Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Maryland, 1926

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,145
2	Betty	502
3	Dorothy	491
4	Margaret	451
5	Helen	404
6	Doris	379
7	Ruth	330
8	Elizabeth	272
9	Catherine	257
10	Anna	247
11	Mildred	244
12	Frances	203
13	Evelyn	195
13	Virginia	195
15	Shirley	186
16	Marie	171
17	Jean	160
18	Lillian	136
19	Gloria	135
20	Thelma	125
21	Alice	115
22	Edith	114
23	Louise	109
24	Audrey	106
24	Charlotte	106
26	Eleanor	105
27	Gladys	104
28	Edna	103
29	Florence	101
30	Irene	97
31	Martha	95
32	Ethel	93
33	Rose	92
34	June	88
35	Josephine	87
35	Pauline	87
37	Grace	86
38	Katherine	85
39	Jane	84
40	Phyllis	79
41	Dolores	74
41	Norma	74
43	Agnes	73
43	Theresa	73
45	Bernice	72
46	Barbara	71
47	Elsie	70
47	Hilda	70
49	Ann	69
50	Nancy	68

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	1,000
2	John	883
3	James	742
4	Charles	691
5	Robert	682
6	George	486
7	Joseph	464
8	Edward	320
9	Richard	300
10	Thomas	277
11	Paul	220
12	Donald	217
13	Harry	178
14	Walter	173
15	Frank	170
16	Albert	156
17	Raymond	155
18	Henry	146
19	Howard	133
20	Melvin	131
21	Francis	130
22	Bernard	128
23	Earl	119
24	Arthur	110
25	David	109
26	Kenneth	105
27	Louis	102
28	Harold	101
29	Eugene	94
30	Clarence	93
31	Norman	92
32	Carl	89
33	Leonard	88
34	Jack	86
34	Leroy	86
36	Ralph	85
37	Samuel	82
38	Vernon	81
39	Frederick	79
40	Alfred	75
41	Elmer	73
42	Calvin	70
42	Herbert	70
42	Russell	70
45	Lawrence	68
46	Stanley	65
47	Daniel	64
48	Milton	62
49	Ernest	60
49	Irvin	60