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The top names of 1954

Mary led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,980,666 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1954

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	68,019	3.50%
2	Linda	55,371	2.85%
3	Deborah	54,674	2.82%
4	Patricia	49,149	2.53%
5	Susan	47,162	2.43%
6	Debra	45,896	2.36%
7	Barbara	36,368	1.87%
8	Karen	32,456	1.67%
9	Nancy	30,270	1.56%
10	Cynthia	27,615	1.42%
11	Donna	27,429	1.41%
12	Pamela	27,361	1.41%
13	Sandra	26,061	1.34%
14	Kathleen	22,455	1.16%
15	Carol	22,247	1.15%
16	Sharon	22,220	1.14%
17	Diane	22,053	1.14%
18	Brenda	19,609	1.01%
19	Janet	18,477	0.95%
20	Elizabeth	16,584	0.85%
21	Margaret	15,226	0.78%
22	Cheryl	15,015	0.77%
23	Kathy	14,175	0.73%
24	Denise	13,716	0.71%
25	Janice	13,505	0.70%
26	Rebecca	13,208	0.68%
27	Carolyn	12,153	0.63%
28	Joyce	12,088	0.62%
29	Judy	11,632	0.60%
30	Judith	11,195	0.58%
31	Beverly	11,155	0.57%
32	Catherine	11,079	0.57%
33	Shirley	10,909	0.56%
34	Teresa	10,841	0.56%
35	Marilyn	10,814	0.56%
36	Betty	10,620	0.55%
37	Gail	9,726	0.50%
38	Paula	9,686	0.50%
39	Connie	9,636	0.50%
40	Joan	9,521	0.49%
41	Robin	9,044	0.47%
42	Gloria	8,923	0.46%
43	Christine	8,788	0.45%
44	Ann	8,751	0.45%
45	Laura	8,719	0.45%
46	Martha	8,596	0.44%
47	Theresa	8,509	0.44%
48	Peggy	8,454	0.44%
49	Jane	8,343	0.43%
50	Vicki	8,221	0.42%

Boys, 1954

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	88,568	4.34%
2	Robert	86,331	4.23%
3	James	86,311	4.23%
4	John	81,168	3.98%
5	David	79,556	3.90%
6	William	61,426	3.01%
7	Richard	57,042	2.80%
8	Thomas	47,159	2.31%
9	Gary	37,920	1.86%
10	Charles	37,463	1.84%
11	Steven	36,628	1.80%
12	Mark	36,198	1.78%
13	Joseph	31,221	1.53%
14	Donald	29,279	1.44%
15	Ronald	27,625	1.35%
16	Paul	26,220	1.29%
17	Kenneth	26,186	1.28%
18	Daniel	25,275	1.24%
19	Larry	24,614	1.21%
20	Stephen	21,878	1.07%
21	Dennis	20,758	1.02%
22	Edward	19,493	0.96%
23	Jeffrey	19,052	0.93%
24	George	18,704	0.92%
25	Gregory	17,625	0.86%
26	Timothy	17,427	0.85%
27	Terry	15,553	0.76%
28	Kevin	15,322	0.75%
29	Douglas	14,703	0.72%
30	Bruce	14,155	0.69%
31	Jerry	13,681	0.67%
32	Anthony	13,124	0.64%
33	Randy	12,638	0.62%
34	Roger	11,717	0.57%
35	Raymond	11,242	0.55%
36	Frank	10,995	0.54%
37	Peter	10,085	0.49%
38	Patrick	9,927	0.49%
39	Lawrence	9,606	0.47%
40	Scott	9,457	0.46%
41	Wayne	9,175	0.45%
42	Danny	9,103	0.45%
43	Alan	8,711	0.43%
44	Gerald	8,552	0.42%
45	Keith	8,355	0.41%
46	Ricky	8,164	0.40%
47	Carl	8,137	0.40%
48	Brian	8,078	0.40%
49	Walter	7,486	0.37%
50	Dale	7,439	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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