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The top names of 1958

Mary led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 4,134,028 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1958

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	55,848	2.78%
2	Susan	45,175	2.25%
3	Linda	41,904	2.08%
4	Karen	38,487	1.91%
5	Patricia	37,961	1.89%
6	Debra	35,521	1.77%
7	Deborah	32,943	1.64%
8	Cynthia	31,014	1.54%
9	Barbara	27,874	1.39%
10	Donna	26,959	1.34%
11	Pamela	25,279	1.26%
12	Nancy	24,819	1.23%
13	Cheryl	24,119	1.20%
14	Kathy	23,938	1.19%
15	Sandra	21,834	1.09%
16	Brenda	21,337	1.06%
17	Sharon	21,114	1.05%
18	Diane	20,811	1.03%
19	Lisa	20,202	1.00%
20	Carol	19,683	0.98%
21	Kathleen	19,205	0.95%
22	Elizabeth	18,535	0.92%
23	Julie	18,215	0.91%
24	Debbie	17,860	0.89%
25	Cindy	16,585	0.82%
26	Teresa	15,602	0.78%
27	Denise	14,959	0.74%
28	Janet	14,816	0.74%
29	Laura	13,513	0.67%
30	Lori	13,032	0.65%
31	Margaret	12,314	0.61%
32	Robin	11,548	0.57%
33	Theresa	11,452	0.57%
34	Cathy	10,942	0.54%
35	Janice	10,888	0.54%
36	Judy	10,838	0.54%
37	Carolyn	10,814	0.54%
38	Catherine	10,769	0.54%
39	Kimberly	10,710	0.53%
40	Kim	10,664	0.53%
41	Rebecca	10,416	0.52%
42	Peggy	10,071	0.50%
43	Christine	10,062	0.50%
44	Tammy	9,987	0.50%
45	Diana	9,169	0.46%
46	Joyce	9,034	0.45%
47	Ann	8,856	0.44%
48	Rhonda	8,341	0.41%
49	Darlene	8,278	0.41%
50	Connie	8,209	0.41%

Boys, 1958

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	90,604	4.27%
2	David	82,681	3.90%
3	James	78,774	3.71%
4	Robert	77,338	3.64%
5	John	76,057	3.58%
6	William	54,254	2.56%
7	Mark	52,698	2.48%
8	Richard	50,007	2.36%
9	Thomas	42,088	1.98%
10	Steven	32,968	1.55%
11	Charles	32,242	1.52%
12	Joseph	30,115	1.42%
13	Timothy	28,797	1.36%
14	Kenneth	26,684	1.26%
15	Paul	26,264	1.24%
16	Daniel	25,619	1.21%
17	Gary	25,287	1.19%
18	Donald	25,015	1.18%
19	Ronald	24,824	1.17%
20	Kevin	24,666	1.16%
21	Jeffrey	24,223	1.14%
22	Larry	20,083	0.95%
23	Gregory	19,810	0.93%
24	Brian	19,279	0.91%
25	Scott	19,175	0.90%
26	Stephen	17,962	0.85%
27	Anthony	17,430	0.82%
28	Edward	17,377	0.82%
29	Dennis	16,418	0.77%
30	Douglas	15,798	0.74%
31	George	15,637	0.74%
32	Randy	15,188	0.72%
33	Terry	15,006	0.71%
34	Ricky	13,375	0.63%
35	Jerry	12,917	0.61%
36	Bruce	12,472	0.59%
37	Keith	11,905	0.56%
38	Frank	11,325	0.53%
39	Christopher	11,079	0.52%
40	Mike	10,779	0.51%
41	Peter	10,757	0.51%
42	Patrick	10,247	0.48%
43	Raymond	10,226	0.48%
44	Steve	10,079	0.47%
45	Danny	8,934	0.42%
46	Dale	8,502	0.40%
47	Roger	8,368	0.39%
48	Wayne	8,329	0.39%
49	Alan	8,226	0.39%
50	Eric	8,190	0.39%

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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