Name Yearbook

Top baby names in California, 1924

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,958
2	Betty	1,464
3	Dorothy	1,173
4	Barbara	1,014
5	Helen	820
6	Margaret	818
7	Virginia	785
8	Patricia	655
9	Ruth	617
10	Frances	495
11	Marjorie	463
12	Jean	460
13	Doris	445
14	Alice	440
15	Shirley	418
16	Evelyn	386
17	Elizabeth	383
18	Lois	374
19	Gloria	366
20	June	356
21	Eleanor	319
22	Marie	315
23	Mildred	314
24	Lorraine	303
25	Josephine	298
26	Florence	287
27	Phyllis	286
28	Maria	273
29	Rose	254
30	Norma	246
31	Irene	232
32	Esther	230
33	Beverly	225
34	Lillian	215
35	Marian	211
36	Grace	210
36	Lucille	210
38	Louise	205
39	Marilyn	198
40	Carmen	195
41	Marion	194
42	Geraldine	192
43	Dolores	191
44	Jane	187
45	Bernice	171
46	Jeanne	170
47	Anna	167
48	Catherine	166
48	Martha	166
50	Jacqueline	158

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,585
2	John	1,731
3	William	1,594
4	James	1,208
5	George	1,058
6	Richard	1,016
7	Frank	787
8	Donald	773
9	Charles	767
10	Jack	755
11	Edward	546
12	Joseph	469
13	Joe	451
14	Raymond	448
15	Harold	430
16	David	424
17	Albert	423
18	Thomas	401
19	Kenneth	391
20	Arthur	386
21	Paul	377
22	Manuel	375
23	Henry	371
24	Walter	360
25	Ralph	323
26	Harry	285
27	Fred	279
28	Ernest	260
29	Eugene	258
30	Louis	242
31	Roy	241
32	Lawrence	237
33	Alfred	221
34	Jose	220
35	Howard	208
36	Stanley	198
37	Earl	188
38	Clarence	182
39	Norman	174
40	Carl	173
41	Jesus	166
42	Warren	162
43	Tony	157
44	Daniel	155
45	Leonard	150
46	Bill	149
46	Gordon	149
48	Ray	148
49	Edwin	146
49	Peter	146