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The top names of 1952

Linda led the girls and James the boys, out of 3,797,968 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1952

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Linda	67,082	3.62%
2	Mary	65,629	3.54%
3	Patricia	53,101	2.86%
4	Deborah	49,811	2.69%
5	Susan	41,348	2.23%
6	Barbara	39,864	2.15%
7	Nancy	31,739	1.71%
8	Karen	28,956	1.56%
9	Debra	26,832	1.45%
10	Sandra	26,097	1.41%
11	Kathleen	25,767	1.39%
12	Carol	24,000	1.29%
13	Donna	23,718	1.28%
14	Sharon	23,386	1.26%
15	Brenda	21,439	1.16%
16	Diane	21,063	1.14%
17	Pamela	20,879	1.13%
18	Cynthia	19,878	1.07%
19	Janet	17,921	0.97%
20	Christine	17,548	0.95%
21	Margaret	17,102	0.92%
22	Elizabeth	16,022	0.86%
23	Janice	14,978	0.81%
24	Carolyn	14,272	0.77%
25	Judith	14,064	0.76%
26	Judy	13,632	0.74%
27	Joyce	13,126	0.71%
28	Shirley	12,529	0.68%
29	Kathy	12,369	0.67%
30	Rebecca	12,227	0.66%
31	Cheryl	12,201	0.66%
32	Betty	12,129	0.65%
33	Denise	11,652	0.63%
34	Catherine	11,053	0.60%
35	Beverly	10,547	0.57%
36	Gloria	10,458	0.56%
37	Joan	10,278	0.55%
38	Marilyn	9,803	0.53%
39	Gail	9,760	0.53%
40	Martha	9,696	0.52%
41	Bonnie	9,383	0.51%
42	Jane	9,322	0.50%
43	Peggy	8,990	0.48%
44	Connie	8,756	0.47%
45	Ann	8,653	0.47%
46	Dorothy	8,609	0.46%
47	Paula	8,567	0.46%
48	Kathryn	8,504	0.46%
49	Virginia	8,161	0.44%
50	Jean	7,511	0.41%

Boys, 1952

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	James	87,065	4.48%
2	Robert	86,588	4.45%
3	John	83,140	4.28%
4	Michael	79,037	4.07%
5	David	71,752	3.69%
6	William	63,039	3.24%
7	Richard	58,350	3.00%
8	Thomas	48,647	2.50%
9	Charles	38,866	2.00%
10	Gary	38,754	1.99%
11	Steven	32,037	1.65%
12	Joseph	28,510	1.47%
13	Donald	28,269	1.45%
14	Larry	28,239	1.45%
15	Ronald	27,800	1.43%
16	Kenneth	25,909	1.33%
17	Mark	25,678	1.32%
18	Dennis	24,552	1.26%
19	Paul	24,292	1.25%
20	Daniel	23,418	1.20%
21	Stephen	23,055	1.19%
22	George	19,821	1.02%
23	Edward	19,501	1.00%
24	Gregory	15,191	0.78%
25	Bruce	14,480	0.74%
26	Jerry	14,438	0.74%
27	Timothy	14,167	0.73%
28	Douglas	13,680	0.70%
29	Terry	12,438	0.64%
30	Roger	12,132	0.62%
31	Jeffrey	12,006	0.62%
32	Frank	11,268	0.58%
33	Raymond	11,235	0.58%
34	Anthony	11,188	0.58%
35	Lawrence	10,302	0.53%
36	Peter	9,586	0.49%
37	Patrick	9,175	0.47%
38	Wayne	9,087	0.47%
39	Gerald	9,031	0.46%
40	Danny	8,821	0.45%
41	Randy	8,646	0.44%
42	Alan	8,310	0.43%
43	Kevin	7,916	0.41%
44	Walter	7,897	0.41%
45	Carl	7,823	0.40%
46	Dale	7,417	0.38%
47	Arthur	7,236	0.37%
48	Willie	7,197	0.37%
49	Keith	7,174	0.37%
50	Henry	6,974	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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