Name Yearbook

Top baby names in District of Columbia, 1929

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	286
2	Betty	151
3	Margaret	134
4	Dorothy	105
5	Doris	100
6	Barbara	87
7	Helen	83
7	Patricia	83
9	Elizabeth	77
10	Jean	74
11	Shirley	71
12	Joan	64
13	Dolores	57
14	Frances	50
15	Nancy	45
16	Ruth	43
17	Virginia	42
18	Gloria	41
19	Evelyn	39
20	Ann	38
21	Marie	37
22	Alice	36
22	Catherine	36
24	Marjorie	35
25	Thelma	34
26	Jane	33
26	Lillian	33
28	Delores	32
28	Louise	32
30	Mildred	31
30	Peggy	31
32	Anne	30
32	Jeanne	30
34	Joyce	29
35	Anna	28
35	Marion	28
37	Audrey	27
38	Juanita	26
38	June	26
40	Florence	24
40	Gladys	24
40	Lois	24
43	Bernice	23
44	Eleanor	22
44	Geraldine	22
46	Edith	21
46	Katherine	21
46	Rose	21
49	Julia	20
50	Charlotte	19

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	269
2	William	258
3	John	245
4	Robert	213
5	Charles	164
6	Richard	114
7	Joseph	108
8	George	98
9	Edward	96
10	Thomas	90
11	Donald	73
12	Paul	54
13	Raymond	50
14	David	49
15	Francis	48
15	Frank	48
17	Harry	43
17	Walter	43
19	Bernard	38
20	Herbert	36
21	Melvin	32
22	Jack	31
23	Albert	30
23	Eugene	30
25	Clarence	29
25	Norman	29
27	Ralph	28
28	Earl	27
28	Lawrence	27
30	Leroy	25
31	Henry	24
32	Harold	23
33	Arthur	22
33	Theodore	22
35	Lloyd	21
36	Alfred	20
37	Carl	19
37	Samuel	19
39	Andrew	18
39	Louis	18
41	Ernest	17
41	Kenneth	17
41	Roy	17
41	Stanley	17
45	Anthony	16
45	Frederick	16
45	Leon	16
45	Milton	16
49	Michael	15
50	Howard	14