Popular baby names in California, 1926

The most popular baby names in California in 1926 were Mary for girls (1,721 babies) and Robert for boys (2,485). Social Security records list 72,909 babies born in California in 1926 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in California in 1926

Names given at least 15 times in California that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Toshiko: 19 babies, 16.4× the national rate
Catalina: 40 babies, 14.4× the national rate
Yoshiko: 27 babies, 12.8× the national rate
Concha: 20 babies, 10.9× the national rate
Esperanza: 66 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Lupe: 110 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Consuelo: 83 babies, 8× the national rate
Socorro: 38 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Josefina: 44 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Carmen: 203 babies, 7× the national rate

Boys

Kiyoshi: 22 babies, 14.1× the national rate
Joaquin: 21 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Salvador: 84 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Angel: 36 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Fernando: 36 babies, 8× the national rate
Ignacio: 34 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Guillermo: 26 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Jesus: 170 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Enrique: 37 babies, 7× the national rate
Hector: 34 babies, 7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in California, 1926

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Mary	1,721	–	1
2	Betty	1,359	–	3
3	Barbara	1,306	–	16
4	Dorothy	975	–	2
5	Margaret	725	↑2	5
6	Helen	718	↓1	4
7	Patricia	718	↑1	23
8	Virginia	625	↓2	8
9	Ruth	585	–	6
10	Shirley	499	↑2	14
11	Gloria	495	↓1	20
12	Frances	440	↓1	10
13	Jean	419	–	12
14	Alice	393	–	17
15	Doris	366	–	7
16	Beverly	362	↑11	74
17	Marjorie	362	↓1	22
18	Lois	352	–	19
19	Evelyn	344	–	13
20	June	334	↓3	40
21	Marie	305	↑2	18
22	Dolores	303	↑9	49
23	Elizabeth	302	↓3	11
24	Maria	300	↓3	>100
25	Norma	280	↑4	29
26	Josephine	263	↓1	37
27	Marilyn	261	↑7	65
28	Eleanor	259	↓4	32
29	Rose	254	↑1	25
30	Phyllis	250	↓4	33
31	Joyce	248	↑12	44
32	Irene	240	↑1	21
33	Lorraine	240	↓11	53
34	Nancy	236	↑5	57
35	Esther	229	–	62
36	Mildred	229	↓8	9
37	Lillian	225	↑1	28
38	Carmen	203	↓2	>100
39	Martha	194	↑5	24
40	Florence	192	↓8	26
41	Louise	175	–	27
42	Marian	173	↓5	70
43	Jacqueline	171	↑5	>100
44	Lucille	168	↓4	43
45	Joan	165	new	51
46	Grace	159	↑4	46
47	Anna	158	↓5	15
48	Geraldine	156	↑1	54
49	Pauline	156	new	39
50	Audrey	154	new	60

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Robert	2,485	–	1
2	John	1,648	–	2
3	William	1,492	–	4
4	Richard	1,331	↑1	7
5	James	1,124	↓1	3
6	Donald	982	↑1	9
7	George	951	↓1	6
8	Charles	796	–	5
9	Frank	725	–	12
10	Jack	670	–	16
11	Edward	578	–	10
12	Raymond	480	↑3	15
13	Joe	436	↑4	33
14	David	433	–	22
15	Paul	428	↑5	13
16	Albert	419	↑6	21
17	Thomas	408	↓4	11
18	Joseph	407	↓6	8
19	Arthur	403	↓1	20
20	Kenneth	391	↓1	18
21	Walter	360	↑3	17
22	Harold	346	↓6	14
23	Henry	338	–	19
24	Manuel	319	↓3	>100
25	Ralph	303	–	24
26	Eugene	299	↑1	23
27	Fred	276	↑1	31
28	Harry	266	↓2	25
29	Ernest	249	–	37
30	Louis	246	↑3	30
31	Bill	218	↑1	74
32	Stanley	216	↑2	43
33	Roy	215	↓3	34
34	Jose	209	↑4	>100
35	Alfred	208	↓4	45
36	Bob	208	↑7	>100
37	Norman	204	↓1	39
38	Howard	196	↓3	27
39	Peter	194	↑7	58
40	Gerald	184	↑4	41
41	Lawrence	184	↓2	36
42	Daniel	182	↓5	46
43	Carl	180	↓1	26
44	Don	173	new	96
45	Jesus	170	–	>100
46	Earl	162	↓6	32
47	Tony	160	↓6	>100
48	Ronald	157	new	88
49	Gordon	151	new	76
50	Leonard	150	↓1	38

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