Name Yearbook

Top baby names in California, 1925

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,890
2	Betty	1,529
3	Barbara	1,073
4	Dorothy	1,053
5	Helen	757
6	Virginia	754
7	Margaret	727
7	Patricia	727
9	Ruth	589
10	Gloria	545
11	Frances	506
12	Shirley	484
13	Jean	457
14	Alice	410
15	Doris	405
16	Marjorie	402
17	June	369
18	Lois	367
19	Evelyn	356
20	Elizabeth	321
21	Maria	302
22	Lorraine	298
23	Marie	295
24	Eleanor	286
25	Josephine	276
26	Phyllis	274
27	Beverly	252
28	Mildred	251
29	Norma	236
30	Rose	235
31	Dolores	234
31	Florence	234
33	Irene	225
34	Marilyn	222
35	Esther	219
36	Carmen	213
37	Marian	210
38	Lillian	203
39	Nancy	202
40	Lucille	197
41	Louise	193
42	Anna	186
43	Joyce	184
44	Martha	181
45	Katherine	179
46	Jeanne	177
47	Jane	175
48	Jacqueline	171
49	Geraldine	164
49	Grace	164

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,507
2	John	1,702
3	William	1,589
4	James	1,251
5	Richard	1,153
6	George	1,042
7	Donald	863
8	Charles	794
9	Frank	772
10	Jack	752
11	Edward	598
12	Joseph	446
13	Thomas	437
14	David	430
15	Raymond	424
16	Harold	422
17	Joe	419
18	Arthur	413
19	Kenneth	400
20	Paul	398
21	Manuel	370
22	Albert	354
23	Henry	330
24	Walter	327
25	Ralph	317
26	Harry	293
27	Eugene	279
28	Fred	258
29	Ernest	249
29	Roy	249
31	Alfred	237
32	Bill	224
32	Louis	224
34	Stanley	222
35	Howard	218
36	Norman	205
37	Daniel	193
38	Jose	192
39	Lawrence	180
40	Earl	171
41	Tony	170
42	Carl	164
43	Bob	156
43	Gerald	156
43	Jesus	156
46	Peter	152
47	Herbert	148
47	Ray	148
49	Leonard	147
50	Clarence	140