Name Yearbook

Top baby names in California, 1920

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,554
2	Dorothy	1,091
3	Margaret	720
4	Helen	719
5	Virginia	633
6	Betty	599
7	Ruth	545
8	Barbara	522
9	Frances	514
10	Evelyn	386
11	Alice	382
12	Elizabeth	372
13	Marjorie	348
14	Doris	345
15	Jean	327
16	Marie	301
17	June	289
18	Mildred	288
19	Eleanor	273
20	Josephine	269
21	Florence	245
22	Patricia	238
23	Lois	233
24	Rose	229
25	Lillian	223
26	Lorraine	218
27	Jane	213
28	Irene	192
29	Phyllis	187
30	Lucille	181
31	Marian	174
32	Edith	173
33	Anna	170
34	Louise	168
35	Bernice	166
36	Marion	165
37	Esther	162
38	Geraldine	161
39	Edna	159
40	Grace	158
41	Shirley	156
42	Norma	149
43	Maria	143
44	Catherine	136
44	Pauline	136
46	Charlotte	135
46	Thelma	135
48	Gladys	131
48	Katherine	131
48	Martha	131

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	1,821
2	John	1,309
3	William	1,211
4	George	899
5	James	834
6	Charles	662
7	Frank	631
8	Richard	555
9	Jack	544
10	Edward	460
11	Joseph	451
12	Donald	435
13	Raymond	327
14	Harold	321
15	Albert	318
16	Joe	310
17	Thomas	309
18	Walter	305
19	Henry	301
20	Arthur	281
21	Paul	279
22	Harry	267
23	Kenneth	253
24	David	251
25	Manuel	239
26	Ralph	237
27	Fred	203
28	Louis	198
29	Ernest	180
30	Eugene	173
31	Alfred	170
32	Roy	161
33	Howard	156
34	Earl	153
35	Lawrence	146
36	Jose	140
37	Stanley	139
38	Herbert	132
39	Carl	130
40	Clarence	128
41	Norman	126
41	Warren	126
43	Leonard	120
44	Peter	117
45	Anthony	111
45	Francis	111
45	Tony	111
45	Vernon	111
49	Edwin	104
50	Melvin	103