Name Yearbook

Top baby names in District of Columbia, 1912

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	122
2	Dorothy	88
3	Helen	59
3	Margaret	59
5	Elizabeth	56
6	Catherine	50
7	Evelyn	40
8	Virginia	37
9	Ruth	35
10	Lillian	31
10	Mildred	31
12	Frances	26
12	Thelma	26
14	Anna	25
15	Ethel	22
15	Louise	22
15	Marie	22
18	Alice	20
18	Gladys	20
20	Edna	18
21	Eleanor	16
21	Florence	16
23	Jean	15
24	Beatrice	14
24	Edith	14
24	Lucille	14
24	Marion	14
28	Marjorie	13
29	Bernice	12
29	Viola	12
31	Hazel	11
31	Katherine	11
31	Rose	11
34	Agnes	10
34	Annie	10
34	Bertha	10
34	Clara	10
34	Gertrude	10
34	Grace	10
40	Ann	9
40	Julia	9
40	Myrtle	9
43	Audrey	8
43	Cora	8
43	Elsie	8
43	Emma	8
43	Josephine	8
43	Laura	8
43	Marguerite	8
43	Pauline	8

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	105
2	John	100
3	James	95
4	Charles	66
5	Robert	56
6	George	51
7	Joseph	42
8	Edward	37
9	Thomas	27
10	Richard	23
11	Raymond	21
12	Harry	19
13	David	16
13	Frank	16
13	Henry	16
13	Louis	16
13	Walter	16
18	Paul	15
18	Ralph	15
18	Samuel	15
21	Arthur	14
21	Howard	14
21	Lawrence	14
24	Francis	13
25	Albert	12
26	Eugene	11
26	Milton	11
28	Alfred	10
28	Carl	10
28	Ernest	10
28	Philip	10
32	Clarence	9
32	Frederick	9
32	Leonard	9
35	Bernard	8
35	Daniel	8
35	Fred	8
35	Herbert	8
39	Benjamin	7
39	Kenneth	7
39	Leroy	7
39	Nathaniel	7
39	Stanley	7
39	Theodore	7
45	Donald	6
45	Harold	6
45	Herman	6
45	Lewis	6
49	Alvin	5
49	Andrew	5