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The top names of 1955

Mary led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 4,015,166 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1955

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	63,174	3.23%
2	Deborah	52,318	2.68%
3	Linda	51,300	2.62%
4	Debra	50,563	2.59%
5	Susan	47,418	2.43%
6	Patricia	46,226	2.36%
7	Barbara	33,617	1.72%
8	Karen	33,217	1.70%
9	Nancy	30,023	1.54%
10	Donna	27,940	1.43%
11	Cynthia	27,178	1.39%
12	Pamela	26,690	1.37%
13	Sandra	25,112	1.28%
14	Diane	23,290	1.19%
15	Carol	22,046	1.13%
16	Sharon	22,044	1.13%
17	Kathleen	22,014	1.13%
18	Brenda	19,114	0.98%
19	Cheryl	19,111	0.98%
20	Janet	17,920	0.92%
21	Elizabeth	16,696	0.85%
22	Kathy	15,324	0.78%
23	Denise	14,560	0.74%
24	Margaret	14,440	0.74%
25	Janice	13,178	0.67%
26	Teresa	13,126	0.67%
27	Rebecca	12,398	0.63%
28	Catherine	11,636	0.60%
29	Joyce	11,287	0.58%
30	Carolyn	11,179	0.57%
31	Judith	10,436	0.53%
32	Judy	10,376	0.53%
33	Robin	10,217	0.52%
34	Beverly	10,001	0.51%
35	Connie	9,975	0.51%
36	Betty	9,924	0.51%
37	Shirley	9,755	0.50%
38	Theresa	9,620	0.49%
39	Paula	9,585	0.49%
40	Christine	9,042	0.46%
41	Laura	9,008	0.46%
42	Gail	8,972	0.46%
43	Ann	8,916	0.46%
44	Cathy	8,665	0.44%
45	Bonnie	8,637	0.44%
46	Joan	8,557	0.44%
47	Gloria	8,551	0.44%
48	Lisa	8,539	0.44%
49	Marilyn	8,409	0.43%
50	Jane	8,343	0.43%

Boys, 1955

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	88,355	4.29%
2	David	86,306	4.19%
3	James	84,186	4.09%
4	Robert	83,758	4.07%
5	John	80,128	3.89%
6	William	59,990	2.91%
7	Richard	53,566	2.60%
8	Thomas	45,855	2.23%
9	Mark	42,255	2.05%
10	Steven	37,847	1.84%
11	Charles	35,365	1.72%
12	Gary	34,433	1.67%
13	Joseph	31,589	1.53%
14	Donald	27,726	1.35%
15	Kenneth	26,743	1.30%
16	Paul	26,701	1.30%
17	Daniel	26,460	1.28%
18	Ronald	26,172	1.27%
19	Larry	22,819	1.11%
20	Jeffrey	22,533	1.09%
21	Stephen	22,155	1.08%
22	Timothy	20,738	1.01%
23	Dennis	20,436	0.99%
24	Gregory	19,815	0.96%
25	Edward	19,280	0.94%
26	George	18,167	0.88%
27	Kevin	17,158	0.83%
28	Terry	15,586	0.76%
29	Douglas	15,311	0.74%
30	Randy	14,958	0.73%
31	Anthony	14,170	0.69%
32	Bruce	14,082	0.68%
33	Jerry	12,975	0.63%
34	Frank	11,109	0.54%
35	Peter	11,003	0.53%
36	Raymond	10,994	0.53%
37	Roger	10,979	0.53%
38	Scott	10,782	0.52%
39	Keith	10,418	0.51%
40	Brian	10,109	0.49%
41	Patrick	9,869	0.48%
42	Lawrence	9,128	0.44%
43	Alan	9,037	0.44%
44	Wayne	8,728	0.42%
45	Danny	8,721	0.42%
46	Ricky	8,329	0.40%
47	Carl	8,294	0.40%
48	Gerald	8,072	0.39%
49	Christopher	7,922	0.38%
50	Craig	7,448	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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