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The top names of 1961

Mary led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 4,142,690 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1961

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	47,682	2.36%
2	Lisa	42,720	2.12%
3	Susan	37,532	1.86%
4	Linda	35,597	1.76%
5	Karen	34,707	1.72%
6	Patricia	28,889	1.43%
7	Donna	28,679	1.42%
8	Cynthia	24,393	1.21%
9	Sandra	24,153	1.20%
10	Deborah	24,107	1.19%
11	Brenda	23,781	1.18%
12	Barbara	23,002	1.14%
13	Debra	22,160	1.10%
14	Lori	21,876	1.08%
15	Pamela	21,691	1.07%
16	Nancy	20,729	1.03%
17	Sharon	20,459	1.01%
18	Teresa	18,909	0.94%
19	Elizabeth	18,855	0.93%
20	Cheryl	18,301	0.91%
21	Laura	17,901	0.89%
22	Kimberly	17,355	0.86%
23	Julie	17,040	0.84%
24	Carol	16,667	0.83%
25	Kathy	16,385	0.81%
26	Diane	16,205	0.80%
27	Robin	15,653	0.78%
28	Tammy	15,532	0.77%
29	Kathleen	15,395	0.76%
30	Denise	15,379	0.76%
31	Debbie	14,882	0.74%
32	Janet	13,930	0.69%
33	Cindy	13,388	0.66%
34	Michelle	12,741	0.63%
35	Theresa	11,960	0.59%
36	Kim	11,367	0.56%
37	Jacqueline	10,983	0.54%
38	Angela	10,843	0.54%
39	Christine	10,598	0.53%
40	Margaret	10,559	0.52%
41	Tina	10,521	0.52%
42	Carolyn	10,509	0.52%
43	Laurie	10,435	0.52%
44	Rebecca	10,236	0.51%
45	Kelly	9,642	0.48%
46	Rhonda	9,469	0.47%
47	Jennifer	9,265	0.46%
48	Catherine	9,251	0.46%
49	Dawn	9,148	0.45%
50	Connie	8,986	0.45%

Boys, 1961

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	86,974	4.09%
2	David	84,810	3.99%
3	John	79,983	3.77%
4	James	75,969	3.58%
5	Robert	72,977	3.44%
6	Mark	57,796	2.72%
7	William	48,045	2.26%
8	Richard	41,142	1.94%
9	Thomas	37,565	1.77%
10	Steven	32,275	1.52%
11	Jeffrey	32,029	1.51%
12	Joseph	29,450	1.39%
13	Charles	29,194	1.37%
14	Kevin	28,926	1.36%
15	Timothy	28,253	1.33%
16	Kenneth	26,100	1.23%
17	Daniel	25,904	1.22%
18	Paul	25,640	1.21%
19	Scott	23,934	1.13%
20	Brian	22,566	1.06%
21	Gary	22,174	1.04%
22	Donald	21,409	1.01%
23	Gregory	21,364	1.01%
24	Ronald	20,842	0.98%
25	Anthony	20,209	0.95%
26	Christopher	17,223	0.81%
27	Stephen	16,069	0.76%
28	Douglas	15,978	0.75%
29	Edward	15,877	0.75%
30	Larry	14,580	0.69%
31	George	13,644	0.64%
32	Terry	13,194	0.62%
33	Randy	12,603	0.59%
34	Dennis	12,503	0.59%
35	Keith	12,275	0.58%
36	Mike	11,667	0.55%
37	Jerry	11,381	0.54%
38	Eric	11,111	0.52%
39	Patrick	11,052	0.52%
40	Bruce	10,705	0.50%
41	Frank	10,433	0.49%
42	Peter	10,349	0.49%
43	Craig	10,235	0.48%
44	Ricky	10,027	0.47%
45	Steve	9,997	0.47%
46	Todd	9,750	0.46%
47	Roger	9,652	0.45%
48	Raymond	9,618	0.45%
49	Jeff	9,463	0.45%
50	Jeffery	8,923	0.42%

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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