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The top names of 1953

Mary led the girls and Robert the boys, out of 3,853,600 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1953

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	64,389	3.42%
2	Linda	61,281	3.26%
3	Deborah	52,199	2.77%
4	Patricia	51,019	2.71%
5	Susan	44,297	2.35%
6	Barbara	38,473	2.05%
7	Debra	36,856	1.96%
8	Nancy	30,620	1.63%
9	Karen	29,858	1.59%
10	Pamela	25,760	1.37%
11	Sandra	25,500	1.36%
12	Cynthia	25,140	1.34%
13	Donna	24,227	1.29%
14	Kathleen	23,731	1.26%
15	Sharon	23,040	1.22%
16	Carol	22,290	1.18%
17	Diane	21,351	1.13%
18	Brenda	20,122	1.07%
19	Janet	17,771	0.94%
20	Margaret	16,195	0.86%
21	Elizabeth	16,099	0.86%
22	Janice	14,627	0.78%
23	Kathy	13,400	0.71%
24	Rebecca	12,959	0.69%
25	Carolyn	12,919	0.69%
26	Joyce	12,796	0.68%
27	Judy	12,735	0.68%
28	Cheryl	12,264	0.65%
29	Shirley	12,148	0.65%
30	Judith	11,969	0.64%
31	Denise	11,950	0.64%
32	Christine	11,793	0.63%
33	Betty	11,369	0.60%
34	Beverly	11,240	0.60%
35	Catherine	10,849	0.58%
36	Marilyn	10,742	0.57%
37	Joan	9,774	0.52%
38	Gloria	9,680	0.51%
39	Gail	9,585	0.51%
40	Paula	9,557	0.51%
41	Martha	9,263	0.49%
42	Teresa	8,932	0.47%
43	Jane	8,913	0.47%
44	Peggy	8,762	0.47%
45	Bonnie	8,615	0.46%
46	Ann	8,579	0.46%
47	Connie	8,575	0.46%
48	Kathryn	8,324	0.44%
49	Dorothy	8,162	0.43%
50	Theresa	7,715	0.41%

Boys, 1953

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Robert	86,243	4.37%
2	James	86,066	4.36%
3	Michael	84,198	4.27%
4	John	80,165	4.06%
5	David	76,119	3.86%
6	William	61,829	3.13%
7	Richard	58,389	2.96%
8	Thomas	47,008	2.38%
9	Charles	38,421	1.95%
10	Gary	36,967	1.87%
11	Steven	33,721	1.71%
12	Mark	29,341	1.49%
13	Joseph	29,269	1.48%
14	Donald	28,361	1.44%
15	Ronald	27,713	1.41%
16	Paul	25,509	1.29%
17	Kenneth	25,507	1.29%
18	Larry	25,208	1.28%
19	Dennis	23,658	1.20%
20	Daniel	23,498	1.19%
21	Stephen	21,807	1.11%
22	George	19,176	0.97%
23	Edward	18,984	0.96%
24	Gregory	16,160	0.82%
25	Jeffrey	15,949	0.81%
26	Timothy	15,187	0.77%
27	Douglas	14,138	0.72%
28	Bruce	14,048	0.71%
29	Jerry	13,901	0.70%
30	Terry	13,259	0.67%
31	Roger	13,172	0.67%
32	Anthony	11,693	0.59%
33	Frank	11,180	0.57%
34	Raymond	11,110	0.56%
35	Randy	10,666	0.54%
36	Kevin	10,011	0.51%
37	Lawrence	9,856	0.50%
38	Peter	9,729	0.49%
39	Patrick	9,468	0.48%
40	Wayne	8,905	0.45%
41	Danny	8,627	0.44%
42	Gerald	8,619	0.44%
43	Alan	8,454	0.43%
44	Carl	7,829	0.40%
45	Walter	7,509	0.38%
46	Scott	7,489	0.38%
47	Keith	7,375	0.37%
48	Dale	7,350	0.37%
49	Willie	7,056	0.36%
50	Arthur	7,001	0.35%

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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