Name Yearbook

Top baby names in California, 1915

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	998
2	Dorothy	717
3	Helen	602
4	Margaret	535
5	Ruth	395
6	Virginia	345
7	Frances	332
8	Evelyn	326
9	Alice	282
10	Elizabeth	271
11	Marie	255
12	Florence	228
13	Josephine	220
14	Eleanor	219
15	Barbara	217
16	Rose	208
17	Mildred	196
18	Marjorie	189
19	Betty	181
20	Louise	174
21	Bernice	163
22	Lillian	159
23	Jean	158
24	Grace	155
25	Lois	153
26	Doris	152
27	Edith	148
27	Esther	148
29	Irene	146
30	Hazel	143
31	Jane	137
32	Lucille	130
33	Marion	127
34	Anna	125
34	Catherine	125
34	Katherine	125
37	Thelma	124
38	Gladys	113
39	Edna	112
40	Ann	110
41	Marian	109
42	Martha	107
43	June	105
44	Pauline	101
45	Ethel	100
46	Elsie	99
47	Eva	97
48	Patricia	94
49	Lorraine	93
50	Lena	88

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	1,033
2	William	886
3	Robert	840
4	George	631
5	James	530
6	Frank	523
7	Charles	448
8	Joseph	366
9	Edward	344
10	Jack	296
11	Albert	286
11	Richard	286
13	Harold	241
14	Arthur	240
15	Walter	231
16	Thomas	227
17	Donald	223
18	Henry	211
19	Joe	199
20	Paul	196
21	Fred	192
22	Harry	191
23	Raymond	179
24	Louis	168
25	Ralph	155
26	Ernest	153
27	Manuel	134
28	Kenneth	132
29	David	130
30	Alfred	126
30	Roy	126
32	Carl	125
33	Lawrence	119
34	Howard	116
35	Francis	115
36	Peter	106
37	Eugene	103
38	Stanley	97
39	Herbert	94
40	Edwin	93
41	Melvin	91
42	Clarence	88
43	Elmer	86
43	Tony	86
45	Earl	85
46	Norman	83
47	Anthony	74
47	Lloyd	74
49	Leo	73
50	Leonard	71