Name Yearbook

Top baby names in District of Columbia, 1920

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	255
2	Dorothy	179
3	Margaret	154
4	Helen	128
5	Ruth	93
6	Elizabeth	92
7	Mildred	81
8	Doris	80
9	Catherine	76
10	Evelyn	66
10	Frances	66
12	Virginia	61
13	Marie	60
14	Alice	48
15	Louise	47
16	Lillian	43
17	Marjorie	41
17	Thelma	41
19	Betty	39
19	Eleanor	39
21	Lois	33
22	Edith	32
22	Gladys	32
22	Jean	32
25	Barbara	30
26	Anna	29
26	Charlotte	29
26	Jane	29
26	June	29
30	Florence	28
30	Grace	28
32	Marion	27
33	Edna	26
34	Anne	25
34	Lucille	25
36	Bernice	24
36	Katherine	24
38	Shirley	23
39	Ethel	22
39	Pauline	22
39	Rita	22
42	Vivian	21
43	Beatrice	20
43	Elsie	20
43	Gertrude	20
43	Martha	20
47	Agnes	19
47	Josephine	19
47	Marguerite	19
47	Rose	19

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	286
2	John	248
3	James	223
4	Robert	189
5	George	132
6	Charles	130
7	Joseph	124
8	Richard	87
8	Thomas	87
10	Edward	64
11	Raymond	50
12	Frank	45
12	Harry	45
14	Francis	42
14	Paul	42
16	Albert	36
17	Henry	35
18	Bernard	34
18	Donald	34
20	Walter	33
21	Jack	31
22	Ernest	30
22	Frederick	30
24	Louis	28
25	Ralph	27
25	Warren	27
27	Arthur	26
28	David	25
29	Melvin	24
30	Clarence	23
30	Norman	23
32	Harold	21
32	Samuel	21
34	Daniel	19
35	Benjamin	18
35	Howard	18
37	Leonard	17
37	Milton	17
39	Eugene	16
39	Leon	16
39	Leroy	16
39	Lloyd	16
39	Theodore	16
44	Alfred	15
44	Earl	15
44	Philip	15
47	Carl	14
47	Edwin	14
47	Fred	14
50	Lawrence	13