Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Pennsylvania, 1912

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	4,106
2	Helen	2,241
3	Anna	2,075
4	Margaret	1,876
5	Dorothy	1,407
6	Elizabeth	1,293
7	Ruth	1,046
8	Mildred	833
9	Catherine	826
10	Rose	707
11	Marie	683
12	Florence	645
13	Frances	627
14	Alice	530
15	Grace	517
16	Josephine	513
17	Ethel	432
18	Lillian	425
19	Edna	420
20	Martha	419
21	Kathryn	417
22	Eleanor	406
23	Evelyn	399
24	Agnes	382
25	Anne	375
26	Esther	369
27	Ann	363
28	Edith	357
29	Gertrude	345
30	Virginia	342
31	Julia	340
32	Emma	335
33	Irene	323
34	Gladys	319
35	Pauline	309
36	Sarah	302
37	Stella	290
38	Jean	284
39	Thelma	281
40	Louise	279
41	Marion	277
42	Bertha	275
43	Clara	260
44	Betty	249
45	Hazel	248
46	Mabel	243
47	Elsie	242
48	Beatrice	240
49	Jennie	233
49	Katherine	233

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	3,067
2	William	1,903
3	Joseph	1,862
4	Charles	1,342
5	James	1,309
6	George	1,226
7	Robert	1,023
8	Frank	926
9	Edward	924
10	Harry	699
11	Paul	665
12	Walter	608
13	Thomas	598
14	Michael	519
15	Albert	511
16	Anthony	425
17	Harold	398
18	Raymond	384
18	Samuel	384
20	Richard	371
21	Francis	368
22	Louis	346
23	Henry	332
24	Arthur	321
25	Ralph	318
26	Stanley	317
27	Andrew	308
28	David	296
29	Howard	291
30	Kenneth	280
31	Carl	278
32	Peter	253
33	Donald	243
34	Clarence	236
35	Earl	196
36	Daniel	190
37	Eugene	188
37	Lawrence	188
39	Russell	186
40	Jack	184
41	Alfred	174
41	Stephen	174
43	Elmer	167
43	Martin	167
45	Fred	166
46	Ernest	156
47	Frederick	155
48	Chester	147
49	Vincent	145
50	Herbert	144