Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Maryland, 1914

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	718
2	Margaret	410
3	Dorothy	398
4	Helen	313
5	Elizabeth	287
6	Anna	268
7	Ruth	225
8	Catherine	210
9	Mildred	206
10	Evelyn	193
11	Marie	179
12	Lillian	146
13	Frances	129
14	Virginia	125
15	Thelma	124
16	Louise	107
17	Edna	106
18	Alice	103
19	Gladys	97
20	Eleanor	93
21	Gertrude	90
22	Florence	87
23	Edith	86
24	Ethel	82
24	Rose	82
26	Doris	81
27	Agnes	79
28	Sarah	78
29	Martha	74
30	Pauline	73
31	Grace	71
31	Katherine	71
33	Ida	70
34	Clara	67
35	Elsie	66
35	Hazel	66
37	Emma	63
38	Hilda	62
39	Josephine	61
40	Pearl	59
41	Esther	58
41	Julia	58
43	Myrtle	57
44	Beatrice	56
45	Bertha	51
46	Bessie	50
47	Anne	49
47	Eva	49
47	Viola	49
50	Irene	48

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	619
2	John	549
3	James	449
4	Charles	427
5	Joseph	312
6	George	306
7	Robert	218
8	Edward	196
9	Harry	160
10	Thomas	139
11	Walter	132
12	Frank	127
13	Albert	123
14	Henry	101
15	Paul	95
16	Howard	94
17	Raymond	93
17	Richard	93
19	Arthur	84
20	Louis	79
21	Samuel	75
22	Bernard	67
23	Francis	62
24	Melvin	58
25	Clarence	56
25	David	56
27	Milton	55
28	Earl	53
29	Ernest	51
30	Herbert	50
31	Frederick	49
31	Lawrence	49
33	Daniel	48
34	Elmer	47
35	Carl	46
36	Alfred	43
36	Russell	43
38	Harold	42
39	Norman	41
40	Andrew	40
40	Donald	40
42	Herman	38
43	Leroy	37
44	Michael	34
45	Benjamin	33
45	Eugene	33
45	Theodore	33
45	Vernon	33
49	Kenneth	32
49	Roland	32