Popular baby names in District of Columbia, 1932

The most popular baby names in District of Columbia in 1932 were Mary for girls (310 babies) and Robert for boys (299). Social Security records list 7,627 babies born in District of Columbia in 1932 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 1932

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: 59 babies, 4× the national rate
Jeanne: 26 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Jean: 120 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Barbara: 246 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Jacqueline: 25 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Elizabeth: 81 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Audrey: 30 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Gloria: 58 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Jane: 33 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Anne: 22 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Boys

Maurice: 25 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Benjamin: 16 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Theodore: 26 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Milton: 16 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Francis: 40 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Frederick: 23 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Alvin: 21 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Roland: 15 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Bernard: 28 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Stanley: 31 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in District of Columbia, 1932

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Mary	310	–	1
2	Barbara	246	–	3
3	Patricia	124	↑2	6
4	Jean	120	↑5	15
5	Joan	120	↑2	5
6	Margaret	108	↓2	7
7	Dorothy	106	↓1	4
8	Shirley	101	↑3	9
9	Betty	96	↓6	2
10	Doris	86	↓2	10
11	Elizabeth	81	↑1	17
12	Helen	78	↓2	8
13	Nancy	70	–	13
14	Delores	59	↑1	56
15	Gloria	58	↑2	25
16	Frances	51	–	19
17	Ruth	51	↑3	11
18	Evelyn	45	↑6	23
19	Joyce	44	–	12
20	Peggy	39	↑11	40
21	Dolores	38	↓7	18
22	Virginia	38	↑12	14
23	Ann	37	↓5	34
24	Alice	36	↓3	21
25	Jane	33	↓2	49
26	Janet	31	↑12	35
27	Audrey	30	↑16	61
28	Lois	30	↑1	20
29	Rose	30	↑13	33
30	Mildred	29	↓4	26
31	Anna	28	↑18	24
32	Phyllis	28	↑16	30
33	Beverly	26	new	28
34	Jeanne	26	↑12	>100
35	Juanita	26	↑9	58
36	Lorraine	26	↓11	55
37	Marie	26	↓7	31
38	Eleanor	25	new	45
39	Jacqueline	25	↓2	85
40	Lillian	25	new	48
41	Catherine	24	↓19	39
42	Marjorie	23	↑8	37
43	Norma	23	↓16	22
44	Sarah	23	new	67
45	Anne	22	↓10	81
46	Charlotte	21	new	74
47	Florence	21	↓2	47
48	Grace	21	↓20	72
49	Josephine	21	new	57
50	June	21	↓14	44

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Robert	299	–	1
2	James	291	↑2	2
3	William	269	–	4
4	John	268	↓2	3
5	Charles	187	–	6
6	Richard	136	–	5
7	George	120	↑1	8
8	Donald	119	↓1	7
9	Joseph	113	↑1	9
10	Thomas	92	↓1	10
11	Edward	91	–	11
12	Paul	53	↑2	13
13	David	51	↓1	12
14	Walter	43	↑1	21
15	Frank	42	↑1	15
16	Francis	40	↑3	43
17	Carl	39	↑7	28
18	Raymond	39	↓5	19
19	Ronald	39	↑27	16
20	Eugene	37	↑6	22
21	Henry	37	↑13	23
22	Albert	32	↑3	26
23	Stanley	31	↑8	52
24	Arthur	30	↓2	25
25	Howard	29	↑7	36
26	Bernard	28	↓3	60
27	Harold	27	↑8	18
28	Lawrence	27	↓7	35
29	Louis	27	↑8	39
30	Herbert	26	↓10	44
31	Kenneth	26	↓4	14
32	Ralph	26	↓2	27
33	Theodore	26	new	67
34	Jack	25	↓6	17
35	Maurice	25	new	>100
36	Melvin	25	↑7	51
37	Earl	23	↑2	41
38	Frederick	23	↑10	73
39	Clarence	22	↓21	40
40	Alvin	21	new	87
41	Harry	21	↓24	32
42	Alfred	20	↓4	49
43	Norman	20	↓14	37
44	Daniel	19	↑3	42
45	Samuel	19	↑5	56
46	Gerald	18	↓5	24
47	Philip	18	↓3	70
48	Ernest	17	↓8	47
49	Leonard	17	new	48
50	Leroy	17	↓8	53

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