Popular baby names in District of Columbia, 1934

The most popular baby names in District of Columbia in 1934 were Mary for girls (288 babies) and Robert for boys (283). Social Security records list 7,740 babies born in District of Columbia in 1934 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 1934

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: 68 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Yvonne: 20 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Vivian: 31 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Constance: 22 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Ellen: 24 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Jean: 87 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Catherine: 44 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Audrey: 33 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Shirley: 196 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Grace: 26 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Warren: 25 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Bernard: 33 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Benjamin: 16 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Jerome: 18 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Theodore: 25 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Samuel: 29 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Lawrence: 45 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Francis: 33 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Stanley: 29 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in District of Columbia, 1934

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1933	US rank
1	Mary	288	–	1
2	Barbara	222	–	3
3	Shirley	196	↑6	4
4	Patricia	150	↓1	6
5	Joan	127	–	7
6	Betty	101	↓2	2
7	Dorothy	96	–	5
8	Margaret	94	–	8
9	Doris	91	↑3	11
10	Jean	87	↓4	16
11	Nancy	77	↑2	10
12	Elizabeth	73	↓1	18
13	Helen	71	↓3	9
14	Delores	68	↑2	51
15	Ann	52	↑3	32
16	Gloria	49	↑1	30
17	Dolores	48	↑18	26
18	Frances	47	↓4	19
19	Catherine	44	↑20	42
20	Ruth	42	↓5	13
21	Alice	40	↑2	25
22	Evelyn	37	↑8	29
23	Norma	37	↑13	24
24	Joyce	36	↓4	12
25	Mildred	34	↑9	35
26	Audrey	33	↑18	69
27	Martha	33	↑4	27
28	Peggy	32	↑14	36
29	Vivian	31	new	98
30	Janet	30	↓8	21
31	Louise	30	new	40
32	Marie	30	↓7	34
33	Carol	28	↓7	14
34	Marjorie	28	↑6	41
35	Joanne	27	↑15	45
36	Grace	26	new	79
37	Phyllis	26	↑6	28
38	Beverly	25	new	22
39	Virginia	25	↓18	15
40	Elaine	24	new	54
41	Ellen	24	–	95
42	Jane	24	new	48
43	Juanita	24	↑4	64
44	Carolyn	23	↓17	33
45	Thelma	23	new	65
46	Anne	22	↓27	88
47	Constance	22	↓18	>100
48	Eleanor	22	↓3	44
49	Marion	22	new	86
50	Lois	21	↓26	20

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1933	US rank
1	Robert	283	–	1
2	William	279	–	4
3	James	263	–	2
4	John	250	–	3
5	Charles	187	–	7
6	Richard	142	↑1	5
7	Donald	129	↓1	6
8	Joseph	110	↑2	10
9	George	109	–	8
10	Thomas	106	↓2	9
11	Edward	91	–	13
12	Paul	68	–	14
13	David	59	↑2	12
14	Frank	48	↑10	16
15	Ronald	47	↑3	11
16	Walter	47	–	21
17	Lawrence	45	↑14	34
18	Raymond	45	↓5	19
19	Eugene	34	↑2	24
20	Harry	34	↑2	36
21	Bernard	33	↑2	65
22	Francis	33	↓8	49
23	Arthur	32	↑7	29
24	Harold	32	↑3	18
25	Kenneth	30	↓6	15
26	Henry	29	↑8	27
27	Samuel	29	↑16	66
28	Stanley	29	–	58
29	Ralph	28	↓9	31
30	Clarence	26	↑2	45
31	Earl	26	↑2	41
32	Norman	26	↓7	38
33	Melvin	25	↑2	55
34	Theodore	25	↓5	74
35	Warren	25	new	96
36	Herbert	24	new	57
37	Louis	24	↓1	40
38	Jack	23	↓21	17
39	Carl	22	↓1	28
40	Daniel	22	↑6	42
41	Gerald	21	↑4	22
42	Leroy	21	↓5	54
43	Albert	20	↓17	32
44	Howard	20	↓4	37
45	Alfred	18	new	64
46	Ernest	18	new	51
47	Jerome	18	new	>100
48	Peter	17	new	61
49	Philip	17	new	69
50	Benjamin	16	new	>100

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