Name Yearbook

Top baby names in District of Columbia, 1919

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	274
2	Dorothy	162
2	Margaret	162
4	Helen	129
5	Elizabeth	112
6	Frances	87
7	Ruth	86
8	Evelyn	69
9	Virginia	66
10	Mildred	60
11	Doris	52
12	Catherine	46
13	Alice	43
14	Edith	42
15	Marion	40
16	Eleanor	38
16	Marie	38
16	Thelma	38
19	Anna	36
20	Bernice	35
20	Lillian	35
22	Jean	33
23	Betty	32
24	Barbara	31
24	Gladys	31
26	Florence	30
26	Louise	30
28	Ellen	27
28	Vivian	27
30	Ethel	26
31	Beatrice	25
32	Charlotte	24
32	Gertrude	24
34	Anne	22
34	Lorraine	22
36	Josephine	21
36	Martha	21
38	Jane	20
38	Katherine	20
40	Elsie	19
40	Esther	19
40	Lucille	19
40	Marjorie	19
44	Ann	18
44	Grace	18
44	Nancy	18
47	Rose	17
47	Sylvia	17
49	Annie	16
49	Audrey	16

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	241
2	John	223
3	James	181
4	Robert	170
5	Charles	135
6	George	124
7	Joseph	117
8	Edward	86
9	Thomas	72
10	Richard	64
11	Raymond	50
12	Francis	45
13	Harry	43
14	Walter	42
15	Frank	37
16	Paul	34
17	Louis	33
18	Albert	32
18	Arthur	32
20	Bernard	31
21	Jack	30
22	Donald	29
23	Ralph	28
24	Clarence	27
24	Earl	27
24	Samuel	27
27	Henry	26
28	David	25
29	Melvin	24
30	Milton	19
31	Alfred	18
31	Frederick	18
33	Carl	17
33	Edwin	17
33	Wilbur	17
36	Benjamin	16
37	Howard	15
37	Kenneth	15
39	Daniel	14
39	Ernest	14
39	Harold	14
39	Norman	14
43	Leroy	13
43	Lewis	13
43	Philip	13
46	Herbert	12
46	Leonard	12
46	Michael	12
49	Andrew	11
49	Sidney	11