Popular baby names in District of Columbia, 1931

The most popular baby names in District of Columbia in 1931 were Mary for girls (257 babies) and Robert for boys (286). Social Security records list 7,070 babies born in District of Columbia in 1931 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 1931

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

Delores: 52 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Constance: 23 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Harriet: 15 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Sylvia: 17 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Jean: 91 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Anne: 25 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Jeanne: 21 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Barbara: 173 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Jane: 36 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Ann: 46 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Roland: 19 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Bernard: 30 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Frederick: 18 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Francis: 33 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Philip: 19 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Alvin: 16 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Theodore: 18 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in District of Columbia, 1931

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Mary	257	–	1
2	Barbara	173	↑1	4
3	Betty	142	↓1	2
4	Margaret	129	↑1	7
5	Patricia	113	↑1	8
6	Dorothy	112	↓2	3
7	Joan	111	↑4	5
8	Doris	94	↓1	10
9	Jean	91	↑1	13
10	Helen	82	↓2	6
11	Shirley	79	↑3	9
12	Elizabeth	69	↓3	16
13	Nancy	59	–	17
14	Dolores	58	↓2	14
15	Delores	52	↑12	58
16	Frances	48	–	18
17	Gloria	48	–	23
18	Ann	46	↑13	35
19	Joyce	40	↑19	15
20	Ruth	40	↓2	11
21	Alice	37	↑2	21
22	Catherine	37	↓7	36
23	Jane	36	↑24	50
24	Evelyn	34	↓3	24
25	Lorraine	34	new	49
26	Mildred	32	↓1	26
27	Norma	31	↑15	22
28	Grace	29	↑18	70
29	Lois	28	↓5	20
30	Marie	28	↓2	27
31	Peggy	28	↑12	42
32	Joanne	26	new	68
33	Thelma	26	↑7	53
34	Virginia	26	↓15	12
35	Anne	25	↓13	80
36	June	25	↓7	44
37	Jacqueline	24	↓5	78
38	Janet	24	new	45
39	Constance	23	new	>100
40	Edith	23	new	65
41	Louise	23	↓21	33
42	Rose	23	↓16	30
43	Audrey	22	↓13	64
44	Juanita	22	↓9	57
45	Florence	21	↓8	43
46	Jeanne	21	↓5	98
47	Martha	21	new	28
48	Phyllis	21	↓4	29
49	Anna	20	↓13	25
50	Marjorie	20	new	34

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Robert	286	↑1	1
2	John	265	↑2	3
3	William	262	↓2	4
4	James	221	↓1	2
5	Charles	181	–	6
6	Richard	128	↑1	5
7	Donald	111	↑2	7
8	George	107	↓2	8
9	Thomas	104	↑1	10
10	Joseph	103	↓2	9
11	Edward	72	–	11
12	David	61	↑2	13
13	Raymond	51	↓1	17
14	Paul	49	↓1	12
15	Walter	43	↑1	20
16	Frank	36	↓1	16
17	Harry	34	–	30
18	Clarence	33	↑8	39
19	Francis	33	↓1	42
20	Herbert	31	↑1	41
21	Lawrence	31	↑12	38
22	Arthur	30	–	23
23	Bernard	30	↓3	54
24	Carl	29	↓1	28
25	Albert	28	↓6	24
26	Eugene	28	↓2	21
27	Kenneth	28	↓2	14
28	Jack	27	↑4	15
29	Norman	27	new	36
30	Ralph	27	↑5	25
31	Stanley	26	↑15	49
32	Howard	25	↑6	34
33	Fred	24	new	33
34	Henry	24	↓5	22
35	Harold	23	↓8	18
36	Michael	23	↑7	55
37	Louis	22	↓9	37
38	Alfred	21	↓2	50
39	Earl	21	↑10	40
40	Ernest	21	↓3	47
41	Gerald	19	new	26
42	Leroy	19	↓3	52
43	Melvin	19	↓13	51
44	Philip	19	new	71
45	Roland	19	–	>100
46	Ronald	19	new	27
47	Daniel	18	new	44
48	Frederick	18	↓6	73
49	Roy	18	new	35
50	Samuel	18	↓19	56

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