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The top names of 1959

Mary led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 4,157,980 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1959

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	54,502	2.69%
2	Susan	41,617	2.06%
3	Linda	40,410	2.00%
4	Karen	36,784	1.82%
5	Donna	36,468	1.80%
6	Patricia	35,223	1.74%
7	Debra	31,388	1.55%
8	Cynthia	30,186	1.49%
9	Deborah	29,546	1.46%
10	Lisa	25,699	1.27%
11	Barbara	25,359	1.25%
12	Pamela	24,714	1.22%
13	Sandra	23,359	1.15%
14	Nancy	23,079	1.14%
15	Kathy	21,814	1.08%
16	Brenda	21,424	1.06%
17	Sharon	21,292	1.05%
18	Cheryl	20,947	1.04%
19	Diane	19,972	0.99%
20	Debbie	19,540	0.97%
21	Elizabeth	18,421	0.91%
22	Carol	18,140	0.90%
23	Kathleen	17,629	0.87%
24	Teresa	17,400	0.86%
25	Cindy	16,973	0.84%
26	Julie	16,211	0.80%
27	Lori	15,032	0.74%
28	Janet	14,964	0.74%
29	Denise	14,662	0.72%
30	Laura	14,528	0.72%
31	Tammy	13,707	0.68%
32	Robin	12,854	0.64%
33	Kimberly	12,790	0.63%
34	Theresa	11,656	0.58%
35	Kim	11,594	0.57%
36	Margaret	11,577	0.57%
37	Janice	10,489	0.52%
38	Rebecca	10,475	0.52%
39	Cathy	10,408	0.51%
40	Catherine	10,025	0.50%
41	Judy	9,884	0.49%
42	Carolyn	9,727	0.48%
43	Christine	9,471	0.47%
44	Ann	8,918	0.44%
45	Rhonda	8,861	0.44%
46	Terri	8,783	0.43%
47	Michelle	8,776	0.43%
48	Connie	8,655	0.43%
49	Diana	8,637	0.43%
50	Joyce	8,520	0.42%

Boys, 1959

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	85,294	4.00%
2	David	83,977	3.93%
3	James	78,648	3.68%
4	John	76,446	3.58%
5	Robert	74,542	3.49%
6	Mark	56,945	2.67%
7	William	51,386	2.41%
8	Richard	47,202	2.21%
9	Thomas	40,296	1.89%
10	Steven	33,597	1.57%
11	Charles	30,797	1.44%
12	Timothy	30,783	1.44%
13	Joseph	29,539	1.38%
14	Kevin	26,790	1.26%
15	Kenneth	26,640	1.25%
16	Jeffrey	26,281	1.23%
17	Paul	25,712	1.20%
18	Daniel	25,155	1.18%
19	Donald	23,876	1.12%
20	Gary	23,303	1.09%
21	Ronald	23,114	1.08%
22	Brian	20,737	0.97%
23	Gregory	19,889	0.93%
24	Scott	19,765	0.93%
25	Larry	18,434	0.86%
26	Anthony	17,972	0.84%
27	Edward	16,914	0.79%
28	Stephen	16,504	0.77%
29	Dennis	16,043	0.75%
30	Douglas	15,290	0.72%
31	Randy	15,042	0.70%
32	George	15,012	0.70%
33	Terry	14,545	0.68%
34	Ricky	13,226	0.62%
35	Christopher	12,915	0.61%
36	Jerry	12,324	0.58%
37	Mike	11,995	0.56%
38	Bruce	11,914	0.56%
39	Keith	11,758	0.55%
40	Peter	11,289	0.53%
41	Steve	11,068	0.52%
42	Frank	10,942	0.51%
43	Patrick	10,556	0.49%
44	Craig	9,933	0.47%
45	Raymond	9,796	0.46%
46	Eric	9,726	0.46%
47	Roger	8,794	0.41%
48	Danny	8,727	0.41%
49	Dale	8,343	0.39%
50	Alan	8,151	0.38%

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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