Name Yearbook

Top baby names in California, 1918

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,251
2	Dorothy	879
3	Margaret	651
4	Helen	641
5	Virginia	495
6	Frances	446
6	Ruth	446
8	Barbara	380
9	Betty	353
10	Evelyn	335
11	Alice	319
12	Elizabeth	311
13	Marjorie	295
14	Marie	277
15	Jean	261
16	Eleanor	243
17	Rose	240
18	Mildred	239
19	Florence	236
20	Josephine	232
21	Doris	213
22	Jane	207
23	Lorraine	203
24	Lois	201
25	June	198
26	Lillian	179
27	Lucille	172
28	Esther	167
29	Patricia	165
30	Phyllis	163
31	Louise	157
32	Bernice	155
33	Edna	150
34	Grace	146
35	Catherine	142
35	Marian	142
37	Edith	140
37	Irene	140
39	Thelma	139
40	Anna	137
41	Marion	132
42	Martha	131
43	Ethel	128
44	Pauline	125
45	Elsie	122
46	Hazel	121
47	Gladys	120
47	Katherine	120
49	Dolores	113
50	Jeanne	112

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	1,269
2	John	1,148
3	William	1,034
4	George	760
5	James	683
6	Frank	585
7	Charles	579
8	Edward	462
9	Jack	453
10	Richard	415
11	Joseph	395
12	Donald	328
13	Albert	288
14	Raymond	286
15	Harold	260
16	Harry	259
17	Arthur	258
18	Walter	254
19	Joe	248
20	Thomas	241
21	Henry	240
22	Paul	238
23	Fred	200
24	David	197
25	Manuel	182
26	Louis	180
27	Ernest	171
28	Ralph	170
29	Kenneth	165
30	Howard	159
31	Alfred	157
32	Roy	151
33	Eugene	148
34	Carl	134
35	Stanley	133
36	Earl	129
36	Francis	129
38	Victor	124
39	Lawrence	122
40	Tony	117
41	Herbert	115
42	Clarence	109
42	Norman	109
44	Lloyd	104
45	Edwin	98
45	Peter	98
47	Anthony	97
48	Daniel	96
49	Elmer	92
50	Leonard	90