Name Yearbook

Top baby names in District of Columbia, 1921

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	362
2	Dorothy	157
3	Margaret	146
4	Helen	95
5	Elizabeth	82
6	Doris	79
6	Frances	79
6	Mildred	79
9	Evelyn	70
10	Ruth	68
11	Catherine	63
12	Louise	55
13	Virginia	51
14	Anna	49
15	Thelma	48
16	Betty	45
17	Lillian	44
18	Alice	42
19	Marjorie	39
20	Eleanor	36
21	Florence	34
21	Gladys	34
21	Martha	34
24	Ethel	33
25	Jean	31
26	Rose	30
27	Barbara	29
27	Edith	29
27	Grace	29
30	Gertrude	28
30	Jane	28
32	Katherine	26
33	Marie	25
33	Marion	25
33	Nancy	25
36	Ann	24
37	Audrey	21
37	Bernice	21
39	Agnes	20
39	Charlotte	20
39	Juanita	20
39	Patricia	20
43	Anne	19
43	Gloria	19
43	Josephine	19
43	Shirley	19
47	Edna	18
47	Irene	18
47	June	18
47	Lucille	18

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	284
2	John	240
3	James	239
4	Robert	190
5	Charles	140
6	Joseph	139
7	George	129
8	Edward	78
9	Thomas	73
10	Richard	60
11	Raymond	53
12	Francis	50
13	Walter	48
14	Paul	46
15	Harry	45
16	David	44
17	Warren	41
18	Frank	40
19	Bernard	38
20	Albert	36
21	Henry	34
22	Herbert	32
22	Ralph	32
24	Donald	30
24	Louis	30
26	Howard	28
27	Clarence	27
27	Norman	27
29	Earl	26
29	Melvin	26
31	Arthur	25
31	Carl	25
31	Samuel	25
34	Harold	24
34	Jack	24
36	Ernest	23
36	Lawrence	23
38	Eugene	22
38	Frederick	22
40	Daniel	21
41	Milton	19
42	Alfred	17
43	Fred	16
43	Russell	16
45	Theodore	15
46	Leonard	14
46	Leroy	14
48	Benjamin	12
48	Edwin	12
48	Vincent	12