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The top names of 1957

Mary led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 4,202,087 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1957

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	61,102	2.99%
2	Susan	45,954	2.25%
3	Linda	44,517	2.18%
4	Debra	42,728	2.09%
5	Karen	40,591	1.99%
6	Deborah	40,096	1.96%
7	Cynthia	39,340	1.92%
8	Patricia	39,283	1.92%
9	Barbara	29,692	1.45%
10	Donna	28,042	1.37%
11	Nancy	27,515	1.35%
12	Pamela	25,015	1.22%
13	Brenda	24,339	1.19%
14	Sharon	24,298	1.19%
15	Sandra	22,765	1.11%
16	Cheryl	22,643	1.11%
17	Diane	22,090	1.08%
18	Carol	21,898	1.07%
19	Cindy	20,272	0.99%
20	Kathy	20,237	0.99%
21	Kathleen	19,742	0.97%
22	Elizabeth	17,492	0.86%
23	Janet	15,753	0.77%
24	Teresa	15,687	0.77%
25	Denise	15,145	0.74%
26	Lisa	15,142	0.74%
27	Debbie	14,382	0.70%
28	Julie	13,631	0.67%
29	Margaret	13,013	0.64%
30	Robin	12,579	0.62%
31	Laura	12,181	0.60%
32	Janice	11,968	0.59%
33	Carolyn	11,575	0.57%
34	Rebecca	11,482	0.56%
35	Kim	11,426	0.56%
36	Theresa	11,188	0.55%
37	Catherine	11,151	0.55%
38	Judy	10,542	0.52%
39	Cathy	10,325	0.50%
40	Joyce	10,155	0.50%
41	Christine	9,575	0.47%
42	Kimberly	9,454	0.46%
43	Diana	9,433	0.46%
44	Ann	9,040	0.44%
45	Lori	8,964	0.44%
46	Shirley	8,855	0.43%
47	Connie	8,765	0.43%
48	Beverly	8,560	0.42%
49	Paula	8,544	0.42%
50	Betty	8,479	0.41%

Boys, 1957

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	92,781	4.30%
2	James	84,337	3.91%
3	David	82,403	3.82%
4	Robert	81,765	3.79%
5	John	79,033	3.66%
6	William	56,852	2.64%
7	Mark	52,841	2.45%
8	Richard	52,446	2.43%
9	Thomas	44,625	2.07%
10	Steven	36,842	1.71%
11	Charles	34,283	1.59%
12	Joseph	31,851	1.48%
13	Gary	29,530	1.37%
14	Kenneth	28,064	1.30%
15	Donald	27,910	1.29%
16	Daniel	27,337	1.27%
17	Ronald	27,209	1.26%
18	Paul	27,012	1.25%
19	Timothy	24,733	1.15%
20	Kevin	24,285	1.13%
21	Jeffrey	23,982	1.11%
22	Larry	21,941	1.02%
23	Gregory	21,472	1.00%
24	Stephen	19,726	0.91%
25	Edward	18,711	0.87%
26	Brian	17,519	0.81%
27	Anthony	17,057	0.79%
28	Dennis	16,917	0.78%
29	George	16,887	0.78%
30	Douglas	16,730	0.78%
31	Randy	16,464	0.76%
32	Scott	15,750	0.73%
33	Terry	15,624	0.72%
34	Bruce	13,882	0.64%
35	Jerry	13,283	0.62%
36	Keith	12,437	0.58%
37	Peter	11,603	0.54%
38	Frank	11,268	0.52%
39	Raymond	10,810	0.50%
40	Ricky	10,574	0.49%
41	Patrick	10,353	0.48%
42	Roger	9,866	0.46%
43	Christopher	8,997	0.42%
44	Steve	8,910	0.41%
45	Danny	8,820	0.41%
46	Lawrence	8,741	0.41%
47	Wayne	8,687	0.40%
48	Alan	8,208	0.38%
49	Carl	8,192	0.38%
50	Dale	7,866	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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