Name Yearbook

Top baby names in District of Columbia, 1928

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	335
2	Betty	154
3	Margaret	134
4	Dorothy	118
5	Doris	111
6	Helen	95
7	Jean	86
8	Barbara	77
9	Patricia	76
10	Elizabeth	75
11	Shirley	72
12	Frances	68
13	Ruth	59
14	Gloria	55
15	Evelyn	54
16	Catherine	46
17	Nancy	41
18	Alice	40
18	Joan	40
18	Virginia	40
21	Thelma	37
22	Marie	36
23	June	35
23	Louise	35
25	Dolores	34
26	Marion	30
26	Mildred	30
28	Audrey	28
28	Rose	28
30	Anne	27
30	Lillian	27
30	Phyllis	27
33	Bernice	26
33	Elaine	26
33	Eleanor	26
33	Marjorie	26
37	Ann	25
37	Grace	25
39	Jeanne	24
40	Anna	23
40	Lois	23
40	Vivian	23
43	Edna	22
43	Katherine	22
45	Marian	21
45	Martha	21
47	Beverly	20
47	Delores	20
47	Lorraine	20
50	Ethel	19

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	265
2	John	258
3	James	247
4	Robert	218
5	Charles	138
6	Richard	131
7	George	121
8	Joseph	105
9	Thomas	95
10	Edward	86
11	Donald	64
12	Frank	49
13	David	48
13	Paul	48
15	Walter	47
16	Raymond	44
17	Francis	42
18	Harry	40
19	Albert	37
19	Ralph	37
21	Arthur	35
22	Henry	34
23	Louis	30
24	Alfred	29
24	Jack	29
24	Lawrence	29
27	Bernard	28
27	Leon	28
29	Eugene	27
30	Herbert	26
31	Clarence	25
32	Melvin	24
33	Howard	22
34	Kenneth	21
34	Samuel	21
36	Ernest	19
36	Milton	19
36	Stanley	19
39	Alvin	18
39	Norman	18
41	Earl	17
41	Leroy	17
43	Fred	16
43	Frederick	16
43	Harold	16
43	Hugh	16
43	Jerome	16
48	Roland	15
49	Daniel	14
49	Edwin	14