Name Yearbook

Top baby names in District of Columbia, 1925

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	346
2	Margaret	141
3	Dorothy	139
4	Helen	136
5	Betty	116
6	Elizabeth	100
7	Ruth	93
8	Doris	82
9	Jean	74
10	Gloria	68
11	Frances	62
12	Evelyn	60
13	Catherine	57
14	Thelma	53
15	Alice	49
15	Patricia	49
15	Virginia	49
18	Marie	45
18	Mildred	45
20	Barbara	44
21	Shirley	42
22	Anna	40
23	Louise	39
24	Rose	34
25	Florence	33
25	Marjorie	33
27	June	32
28	Eleanor	31
28	Jane	31
28	Lillian	31
31	Bernice	30
31	Ethel	30
33	Edith	29
34	Martha	28
35	Ann	27
35	Nancy	27
37	Grace	26
38	Juanita	25
38	Marion	25
40	Jeanne	24
40	Katherine	24
40	Lois	24
43	Anne	23
43	Audrey	23
43	Gertrude	23
43	Lorraine	23
43	Norma	23
48	Edna	21
49	Esther	20
49	Marian	20

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	291
2	John	287
3	Robert	256
4	James	238
5	Joseph	155
6	Charles	153
7	George	149
8	Richard	102
9	Thomas	92
10	Edward	82
11	Donald	51
12	Paul	47
13	Raymond	46
14	Francis	45
15	David	44
16	Albert	41
16	Frank	41
18	Jack	40
19	Ralph	39
20	Harry	37
21	Walter	33
22	Arthur	32
22	Clarence	32
24	Eugene	29
24	Henry	29
26	Kenneth	28
27	Bernard	27
27	Louis	27
29	Samuel	26
30	Calvin	25
30	Harold	25
32	Melvin	24
33	Daniel	23
33	Herbert	23
33	Stanley	23
36	Earl	22
36	Ernest	22
36	Lawrence	22
39	Norman	21
40	Frederick	20
40	Leonard	20
42	Howard	19
43	Carl	17
43	Theodore	17
45	Fred	16
45	Leroy	16
45	Milton	16
48	Alfred	15
48	Andrew	15
48	Anthony	15