Popular baby names in District of Columbia, 1933

The most popular baby names in District of Columbia in 1933 were Mary for girls (294 babies) and Robert for boys (316). Social Security records list 7,397 babies born in District of Columbia in 1933 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 1933

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

Anne: 43 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Yvonne: 17 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Constance: 29 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Delores: 51 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Ellen: 23 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Jean: 96 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Sylvia: 28 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Barbara: 238 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Christine: 15 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Jacqueline: 22 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Francis: 50 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Alan: 16 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Bernard: 34 babies, 3× the national rate
Theodore: 30 babies, 3× the national rate
Stanley: 30 babies, 2.3× the national rate
William: 308 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Leon: 17 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Thomas: 126 babies, 2× the national rate
Frederick: 18 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in District of Columbia, 1933

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	Mary	294	–	1
2	Barbara	238	–	3
3	Patricia	134	–	6
4	Betty	124	↑5	2
5	Joan	112	–	5
6	Jean	96	↓2	14
7	Dorothy	87	–	4
8	Margaret	87	↓2	7
9	Shirley	84	↓1	9
10	Helen	73	↑2	8
11	Elizabeth	68	–	17
12	Doris	66	↓2	10
13	Nancy	62	–	11
14	Frances	60	↑2	18
15	Ruth	53	↑2	13
16	Delores	51	↓2	52
17	Gloria	45	↓2	31
18	Ann	43	↑5	34
19	Anne	43	↑26	85
20	Joyce	43	↓1	12
21	Virginia	38	↑1	15
22	Janet	37	↑4	25
23	Alice	34	↑1	22
24	Lois	33	↑4	19
25	Marie	31	↑12	33
26	Carol	30	new	20
27	Carolyn	30	new	40
28	June	30	↑22	45
29	Constance	29	new	>100
30	Evelyn	29	↓12	30
31	Martha	29	new	27
32	Sylvia	28	new	84
33	Anna	27	↓2	29
34	Mildred	27	↓4	32
35	Dolores	26	↓14	21
36	Norma	26	↑7	23
37	Rose	26	↓8	35
38	Florence	25	↑9	49
39	Catherine	24	↑2	44
40	Marjorie	24	↑2	41
41	Ellen	23	new	>100
42	Peggy	23	↓22	36
43	Phyllis	23	↓11	28
44	Audrey	22	↓17	59
45	Eleanor	22	↓7	38
46	Jacqueline	22	↓7	86
47	Juanita	22	↓12	63
48	Rita	22	new	53
49	Gladys	20	new	60
50	Joanne	20	new	56

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	Robert	316	–	1
2	William	308	↑1	4
3	James	279	↓1	2
4	John	274	–	3
5	Charles	161	–	6
6	Donald	130	↑2	7
7	Richard	130	↓1	5
8	Thomas	126	↑2	10
9	George	119	↓2	8
10	Joseph	113	↓1	9
11	Edward	67	–	11
12	Paul	58	–	14
13	Raymond	55	↑5	19
14	Francis	50	↑2	45
15	David	44	↓2	13
16	Walter	43	↓2	21
17	Jack	42	↑17	17
18	Ronald	40	↑1	12
19	Kenneth	38	↑12	15
20	Ralph	37	↑12	29
21	Eugene	36	↓1	23
22	Harry	35	↑19	35
23	Bernard	34	↑3	63
24	Frank	34	↓9	16
25	Norman	34	↑18	37
26	Albert	30	↓4	30
27	Harold	30	–	18
28	Stanley	30	↓5	55
29	Theodore	30	↑4	68
30	Arthur	29	↓6	25
31	Lawrence	29	↓3	38
32	Clarence	28	↑7	43
33	Earl	28	↑4	41
34	Henry	26	↓13	24
35	Melvin	25	↑1	51
36	Louis	24	↓7	40
37	Leroy	23	↑13	56
38	Carl	22	↓21	28
39	Franklin	20	new	33
40	Howard	20	↓15	36
41	Michael	20	new	53
42	Leonard	19	↑7	47
43	Samuel	19	↑2	61
44	Frederick	18	↓6	78
45	Gerald	18	↑1	22
46	Daniel	17	↓2	42
47	Leon	17	new	85
48	Alan	16	new	>100
49	Fred	16	new	34
50	Edwin	15	new	77

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