Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Illinois, 1926

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	3,337
2	Betty	2,415
3	Dorothy	2,352
4	Helen	1,609
5	Shirley	1,164
6	Margaret	1,071
7	Ruth	1,059
8	Virginia	1,044
9	Doris	842
10	Jean	795
11	Patricia	778
12	Dolores	776
13	Lorraine	775
14	Evelyn	749
15	Lois	744
16	Mildred	690
17	Barbara	672
18	Frances	640
19	Norma	632
20	Alice	621
21	Marjorie	611
22	Irene	607
23	Florence	606
24	Anna	562
25	Rose	561
26	Marie	558
27	Gloria	540
28	Marilyn	538
29	June	522
30	Phyllis	492
31	Eleanor	490
32	Elizabeth	488
33	Lillian	463
34	Joan	415
35	Elaine	407
36	Lucille	390
37	Catherine	384
38	Bernice	381
39	Rosemary	367
40	Josephine	364
41	Marion	344
42	Wanda	332
43	Geraldine	316
44	Rita	315
45	Louise	309
46	Martha	304
47	Wilma	296
48	Esther	295
49	Loretta	294
50	Marian	292

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	4,496
2	John	3,384
3	William	2,983
4	James	2,398
5	Richard	1,947
6	Charles	1,652
7	Donald	1,624
8	George	1,563
9	Edward	1,478
10	Joseph	1,243
11	Frank	907
12	Raymond	887
13	Thomas	834
14	Harold	832
15	Jack	741
16	Kenneth	728
17	Paul	705
18	Walter	697
19	Eugene	656
20	Arthur	589
21	Henry	530
22	Ralph	527
23	Harry	505
24	Albert	487
25	Leonard	445
26	Carl	414
27	David	400
28	Fred	389
29	Earl	388
30	Louis	372
31	Howard	369
32	Stanley	342
33	Clarence	340
34	Lawrence	330
34	Roy	330
36	Norman	325
37	Gerald	301
38	Francis	299
39	Anthony	298
40	Melvin	287
41	Bernard	284
42	Russell	283
43	Herbert	276
44	Daniel	255
45	Theodore	247
46	Edwin	246
46	Leroy	246
48	Ernest	241
49	Leo	239
50	Joe	232