Popular Names in the United States

Information from the Social Security Administration. Different spellings of similar names are not combined.
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Boys · Girls
Boys
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Patrick		 0.15% -14
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Hugh		 0.15% -19
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Jacob		 0.15% -25
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Alexander		 0.15% -4
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Stephen		 0.15% +9
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Marvin		 0.16% +49
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Victor		 0.17% +5
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Alvin		 0.17% +15
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Leslie		 0.17% -2
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Allen		 0.17% +1
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Everett		 0.18% +6
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Milton		 0.18% +14
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Jim		 0.19% -22
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Johnnie		 0.19% +50
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Philip		 0.19% +1
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Melvin		 0.19% +39
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Leon		 0.20% +4
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Luther		 0.20% -12
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Homer		 0.20% -10
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Ben		 0.21% -18
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Harvey		 0.21% -13
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Edgar		 0.22% -14
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Norman		 0.22% +19
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Will		 0.22% -37
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Tom		 0.22% -16
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Bernard		 0.23% +7
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Martin		 0.23% -13
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Jessie		 0.23% +6
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Lloyd		 0.24% +5
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Cecil		 0.25% +29
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Eddie		 0.25% +15
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Claude		 0.25% -12
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Chester		 0.26% -4
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Frederick		 0.27% -15
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Edwin		 0.27% -7
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Benjamin		 0.27% -18
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Lewis		 0.28% -8
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Clifford		 0.28% +7
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Stanley		 0.28% +22
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Ray		 0.29% -6
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Leroy		 0.29% +14
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Lester		 0.30% +10
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Peter		 0.30% -7
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Oscar		 0.31% -20
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Clyde		 0.31% +2
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Russell		 0.31% +13
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Jesse		 0.31% -16
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Kenneth		 0.31% +72
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Donald		 0.32% +49
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Floyd		 0.34% +2
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Leonard		 0.34% +12
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Daniel		 0.34% -8
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Anthony		 0.34% +30
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Herman		 0.35% +3
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Lee		 0.35% +2
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Michael		 0.36% +9
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Leo		 0.38% -1
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Eugene		 0.40% +6
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Elmer		 0.42% -5
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Sam		 0.42% +1
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Andrew		 0.43% -6
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Alfred		 0.43% 0
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Theodore		 0.44% +45
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Lawrence		 0.47% +8
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Herbert		 0.47% -1
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Francis		 0.48% +11
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Charlie		 0.54% -4
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Howard		 0.55% 0
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Samuel		 0.56% -7
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David		 0.59% -2
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Ernest		 0.59% -6
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Jack		 0.63% +15
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Earl		 0.63% -7
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Ralph		 0.63% +5
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Carl		 0.67% -3
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Louis		 0.71% -5
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Joe		 0.71% +4
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Roy		 0.73% -4
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Richard		 0.73% +4
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Raymond		 0.79% +5
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Paul		 0.86% +2
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Harold		 0.87% +12
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Fred		 0.89% -3
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Clarence		 0.93% 0
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Albert		 1.04% 0
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Arthur		 1.05% -1
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Willie		 1.21% +4
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Harry		 1.22% -2
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Walter		 1.36% +1
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Henry		 1.48% -1
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Thomas		 1.49% +2
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Edward		 1.67% 0
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Frank		 1.98% -1
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Joseph		 2.40% -1
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Robert		 2.44% +2
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Charles		 2.47% 0
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George		 2.97% 0
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James		 4.24% 0
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William		 4.72% 0
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John		 5.77% 0
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Velma		 0.21% +84
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Hilda		 0.22% +4
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Opal		 0.22% +110
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Marjorie		 0.23% +42
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Georgia		 0.23% 0
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Maude		 0.23% -42
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Nora		 0.23% -25
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Susie		 0.24% -12
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Sadie		 0.24% -19
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Anne		 0.25% +19
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Daisy		 0.25% -5
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Lois		 0.25% +46
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Violet		 0.25% +53
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Marguerite		 0.26% -3
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Betty		 0.26% +50
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Dora		 0.26% -18
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Doris		 0.27% +87
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Maggie		 0.27% -15
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Kathryn		 0.27% +7
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Ellen		 0.27% -9
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Ada		 0.29% -22
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Rosa		 0.30% -9
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Lula		 0.31% -18
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Beulah		 0.31% +1
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Leona		 0.32% +24
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Ann		 0.32% +30
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Jennie		 0.32% -23
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Bernice		 0.32% +41
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Eleanor		 0.32% +30
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Fannie		 0.33% -9
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Cora		 0.33% -23
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Vera		 0.34% +14
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Mamie		 0.34% -7
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Stella		 0.36% -4
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Lucy		 0.36% -7
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Marion		 0.38% +9
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Hattie		 0.38% -18
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Blanche		 0.38% -7
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Katherine		 0.39% +2
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Willie		 0.40% +14
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Lena		 0.41% -12
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Mae		 0.41% -4
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Jessie		 0.41% -6
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Alma		 0.42% -3
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Carrie		 0.42% -16
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Pauline		 0.43% +24
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Mattie		 0.45% -4
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Virginia		 0.47% +34
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Ella		 0.48% -20
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Lucille		 0.48% +48
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Lillie		 0.50% -9
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Laura		 0.50% -15
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Julia		 0.52% -3
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Beatrice		 0.52% +24
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Nellie		 0.53% -16
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Viola		 0.53% +20
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Sarah		 0.56% -13
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Agnes		 0.57% -4
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Ruby		 0.59% +24
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Thelma		 0.59% +128
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Eva		 0.59% -7
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Elsie		 0.59% -4
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Evelyn		 0.60% +52
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Josephine		 0.61% +12
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Ida		 0.61% -15
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Myrtle		 0.63% -7
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Minnie		 0.64% -21
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Esther		 0.65% +4
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Edith		 0.67% -3
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Pearl		 0.67% -5
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Mabel		 0.70% -10
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Martha		 0.70% -4
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Catherine		 0.71% +10
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Louise		 0.74% +9
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Gertrude		 0.76% -2
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Irene		 0.76% +19
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Hazel		 0.77% -1
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Clara		 0.77% -12
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Bessie		 0.77% -8
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Emma		 0.78% -12
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Bertha		 0.78% -8
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Grace		 0.87% -1
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Annie		 0.89% +1
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Rose		 0.91% +5
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Frances		 0.92% +11
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Edna		 0.96% +2
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Gladys		 0.98% +29
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Lillian		 1.05% +3
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Ethel		 1.12% -4
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Alice		 1.13% +4
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Mildred		 1.17% +32
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Florence		 1.17% -2
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Marie		 1.19% +2
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Dorothy		 1.26% +50
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Elizabeth		 1.34% -1
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Ruth		 1.64% +1
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Anna		 1.77% -2
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Margaret		 1.87% 0
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Helen		 2.24% +2
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Mary		 5.20% 0
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