Popular baby names in District of Columbia, 1936

The most popular baby names in District of Columbia in 1936 were Mary for girls (320 babies) and Robert for boys (358). Social Security records list 8,950 babies born in District of Columbia in 1936 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 1936

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: 58 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Anne: 39 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Sylvia: 55 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Pearl: 15 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Jeanne: 18 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Yvonne: 35 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Constance: 19 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Catherine: 49 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Jean: 88 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Barbara: 278 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Boys

Bernard: 31 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Frederick: 30 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Warren: 21 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Theodore: 22 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Lawrence: 50 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Francis: 37 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Leon: 22 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Samuel: 26 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Allen: 21 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in District of Columbia, 1936

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Mary	320	–	1
2	Barbara	278	–	3
3	Shirley	211	–	2
4	Patricia	164	–	5
5	Joan	141	–	7
6	Nancy	113	↑3	8
7	Betty	112	↓1	4
8	Margaret	102	–	9
9	Jean	88	↑1	20
10	Helen	85	↑3	11
11	Dorothy	76	↓4	6
12	Elizabeth	76	–	18
13	Doris	60	↓2	15
14	Ann	59	↑1	28
15	Delores	58	↓1	58
16	Joyce	57	↑1	12
17	Carol	55	↑10	10
18	Sylvia	55	↑5	53
19	Frances	54	↓1	19
20	Gloria	53	–	32
21	Catherine	49	↑15	44
22	Ruth	46	↓3	16
23	Beverly	43	↑19	17
24	Evelyn	43	↓2	34
25	Anne	39	↑1	89
26	Carolyn	38	↓1	23
27	Mildred	38	↑3	40
28	Yvonne	35	↑17	81
29	Janet	34	↓13	21
30	Alice	33	↓2	27
31	Jane	33	↑3	42
32	Dolores	31	↓11	30
33	Norma	31	↑15	29
34	Virginia	31	↓10	14
35	Jacqueline	30	↑4	66
36	Joanne	30	↑4	48
37	Marie	30	↓5	33
38	Peggy	29	new	35
39	Juanita	28	↓4	75
40	June	28	↓9	62
41	Martha	28	↓8	24
42	Geraldine	27	↓4	41
43	Sandra	27	new	38
44	Eleanor	25	↓1	47
45	Florence	25	new	80
46	Marjorie	25	↑4	49
47	Charlotte	24	new	61
48	Roberta	24	new	64
49	Rose	24	↓5	37
50	Gladys	23	new	84

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Robert	358	↑1	1
2	James	340	↑2	2
3	William	303	–	4
4	John	295	↓3	3
5	Charles	223	–	6
6	Richard	176	↑1	5
7	Donald	149	↓1	7
8	Joseph	149	–	11
9	George	137	–	9
10	Thomas	112	–	8
11	Edward	81	↑1	13
12	David	78	↓1	10
13	Paul	76	–	15
14	Ronald	63	–	12
15	Frank	58	↑8	16
16	Walter	53	–	26
17	Lawrence	50	–	37
18	Eugene	44	↑7	29
19	Raymond	44	↓1	17
20	Michael	39	↓1	33
21	Francis	37	↑15	50
22	Harry	37	↑2	39
23	Kenneth	33	↓8	14
24	Bernard	31	↓3	68
25	Fred	31	new	36
26	Harold	31	–	21
27	Norman	31	↑6	43
28	Frederick	30	↑3	70
29	Ralph	30	↓2	31
30	Arthur	29	↓2	30
31	Earl	29	↓1	47
32	Henry	29	↓12	28
33	Melvin	29	↑5	53
34	Carl	28	↓12	27
35	Samuel	26	new	67
36	Albert	25	↓7	34
37	Anthony	25	↑12	48
38	Gerald	25	new	19
39	Philip	25	↓4	63
40	Stanley	25	↑10	58
41	Alfred	24	new	60
42	Jack	24	↓10	20
43	Leroy	24	new	57
44	Louis	24	↓7	44
45	Daniel	22	–	41
46	Leon	22	new	82
47	Theodore	22	↓5	87
48	Allen	21	new	81
49	Peter	21	↓9	56
50	Warren	21	new	95

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