Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Texas, 1923

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	3,246
2	Dorothy	1,951
3	Maria	965
4	Helen	926
5	Margaret	773
6	Frances	765
7	Doris	746
8	Ruby	743
9	Mildred	728
10	Ruth	725
11	Betty	646
12	Juanita	626
13	Virginia	589
14	Evelyn	547
15	Willie	502
16	Annie	499
17	Martha	461
18	Alice	405
19	Gladys	392
20	Edna	381
21	Billie	366
22	Elizabeth	362
22	Louise	362
24	Thelma	357
25	Lois	347
26	Marjorie	346
27	Marie	345
28	Hazel	341
29	Lillian	322
30	Pauline	320
31	Emma	312
32	Margie	305
33	Wanda	296
34	Irene	294
35	Bernice	290
36	Anna	286
37	Eva	276
38	Lillie	271
39	Josephine	262
40	Bertha	260
41	Beatrice	256
42	Clara	255
42	Edith	255
44	Lucille	254
45	Norma	248
46	Ethel	247
47	Jessie	246
48	Guadalupe	245
49	Rosa	238
50	Julia	237

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,735
2	William	1,994
3	John	1,918
4	Robert	1,618
5	Charles	1,090
6	George	955
7	Joe	850
8	Jack	770
9	Jose	656
10	Thomas	642
11	Frank	575
12	Willie	531
13	Henry	512
14	Raymond	509
15	Edward	495
16	Billy	491
17	Richard	456
18	Roy	443
19	Walter	437
20	Manuel	422
21	David	413
22	Joseph	383
23	Juan	376
24	Harold	373
25	Albert	367
26	Jesus	343
27	Paul	341
28	Clarence	339
29	Louis	320
30	Jesse	291
31	Arthur	288
31	Fred	288
33	Earl	258
34	Eugene	255
35	Ernest	252
36	Antonio	243
36	Carl	243
38	Ralph	240
39	Howard	234
40	Kenneth	232
41	Marvin	227
42	Lee	223
43	Samuel	221
44	Pedro	215
45	Melvin	211
46	Edwin	210
47	Charlie	206
47	Leroy	206
49	Lawrence	203
50	Johnnie	201