Popular baby names in District of Columbia, 1915

The most popular baby names in District of Columbia in 1915 were Mary for girls (195 babies) and John for boys (152). Social Security records list 3,948 babies born in District of Columbia in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in District of Columbia in 1915

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

Girls

Rita: 19 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Bernice: 30 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Elizabeth: 81 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Catherine: 45 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Marguerite: 15 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Louise: 44 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Eleanor: 36 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Jane: 17 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Dorothy: 121 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Evelyn: 56 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Frederick: 23 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Francis: 37 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Bernard: 22 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Richard: 52 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Thomas: 62 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Alfred: 20 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Charles: 92 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in District of Columbia, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	195	–	1
2	Dorothy	121	–	3
3	Helen	102	↑1	2
4	Margaret	92	↓1	4
5	Elizabeth	81	↑1	8
6	Ruth	68	↓1	5
7	Evelyn	56	↑3	10
8	Frances	51	–	9
9	Virginia	51	↑3	12
10	Mildred	47	↑4	6
11	Catherine	45	↓4	19
12	Louise	44	↓3	18
13	Eleanor	36	↑12	28
14	Thelma	34	↓3	30
15	Anna	33	↑2	7
16	Bernice	30	↑7	42
17	Doris	30	↑23	34
18	Lillian	30	↓3	15
19	Marie	30	↓3	11
20	Edith	29	↑2	31
21	Ethel	29	↓3	23
22	Florence	29	↓3	14
23	Grace	29	↑6	27
24	Alice	26	↓11	13
25	Gertrude	24	↑21	35
26	Marion	21	↑1	50
27	Gladys	20	↓6	21
28	Rose	20	↑21	16
29	Rita	19	new	71
30	Esther	18	↑14	33
31	Jane	17	↑10	69
32	Martha	17	↑5	25
33	Anne	16	↑3	52
34	Agnes	15	↑16	45
35	Betty	15	new	53
36	Edna	15	↓12	20
37	Marguerite	15	new	85
38	Marjorie	15	↓3	39
39	Jean	14	↓8	48
40	Sylvia	14	new	67
41	Ann	13	new	43
42	Naomi	13	new	>100
43	Pauline	13	↑5	32
44	Sarah	13	↓18	51
45	Charlotte	12	new	81
46	Elsie	12	↓13	41
47	Ida	12	new	54
48	Josephine	12	↓18	22
49	Julia	12	↓7	44
50	Miriam	12	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	John	152	↑1	1
2	William	142	↓1	2
3	James	130	–	3
4	Charles	92	–	7
5	George	82	–	6
6	Joseph	82	–	5
7	Robert	78	–	4
8	Thomas	62	–	10
9	Richard	52	↑1	15
10	Frank	46	↑9	9
11	Edward	44	↓2	8
12	Walter	38	–	11
13	Francis	37	↑4	29
14	Raymond	32	↓3	16
15	Harry	29	↑1	19
16	Albert	28	↑13	17
17	Paul	28	↓2	13
18	Frederick	23	↑17	52
19	Henry	23	↓5	14
20	Bernard	22	↓2	48
21	Alfred	20	↑5	42
22	Arthur	19	↓2	18
23	Eugene	17	↑8	41
24	Ralph	16	↓2	21
25	Samuel	16	↓12	39
26	Louis	15	↓3	23
27	Ernest	14	↓6	35
28	Lawrence	13	–	37
29	Melvin	13	new	60
30	Herbert	12	new	40
31	Norman	12	↑1	50
32	Carl	11	new	22
33	Daniel	11	↑15	55
34	Earl	11	↓10	33
35	Edgar	11	new	85
36	Harold	11	–	12
37	Leonard	11	↑7	44
38	Michael	11	new	43
39	Milton	11	↑6	73
40	Theodore	11	↑6	64
41	Clarence	10	↓14	24
42	Leroy	10	↓5	66
43	Philip	10	↓10	69
44	Roy	10	new	32
45	David	9	↓15	31
46	Irving	9	new	>100
47	Warren	9	new	>100
48	Edwin	8	new	53
49	Howard	8	↓7	25
50	Lewis	8	↓1	70

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