Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Maryland, 1928

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,132
2	Betty	579
3	Dorothy	480
4	Margaret	432
5	Doris	398
6	Helen	339
7	Ruth	287
8	Anna	250
9	Elizabeth	236
10	Shirley	195
11	Catherine	192
12	Mildred	181
13	Frances	178
13	Virginia	178
15	Evelyn	174
16	Dolores	166
17	Marie	159
18	Jean	151
19	Gloria	142
20	Alice	125
21	Lillian	122
22	Thelma	118
23	Patricia	108
24	Eleanor	106
25	Charlotte	103
25	Norma	103
27	Barbara	99
28	Gladys	97
29	Audrey	95
30	Florence	94
31	Louise	93
32	Rose	91
33	Lois	90
34	Irene	88
34	Martha	88
36	Jane	86
37	Edith	83
38	Ethel	80
38	Lorraine	80
40	Edna	79
40	Phyllis	79
42	Agnes	75
42	Marion	75
44	Bernice	74
44	Geraldine	74
46	Ann	73
47	Theresa	71
48	June	69
49	Nancy	68
49	Sarah	68

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	875
2	William	866
3	James	729
4	Charles	696
5	Robert	662
6	George	450
7	Joseph	412
8	Richard	334
9	Edward	292
10	Donald	284
11	Thomas	268
12	Walter	202
13	Harry	187
14	Paul	179
15	Raymond	174
16	Albert	141
17	Herbert	138
18	Howard	134
19	Frank	131
20	Francis	124
21	Kenneth	123
22	Melvin	117
23	Henry	114
24	Harold	111
25	David	104
26	Eugene	103
27	Earl	102
28	Jack	101
29	Louis	99
30	Bernard	98
31	Arthur	94
32	Clarence	92
33	Ralph	87
34	Norman	85
35	Stanley	84
36	Carl	80
36	Leroy	80
36	Samuel	80
39	Alfred	78
39	Lawrence	78
41	Ernest	75
42	Daniel	70
43	Frederick	69
44	Leonard	61
44	Theodore	61
46	Calvin	59
46	Roland	59
48	Carroll	58
49	Gilbert	52
49	Irvin	52