Name Yearbook

Top baby names in District of Columbia, 1922

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	347
2	Margaret	163
3	Dorothy	150
4	Helen	127
5	Ruth	93
6	Frances	88
7	Elizabeth	84
8	Doris	81
9	Mildred	76
10	Catherine	75
10	Evelyn	75
12	Betty	73
13	Virginia	67
14	Jean	61
15	Alice	52
16	Anna	44
17	Audrey	39
18	Louise	38
18	Marie	38
20	Bernice	36
20	Gloria	36
22	Edith	33
23	Gladys	32
24	Ann	30
24	Jane	30
26	Lillian	29
26	Lois	29
26	Thelma	29
29	Anne	28
29	Barbara	28
29	June	28
29	Nancy	28
33	Ethel	27
33	Patricia	27
35	Marjorie	26
35	Norma	26
37	Eleanor	25
37	Katherine	25
37	Shirley	25
40	Marion	23
41	Florence	22
41	Jeanne	22
43	Grace	21
43	Josephine	21
43	Marguerite	21
43	Vivian	21
47	Geraldine	20
47	Ida	20
47	Rose	20
50	Edna	19

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	288
2	John	271
3	James	253
4	Robert	187
5	Charles	141
6	Joseph	125
7	George	121
8	Richard	94
9	Edward	93
10	Thomas	77
11	Paul	52
11	Raymond	52
13	Harry	48
14	Frank	47
15	Francis	44
16	Harold	42
17	Arthur	37
18	Albert	35
18	Walter	35
20	Donald	33
21	David	32
21	Lawrence	32
23	Ernest	31
24	Henry	28
25	Jack	27
25	Louis	27
25	Ralph	27
28	Earl	26
29	Eugene	25
30	Daniel	24
30	Frederick	24
30	Kenneth	24
33	Samuel	23
34	Herbert	22
34	Norman	22
34	Stanley	22
37	Clarence	20
37	Howard	20
39	Bernard	19
40	Melvin	18
41	Alfred	17
41	Leroy	17
43	Carl	16
43	Edwin	16
45	Lloyd	15
45	Milton	15
47	Phillip	14
47	Theodore	14
49	Leonard	13
49	Roy	13