Popular baby names in District of Columbia, 1926

The most popular baby names in District of Columbia in 1926 were Mary for girls (294 babies) and William for boys (283). William ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 6,843 babies born in District of Columbia in 1926 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 1926

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

Jeanne: 30 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Vivian: 33 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Constance: 15 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Jane: 37 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Barbara: 84 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Elizabeth: 95 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Catherine: 55 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Anne: 21 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Gloria: 60 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Patricia: 54 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Bernard: 38 babies, 3× the national rate
Rudolph: 15 babies, 3× the national rate
Melvin: 30 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Theodore: 22 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Lewis: 17 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Calvin: 20 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Warren: 17 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in District of Columbia, 1926

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Mary	294	–	1
2	Dorothy	138	↑1	2
3	Betty	123	↑2	3
4	Margaret	121	↓2	5
5	Helen	106	↓1	4
6	Doris	101	↑2	7
7	Elizabeth	95	↓1	11
8	Ruth	90	↓1	6
9	Barbara	84	↑11	16
10	Jean	65	↓1	12
11	Gloria	60	↓1	20
12	Shirley	60	↑9	14
13	Frances	59	↓2	10
14	Alice	55	↑1	17
15	Catherine	55	↓2	31
16	Patricia	54	–	23
17	Mildred	53	↑2	9
18	Evelyn	51	↓6	13
19	Louise	44	↑4	27
20	Virginia	42	↓3	8
21	Anna	40	↑1	15
22	Jane	37	↑7	56
23	Grace	34	↑14	46
24	Marie	33	↓6	18
25	Thelma	33	↓11	36
26	Vivian	33	new	80
27	Rose	32	↓3	25
28	Florence	30	↓3	26
29	Jeanne	30	↑11	88
30	Marjorie	28	↓4	22
31	Martha	28	↑3	24
32	Marion	27	↑7	47
33	Nancy	27	↑3	57
34	Lillian	26	↓4	28
35	Irene	25	new	21
36	Lois	25	↑6	19
37	Gladys	24	new	35
38	Phyllis	24	new	33
39	Audrey	23	↑5	60
40	Dolores	23	new	49
41	Lucille	23	new	43
42	Marian	23	↑8	70
43	Ann	22	↓8	55
44	Josephine	22	new	37
45	Juanita	22	↓7	52
46	Pauline	22	new	39
47	Anne	21	↓4	86
48	Elaine	21	new	68
49	June	21	↓22	40
50	Bernice	20	↓19	45

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	William	283	–	4
2	John	278	–	2
3	James	248	↑1	3
4	Robert	242	↓1	1
5	Charles	164	↑1	5
6	George	139	↑1	6
7	Joseph	102	↓2	8
8	Richard	100	–	7
9	Thomas	98	–	11
10	Edward	75	–	10
11	Paul	56	↑1	13
12	Frank	54	↑5	12
13	Walter	49	↑8	17
14	Donald	48	↓3	9
15	David	47	–	22
16	Harry	45	↑4	25
17	Raymond	41	↓4	15
18	Bernard	38	↑9	49
19	Eugene	35	↑5	23
20	Francis	35	↓6	35
21	Henry	35	↑4	19
22	Albert	32	↓6	21
23	Louis	32	↑5	30
24	Arthur	31	↓2	20
25	Clarence	31	↓2	29
26	Melvin	30	↑6	47
27	Harold	28	↑4	14
28	Jack	27	↓10	16
29	Lawrence	27	↑9	36
30	Norman	23	↑9	39
31	Stanley	23	↑4	43
32	Carl	22	↑11	26
33	Daniel	22	–	46
34	Howard	22	↑8	27
35	Theodore	22	↑9	63
36	Alfred	21	↑12	45
37	Calvin	20	↓7	65
38	Earl	20	↓2	32
39	Kenneth	20	↓13	18
40	Ralph	20	↓21	24
41	Leroy	19	↑5	51
42	Samuel	19	↓13	48
43	Frederick	18	↓3	64
44	Leonard	18	↓3	38
45	Ernest	17	↓8	37
46	Fred	17	↓1	31
47	Lewis	17	new	82
48	Warren	17	new	71
49	Leon	16	new	73
50	Rudolph	15	new	>100

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