Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Maryland, 1923

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,226
2	Dorothy	629
3	Margaret	555
4	Helen	469
5	Ruth	378
6	Doris	347
7	Elizabeth	343
8	Mildred	307
9	Anna	292
10	Betty	283
11	Catherine	280
12	Frances	252
13	Evelyn	246
14	Virginia	227
15	Marie	216
16	Lillian	214
17	Ethel	151
18	Alice	150
19	Thelma	128
20	Edna	122
20	Florence	122
22	Louise	113
23	Gladys	108
24	Eleanor	107
25	Agnes	106
25	Katherine	106
27	Jean	105
28	Sarah	103
29	Shirley	101
30	Rose	95
31	Grace	94
32	Charlotte	93
32	Edith	93
32	Josephine	93
35	Audrey	91
35	Emma	91
35	Pauline	91
38	Elsie	87
38	Irene	87
38	Martha	87
41	Gertrude	85
42	Hazel	78
43	Esther	77
43	Hilda	77
43	Norma	77
46	Clara	76
46	Geraldine	76
48	Gloria	72
49	Bernice	71
49	Jane	71

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	1,003
2	John	922
3	James	701
4	Charles	690
5	Robert	526
6	George	500
7	Joseph	493
8	Edward	305
9	Thomas	274
10	Paul	220
11	Richard	218
12	Harry	193
13	Walter	179
14	Frank	176
15	Albert	172
16	Donald	161
16	Raymond	161
18	Henry	152
19	Louis	138
20	Howard	134
21	Francis	131
22	Bernard	125
23	Kenneth	121
24	Earl	107
25	Arthur	104
25	Clarence	104
27	Harold	102
27	Melvin	102
29	David	99
30	Ralph	96
31	Eugene	94
31	Norman	94
33	Daniel	83
34	Lawrence	82
34	Samuel	82
36	Elmer	79
37	Herbert	76
38	Vernon	75
39	Warren	73
40	Leonard	72
41	Leroy	71
41	Stanley	71
43	Ernest	70
44	Andrew	66
45	Carl	65
46	Calvin	63
47	Anthony	62
48	Jack	61
48	Milton	61
50	Frederick	57