Name Yearbook

Top baby names in California, 1922

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,733
2	Dorothy	1,067
3	Betty	954
4	Margaret	737
5	Helen	711
6	Barbara	708
7	Virginia	696
8	Frances	501
9	Ruth	491
10	Marjorie	434
11	Elizabeth	390
12	Alice	386
13	Evelyn	369
13	Jean	369
15	Patricia	361
16	Doris	351
17	June	345
18	Marie	327
19	Florence	298
20	Josephine	288
21	Gloria	286
22	Eleanor	280
23	Mildred	265
24	Phyllis	258
25	Lorraine	257
26	Rose	253
27	Lois	233
28	Shirley	231
29	Lillian	215
30	Irene	210
31	Jane	199
32	Grace	195
32	Lucille	195
34	Louise	190
35	Esther	181
36	Catherine	173
37	Bernice	172
38	Marian	169
39	Dolores	164
39	Gladys	164
41	Geraldine	163
42	Norma	161
43	Anna	155
44	Jeanne	152
45	Katherine	151
46	Edith	150
47	Carmen	149
47	Marion	149
49	Beatrice	146
50	Edna	145

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,114
2	John	1,509
3	William	1,429
4	George	959
5	James	925
6	Richard	736
7	Charles	707
8	Frank	694
9	Jack	674
10	Donald	572
11	Edward	510
12	Joseph	466
13	Harold	387
14	Thomas	364
15	Albert	363
16	Raymond	358
17	Arthur	315
18	David	314
19	Walter	312
20	Henry	309
21	Joe	307
22	Paul	306
23	Harry	291
24	Kenneth	288
25	Ralph	258
26	Manuel	251
27	Eugene	240
28	Fred	221
29	Howard	219
30	Ernest	201
30	Louis	201
32	Roy	198
33	Alfred	178
34	Stanley	177
35	Lawrence	174
36	Herbert	173
37	Carl	166
38	Tony	162
39	Warren	160
40	Jose	151
41	Clarence	146
42	Daniel	143
43	Earl	140
44	Francis	125
45	Gerald	124
45	Norman	124
47	Edwin	123
47	Leonard	123
49	Peter	122
50	Bill	117