Name Yearbook

Top baby names in District of Columbia, 1937

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	330
2	Barbara	329
3	Patricia	194
4	Shirley	153
5	Joan	138
6	Nancy	115
7	Jean	114
7	Margaret	114
9	Betty	99
10	Elizabeth	86
11	Helen	85
12	Dorothy	84
13	Carol	69
13	Doris	69
15	Joyce	67
16	Ann	60
16	Frances	60
18	Virginia	56
19	Delores	52
19	Gloria	52
21	Marie	45
21	Ruth	45
23	Yvonne	42
24	Sandra	41
25	Janet	39
26	Jacqueline	38
26	Judith	38
28	Carolyn	37
28	Evelyn	37
30	Mildred	36
30	Sylvia	36
32	Eleanor	35
32	June	35
32	Martha	35
32	Peggy	35
36	Anne	33
36	Catherine	33
38	Beverly	32
39	Jane	31
40	Florence	30
40	Juanita	30
42	Elaine	29
43	Alice	28
43	Lois	28
45	Anna	27
45	Dolores	27
45	Marjorie	27
48	Constance	26
48	Louise	26
48	Phyllis	26

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	395
2	James	342
2	John	342
4	William	328
5	Charles	211
6	Richard	174
7	Thomas	154
8	George	153
9	Joseph	143
10	David	137
11	Donald	136
12	Paul	88
13	Edward	82
14	Ronald	73
15	Raymond	66
16	Michael	62
17	Walter	53
18	Arthur	45
18	Frank	45
20	Kenneth	44
21	Harry	39
22	Lawrence	37
23	Earl	36
24	Eugene	35
25	Albert	34
26	Bernard	33
26	Melvin	33
28	Frederick	31
29	Clarence	30
29	Gerald	30
31	Carl	29
31	Henry	29
31	Howard	29
34	Daniel	28
35	Francis	27
35	Ralph	27
37	Alfred	26
37	Harold	26
39	Ernest	25
39	Leroy	25
41	Philip	24
42	Joe	23
42	Leonard	23
42	Norman	23
42	Stanley	23
46	Louis	22
47	Jack	21
47	Jerry	21
49	Fred	20
49	Peter	20