Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Pennsylvania, 1918

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	8,184
2	Helen	5,410
3	Margaret	3,606
4	Anna	3,594
5	Dorothy	3,422
6	Ruth	2,621
7	Elizabeth	2,424
8	Catherine	1,552
9	Mildred	1,542
10	Frances	1,405
11	Marie	1,387
12	Rose	1,289
13	Florence	1,287
14	Betty	1,212
15	Josephine	1,199
16	Eleanor	1,151
17	Virginia	1,096
18	Evelyn	1,030
19	Ann	941
20	Grace	937
21	Jean	891
22	Alice	888
23	Irene	871
24	Kathryn	833
25	Lillian	831
26	Martha	821
27	Ethel	764
28	Anne	761
28	Julia	761
30	Esther	749
31	Pauline	745
32	Agnes	711
33	Edna	677
34	Edith	675
35	Stella	662
36	Jane	656
37	Rita	651
38	Thelma	643
39	Louise	640
40	Gertrude	626
41	Gladys	608
42	Emma	602
43	Marion	597
44	Doris	583
45	Sara	501
46	Beatrice	497
47	Marian	483
48	Katherine	479
49	Sarah	470
50	Clara	468

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	7,557
2	William	4,713
3	Joseph	4,485
4	Robert	3,393
5	James	3,034
6	Charles	2,995
7	George	2,985
8	Edward	2,377
9	Frank	2,119
10	Paul	1,676
11	Harry	1,618
12	Thomas	1,514
13	Walter	1,460
14	Albert	1,256
15	Richard	1,142
16	Michael	1,110
17	Raymond	1,002
18	Anthony	979
19	Harold	975
20	Francis	892
21	Donald	868
22	Stanley	849
23	Henry	771
24	Andrew	764
25	Ralph	726
26	Samuel	703
27	Louis	696
28	David	660
29	Arthur	651
30	Carl	607
31	Peter	602
32	Howard	595
33	Earl	589
34	Kenneth	585
35	Jack	584
36	Clarence	521
37	Bernard	470
38	Daniel	466
39	Stephen	441
40	Fred	420
41	Alfred	406
41	Mike	406
41	Steve	406
44	Eugene	398
45	Russell	391
46	Chester	382
47	Lawrence	377
48	Leonard	357
49	Herbert	352
50	Elmer	350