Popular baby names in District of Columbia, 1919

The most popular baby names in District of Columbia in 1919 were Mary for girls (274 babies) and William for boys (241). William ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 5,634 babies born in District of Columbia in 1919 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 1919

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

Ellen: 27 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Marion: 40 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Barbara: 31 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Audrey: 16 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Elizabeth: 112 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Vivian: 27 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Charlotte: 24 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Nancy: 18 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Margaret: 162 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Bernice: 35 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Wilbur: 17 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Francis: 45 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Bernard: 31 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Milton: 19 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Melvin: 24 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Benjamin: 16 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Frederick: 18 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Samuel: 27 babies, 2.2× the national rate
William: 241 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in District of Columbia, 1919

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Mary	274	–	1
2	Dorothy	162	–	3
3	Margaret	162	–	4
4	Helen	129	–	2
5	Elizabeth	112	↑1	8
6	Frances	87	↑1	9
7	Ruth	86	↓2	5
8	Evelyn	69	↑1	11
9	Virginia	66	↓1	7
10	Mildred	60	–	6
11	Doris	52	–	18
12	Catherine	46	↑4	23
13	Alice	43	↓1	13
14	Edith	42	↑6	29
15	Marion	40	↑11	44
16	Eleanor	38	↑1	30
17	Marie	38	↓2	12
18	Thelma	38	–	31
19	Anna	36	↓5	10
20	Bernice	35	↑24	42
21	Lillian	35	↑3	17
22	Jean	33	↑8	37
23	Betty	32	↓1	15
24	Barbara	31	↑1	60
25	Gladys	31	new	21
26	Florence	30	↓13	14
27	Louise	30	↓8	20
28	Ellen	27	↑12	92
29	Vivian	27	new	72
30	Ethel	26	↑3	28
31	Beatrice	25	↑18	41
32	Charlotte	24	↑6	79
33	Gertrude	24	↓12	39
34	Anne	22	↑3	63
35	Lorraine	22	↑11	62
36	Josephine	21	↑14	26
37	Martha	21	↓9	25
38	Jane	20	↓15	53
39	Katherine	20	↑3	51
40	Elsie	19	new	47
41	Esther	19	↑4	38
42	Lucille	19	new	27
43	Marjorie	19	↓16	33
44	Ann	18	↓8	49
45	Grace	18	↓4	34
46	Nancy	18	new	100
47	Rose	17	↓18	19
48	Sylvia	17	new	77
49	Annie	16	new	35
50	Audrey	16	↓11	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	William	241	–	2
2	John	223	–	1
3	James	181	–	3
4	Robert	170	–	4
5	Charles	135	–	5
6	George	124	↑1	6
7	Joseph	117	↓1	7
8	Edward	86	↑1	8
9	Thomas	72	↑1	10
10	Richard	64	↓2	12
11	Raymond	50	↑5	14
12	Francis	45	↓1	34
13	Harry	43	↓1	20
14	Walter	42	↑3	11
15	Frank	37	↓2	9
16	Paul	34	↓2	15
17	Louis	33	↑7	28
18	Albert	32	↑4	18
19	Arthur	32	↓1	19
20	Bernard	31	↓5	45
21	Jack	30	↑5	21
22	Donald	29	↓3	17
23	Ralph	28	↓2	22
24	Clarence	27	↑10	25
25	Earl	27	↑11	31
26	Samuel	27	↑13	43
27	Henry	26	↓7	16
28	David	25	↓5	27
29	Melvin	24	↑13	56
30	Milton	19	↑13	73
31	Alfred	18	new	42
32	Frederick	18	–	64
33	Carl	17	–	29
34	Edwin	17	↑7	52
35	Wilbur	17	new	98
36	Benjamin	16	↑8	79
37	Howard	15	↓6	24
38	Kenneth	15	↓1	26
39	Daniel	14	↑1	51
40	Ernest	14	↓15	36
41	Harold	14	↓12	13
42	Norman	14	↓14	48
43	Leroy	13	new	55
44	Lewis	13	↑4	74
45	Philip	13	new	71
46	Herbert	12	↓16	40
47	Leonard	12	↓12	39
48	Michael	12	new	46
49	Andrew	11	new	47
50	Sidney	11	new	96

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