Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Maryland, 1921

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,302
2	Dorothy	669
3	Margaret	600
4	Helen	512
5	Ruth	400
6	Doris	350
7	Anna	343
8	Elizabeth	328
9	Mildred	327
10	Catherine	286
11	Virginia	259
12	Frances	252
13	Evelyn	248
14	Marie	244
15	Alice	180
16	Lillian	179
17	Betty	153
18	Thelma	151
19	Ethel	136
20	Florence	135
21	Edna	132
22	Louise	126
23	Eleanor	122
24	Gladys	120
25	Edith	119
26	Jane	112
27	Grace	111
28	Irene	110
29	Emma	107
30	Josephine	105
31	Charlotte	104
32	Hazel	103
32	Katherine	103
34	Martha	98
34	Rose	98
36	Hilda	96
37	Sarah	95
38	Agnes	94
39	Audrey	93
39	Elsie	93
39	Gertrude	93
42	Marjorie	92
43	Bernice	90
43	Pauline	90
45	Clara	89
45	Rita	89
47	Bertha	81
47	Esther	81
49	Norma	78
50	Jean	74

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	1,063
2	John	895
3	Charles	765
4	James	717
5	Robert	534
6	George	533
7	Joseph	519
8	Edward	352
9	Thomas	263
10	Harry	235
11	Walter	214
12	Richard	197
13	Albert	195
14	Henry	176
15	Paul	174
16	Frank	165
17	Francis	164
18	Raymond	163
19	Howard	153
20	Donald	144
21	Louis	131
22	Clarence	127
23	Arthur	117
23	Melvin	117
25	Earl	115
26	Harold	113
27	Bernard	112
28	Ralph	100
29	David	97
30	Warren	96
31	Kenneth	95
32	Samuel	93
33	Norman	89
34	Vernon	88
35	Frederick	87
36	Leonard	84
37	Stanley	81
38	Ernest	79
39	Lawrence	78
39	Leroy	78
41	Herbert	77
42	Eugene	75
43	Elmer	74
43	Russell	74
45	Daniel	72
46	Milton	69
47	Carl	66
48	Jack	64
49	Alfred	61
50	Franklin	60