Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Maryland, 1932

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	995
2	Betty	501
3	Dorothy	378
4	Margaret	348
5	Joan	292
6	Shirley	282
7	Doris	278
8	Helen	269
9	Barbara	230
10	Patricia	212
11	Ruth	210
12	Dolores	189
13	Jean	178
14	Nancy	173
15	Elizabeth	171
16	Anna	164
17	Frances	159
18	Virginia	149
19	Evelyn	147
20	Gloria	146
21	Catherine	143
22	Alice	126
23	Mildred	125
24	Delores	103
25	June	101
26	Joyce	100
27	Charlotte	96
28	Geraldine	93
28	Janet	93
30	Lois	92
31	Phyllis	86
32	Marie	83
33	Peggy	82
34	Audrey	81
35	Ann	80
35	Rose	80
35	Thelma	80
38	Martha	79
39	Lillian	78
40	Norma	76
41	Louise	75
42	Gladys	74
42	Lorraine	74
44	Jane	73
45	Carolyn	72
46	Eleanor	70
47	Florence	69
48	Ethel	64
49	Edna	62
50	Edith	61

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	820
2	John	807
3	Robert	764
4	James	713
5	Charles	650
6	Joseph	418
7	George	380
8	Donald	372
9	Richard	336
10	Thomas	306
11	Edward	244
12	Paul	169
13	Raymond	142
14	Harry	130
15	Walter	129
16	Ronald	127
17	Kenneth	125
18	Howard	122
19	Frank	120
20	David	118
21	Albert	114
22	Eugene	110
23	Louis	99
24	Francis	98
25	Jack	95
26	Henry	91
27	Harold	87
27	Melvin	87
29	Clarence	80
30	Bernard	78
31	Daniel	76
31	Lawrence	76
33	Earl	74
34	Herbert	72
35	Norman	70
36	Carl	66
36	Franklin	66
38	Arthur	65
38	Ernest	65
38	Samuel	65
41	Frederick	64
41	Leroy	64
43	Ralph	54
43	Stanley	54
45	Gilbert	53
46	Michael	52
46	Vernon	52
48	Anthony	50
48	Theodore	50
50	Alfred	49