Name Yearbook

Top baby names in District of Columbia, 1917

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	234
2	Dorothy	154
3	Margaret	124
4	Helen	121
5	Frances	80
6	Elizabeth	75
7	Ruth	65
8	Catherine	59
9	Evelyn	57
10	Mildred	56
11	Alice	51
12	Virginia	50
13	Marie	41
14	Doris	40
14	Lillian	40
16	Louise	36
17	Anna	34
18	Ethel	33
19	Thelma	32
20	Eleanor	30
21	Edith	29
22	Bernice	27
23	Edna	25
23	Florence	25
23	Rose	25
26	Gertrude	23
27	Jean	22
27	Martha	22
29	Bertha	21
29	Marion	21
29	Marjorie	21
32	Gladys	19
32	Grace	19
34	Audrey	18
34	Esther	18
36	Ann	17
36	Jane	17
36	Katherine	17
36	Sarah	17
40	Agnes	16
40	Beatrice	16
40	Josephine	16
40	Marian	16
40	Pearl	16
40	Rita	16
46	Betty	15
46	Lucille	15
48	Anne	14
48	Elsie	14
48	Nancy	14

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	195
2	William	187
3	James	176
4	Robert	127
5	Charles	99
6	Joseph	94
7	George	90
8	Thomas	77
9	Edward	54
9	Richard	54
11	Raymond	47
12	Harry	42
13	Walter	32
14	Frank	30
14	Henry	30
14	Paul	30
17	Albert	27
17	Donald	27
17	Francis	27
20	Milton	23
21	Bernard	22
21	Frederick	22
23	Ernest	19
23	Harold	19
23	Norman	19
26	Jack	18
26	Louis	18
26	Melvin	18
26	Ralph	18
30	David	17
30	Herbert	17
30	Lawrence	17
33	Arthur	16
33	Carl	16
33	Clarence	16
33	Daniel	16
33	Eugene	16
33	Samuel	16
39	Fred	15
40	Leonard	14
40	Leroy	14
42	Alfred	12
42	Kenneth	12
42	Theodore	12
45	Benjamin	11
45	Earl	11
47	Andrew	10
47	Franklin	10
47	Leon	10
47	Lloyd	10