Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Delaware, 1936

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	102
2	Barbara	76
3	Joan	57
4	Shirley	55
5	Patricia	51
6	Betty	49
7	Dorothy	39
7	Margaret	39
9	Phyllis	32
10	Nancy	30
11	Helen	26
12	Carolyn	22
12	Janet	22
14	Alice	21
15	Doris	20
15	Jean	20
15	Marie	20
18	Dolores	19
18	Elizabeth	19
18	Virginia	19
21	Ann	17
22	Ruth	16
23	Catherine	15
23	Grace	15
23	Lois	15
26	Charlotte	14
26	Eleanor	14
28	Carol	13
28	Frances	13
28	Janice	13
28	Joyce	13
28	Norma	13
33	Elaine	11
33	Jeanette	11
33	Loretta	11
33	Martha	11
37	Geraldine	10
37	Jacqueline	10
37	Jane	10
37	Joanne	10
37	Theresa	10
42	Anna	9
42	Edna	9
42	Ellen	9
42	Esther	9
42	Gladys	9
42	Kathryn	9
42	Louise	9
42	Patsy	9
42	Sandra	9

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	119
2	John	118
3	James	112
4	William	107
5	Richard	63
6	Charles	60
7	Donald	52
8	Joseph	48
9	Thomas	47
10	George	44
11	Edward	33
12	Paul	30
13	David	29
14	Frank	20
15	Francis	19
16	Raymond	18
17	Lawrence	17
18	Albert	16
18	Ralph	16
18	Ronald	16
18	Walter	16
22	Earl	15
22	Harry	15
22	Kenneth	15
22	Samuel	15
26	Fred	14
26	Gerald	14
28	Anthony	12
28	Daniel	12
28	Eugene	12
28	Franklin	12
28	Howard	12
28	Roger	12
34	Harold	11
34	Henry	11
34	Louis	11
37	Alfred	9
37	Herbert	9
37	Melvin	9
40	Carl	8
40	Clarence	8
40	Frederick	8
40	Leonard	8
40	Norman	8
45	Edgar	7
45	Ernest	7
45	Gary	7
45	Herman	7
45	Leroy	7
45	Lewis	7