Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Maryland, 1920

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,208
2	Margaret	642
3	Dorothy	583
4	Helen	488
5	Ruth	446
6	Anna	346
7	Doris	345
8	Elizabeth	330
9	Mildred	326
10	Catherine	313
11	Marie	294
12	Frances	265
13	Virginia	259
14	Evelyn	246
15	Lillian	198
16	Alice	169
17	Thelma	152
18	Florence	145
19	Ethel	137
19	Louise	137
21	Gladys	123
22	Edith	122
23	Elsie	119
24	Edna	118
25	Hilda	116
26	Charlotte	113
26	Pauline	113
28	Eleanor	111
29	Grace	105
30	Sarah	103
31	Emma	100
32	Martha	98
33	Agnes	97
33	Rose	97
35	Gertrude	96
36	Jane	95
36	Josephine	95
36	Katherine	95
39	Irene	91
40	Betty	88
41	Audrey	79
42	Mabel	78
43	Bertha	77
43	Ida	77
45	Beatrice	76
46	Rita	75
47	Esther	72
48	Hazel	71
49	Bernice	68
49	Bessie	68

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	1,020
2	John	895
3	James	744
4	Charles	727
5	Robert	495
6	Joseph	479
7	George	465
8	Edward	389
9	Thomas	274
10	Harry	227
11	Walter	215
12	Paul	192
13	Henry	188
14	Richard	186
15	Albert	179
16	Frank	173
17	Francis	147
17	Raymond	147
19	Harold	133
20	Arthur	126
20	Howard	126
22	Earl	122
23	Bernard	121
24	Melvin	113
25	Clarence	112
26	Louis	109
27	Donald	107
28	Samuel	99
29	David	94
29	Kenneth	94
31	Ralph	92
32	Ernest	83
32	Milton	83
34	Elmer	80
34	Frederick	80
34	Leroy	80
37	Herbert	79
38	Lawrence	78
39	Daniel	74
40	Carl	73
41	Norman	72
42	Leonard	68
42	Vernon	68
44	Eugene	66
45	Stanley	64
45	Warren	64
47	Russell	56
48	Alfred	54
48	Carroll	54
50	Roland	53