Name Yearbook

Top baby names in California, 1932

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Barbara	1,656
2	Mary	1,498
3	Patricia	1,009
4	Betty	876
5	Joan	779
6	Shirley	607
7	Dorothy	606
8	Beverly	598
9	Margaret	540
10	Marilyn	518
11	Helen	485
12	Gloria	482
13	Nancy	479
14	Dolores	435
15	Virginia	426
16	Joyce	406
17	Carol	367
18	Alice	354
19	Frances	316
20	Donna	313
21	Ruth	307
22	Jean	305
23	Lois	295
24	Doris	254
25	Joanne	250
26	Norma	236
27	Janet	234
28	Evelyn	229
29	Diane	228
30	Eleanor	224
30	Sally	224
32	Marjorie	214
33	Marlene	213
34	June	211
35	Phyllis	210
35	Rose	210
37	Irene	204
38	Elizabeth	203
39	Carmen	201
39	Josephine	201
39	Marie	201
42	Ann	197
43	Esther	186
44	Lorraine	181
45	Carolyn	180
46	Geraldine	173
47	Maria	168
48	Jacqueline	160
49	Anita	155
50	Louise	145

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,308
2	John	1,622
3	Richard	1,575
4	William	1,242
5	James	1,197
6	Donald	1,191
7	Charles	848
8	George	708
9	Ronald	649
10	David	631
11	Frank	628
12	Jack	519
13	Edward	510
14	Kenneth	448
15	Joe	445
16	Raymond	428
17	Thomas	413
18	Paul	343
19	Joseph	337
20	Albert	295
21	Don	294
22	Arthur	281
23	Manuel	277
24	Ralph	270
25	Harold	263
26	Henry	262
27	Gerald	260
28	Bill	251
29	Bob	250
30	Jerry	249
31	Walter	241
32	Eugene	228
32	Fred	228
34	Norman	212
35	Gilbert	206
36	Daniel	205
37	Ernest	189
38	Harry	186
38	Louis	186
40	Stanley	183
41	Lawrence	175
42	Carl	174
43	Roy	171
44	Jose	169
45	Alfred	168
46	Ray	162
47	Peter	152
48	Leonard	146
49	Dick	145
50	Jim	143