Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Maryland, 1912

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	562
2	Margaret	296
3	Helen	256
4	Dorothy	230
5	Elizabeth	205
6	Anna	175
7	Ruth	170
8	Catherine	140
9	Mildred	133
10	Evelyn	131
11	Marie	130
12	Frances	99
13	Louise	93
14	Lillian	87
15	Virginia	86
16	Ethel	82
16	Florence	82
16	Thelma	82
19	Alice	76
20	Edna	73
20	Gladys	73
22	Martha	69
23	Rose	63
24	Hazel	62
25	Emma	61
25	Gertrude	61
27	Edith	60
27	Sarah	60
29	Hilda	56
30	Bertha	54
30	Katherine	54
32	Grace	53
33	Agnes	52
33	Viola	52
35	Esther	48
36	Doris	47
36	Elsie	47
36	Josephine	47
36	Nellie	47
40	Eleanor	46
41	Clara	44
41	Irene	44
41	Myrtle	44
44	Julia	42
45	Beatrice	41
46	Mabel	40
47	Bessie	35
48	Ida	34
48	Laura	34
48	Pauline	34

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	433
2	John	384
3	James	314
4	Charles	311
5	George	219
6	Joseph	204
7	Robert	157
8	Edward	139
9	Thomas	108
10	Walter	89
11	Henry	88
12	Harry	86
13	Howard	77
14	Frank	76
15	Albert	65
16	Louis	63
17	Richard	61
18	Paul	58
18	Samuel	58
20	Raymond	57
21	Carl	48
21	Francis	48
23	Earl	44
24	Clarence	43
25	Arthur	42
25	Leonard	42
27	Elmer	41
28	Bernard	40
29	Norman	39
30	Milton	38
31	Frederick	37
32	Roland	33
33	Harold	32
34	Ernest	31
34	Lawrence	31
34	Ralph	31
37	Anthony	30
37	David	30
37	Melvin	30
40	Benjamin	29
40	Kenneth	29
40	Vernon	29
43	Daniel	28
43	Stanley	28
45	Herbert	27
45	Leroy	27
47	Eugene	26
47	Herman	26
47	Theodore	26
47	Woodrow	26