Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Delaware, 1940

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	115
2	Barbara	81
3	Patricia	80
4	Margaret	50
5	Joyce	49
6	Nancy	46
7	Joan	42
8	Dorothy	38
9	Elizabeth	34
10	Betty	33
11	Carolyn	32
12	Shirley	30
13	Carol	29
14	Virginia	28
15	Janet	26
15	Jean	26
15	Judith	26
18	Sandra	25
19	Doris	24
19	Ruth	24
21	Ann	23
21	Charlotte	23
21	Joanne	23
24	Marie	22
25	Geraldine	21
26	Phyllis	20
27	Frances	18
27	Helen	18
27	Jane	18
30	Catherine	17
30	Kathleen	17
30	Lois	17
33	Alice	16
34	Beverly	14
35	Anna	13
35	Eleanor	13
35	Janice	13
35	Linda	13
35	Rose	13
35	Susan	13
41	Diane	12
41	Gloria	12
41	Norma	12
44	Brenda	11
44	Dolores	11
44	Evelyn	11
47	Carole	10
47	Elaine	10
47	Sarah	10
47	Thelma	10

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	142
2	Robert	137
3	John	128
4	James	124
5	Charles	85
6	Richard	84
7	Joseph	67
8	George	59
9	Thomas	55
10	Donald	47
10	Ronald	47
12	David	42
13	Raymond	34
14	Edward	31
15	Kenneth	29
16	Harry	28
17	Frank	27
17	Paul	27
19	Francis	25
19	Walter	25
21	Daniel	23
21	Michael	23
23	Lawrence	22
24	Henry	19
25	Louis	17
25	Ralph	17
27	Anthony	16
27	Eugene	16
27	Howard	16
30	Albert	15
30	Norman	15
32	Harold	14
32	Wayne	14
34	Jack	13
34	Peter	13
36	Carl	12
36	Ernest	12
36	Roger	12
39	Gene	11
39	Gerald	11
39	Stephen	11
42	Arthur	10
42	Clarence	10
42	Harvey	10
45	Franklin	9
45	Fred	9
45	Frederick	9
45	Larry	9
45	Samuel	9
45	Theodore	9