Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Maryland, 1927

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,200
2	Dorothy	581
3	Betty	576
4	Margaret	469
5	Helen	377
6	Doris	346
7	Ruth	328
8	Catherine	272
9	Anna	270
10	Elizabeth	267
11	Virginia	200
12	Frances	195
13	Shirley	194
14	Mildred	193
15	Evelyn	182
16	Marie	168
17	Alice	144
18	Gloria	142
19	Lillian	132
20	Jean	131
21	Thelma	123
22	Charlotte	114
22	Dolores	114
24	Audrey	109
25	Louise	96
26	Edith	93
27	Ethel	92
27	Florence	92
27	Rose	92
30	Grace	91
31	Edna	90
31	Sarah	90
33	Lorraine	89
34	Norma	87
35	Jane	84
36	Gladys	83
37	Barbara	82
38	Agnes	81
38	Pauline	81
40	Irene	80
41	Eleanor	79
41	Rita	79
43	Bernice	78
44	Martha	77
45	June	76
45	Theresa	76
47	Phyllis	74
48	Geraldine	72
48	Josephine	72
48	Patricia	72

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	989
2	John	851
3	James	760
4	Charles	709
5	Robert	646
6	George	454
7	Joseph	448
8	Edward	296
8	Thomas	296
10	Richard	261
11	Donald	242
12	Paul	192
13	Harry	190
14	Albert	180
15	Raymond	163
16	Walter	153
17	Kenneth	135
18	Frank	131
19	Francis	129
20	Howard	126
21	Bernard	125
22	Harold	116
22	Louis	116
24	Henry	115
25	David	114
26	Eugene	103
27	Earl	100
28	Melvin	97
29	Samuel	93
30	Arthur	90
31	Ralph	88
32	Leroy	86
32	Norman	86
34	Frederick	81
35	Stanley	78
36	Jack	76
37	Carl	75
38	Lawrence	73
39	Ernest	72
39	Leonard	72
41	Clarence	69
41	Vernon	69
43	Calvin	66
44	Daniel	65
45	Herbert	63
46	Milton	62
47	Roland	57
48	Benjamin	52
48	Elmer	52
50	Herman	50