Name Yearbook

Top baby names in California, 1931

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,626
2	Barbara	1,480
3	Betty	1,053
4	Patricia	928
5	Dorothy	723
6	Joan	690
7	Shirley	674
8	Marilyn	601
9	Beverly	580
10	Margaret	551
11	Gloria	526
12	Virginia	517
13	Helen	505
14	Dolores	485
14	Nancy	485
16	Joyce	445
17	Ruth	375
18	Alice	337
19	Frances	332
20	Jean	322
21	Lois	317
22	Carol	297
23	Donna	287
24	Doris	286
25	Norma	282
26	Evelyn	259
27	Maria	255
28	Phyllis	243
29	Joanne	237
30	Marjorie	236
31	Elizabeth	223
32	Josephine	222
33	Esther	221
34	Eleanor	219
35	Janet	218
35	June	218
37	Marie	212
38	Rose	205
39	Ann	198
39	Irene	198
41	Marlene	197
42	Carmen	189
42	Sally	189
44	Lorraine	188
44	Louise	188
46	Jacqueline	185
47	Geraldine	171
48	Lupe	150
48	Martha	150
50	Carolyn	147

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,417
2	Richard	1,604
3	John	1,546
4	William	1,318
5	Donald	1,287
6	James	1,182
7	Charles	825
8	George	800
9	Jack	639
10	David	637
11	Frank	584
12	Edward	478
13	Ronald	456
14	Thomas	439
15	Raymond	424
16	Joe	413
17	Joseph	407
18	Kenneth	403
19	Paul	368
20	Albert	324
21	Manuel	312
22	Henry	305
23	Arthur	299
24	Don	285
25	Harold	270
25	Ralph	270
27	Fred	255
28	Bill	254
29	Walter	242
30	Norman	241
31	Gerald	239
32	Eugene	235
33	Bob	228
34	Jerry	221
35	Harry	218
36	Jose	201
37	Lawrence	200
38	Stanley	198
39	Daniel	196
40	Louis	193
41	Ernest	190
42	Peter	182
43	Alfred	181
44	Howard	178
45	Roy	169
46	Gilbert	162
47	Ray	161
48	Carl	160
49	Tony	157
50	Douglas	136