Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Pennsylvania, 1926

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	6,007
2	Helen	3,426
3	Dorothy	3,403
4	Betty	3,386
5	Margaret	2,845
6	Anna	2,253
7	Ruth	2,074
8	Elizabeth	1,735
9	Jean	1,652
10	Doris	1,516
11	Marie	1,291
12	Catherine	1,205
13	Mildred	1,157
14	Eleanor	1,138
15	Irene	1,060
16	Frances	1,055
17	Florence	1,021
18	Rose	1,001
19	Virginia	998
20	Evelyn	970
21	Gloria	900
22	Alice	898
23	Shirley	874
24	Lois	857
25	Josephine	813
26	Dolores	720
27	Martha	686
28	Jane	684
29	Ann	665
30	Rita	661
31	Lillian	648
32	Grace	628
32	Theresa	628
34	June	620
35	Pauline	604
36	Louise	597
37	Marjorie	573
38	Ethel	552
39	Patricia	540
40	Phyllis	528
41	Marion	519
42	Nancy	515
43	Gladys	512
44	Marian	510
45	Barbara	509
46	Kathryn	506
47	Esther	505
48	Thelma	495
49	Edith	474
50	Norma	469

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,647
2	Robert	5,354
3	William	5,306
4	Joseph	4,108
5	James	3,741
6	Charles	2,900
7	George	2,844
8	Edward	2,403
9	Richard	2,361
10	Thomas	1,795
11	Paul	1,771
12	Frank	1,674
13	Donald	1,661
14	Harry	1,349
15	Walter	1,165
16	Raymond	1,141
17	Harold	1,067
18	Albert	1,001
19	Francis	933
20	David	861
21	Anthony	805
22	Michael	797
23	Jack	769
24	Eugene	748
25	Kenneth	735
26	Ralph	693
27	Henry	671
28	Arthur	638
29	Louis	637
30	Carl	630
31	Stanley	618
32	Howard	577
33	Samuel	573
34	Earl	571
35	Leonard	547
36	Bernard	506
37	Andrew	492
37	Daniel	492
39	Fred	458
40	Clarence	421
41	Norman	417
42	Peter	401
43	Lawrence	391
44	Gerald	387
45	Theodore	377
46	Russell	364
47	Alfred	352
47	Herbert	352
49	Ernest	349
50	Vincent	336