Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Michigan, 1921

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,958
2	Helen	1,502
3	Dorothy	1,472
4	Margaret	1,143
5	Betty	1,035
6	Virginia	1,010
7	Ruth	960
8	Elizabeth	580
9	Irene	577
10	Evelyn	552
11	Doris	536
12	Marjorie	508
13	Frances	499
14	Jean	491
15	Mildred	462
16	Alice	456
16	Marie	456
18	Eleanor	425
19	Shirley	419
20	Florence	413
21	Barbara	376
22	June	356
23	Lillian	354
24	Rose	344
25	Marion	319
26	Anna	318
27	Phyllis	307
28	Josephine	305
28	Marian	305
30	Geraldine	299
31	Bernice	293
32	Beatrice	277
33	Lucille	275
34	Esther	272
35	Grace	260
36	Catherine	251
37	Genevieve	250
38	Lois	249
39	Gladys	244
40	Lorraine	231
41	Maxine	225
42	Edna	223
43	Elaine	222
43	Jane	222
45	Gertrude	218
46	Ann	216
46	Leona	216
48	Patricia	215
48	Thelma	215
50	Edith	203

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,431
2	John	1,763
3	William	1,621
4	James	1,053
5	George	970
6	Donald	964
7	Charles	896
8	Edward	894
9	Joseph	740
10	Richard	734
11	Harold	676
12	Frank	606
13	Raymond	552
14	Jack	522
15	Walter	508
16	Arthur	505
17	Kenneth	428
18	Henry	388
19	Harry	380
20	Paul	379
21	Thomas	374
22	Albert	327
22	Howard	327
24	Stanley	314
25	Leonard	298
26	Clarence	293
27	Carl	287
28	Lawrence	282
29	Gerald	279
30	Louis	268
31	Eugene	266
32	Earl	265
33	Ralph	250
34	Warren	246
35	Frederick	234
36	Leo	232
37	Bernard	228
38	Francis	222
38	Norman	222
40	Alfred	217
41	Roy	207
41	Russell	207
43	Ernest	204
44	David	198
45	Fred	193
46	Chester	188
47	Edwin	187
48	Elmer	174
49	Theodore	165
50	Anthony	159