Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Illinois, 1920

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	3,472
2	Dorothy	2,561
3	Helen	2,332
4	Margaret	1,469
5	Ruth	1,465
6	Virginia	1,186
7	Mildred	1,094
8	Betty	939
9	Evelyn	911
10	Frances	871
11	Florence	796
12	Marie	745
13	Anna	707
14	Lillian	644
14	Marjorie	644
16	Lorraine	643
17	Elizabeth	642
18	Irene	627
19	Alice	614
20	Eleanor	613
21	Bernice	610
22	Lucille	606
23	Jean	602
24	Rose	596
25	Doris	554
26	Josephine	517
27	Shirley	512
28	June	490
29	Lois	476
30	Catherine	470
31	Marion	405
32	Gladys	386
33	Esther	379
34	Genevieve	357
35	Martha	355
36	Grace	353
37	Louise	345
38	Edna	340
39	Edith	330
39	Gertrude	330
41	Ann	315
42	Jane	311
43	Pauline	305
44	Anne	303
44	Ethel	303
46	Charlotte	295
47	Marian	291
48	Geraldine	284
48	Violet	284
50	Elsie	281

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,373
2	John	3,036
3	William	2,591
4	James	1,914
5	Charles	1,667
6	Edward	1,665
7	George	1,503
8	Joseph	1,422
9	Frank	1,038
10	Richard	1,022
11	Harold	947
12	Raymond	908
13	Walter	906
14	Donald	804
15	Thomas	723
16	Arthur	646
17	Paul	625
18	Harry	582
19	Kenneth	571
20	Henry	544
21	Albert	509
22	Jack	500
23	Ralph	495
24	Eugene	465
25	Carl	440
26	Stanley	427
27	Howard	422
28	Leonard	400
28	Louis	400
30	Clarence	399
31	Fred	394
32	Earl	381
33	Roy	374
34	Chester	367
35	Lawrence	356
36	Warren	349
37	Elmer	326
38	Russell	307
39	Edwin	298
40	Francis	297
41	Bernard	294
42	David	292
43	Anthony	291
44	Herbert	287
45	Leo	283
46	Norman	255
47	Melvin	242
48	Leroy	239
49	Peter	238
50	Joe	236