Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Maryland, 1922

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,189
2	Dorothy	646
3	Margaret	619
4	Helen	450
5	Ruth	379
6	Doris	334
7	Anna	323
8	Elizabeth	316
9	Catherine	297
10	Mildred	279
11	Virginia	245
12	Evelyn	216
13	Marie	210
14	Betty	207
15	Frances	202
16	Lillian	178
17	Alice	154
18	Florence	139
19	Thelma	130
20	Eleanor	121
21	Louise	116
22	Edna	112
23	Ethel	109
23	Martha	109
25	Edith	107
26	Grace	105
27	Hilda	103
27	Jean	103
29	Pauline	100
30	Gertrude	98
31	Bertha	94
32	Agnes	93
32	Gladys	93
32	Hazel	93
35	Sarah	89
36	Jane	88
37	Charlotte	84
38	Norma	83
39	Bernice	82
39	Elsie	82
41	Irene	81
41	Shirley	81
43	Audrey	80
43	Katherine	80
45	Ida	79
45	Rose	79
47	Esther	75
48	Emma	73
49	Clara	71
49	Josephine	71

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	1,021
2	John	851
3	James	687
4	Charles	676
5	Robert	532
6	George	520
7	Joseph	447
8	Edward	321
9	Thomas	253
10	Richard	227
11	Harry	212
12	Walter	183
13	Frank	169
14	Paul	165
15	Donald	162
16	Raymond	154
17	Albert	144
18	Howard	136
19	Bernard	134
19	Harold	134
21	Earl	124
21	Henry	124
23	Arthur	122
24	Francis	119
25	Kenneth	116
26	Louis	112
27	Clarence	104
28	David	103
29	Melvin	101
30	Leonard	96
31	Samuel	86
32	Frederick	84
33	Lawrence	79
34	Ralph	76
35	Milton	74
36	Norman	72
37	Daniel	71
37	Stanley	71
39	Vernon	69
40	Ernest	68
41	Leroy	67
42	Carl	66
43	Jack	63
44	Eugene	62
44	Russell	62
46	Alfred	58
47	Elmer	57
48	Herbert	56
48	Herman	56
50	Edwin	55