Name Yearbook

Top baby names in District of Columbia, 1931

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	257
2	Barbara	173
3	Betty	142
4	Margaret	129
5	Patricia	113
6	Dorothy	112
7	Joan	111
8	Doris	94
9	Jean	91
10	Helen	82
11	Shirley	79
12	Elizabeth	69
13	Nancy	59
14	Dolores	58
15	Delores	52
16	Frances	48
16	Gloria	48
18	Ann	46
19	Joyce	40
19	Ruth	40
21	Alice	37
21	Catherine	37
23	Jane	36
24	Evelyn	34
24	Lorraine	34
26	Mildred	32
27	Norma	31
28	Grace	29
29	Lois	28
29	Marie	28
29	Peggy	28
32	Joanne	26
32	Thelma	26
32	Virginia	26
35	Anne	25
35	June	25
37	Jacqueline	24
37	Janet	24
39	Constance	23
39	Edith	23
39	Louise	23
39	Rose	23
43	Audrey	22
43	Juanita	22
45	Florence	21
45	Jeanne	21
45	Martha	21
45	Phyllis	21
49	Anna	20
49	Marjorie	20

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	286
2	John	265
3	William	262
4	James	221
5	Charles	181
6	Richard	128
7	Donald	111
8	George	107
9	Thomas	104
10	Joseph	103
11	Edward	72
12	David	61
13	Raymond	51
14	Paul	49
15	Walter	43
16	Frank	36
17	Harry	34
18	Clarence	33
18	Francis	33
20	Herbert	31
20	Lawrence	31
22	Arthur	30
22	Bernard	30
24	Carl	29
25	Albert	28
25	Eugene	28
25	Kenneth	28
28	Jack	27
28	Norman	27
28	Ralph	27
31	Stanley	26
32	Howard	25
33	Fred	24
33	Henry	24
35	Harold	23
35	Michael	23
37	Louis	22
38	Alfred	21
38	Earl	21
38	Ernest	21
41	Gerald	19
41	Leroy	19
41	Melvin	19
41	Philip	19
41	Roland	19
41	Ronald	19
47	Daniel	18
47	Frederick	18
47	Roy	18
47	Samuel	18