Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in California, 1923

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,829
2	Betty	1,169
3	Dorothy	1,167
4	Barbara	874
5	Margaret	806
6	Helen	736
7	Virginia	717
8	Ruth	577
9	Frances	529
10	Patricia	488
11	Marjorie	449
12	Alice	407
12	Jean	407
14	Elizabeth	393
15	Evelyn	365
16	Marie	357
17	Doris	356
18	Shirley	340
19	Eleanor	337
20	June	330
21	Gloria	323
22	Josephine	286
22	Lois	286
24	Florence	273
25	Lorraine	269
26	Phyllis	263
27	Rose	257
28	Mildred	250
29	Maria	226
30	Norma	223
31	Lillian	217
32	Esther	208
33	Dolores	202
34	Carmen	196
35	Lucille	191
36	Irene	190
37	Marian	189
38	Bernice	183
39	Grace	182
40	Thelma	173
41	Catherine	172
42	Anna	170
42	Louise	170
44	Jeanne	167
45	Geraldine	165
46	Beverly	163
46	Marilyn	163
48	Pauline	162
49	Martha	159
50	Jane	156

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,259
2	John	1,673
3	William	1,616
4	James	1,060
5	George	970
6	Richard	880
7	Donald	753
8	Frank	710
9	Charles	700
10	Jack	655
11	Edward	540
12	Joseph	473
13	Harold	456
14	Thomas	429
15	Raymond	413
16	Paul	409
17	Joe	406
18	Albert	396
19	David	366
20	Walter	358
21	Kenneth	351
22	Henry	346
23	Arthur	339
24	Harry	336
25	Manuel	333
26	Ralph	309
27	Fred	273
28	Eugene	261
29	Roy	243
30	Ernest	232
31	Louis	229
32	Alfred	213
33	Howard	198
34	Jose	196
35	Stanley	180
36	Carl	173
37	Lawrence	172
38	Norman	156
39	Tony	152
40	Earl	151
41	Bill	143
41	Peter	143
43	Clarence	141
44	Warren	139
45	Herbert	127
45	Leonard	127
47	Daniel	125
47	Gordon	125
49	Anthony	124
49	Jesus	124