Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in California, 1934

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,590
2	Barbara	1,479
3	Patricia	1,018
4	Shirley	1,006
5	Joan	731
6	Betty	703
7	Carol	559
8	Nancy	554
9	Dorothy	516
10	Margaret	483
11	Helen	481
12	Beverly	476
13	Marilyn	433
14	Gloria	420
15	Virginia	418
16	Donna	400
17	Joyce	377
18	Dolores	359
19	Janet	343
20	Jean	328
21	Ruth	316
22	Diane	302
23	Alice	297
24	Frances	284
25	Joanne	268
26	Sally	250
27	Arlene	238
28	Ann	235
29	Carolyn	227
29	Elizabeth	227
31	Lois	222
32	Doris	218
33	Norma	210
34	Evelyn	209
35	Irene	206
36	Marjorie	199
37	Marlene	196
38	Eleanor	194
39	Phyllis	193
40	Lorraine	183
41	Darlene	177
42	Marie	176
43	Josephine	172
44	June	167
45	Louise	165
46	Carmen	162
47	Joann	160
48	Esther	158
48	Pat	158
50	Rose	156

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,199
2	Richard	1,775
3	John	1,479
4	James	1,267
5	William	1,218
6	Donald	1,182
7	Charles	748
8	Ronald	720
9	George	687
10	David	647
11	Frank	606
12	Jack	486
13	Edward	434
14	Paul	411
15	Joe	407
16	Thomas	404
17	Raymond	388
18	Kenneth	385
19	Don	349
20	Joseph	333
21	Gary	287
22	Fred	284
22	Jerry	284
24	Arthur	280
25	Bill	267
26	Albert	266
27	Gerald	261
28	Manuel	258
29	Ralph	254
30	Bob	249
31	Norman	238
32	Walter	235
33	Henry	233
34	Harold	231
35	Daniel	229
36	Larry	223
37	Michael	215
38	Roger	207
39	Jim	201
40	Carl	199
40	Lawrence	199
40	Peter	199
43	Louis	195
44	Harry	193
45	Eugene	190
46	Ernest	184
47	Ray	176
48	Gilbert	175
49	Alfred	164
50	Douglas	154