Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Maryland, 1919

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,069
2	Dorothy	572
3	Margaret	563
4	Helen	522
5	Ruth	412
6	Anna	361
7	Mildred	300
8	Catherine	288
9	Elizabeth	283
10	Virginia	265
11	Doris	262
12	Evelyn	260
13	Marie	253
14	Frances	238
15	Lillian	197
16	Alice	167
17	Ethel	164
18	Louise	152
19	Thelma	142
20	Edna	141
21	Florence	136
22	Gladys	133
23	Eleanor	118
24	Grace	113
25	Katherine	106
25	Martha	106
27	Edith	101
27	Pauline	101
29	Gertrude	99
30	Emma	96
31	Sarah	94
32	Rose	91
33	Irene	89
34	Agnes	88
34	Betty	88
34	Charlotte	88
34	Hazel	88
38	Bertha	86
38	Elsie	86
40	Hilda	85
41	Esther	82
42	Beatrice	81
42	Josephine	81
44	Jane	80
45	Ida	78
46	Laura	72
47	Clara	71
48	Audrey	69
48	Bernice	69
48	Julia	69

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	966
2	John	847
3	Charles	699
4	James	677
5	Robert	466
6	Joseph	445
7	George	420
8	Edward	311
9	Thomas	230
10	Harry	217
11	Frank	190
12	Walter	188
13	Richard	186
14	Albert	181
15	Paul	162
16	Raymond	146
17	Henry	134
18	Francis	130
19	Howard	125
20	Arthur	111
20	Samuel	111
22	Donald	105
23	Harold	100
24	Melvin	95
25	Clarence	94
26	Louis	90
27	Bernard	87
28	Leonard	85
29	Frederick	84
30	Leroy	82
31	Earl	79
32	David	77
33	Ernest	76
34	Ralph	74
35	Lawrence	72
36	Milton	70
37	Stanley	66
38	Kenneth	65
39	Daniel	64
39	Norman	64
41	Carl	59
41	Herbert	59
43	Benjamin	55
43	Herman	55
45	Philip	54
46	Elmer	53
47	Anthony	50
47	Edwin	50
49	Theodore	49
49	Vernon	49