Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Pennsylvania, 1920

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	7,650
2	Helen	4,969
3	Margaret	3,667
4	Dorothy	3,665
5	Anna	3,187
6	Ruth	2,649
7	Elizabeth	2,295
8	Betty	1,884
9	Mildred	1,562
10	Catherine	1,411
11	Marie	1,349
12	Florence	1,294
13	Rose	1,261
14	Frances	1,248
15	Eleanor	1,181
16	Virginia	1,100
17	Josephine	1,062
18	Jean	1,056
19	Evelyn	1,048
20	Irene	930
21	Alice	913
22	Grace	891
23	Martha	857
24	Ann	846
25	Doris	829
26	Lillian	788
27	Ethel	733
28	Jane	719
29	Pauline	713
30	Esther	710
31	Kathryn	706
32	Edith	686
33	Julia	653
34	Rita	644
35	Edna	639
36	Anne	633
37	Louise	632
38	Thelma	601
39	Agnes	596
40	Gladys	578
41	Marion	561
42	Emma	549
43	Gertrude	547
44	Stella	519
45	Marjorie	483
46	Marian	480
47	Beatrice	477
48	Elsie	473
49	Sara	455
50	Clara	453

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	7,041
2	William	5,115
3	Robert	4,147
4	Joseph	4,089
5	James	3,120
6	Charles	3,114
7	George	2,851
8	Edward	2,363
9	Frank	1,953
10	Paul	1,725
11	Thomas	1,578
12	Walter	1,454
13	Harry	1,392
14	Richard	1,312
15	Albert	1,171
16	Harold	1,005
17	Michael	973
18	Donald	970
19	Raymond	945
20	Francis	931
21	Anthony	886
22	Ralph	791
23	Stanley	773
24	Henry	772
25	Andrew	720
26	Louis	709
27	David	680
28	Arthur	653
29	Samuel	618
30	Carl	617
30	Earl	617
32	Kenneth	597
33	Jack	593
34	Howard	580
35	Peter	507
36	Eugene	499
37	Daniel	486
38	Bernard	445
38	Leonard	445
40	Clarence	438
41	Stephen	406
42	Fred	398
43	Alfred	389
44	Russell	384
45	Elmer	372
46	Lawrence	371
47	Vincent	366
48	Ernest	363
49	Warren	355
50	Herbert	336