Popular baby names in District of Columbia, 1921

The most popular baby names in District of Columbia in 1921 were Mary for girls (362 babies) and William for boys (284). William ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 6,430 babies born in District of Columbia in 1921 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 1921

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

Miriam: 16 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Nancy: 25 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Catherine: 63 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Gloria: 19 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Thelma: 48 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Audrey: 21 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Marguerite: 18 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Doris: 79 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Louise: 55 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Patricia: 20 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Bernard: 38 babies, 3× the national rate
Francis: 50 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Milton: 19 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Melvin: 26 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Frederick: 22 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Herbert: 32 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Norman: 27 babies, 2.1× the national rate
David: 44 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in District of Columbia, 1921

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	362	–	1
2	Dorothy	157	–	2
3	Margaret	146	–	4
4	Helen	95	–	3
5	Elizabeth	82	↑1	10
6	Doris	79	↑2	13
7	Frances	79	↑4	9
8	Mildred	79	↓1	7
9	Evelyn	70	↑1	12
10	Ruth	68	↓5	5
11	Catherine	63	↓2	23
12	Louise	55	↑3	22
13	Virginia	51	↓1	6
14	Anna	49	↑12	11
15	Thelma	48	↑3	30
16	Betty	45	↑3	8
17	Lillian	44	↓1	19
18	Alice	42	↓4	15
19	Marjorie	39	↓2	16
20	Eleanor	36	–	29
21	Florence	34	↑9	17
22	Gladys	34	↑1	24
23	Martha	34	↑23	21
24	Ethel	33	↑15	32
25	Jean	31	↓1	25
26	Rose	30	↑24	20
27	Barbara	29	↓2	40
28	Edith	29	↓6	33
29	Grace	29	↑2	35
30	Gertrude	28	↑15	46
31	Jane	28	↓3	47
32	Katherine	26	↑5	49
33	Marie	25	↓20	14
34	Marion	25	↓2	43
35	Nancy	25	new	87
36	Ann	24	new	53
37	Audrey	21	new	82
38	Bernice	21	↓2	39
39	Agnes	20	↑8	56
40	Charlotte	20	↓13	79
41	Juanita	20	new	57
42	Patricia	20	new	84
43	Anne	19	↓9	70
44	Gloria	19	new	>100
45	Josephine	19	↑3	28
46	Shirley	19	↓8	44
47	Edna	18	↓14	27
48	Irene	18	new	18
49	June	18	↓20	50
50	Lucille	18	↓15	31

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	William	284	–	3
2	John	240	–	1
3	James	239	–	4
4	Robert	190	–	2
5	Charles	140	↑1	5
6	Joseph	139	↑1	7
7	George	129	↓2	6
8	Edward	78	↑2	8
9	Thomas	73	–	11
10	Richard	60	↓2	10
11	Raymond	53	–	16
12	Francis	50	↑2	35
13	Walter	48	↑7	15
14	Paul	46	↑1	14
15	Harry	45	↓2	21
16	David	44	↑12	25
17	Warren	41	↑9	24
18	Frank	40	↓6	9
19	Bernard	38	↓1	45
20	Albert	36	↓4	20
21	Henry	34	↓4	17
22	Herbert	32	new	42
23	Ralph	32	↑2	23
24	Donald	30	↓5	13
25	Louis	30	↓1	29
26	Howard	28	↑10	27
27	Clarence	27	↑3	28
28	Norman	27	↑3	46
29	Earl	26	↑16	31
30	Melvin	26	↓1	53
31	Arthur	25	↓4	19
32	Carl	25	↑15	30
33	Samuel	25	–	44
34	Harold	24	↓2	12
35	Jack	24	↓14	18
36	Ernest	23	↓14	38
37	Lawrence	23	↑13	37
38	Eugene	22	↑1	26
39	Frederick	22	↓16	61
40	Daniel	21	↓6	49
41	Milton	19	↓3	75
42	Alfred	17	↑2	43
43	Fred	16	↑6	33
44	Russell	16	new	52
45	Theodore	15	↓2	65
46	Leonard	14	↓9	39
47	Leroy	14	↓6	55
48	Benjamin	12	↓13	82
49	Edwin	12	↓1	54
50	Vincent	12	new	70

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