Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Delaware, 1924

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	132
2	Dorothy	76
3	Elizabeth	63
4	Helen	59
5	Betty	51
6	Margaret	47
7	Ruth	44
8	Frances	43
9	Doris	39
10	Jean	33
10	Marie	33
12	Virginia	32
13	Anna	30
14	Evelyn	29
14	Florence	29
16	Catherine	28
16	Mildred	28
18	Jane	27
19	Eleanor	23
19	Irene	23
21	Pauline	22
22	Josephine	21
23	Barbara	20
24	Alice	19
25	Edith	17
25	Rose	17
27	Ann	16
27	Ida	16
27	Louise	16
27	Marian	16
31	Lillian	15
32	Emma	14
32	Jeannette	14
34	Beatrice	13
34	Marjorie	13
34	Pearl	13
34	Sarah	13
34	Thelma	13
39	Blanche	12
39	Grace	12
39	Katherine	12
42	Anne	11
42	Bertha	11
42	Ethel	11
42	Gladys	11
42	Julia	11
42	Kathryn	11
42	Martha	11
49	Edna	10
49	Gertrude	10

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	138
2	John	126
3	James	96
4	Robert	87
5	Charles	81
6	Joseph	76
7	George	65
8	Edward	48
9	Thomas	45
10	Richard	37
11	Paul	33
12	Frank	30
13	Walter	29
14	Donald	27
15	Francis	25
15	Ralph	25
17	Howard	24
18	Norman	22
19	Clarence	21
19	Harry	21
21	Albert	20
22	Samuel	19
23	David	17
24	Harold	16
24	Louis	16
26	Willard	15
27	Henry	14
27	Raymond	14
27	Stanley	14
30	Eugene	12
30	Lewis	12
32	Alfred	11
32	Elmer	11
32	Leon	11
35	Anthony	10
35	Fred	10
35	Lawrence	10
35	Philip	10
35	Preston	10
40	Andrew	9
40	Earl	9
40	Ernest	9
43	Franklin	8
43	Russell	8
45	Bernard	7
45	Carl	7
45	Harvey	7
45	Herbert	7
45	Oliver	7
45	Roland	7