Name Yearbook

Top baby names in District of Columbia, 1918

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	247
2	Dorothy	158
3	Margaret	146
4	Helen	137
5	Ruth	104
6	Elizabeth	91
7	Frances	80
8	Virginia	64
9	Evelyn	63
10	Mildred	58
11	Doris	55
12	Alice	52
13	Florence	43
14	Anna	42
14	Marie	42
16	Catherine	41
16	Eleanor	41
18	Thelma	39
19	Louise	37
20	Edith	34
20	Gertrude	34
22	Betty	31
22	Jane	31
24	Lillian	30
25	Barbara	29
25	Marion	29
27	Marjorie	28
28	Martha	26
29	Rose	25
30	Jean	24
31	Marguerite	23
32	Edna	22
32	Ethel	22
32	June	22
32	Pauline	22
36	Ann	21
36	Anne	21
36	Charlotte	21
39	Audrey	20
39	Ellen	20
39	Grace	20
39	Katherine	20
39	Marian	20
44	Bernice	19
44	Esther	19
44	Lorraine	19
44	Rita	19
48	Agnes	17
48	Beatrice	17
50	Josephine	16

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	238
2	John	237
3	James	188
4	Robert	152
5	Charles	147
6	Joseph	111
7	George	97
8	Richard	72
9	Edward	57
10	Thomas	55
11	Francis	51
12	Harry	50
13	Frank	46
14	Paul	40
15	Bernard	36
16	Raymond	35
16	Walter	35
18	Arthur	34
18	Donald	34
18	Henry	34
18	Ralph	34
22	Albert	33
22	David	33
24	Louis	30
25	Ernest	28
25	Jack	28
27	Lawrence	23
27	Norman	23
29	Harold	22
30	Herbert	21
30	Howard	21
32	Frederick	18
33	Carl	17
33	Clarence	17
33	Leonard	17
36	Earl	16
36	Kenneth	16
36	Roy	16
36	Samuel	16
40	Daniel	15
40	Edwin	15
40	Melvin	15
40	Milton	15
44	Benjamin	14
44	Eugene	14
44	Maurice	14
47	Irving	13
47	Lewis	13
49	Leo	12
49	Martin	12