Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Maryland, 1931

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	930
2	Betty	535
3	Dorothy	366
4	Margaret	353
5	Doris	281
6	Helen	260
7	Shirley	256
8	Ruth	229
9	Elizabeth	208
10	Anna	200
11	Patricia	192
12	Joan	191
13	Barbara	174
14	Dolores	173
15	Frances	167
16	Virginia	162
17	Nancy	160
18	Jean	152
19	Catherine	145
20	Gloria	141
21	Alice	137
21	Mildred	137
23	Evelyn	115
24	Charlotte	111
24	Delores	111
26	Norma	98
27	Rose	95
28	Peggy	93
29	Geraldine	91
30	Marie	90
31	Thelma	89
32	Phyllis	87
33	Ann	86
34	Lillian	83
35	Audrey	82
36	Edna	76
36	June	76
38	Edith	73
38	Lorraine	73
40	Eleanor	72
40	Florence	72
40	Joyce	72
43	Louise	71
44	Ethel	65
44	Janet	65
46	Martha	64
47	Lois	62
48	Gladys	61
49	Grace	59
50	Rita	58

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	860
2	John	771
3	Robert	738
4	Charles	691
5	James	669
6	Joseph	376
7	George	365
8	Richard	347
9	Donald	343
10	Thomas	263
11	Edward	255
12	Paul	162
13	Harry	144
14	Walter	143
15	Raymond	137
16	David	131
17	Albert	129
18	Howard	119
19	Frank	116
20	Kenneth	114
21	Francis	104
22	Bernard	103
23	Henry	99
24	Harold	95
25	Earl	85
25	Norman	85
27	Carl	84
28	Eugene	82
29	Arthur	79
29	Louis	79
31	Clarence	78
31	Lawrence	78
31	Ralph	78
34	Leroy	77
35	Herbert	72
35	Melvin	72
37	Jack	70
38	Daniel	68
39	Samuel	65
40	Ernest	64
41	Ronald	63
42	Stanley	62
43	Roland	61
43	Theodore	61
45	Leonard	58
46	Frederick	53
46	Vernon	53
48	Andrew	49
49	Alfred	47
49	Elmer	47