Name Yearbook

Top baby names in District of Columbia, 1938

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	347
2	Barbara	340
3	Patricia	197
4	Margaret	155
5	Joan	138
6	Shirley	115
7	Nancy	110
8	Jean	98
9	Dorothy	96
10	Carol	95
11	Betty	94
12	Elizabeth	93
13	Joyce	86
14	Helen	71
15	Sandra	56
16	Janet	55
17	Doris	54
18	Delores	52
19	Frances	51
20	Judith	50
21	Ann	48
21	Beverly	48
23	Gloria	46
24	Carolyn	45
25	Catherine	44
26	Anne	43
26	Marie	43
28	Ruth	41
29	Yvonne	40
30	Phyllis	38
30	Sylvia	38
32	Alice	36
33	Susan	35
33	Virginia	35
35	Carole	34
35	Joanne	34
37	Geraldine	33
37	Jane	33
37	Janice	33
40	Jacqueline	32
41	Martha	31
42	Charlotte	30
42	Mildred	30
44	Linda	28
45	Eleanor	26
45	Evelyn	26
45	Sarah	26
48	Bernice	25
48	June	25
48	Roberta	25

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	406
2	John	380
3	William	337
4	James	332
5	Charles	234
6	Richard	191
7	Thomas	166
8	David	155
9	Joseph	145
10	Donald	131
10	George	131
12	Edward	116
13	Michael	90
14	Ronald	84
15	Raymond	73
16	Kenneth	64
17	Lawrence	60
18	Paul	58
19	Frank	51
20	Francis	43
21	Melvin	41
22	Bernard	40
23	Walter	39
24	Daniel	37
24	Ralph	37
26	Eugene	36
26	Harry	36
26	Henry	36
29	Arthur	35
30	Albert	32
31	Norman	31
31	Peter	31
33	Anthony	30
33	Gerald	30
35	Carl	28
35	Frederick	28
37	Howard	27
37	Theodore	27
39	Alfred	26
39	Ernest	26
41	Harold	25
41	Jack	25
41	Larry	25
41	Samuel	25
45	Clarence	24
45	Earl	24
47	Dennis	22
47	Stanley	22
49	Alan	21
49	Douglas	21