Name Yearbook

Top baby names in District of Columbia, 1932

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	310
2	Barbara	246
3	Patricia	124
4	Jean	120
4	Joan	120
6	Margaret	108
7	Dorothy	106
8	Shirley	101
9	Betty	96
10	Doris	86
11	Elizabeth	81
12	Helen	78
13	Nancy	70
14	Delores	59
15	Gloria	58
16	Frances	51
16	Ruth	51
18	Evelyn	45
19	Joyce	44
20	Peggy	39
21	Dolores	38
21	Virginia	38
23	Ann	37
24	Alice	36
25	Jane	33
26	Janet	31
27	Audrey	30
27	Lois	30
27	Rose	30
30	Mildred	29
31	Anna	28
31	Phyllis	28
33	Beverly	26
33	Jeanne	26
33	Juanita	26
33	Lorraine	26
33	Marie	26
38	Eleanor	25
38	Jacqueline	25
38	Lillian	25
41	Catherine	24
42	Marjorie	23
42	Norma	23
42	Sarah	23
45	Anne	22
46	Charlotte	21
46	Florence	21
46	Grace	21
46	Josephine	21
46	June	21

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	299
2	James	291
3	William	269
4	John	268
5	Charles	187
6	Richard	136
7	George	120
8	Donald	119
9	Joseph	113
10	Thomas	92
11	Edward	91
12	Paul	53
13	David	51
14	Walter	43
15	Frank	42
16	Francis	40
17	Carl	39
17	Raymond	39
17	Ronald	39
20	Eugene	37
20	Henry	37
22	Albert	32
23	Stanley	31
24	Arthur	30
25	Howard	29
26	Bernard	28
27	Harold	27
27	Lawrence	27
27	Louis	27
30	Herbert	26
30	Kenneth	26
30	Ralph	26
30	Theodore	26
34	Jack	25
34	Maurice	25
34	Melvin	25
37	Earl	23
37	Frederick	23
39	Clarence	22
40	Alvin	21
40	Harry	21
42	Alfred	20
42	Norman	20
44	Daniel	19
44	Samuel	19
46	Gerald	18
46	Philip	18
48	Ernest	17
48	Leonard	17
48	Leroy	17