Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Pennsylvania, 1936

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	3,933
2	Shirley	2,742
3	Patricia	2,284
4	Barbara	2,196
5	Joan	2,067
6	Nancy	1,985
7	Margaret	1,571
8	Dorothy	1,465
9	Betty	1,274
10	Helen	1,133
11	Dolores	1,069
12	Janet	992
13	Ruth	955
14	Elizabeth	925
15	Carol	921
16	Jean	885
17	Anna	812
18	Doris	760
19	Marie	718
20	Lois	689
21	Rose	670
22	Donna	636
23	Ann	632
24	Virginia	615
25	Phyllis	607
26	Catherine	605
27	Marlene	601
28	Frances	594
29	Joyce	590
30	Eleanor	589
31	Alice	543
31	Beverly	543
33	Marilyn	542
34	Geraldine	494
35	Joanne	488
36	Jane	471
37	Gloria	467
38	Elaine	437
39	Martha	418
40	Sandra	417
41	Theresa	412
42	Norma	404
43	Evelyn	403
44	Arlene	393
44	Florence	393
46	Janice	388
47	Audrey	373
48	Carolyn	366
49	Rita	360
50	Eileen	353

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	5,286
2	John	4,910
3	James	3,908
4	William	3,682
5	Richard	3,116
6	Joseph	2,731
7	Donald	2,440
8	Charles	2,262
9	Thomas	1,959
10	George	1,749
11	Ronald	1,699
12	Edward	1,624
13	David	1,302
14	Paul	1,221
15	Frank	934
16	Kenneth	921
17	Raymond	816
18	Harry	804
19	Michael	665
20	Gerald	652
21	Francis	643
22	Walter	627
23	Carl	606
24	Albert	556
25	Anthony	551
26	Eugene	550
27	Jack	534
28	Harold	527
29	Daniel	472
30	Ralph	454
31	Arthur	436
32	Fred	423
33	Louis	413
34	Henry	385
35	Lawrence	380
36	Bernard	373
36	Larry	373
38	Howard	369
39	Leonard	360
40	Stanley	354
41	Samuel	342
42	Earl	336
43	Norman	322
44	Andrew	318
45	Frederick	310
46	Wayne	299
47	Theodore	283
48	Peter	277
49	Philip	262
50	Glenn	260