Popular baby names in District of Columbia, 1929

The most popular baby names in District of Columbia in 1929 were Mary for girls (286 babies) and James for boys (269). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 6,754 babies born in District of Columbia in 1929 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 1929

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

Constance: 17 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Jeanne: 30 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Anne: 30 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Delores: 32 babies, 3× the national rate
Sylvia: 19 babies, 3× the national rate
Peggy: 31 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Jane: 33 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Ann: 38 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Joanne: 18 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Margaret: 134 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Bernard: 38 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Francis: 48 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Melvin: 32 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Milton: 16 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Theodore: 22 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Lloyd: 21 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Leon: 16 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Leroy: 25 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in District of Columbia, 1929

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	Mary	286	–	1
2	Betty	151	–	2
3	Margaret	134	–	5
4	Dorothy	105	–	3
5	Doris	100	–	6
6	Barbara	87	↑2	7
7	Helen	83	↓1	4
8	Patricia	83	↑1	10
9	Elizabeth	77	↑1	15
10	Jean	74	↓3	12
11	Shirley	71	–	9
12	Joan	64	↑7	13
13	Dolores	57	↑12	14
14	Frances	50	↓2	16
15	Nancy	45	↑2	32
16	Ruth	43	↓3	8
17	Virginia	42	↑3	11
18	Gloria	41	↓4	28
19	Evelyn	39	↓4	19
20	Ann	38	↑17	46
21	Marie	37	↑1	22
22	Alice	36	↓4	21
23	Catherine	36	↓7	34
24	Marjorie	35	↑12	30
25	Thelma	34	↓4	41
26	Jane	33	new	62
27	Lillian	33	↑4	40
28	Delores	32	↑20	74
29	Louise	32	↓5	31
30	Mildred	31	↓3	18
31	Peggy	31	new	70
32	Anne	30	↓2	91
33	Jeanne	30	↑6	92
34	Joyce	29	new	23
35	Anna	28	↑5	20
36	Marion	28	↓10	53
37	Audrey	27	↓9	58
38	Juanita	26	new	60
39	June	26	↓16	48
40	Florence	24	new	35
41	Gladys	24	new	44
42	Lois	24	↓1	17
43	Bernice	23	↓10	55
44	Eleanor	22	↓9	38
45	Geraldine	22	new	43
46	Edith	21	new	59
47	Katherine	21	↓3	84
48	Rose	21	↓19	26
49	Julia	20	new	88
50	Charlotte	19	new	73

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	James	269	↑2	2
2	William	258	↓1	4
3	John	245	↓1	3
4	Robert	213	–	1
5	Charles	164	–	5
6	Richard	114	–	6
7	Joseph	108	↑1	9
8	George	98	↓1	8
9	Edward	96	↑1	10
10	Thomas	90	↓1	11
11	Donald	73	–	7
12	Paul	54	↑2	13
13	Raymond	50	↑3	15
14	David	49	↓1	17
15	Francis	48	↑2	39
16	Frank	48	↓4	12
17	Harry	43	↑1	27
18	Walter	43	↓3	19
19	Bernard	38	↑8	52
20	Herbert	36	↑10	25
21	Melvin	32	↑11	49
22	Jack	31	↑3	14
23	Albert	30	↓4	24
24	Eugene	30	↑5	20
25	Clarence	29	↑6	37
26	Norman	29	↑14	40
27	Ralph	28	↓7	26
28	Earl	27	↑13	36
29	Lawrence	27	↓3	38
30	Leroy	25	↑12	51
31	Henry	24	↓9	21
32	Harold	23	↑13	16
33	Arthur	22	↓12	22
34	Theodore	22	new	65
35	Lloyd	21	new	62
36	Alfred	20	↓12	41
37	Carl	19	new	28
38	Samuel	19	↓3	53
39	Andrew	18	new	59
40	Louis	18	↓17	32
41	Ernest	17	↓5	43
42	Kenneth	17	↓8	18
43	Roy	17	new	35
44	Stanley	17	↓6	48
45	Anthony	16	new	44
46	Frederick	16	↓2	67
47	Leon	16	↓19	81
48	Milton	16	↓11	94
49	Michael	15	new	54
50	Howard	14	↓17	31

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