Name Yearbook

Top baby names in California, 1926

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,721
2	Betty	1,359
3	Barbara	1,306
4	Dorothy	975
5	Margaret	725
6	Helen	718
6	Patricia	718
8	Virginia	625
9	Ruth	585
10	Shirley	499
11	Gloria	495
12	Frances	440
13	Jean	419
14	Alice	393
15	Doris	366
16	Beverly	362
16	Marjorie	362
18	Lois	352
19	Evelyn	344
20	June	334
21	Marie	305
22	Dolores	303
23	Elizabeth	302
24	Maria	300
25	Norma	280
26	Josephine	263
27	Marilyn	261
28	Eleanor	259
29	Rose	254
30	Phyllis	250
31	Joyce	248
32	Irene	240
32	Lorraine	240
34	Nancy	236
35	Esther	229
35	Mildred	229
37	Lillian	225
38	Carmen	203
39	Martha	194
40	Florence	192
41	Louise	175
42	Marian	173
43	Jacqueline	171
44	Lucille	168
45	Joan	165
46	Grace	159
47	Anna	158
48	Geraldine	156
48	Pauline	156
50	Audrey	154

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,485
2	John	1,648
3	William	1,492
4	Richard	1,331
5	James	1,124
6	Donald	982
7	George	951
8	Charles	796
9	Frank	725
10	Jack	670
11	Edward	578
12	Raymond	480
13	Joe	436
14	David	433
15	Paul	428
16	Albert	419
17	Thomas	408
18	Joseph	407
19	Arthur	403
20	Kenneth	391
21	Walter	360
22	Harold	346
23	Henry	338
24	Manuel	319
25	Ralph	303
26	Eugene	299
27	Fred	276
28	Harry	266
29	Ernest	249
30	Louis	246
31	Bill	218
32	Stanley	216
33	Roy	215
34	Jose	209
35	Alfred	208
35	Bob	208
37	Norman	204
38	Howard	196
39	Peter	194
40	Gerald	184
40	Lawrence	184
42	Daniel	182
43	Carl	180
44	Don	173
45	Jesus	170
46	Earl	162
47	Tony	160
48	Ronald	157
49	Gordon	151
50	Leonard	150