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The top names of 1956

Mary led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 4,123,005 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1956

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	61,741	3.08%
2	Debra	48,324	2.41%
3	Linda	48,084	2.39%
4	Deborah	47,834	2.38%
5	Susan	46,558	2.32%
6	Patricia	43,329	2.16%
7	Karen	40,052	1.99%
8	Cynthia	32,339	1.61%
9	Barbara	32,302	1.61%
10	Donna	29,852	1.49%
11	Nancy	28,784	1.43%
12	Pamela	26,928	1.34%
13	Sharon	26,881	1.34%
14	Sandra	24,302	1.21%
15	Diane	22,518	1.12%
16	Carol	21,408	1.07%
17	Kathleen	21,377	1.06%
18	Cheryl	21,278	1.06%
19	Brenda	19,341	0.96%
20	Kathy	17,177	0.86%
21	Janet	16,758	0.83%
22	Elizabeth	16,355	0.81%
23	Denise	14,509	0.72%
24	Teresa	14,464	0.72%
25	Margaret	13,913	0.69%
26	Janice	13,017	0.65%
27	Rebecca	12,168	0.61%
28	Catherine	12,056	0.60%
29	Robin	11,621	0.58%
30	Joyce	11,091	0.55%
31	Lisa	11,012	0.55%
32	Theresa	10,841	0.54%
33	Carolyn	10,634	0.53%
34	Laura	10,570	0.53%
35	Judy	10,197	0.51%
36	Cathy	10,132	0.50%
37	Cindy	9,978	0.50%
38	Kim	9,897	0.49%
39	Debbie	9,863	0.49%
40	Beverly	9,449	0.47%
41	Shirley	9,429	0.47%
42	Christine	9,371	0.47%
43	Connie	9,361	0.47%
44	Betty	9,218	0.46%
45	Judith	9,115	0.45%
46	Ann	8,990	0.45%
47	Paula	8,925	0.44%
48	Julie	8,574	0.43%
49	Gail	8,435	0.42%
50	Jane	8,241	0.41%

Boys, 1956

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	90,691	4.29%
2	James	84,897	4.01%
3	Robert	83,924	3.97%
4	David	81,652	3.86%
5	John	80,804	3.82%
6	William	58,991	2.79%
7	Richard	52,915	2.50%
8	Mark	48,828	2.31%
9	Thomas	44,836	2.12%
10	Steven	38,413	1.82%
11	Charles	35,239	1.67%
12	Joseph	32,749	1.55%
13	Gary	31,842	1.51%
14	Donald	28,223	1.33%
15	Ronald	27,725	1.31%
16	Kenneth	27,432	1.30%
17	Paul	26,897	1.27%
18	Daniel	26,655	1.26%
19	Timothy	23,288	1.10%
20	Jeffrey	23,285	1.10%
21	Larry	22,322	1.06%
22	Kevin	21,761	1.03%
23	Stephen	21,204	1.00%
24	Gregory	21,082	1.00%
25	Edward	19,436	0.92%
26	Dennis	18,359	0.87%
27	George	17,232	0.81%
28	Randy	16,547	0.78%
29	Douglas	16,389	0.77%
30	Anthony	15,565	0.74%
31	Terry	15,064	0.71%
32	Brian	14,666	0.69%
33	Bruce	14,660	0.69%
34	Scott	13,214	0.62%
35	Jerry	12,623	0.60%
36	Keith	11,480	0.54%
37	Peter	11,334	0.54%
38	Frank	11,151	0.53%
39	Raymond	11,108	0.53%
40	Patrick	10,326	0.49%
41	Roger	10,153	0.48%
42	Lawrence	8,898	0.42%
43	Ricky	8,780	0.42%
44	Alan	8,734	0.41%
45	Wayne	8,717	0.41%
46	Danny	8,565	0.40%
47	Christopher	8,384	0.40%
48	Carl	8,313	0.39%
49	Gerald	7,991	0.38%
50	Dale	7,720	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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