Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Delaware, 1926

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	115
2	Betty	73
3	Margaret	65
4	Elizabeth	61
5	Doris	57
5	Helen	57
7	Dorothy	52
8	Ruth	43
9	Marie	38
10	Alice	33
10	Jean	33
12	Anna	32
13	Eleanor	28
14	Florence	27
14	Frances	27
16	Virginia	26
17	Catherine	25
17	Evelyn	25
19	Mildred	23
20	Gloria	22
21	Ann	21
21	Barbara	21
23	Elsie	19
23	Grace	19
23	Martha	19
26	Louise	18
27	Agnes	17
27	Pauline	17
27	Thelma	17
30	Edna	16
31	Irene	14
32	Anne	13
32	Esther	13
32	Sarah	13
35	Gladys	12
35	Jane	12
37	Ethel	11
37	Marian	11
37	Marion	11
40	Audrey	10
40	Beatrice	10
40	Edith	10
40	Lillian	10
40	Marjorie	10
40	Nancy	10
40	Phyllis	10
47	Carolyn	9
47	Emma	9
47	Hazel	9
47	Josephine	9

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	155
2	John	126
3	Robert	93
4	James	91
5	Joseph	76
6	Charles	75
7	George	58
8	Edward	51
9	Richard	37
10	Thomas	34
11	Francis	31
12	Paul	30
13	Frank	29
14	Donald	27
15	Harry	25
16	Harold	24
17	Clarence	22
18	Walter	21
19	Ralph	20
20	Albert	18
20	Raymond	18
22	Samuel	17
23	Alfred	15
23	David	15
23	Stanley	15
26	Earl	14
26	Louis	14
26	Norman	14
26	Willard	14
30	Harvey	13
31	Howard	12
31	Leon	12
33	Henry	11
34	Anthony	10
34	Arthur	10
34	Carl	10
34	Lawrence	10
38	Calvin	9
38	Daniel	9
38	Fred	9
38	Jack	9
38	Leroy	9
38	Lewis	9
44	Edwin	8
44	Ernest	8
44	Eugene	8
44	Floyd	8
44	Franklin	8
44	Gilbert	8
44	Lester	8