Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Maryland, 1917

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,031
2	Margaret	528
3	Dorothy	525
4	Helen	488
5	Ruth	335
6	Elizabeth	321
7	Anna	299
8	Mildred	290
9	Catherine	266
10	Marie	263
11	Virginia	239
12	Evelyn	234
13	Frances	198
14	Doris	189
15	Lillian	185
16	Alice	147
17	Florence	137
18	Thelma	131
19	Ethel	129
20	Edna	126
21	Louise	124
22	Gertrude	114
23	Rose	111
24	Grace	110
25	Eleanor	108
26	Edith	107
27	Gladys	104
28	Emma	101
29	Katherine	97
30	Elsie	94
31	Martha	93
32	Ida	91
33	Charlotte	89
34	Agnes	88
34	Bertha	88
34	Hilda	88
37	Josephine	87
38	Hazel	86
39	Pauline	84
39	Sarah	84
41	Beatrice	83
42	Esther	82
43	Irene	80
44	Clara	79
45	Mabel	71
46	Jane	70
47	Blanche	60
47	Julia	60
49	Anne	58
50	Bessie	57

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	822
2	John	740
3	Charles	665
4	James	558
5	George	447
6	Joseph	417
7	Robert	383
8	Edward	284
9	Thomas	213
10	Harry	205
11	Frank	169
12	Walter	164
13	Richard	144
14	Henry	138
15	Albert	135
16	Paul	130
17	Howard	122
18	Francis	120
18	Raymond	120
20	Arthur	108
21	Melvin	107
22	Louis	98
23	Samuel	94
24	Bernard	89
25	Harold	84
26	Donald	82
27	Clarence	81
28	Carl	77
29	Earl	76
30	Ernest	73
31	Lawrence	72
31	Leroy	72
33	Elmer	71
33	Vernon	71
35	David	69
35	Frederick	69
35	Norman	69
38	Leonard	68
38	Ralph	68
40	Milton	64
41	Herbert	63
42	Stanley	59
43	Roland	56
44	Daniel	54
45	Andrew	53
45	Anthony	53
47	Russell	52
48	Edwin	51
48	Herman	51
50	Kenneth	47