Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Delaware, 1937

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	98
2	Barbara	79
3	Patricia	56
4	Joan	50
5	Betty	49
6	Doris	37
6	Dorothy	37
6	Nancy	37
9	Janet	34
9	Margaret	34
11	Shirley	33
12	Phyllis	32
13	Ruth	29
14	Helen	25
15	Ann	24
15	Elizabeth	24
15	Frances	24
18	Virginia	21
19	Carol	18
19	Carolyn	18
19	Joanne	18
22	Catherine	17
23	Eleanor	16
23	Joyce	16
25	Alice	15
25	Janice	15
25	Jean	15
28	Irene	14
28	Norma	14
30	Ellen	13
30	Jane	13
30	Marie	13
33	Charlotte	12
33	Dolores	12
33	Evelyn	12
33	Loretta	12
37	Elaine	11
37	Ethel	11
37	Geraldine	11
37	Sandra	11
41	Anna	10
41	Beverly	10
41	Lorraine	10
41	Marlene	10
45	Arlene	9
45	Bernice	9
45	Edna	9
45	Kay	9
45	Louise	9
45	Peggy	9

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	144
2	Robert	137
3	John	128
4	James	121
5	Charles	90
6	Donald	73
7	Richard	71
8	George	61
9	Joseph	59
10	Edward	49
11	David	39
12	Paul	33
12	Ronald	33
12	Thomas	33
15	Harry	27
16	Raymond	25
17	Francis	23
18	Walter	21
19	Ralph	17
20	Frank	16
20	Gerald	16
22	Howard	15
22	Jack	15
24	Anthony	14
24	Carl	14
24	Frederick	14
24	Henry	14
28	Arthur	12
28	Eugene	12
28	Kenneth	12
28	Lawrence	12
28	Wayne	12
33	Allen	11
33	Earl	11
33	Franklin	11
33	Louis	11
33	Peter	11
33	Willard	11
39	Daniel	10
39	Harold	10
39	Melvin	10
39	Michael	10
43	Alfred	9
43	Clarence	9
43	Philip	9
46	Bruce	8
46	Ernest	8
46	Horace	8
46	Leroy	8
46	Samuel	8