853	1.21%
19	Stephen	22,474	1.19%
20	Mark	21,201	1.13%
21	Daniel	21,121	1.12%
22	George	20,212	1.07%
23	Edward	19,913	1.06%
24	Jerry	15,164	0.81%
25	Gregory	14,102	0.75%
26	Bruce	14,090	0.75%
27	Douglas	13,902	0.74%
28	Timothy	12,705	0.67%
29	Roger	12,425	0.66%
30	Terry	12,216	0.65%
31	Frank	11,477	0.61%
32	Raymond	11,227	0.60%
33	Lawrence	10,266	0.55%
34	Anthony	9,836	0.52%
35	Jeffrey	9,713	0.52%
36	Gerald	9,539	0.51%
37	Wayne	9,327	0.50%
38	Peter	8,999	0.48%
39	Patrick	8,751	0.46%
40	Alan	8,408	0.45%
41	Danny	8,179	0.43%
42	Walter	8,038	0.43%
43	Carl	7,641	0.41%
44	Arthur	7,414	0.39%
45	Willie	7,226	0.38%
46	Harold	7,178	0.38%
47	Henry	7,120	0.38%
48	Jack	7,004	0.37%
49	Dale	6,963	0.37%
50	Johnny	6,700	0.36%

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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