Popular baby names in District of Columbia, 1922

The most popular baby names in District of Columbia in 1922 were Mary for girls (347 babies) and William for boys (288). William ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 6,648 babies born in District of Columbia in 1922 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 1922

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

Audrey: 39 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Catherine: 75 babies, 3× the national rate
Gloria: 36 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Nancy: 28 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Marguerite: 21 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Jeanne: 22 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Anne: 28 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Patricia: 27 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Jean: 61 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Jane: 30 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Francis: 44 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Frederick: 24 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Milton: 15 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in District of Columbia, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	347	–	1
2	Margaret	163	↑1	4
3	Dorothy	150	↓1	2
4	Helen	127	–	3
5	Ruth	93	↑5	5
6	Frances	88	↑1	10
7	Elizabeth	84	↓2	9
8	Doris	81	↓2	11
9	Mildred	76	↓1	8
10	Catherine	75	↑1	24
11	Evelyn	75	↓2	13
12	Betty	73	↑4	6
13	Virginia	67	–	7
14	Jean	61	↑11	20
15	Alice	52	↑3	15
16	Anna	44	↓2	12
17	Audrey	39	↑20	89
18	Louise	38	↓6	22
19	Marie	38	↑14	14
20	Bernice	36	↑18	41
21	Gloria	36	↑23	61
22	Edith	33	↑6	34
23	Gladys	32	↓1	25
24	Ann	30	↑12	49
25	Jane	30	↑6	55
26	Lillian	29	↓9	19
27	Lois	29	new	35
28	Thelma	29	↓13	31
29	Anne	28	↑14	66
30	Barbara	28	↓3	40
31	June	28	↑18	45
32	Nancy	28	↑3	78
33	Ethel	27	↓9	32
34	Patricia	27	↑8	69
35	Marjorie	26	↓16	16
36	Norma	26	new	46
37	Eleanor	25	↓17	28
38	Katherine	25	↓6	54
39	Shirley	25	↑7	39
40	Marion	23	↓6	42
41	Florence	22	↓20	18
42	Jeanne	22	new	97
43	Grace	21	↓14	38
44	Josephine	21	↑1	27
45	Marguerite	21	new	>100
46	Vivian	21	new	74
47	Geraldine	20	new	58
48	Ida	20	new	65
49	Rose	20	↓23	23
50	Edna	19	↓3	29

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	William	288	–	3
2	John	271	–	1
3	James	253	–	4
4	Robert	187	–	2
5	Charles	141	–	5
6	Joseph	125	–	7
7	George	121	–	6
8	Richard	94	↑2	9
9	Edward	93	↓1	8
10	Thomas	77	↓1	11
11	Paul	52	↑3	14
12	Raymond	52	↓1	16
13	Harry	48	↑2	22
14	Frank	47	↑4	10
15	Francis	44	↓3	34
16	Harold	42	↑18	13
17	Arthur	37	↑14	19
18	Albert	35	↑2	20
19	Walter	35	↓6	15
20	Donald	33	↑4	12
21	David	32	↓5	24
22	Lawrence	32	↑15	36
23	Ernest	31	↑13	37
24	Henry	28	↓3	17
25	Jack	27	↑10	18
26	Louis	27	↓1	27
27	Ralph	27	↓4	23
28	Earl	26	↑1	31
29	Eugene	25	↑9	25
30	Daniel	24	↑10	47
31	Frederick	24	↑8	60
32	Kenneth	24	new	21
33	Samuel	23	–	43
34	Herbert	22	↓12	40
35	Norman	22	↓7	44
36	Stanley	22	new	41
37	Clarence	20	↓10	29
38	Howard	20	↓12	26
39	Bernard	19	↓20	46
40	Melvin	18	↓10	50
41	Alfred	17	↑1	42
42	Leroy	17	↑5	55
43	Carl	16	↓11	30
44	Edwin	16	↑5	52
45	Lloyd	15	new	59
46	Milton	15	↓5	74
47	Phillip	14	new	>100
48	Theodore	14	↓3	62
49	Leonard	13	↓3	38
50	Roy	13	new	32

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