Popular baby names in District of Columbia, 1927

The most popular baby names in District of Columbia in 1927 were Mary for girls (348 babies) and John for boys (309). John ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 7,068 babies born in District of Columbia in 1927 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 1927

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: 32 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Anne: 29 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Vivian: 29 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Jean: 92 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Elizabeth: 90 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Audrey: 32 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Barbara: 92 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Catherine: 50 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Sylvia: 16 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Patricia: 70 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Maurice: 16 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Milton: 20 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Francis: 47 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Bernard: 35 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Philip: 18 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Melvin: 27 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Alvin: 18 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in District of Columbia, 1927

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Mary	348	–	1
2	Dorothy	143	–	2
3	Betty	139	–	3
4	Margaret	130	–	5
5	Helen	118	–	4
6	Barbara	92	↑3	10
7	Jean	92	↑3	14
8	Elizabeth	90	↓1	13
9	Doris	79	↓3	7
10	Patricia	70	↑6	18
11	Ruth	70	↓3	6
12	Frances	67	↑1	12
13	Shirley	60	↓1	9
14	Virginia	55	↑6	8
15	Gloria	54	↓4	22
16	Mildred	52	↑1	11
17	Catherine	50	↓2	31
18	Alice	49	↓4	17
19	Marie	43	↑5	20
20	Evelyn	39	↓2	15
21	Marjorie	38	↑9	25
22	Thelma	35	↑3	38
23	Anna	32	↓2	16
24	Audrey	32	↑15	62
25	Jeanne	32	↑4	85
26	Lillian	32	↑8	32
27	Lois	32	↑9	19
28	Louise	31	↓9	27
29	Rose	31	↓2	23
30	Lorraine	30	new	44
31	Anne	29	↑16	92
32	Gladys	29	↑5	37
33	Vivian	29	↓7	77
34	June	28	↑15	43
35	Nancy	28	↓2	56
36	Ethel	27	new	47
37	Edith	26	new	48
38	Eleanor	26	new	33
39	Dolores	25	↑1	34
40	Jane	25	↓18	60
41	Joan	23	new	41
42	Phyllis	23	↓4	29
43	Ann	22	–	59
44	Bernice	22	↑6	49
45	Florence	22	↓17	28
46	Katherine	21	new	73
47	Marion	20	↓15	51
48	Beverly	19	new	57
49	Elaine	19	↓1	69
50	Edna	18	new	40

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	John	309	↑1	2
2	William	290	↓1	4
3	Robert	245	↑1	1
4	James	241	↓1	3
5	Charles	134	–	5
6	George	119	–	7
7	Richard	118	↑1	6
8	Joseph	116	↓1	9
9	Thomas	91	–	11
10	Edward	82	–	10
11	Raymond	69	↑6	15
12	Donald	64	↑2	8
13	Paul	57	↓2	13
14	David	50	↑1	21
15	Francis	47	↑5	36
16	Frank	46	↓4	12
17	Harry	46	↓1	25
18	Walter	44	↓5	17
19	Ralph	42	↑21	24
20	Jack	38	↑8	16
21	Albert	36	↑1	23
22	Bernard	35	↓4	50
23	Henry	35	↓2	19
24	Clarence	34	↑1	32
25	Arthur	32	↓1	22
26	Lawrence	31	↑3	37
27	Louis	31	↓4	29
28	Earl	30	↑10	33
29	Harold	28	↓2	14
30	Herbert	27	new	42
31	Melvin	27	↓5	48
32	Ernest	26	↑13	41
33	Eugene	26	↓14	20
34	Stanley	25	↓3	44
35	Howard	23	↓1	28
36	Milton	20	new	88
37	Samuel	20	↑5	49
38	Daniel	19	↓5	46
39	Norman	19	↓9	39
40	Alvin	18	new	66
41	Carl	18	↓9	26
42	Frederick	18	↑1	64
43	Gerald	18	new	38
44	Leroy	18	↓3	51
45	Philip	18	new	75
46	Alfred	17	↓10	45
47	Theodore	17	↓12	62
48	Andrew	16	new	56
49	Kenneth	16	↓10	18
50	Leon	16	↓1	78

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