Name Yearbook

Top baby names in District of Columbia, 1915

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	195
2	Dorothy	121
3	Helen	102
4	Margaret	92
5	Elizabeth	81
6	Ruth	68
7	Evelyn	56
8	Frances	51
8	Virginia	51
10	Mildred	47
11	Catherine	45
12	Louise	44
13	Eleanor	36
14	Thelma	34
15	Anna	33
16	Bernice	30
16	Doris	30
16	Lillian	30
16	Marie	30
20	Edith	29
20	Ethel	29
20	Florence	29
20	Grace	29
24	Alice	26
25	Gertrude	24
26	Marion	21
27	Gladys	20
27	Rose	20
29	Rita	19
30	Esther	18
31	Jane	17
31	Martha	17
33	Anne	16
34	Agnes	15
34	Betty	15
34	Edna	15
34	Marguerite	15
34	Marjorie	15
39	Jean	14
39	Sylvia	14
41	Ann	13
41	Naomi	13
41	Pauline	13
41	Sarah	13
45	Charlotte	12
45	Elsie	12
45	Ida	12
45	Josephine	12
45	Julia	12
45	Miriam	12

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	152
2	William	142
3	James	130
4	Charles	92
5	George	82
5	Joseph	82
7	Robert	78
8	Thomas	62
9	Richard	52
10	Frank	46
11	Edward	44
12	Walter	38
13	Francis	37
14	Raymond	32
15	Harry	29
16	Albert	28
16	Paul	28
18	Frederick	23
18	Henry	23
20	Bernard	22
21	Alfred	20
22	Arthur	19
23	Eugene	17
24	Ralph	16
24	Samuel	16
26	Louis	15
27	Ernest	14
28	Lawrence	13
28	Melvin	13
30	Herbert	12
30	Norman	12
32	Carl	11
32	Daniel	11
32	Earl	11
32	Edgar	11
32	Harold	11
32	Leonard	11
32	Michael	11
32	Milton	11
32	Theodore	11
41	Clarence	10
41	Leroy	10
41	Philip	10
41	Roy	10
45	David	9
45	Irving	9
45	Warren	9
48	Edwin	8
48	Howard	8
48	Lewis	8