Name Yearbook

Top baby names in District of Columbia, 1940

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	366
2	Barbara	341
3	Patricia	270
4	Joan	161
5	Margaret	141
6	Nancy	134
7	Joyce	127
8	Judith	125
9	Carol	113
10	Betty	106
10	Sandra	106
12	Shirley	105
13	Elizabeth	99
14	Linda	97
15	Dorothy	89
15	Jean	89
17	Gloria	87
18	Ann	73
18	Helen	73
20	Doris	65
21	Carolyn	64
21	Frances	64
23	Janet	58
24	Susan	56
25	Ruth	55
25	Virginia	55
27	Alice	54
27	Martha	54
29	Beverly	47
29	Bonnie	47
31	Brenda	46
32	Delores	44
32	Donna	44
32	Phyllis	44
32	Yvonne	44
36	Ellen	42
37	Jane	41
38	Carole	40
38	Catherine	40
40	Janice	39
41	Elaine	38
41	Marie	38
43	Anne	35
43	Diane	35
43	Joanne	35
43	Kathleen	35
47	Geraldine	34
47	Julia	34
49	Evelyn	33
49	Mildred	33

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	472
2	Robert	465
3	James	437
4	William	419
5	Charles	262
6	Richard	231
7	George	172
8	Thomas	168
9	David	155
10	Joseph	154
11	Edward	129
12	Michael	123
13	Ronald	121
14	Donald	120
15	Paul	100
16	Kenneth	79
17	Frank	76
18	Raymond	64
19	Walter	58
20	Lawrence	57
21	Gerald	53
22	Stephen	52
23	Daniel	45
24	Arthur	43
25	Peter	42
26	Francis	40
26	Louis	40
28	Harry	39
29	Ralph	37
30	Ernest	36
31	Carl	35
31	Harold	35
31	Henry	35
34	Larry	34
35	Eugene	33
35	Philip	33
37	Anthony	32
37	Dennis	32
37	Stanley	32
40	Albert	31
40	Roger	31
40	Samuel	31
43	Douglas	29
43	Earl	29
45	Melvin	28
46	Leroy	27
47	Bernard	25
47	Frederick	25
49	Fred	24
49	Jerry	24