Name Yearbook

Top baby names in District of Columbia, 1939

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	366
2	Barbara	354
3	Patricia	259
4	Shirley	143
5	Joan	131
6	Margaret	129
7	Nancy	121
8	Carol	116
9	Dorothy	103
10	Elizabeth	101
11	Joyce	90
12	Betty	89
13	Judith	80
14	Helen	79
15	Frances	78
16	Ann	70
16	Jean	70
18	Sandra	69
19	Gloria	59
20	Ruth	58
21	Doris	57
22	Delores	54
23	Catherine	53
24	Carolyn	52
24	Janet	52
26	Linda	49
27	Virginia	48
28	Alice	46
28	Carole	46
30	Anne	45
30	Geraldine	45
30	Phyllis	45
30	Susan	45
34	Diane	41
35	Jane	40
36	Elaine	39
36	Marie	39
38	Beverly	36
38	Joanne	36
38	Kathleen	36
38	Martha	36
38	Yvonne	36
43	Jacqueline	35
43	Norma	35
45	Constance	34
45	Mildred	34
47	Brenda	33
47	Evelyn	33
49	Sylvia	31
50	Donna	30

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	421
2	James	416
3	Robert	387
4	William	376
5	Charles	226
6	Richard	216
7	Thomas	185
8	George	170
9	David	147
10	Joseph	144
11	Donald	125
12	Edward	114
13	Ronald	104
14	Michael	102
15	Paul	81
16	Kenneth	72
17	Raymond	70
18	Lawrence	50
19	Walter	48
20	Eugene	46
21	Harry	45
22	Frank	41
23	Daniel	39
23	Francis	39
25	Frederick	38
25	Ralph	38
27	Peter	37
28	Bernard	36
28	Stanley	36
28	Stephen	36
28	Wayne	36
32	Arthur	35
32	Earl	35
32	Howard	35
32	Melvin	35
32	Samuel	35
37	Albert	34
37	Carl	34
37	Henry	34
37	Louis	34
41	Larry	33
42	Jack	31
43	Gerald	30
44	Norman	29
45	Ernest	28
45	Leonard	28
47	Douglas	27
47	Roger	27
49	Harold	25
50	Theodore	24