Name Yearbook

Top baby names in California, 1917

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,149
2	Dorothy	779
3	Helen	613
4	Margaret	549
5	Virginia	460
6	Ruth	432
7	Frances	400
8	Evelyn	334
9	Alice	316
10	Elizabeth	304
11	Barbara	298
12	Betty	269
13	Marie	268
14	Rose	246
15	Mildred	241
16	Florence	236
17	Eleanor	230
18	Marjorie	228
19	Josephine	214
20	Jean	208
21	Doris	193
22	Jane	180
23	Lillian	170
24	June	169
25	Grace	168
26	Louise	160
27	Bernice	156
28	Lois	154
29	Irene	150
29	Lucille	150
31	Anna	141
32	Edna	138
33	Patricia	137
34	Catherine	135
35	Gladys	128
36	Phyllis	127
37	Marian	126
38	Marion	125
39	Katherine	123
40	Edith	122
41	Thelma	121
42	Pauline	118
43	Hazel	117
44	Esther	116
45	Elsie	114
46	Gertrude	112
47	Martha	104
48	Ethel	103
49	Geraldine	99
50	Ann	97

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	1,066
2	Robert	1,036
3	William	1,005
4	George	671
5	James	589
6	Frank	492
7	Charles	484
8	Richard	367
9	Edward	366
10	Joseph	358
11	Jack	326
12	Donald	282
13	Walter	280
14	Albert	268
15	Joe	240
16	Thomas	237
17	Arthur	220
17	Harold	220
17	Paul	220
20	Raymond	214
21	Henry	205
22	Harry	203
23	Ernest	183
24	Fred	180
25	Louis	160
26	David	156
27	Kenneth	153
28	Manuel	152
29	Ralph	150
30	Roy	146
31	Alfred	144
32	Lawrence	129
33	Howard	124
34	Francis	121
35	Clarence	120
36	Norman	117
37	Earl	115
38	Carl	114
39	Edwin	112
40	Herbert	109
40	Stanley	109
42	Eugene	104
43	Peter	99
44	Lloyd	98
45	Tony	92
46	Anthony	87
47	Daniel	82
47	Frederick	82
49	Elmer	81
50	Philip	77