Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in California, 1927

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,816
2	Barbara	1,410
3	Betty	1,333
4	Dorothy	919
5	Patricia	802
6	Helen	683
7	Margaret	613
8	Shirley	589
9	Virginia	576
10	Gloria	513
11	Ruth	500
12	Beverly	486
13	Frances	436
14	Alice	417
15	Jean	403
16	Dolores	379
17	Doris	375
18	Evelyn	349
19	Lois	347
20	Maria	342
21	Marjorie	319
22	Marilyn	302
23	Phyllis	285
24	Elizabeth	279
24	Josephine	279
26	Lorraine	277
27	Joyce	274
28	Marie	270
29	June	268
30	Eleanor	265
30	Norma	265
32	Nancy	261
32	Rose	261
34	Esther	259
35	Mildred	251
36	Irene	231
37	Joan	215
38	Carmen	212
39	Florence	204
40	Jacqueline	181
41	Lucille	175
42	Anna	172
42	Marian	172
44	Lillian	169
45	Marion	166
46	Louise	161
47	Lupe	159
48	Audrey	158
48	Geraldine	158
50	Grace	154

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,490
2	John	1,615
3	William	1,465
4	Richard	1,260
5	James	1,171
6	Donald	1,047
7	George	940
8	Charles	810
9	Frank	735
10	Jack	712
11	Edward	543
12	Raymond	505
13	David	493
13	Joe	493
15	Joseph	448
16	Paul	421
17	Kenneth	420
18	Thomas	402
19	Harold	374
20	Arthur	372
21	Henry	364
22	Albert	360
23	Manuel	352
24	Walter	318
25	Harry	311
25	Ralph	311
27	Eugene	308
28	Jose	287
29	Fred	255
30	Louis	252
31	Bill	243
32	Stanley	242
33	Ernest	231
34	Norman	230
35	Bob	221
36	Daniel	218
36	Roy	218
38	Gerald	206
39	Howard	202
40	Tony	201
41	Alfred	199
42	Lawrence	197
43	Ronald	187
44	Don	178
45	Earl	166
46	Jesus	164
47	Peter	161
48	Carl	152
48	Gilbert	152
50	Leonard	150