Name Yearbook

Top baby names in California, 1921

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,697
2	Dorothy	1,162
3	Betty	780
4	Helen	743
5	Margaret	715
6	Virginia	683
7	Barbara	653
8	Ruth	541
9	Frances	477
10	Marjorie	444
11	Evelyn	430
12	Alice	393
13	Jean	385
14	Elizabeth	361
15	June	338
16	Marie	330
17	Doris	323
18	Patricia	295
19	Mildred	280
20	Eleanor	254
21	Florence	253
22	Josephine	249
23	Lorraine	247
24	Rose	244
25	Lois	241
26	Phyllis	214
27	Lillian	208
28	Lucille	200
29	Shirley	199
30	Irene	197
31	Catherine	188
31	Jane	188
33	Esther	186
34	Grace	183
35	Norma	182
36	Louise	179
37	Anna	168
37	Pauline	168
39	Bernice	167
40	Marion	164
41	Geraldine	163
42	Maria	162
43	Edith	161
43	Martha	161
45	Marian	157
46	Carmen	152
47	Jeanne	151
48	Gladys	150
48	Katherine	150
50	Gloria	149

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	1,875
2	John	1,489
3	William	1,416
4	George	890
5	James	866
6	Frank	689
7	Jack	650
8	Richard	629
9	Charles	584
10	Donald	532
11	Edward	524
12	Joseph	474
13	Raymond	383
14	Albert	365
15	Harold	337
16	Joe	334
17	Paul	333
18	Thomas	330
19	Henry	293
19	Walter	293
21	Arthur	291
22	Kenneth	286
23	Harry	285
24	David	270
25	Manuel	261
26	Fred	251
27	Ralph	233
28	Eugene	229
29	Warren	214
30	Ernest	209
31	Howard	204
31	Louis	204
33	Alfred	199
34	Roy	187
35	Tony	168
36	Francis	158
37	Lawrence	157
38	Stanley	155
39	Earl	154
40	Carl	140
40	Clarence	140
42	Daniel	129
42	Leonard	129
44	Peter	128
45	Lloyd	124
46	Herbert	122
47	Jose	121
48	Norman	120
49	Theodore	116
50	Melvin	112