Name Yearbook

Top baby names in District of Columbia, 1927

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	348
2	Dorothy	143
3	Betty	139
4	Margaret	130
5	Helen	118
6	Barbara	92
6	Jean	92
8	Elizabeth	90
9	Doris	79
10	Patricia	70
10	Ruth	70
12	Frances	67
13	Shirley	60
14	Virginia	55
15	Gloria	54
16	Mildred	52
17	Catherine	50
18	Alice	49
19	Marie	43
20	Evelyn	39
21	Marjorie	38
22	Thelma	35
23	Anna	32
23	Audrey	32
23	Jeanne	32
23	Lillian	32
23	Lois	32
28	Louise	31
28	Rose	31
30	Lorraine	30
31	Anne	29
31	Gladys	29
31	Vivian	29
34	June	28
34	Nancy	28
36	Ethel	27
37	Edith	26
37	Eleanor	26
39	Dolores	25
39	Jane	25
41	Joan	23
41	Phyllis	23
43	Ann	22
43	Bernice	22
43	Florence	22
46	Katherine	21
47	Marion	20
48	Beverly	19
48	Elaine	19
50	Edna	18

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	309
2	William	290
3	Robert	245
4	James	241
5	Charles	134
6	George	119
7	Richard	118
8	Joseph	116
9	Thomas	91
10	Edward	82
11	Raymond	69
12	Donald	64
13	Paul	57
14	David	50
15	Francis	47
16	Frank	46
16	Harry	46
18	Walter	44
19	Ralph	42
20	Jack	38
21	Albert	36
22	Bernard	35
22	Henry	35
24	Clarence	34
25	Arthur	32
26	Lawrence	31
26	Louis	31
28	Earl	30
29	Harold	28
30	Herbert	27
30	Melvin	27
32	Ernest	26
32	Eugene	26
34	Stanley	25
35	Howard	23
36	Milton	20
36	Samuel	20
38	Daniel	19
38	Norman	19
40	Alvin	18
40	Carl	18
40	Frederick	18
40	Gerald	18
40	Leroy	18
40	Philip	18
46	Alfred	17
46	Theodore	17
48	Andrew	16
48	Kenneth	16
48	Leon	16