Popular baby names in District of Columbia, 1943

The most popular baby names in District of Columbia in 1943 were Mary for girls (546 babies) and John for boys (724). John ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 19,355 babies born in District of Columbia in 1943 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 1943

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

Yvonne: 41 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Veronica: 26 babies, 3× the national rate
Marguerite: 17 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Deborah: 16 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Leslie: 21 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Anne: 64 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Katherine: 63 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Gwendolyn: 27 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Lillian: 36 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Jeannette: 16 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Reginald: 20 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Christopher: 26 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Maurice: 26 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Stuart: 22 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Nathaniel: 16 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Marshall: 17 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Eric: 18 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Benjamin: 25 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in District of Columbia, 1943

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1942	US rank
1	Mary	546	–	1
2	Barbara	475	–	2
3	Patricia	431	–	3
4	Linda	248	↑5	4
5	Carol	228	–	5
6	Nancy	199	↑1	9
7	Judith	195	↑4	7
8	Sandra	191	–	6
9	Margaret	186	↓5	14
10	Susan	184	↑3	18
11	Carolyn	174	↓1	11
12	Elizabeth	171	↑2	23
13	Joan	160	↓7	21
14	Betty	137	↑1	10
15	Joyce	134	↑2	16
16	Sharon	123	↑15	8
17	Dorothy	107	↓5	19
18	Shirley	106	↓2	12
19	Diane	104	↑3	24
20	Donna	103	↑9	17
21	Kathleen	101	–	22
22	Janet	98	↑1	20
23	Karen	97	↑10	15
24	Ann	94	↑1	37
25	Virginia	94	↑5	25
26	Helen	92	↓2	28
27	Frances	89	↓7	31
28	Gloria	89	↓9	30
29	Jean	85	↓11	36
30	Ruth	85	↑6	33
31	Martha	77	↑7	29
32	Beverly	69	↑9	32
33	Carole	69	↓6	42
34	Anne	64	↓2	80
35	Catherine	64	↓9	48
36	Katherine	63	↑4	78
37	Judy	61	↓2	13
38	Jacqueline	60	↑4	65
39	Jane	60	↑4	44
40	Brenda	59	↑5	35
41	Pamela	59	new	54
42	Alice	55	↓8	38
43	Bonnie	53	↑1	34
44	Gail	52	new	55
45	Janice	49	new	26
46	Ellen	48	↑2	67
47	Phyllis	48	↓1	39
48	Elaine	47	↑2	46
49	Diana	45	new	62
50	Charlotte	44	new	47

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1942	US rank
1	John	724	–	3
2	Robert	676	–	2
3	James	660	↑1	1
4	William	581	↓1	4
5	Richard	401	↑1	5
6	Charles	364	↓1	7
7	Thomas	310	↑2	8
8	Michael	278	↓1	10
9	David	258	↓1	6
10	George	217	–	14
11	Joseph	217	–	13
12	Ronald	184	–	9
13	Edward	160	↑1	18
14	Donald	152	↑1	11
15	Paul	148	↓2	19
16	Kenneth	106	–	15
17	Stephen	103	–	29
18	Frank	101	–	21
19	Gary	81	↑16	16
20	Raymond	80	–	22
21	Peter	75	↑13	39
22	Walter	75	–	26
23	Daniel	74	↑2	25
24	Larry	74	↑2	12
25	Henry	73	↑5	31
26	Arthur	72	↓3	30
27	Dennis	70	↑5	20
28	Lawrence	68	↓9	32
29	Ralph	66	↓1	40
30	Carl	61	↑1	33
31	Gerald	55	↓2	23
32	Harry	55	↓5	50
33	Douglas	53	↓12	28
34	Melvin	51	↑8	63
35	Albert	50	↓11	43
36	Bruce	49	↑10	51
37	Howard	49	↑10	48
38	Samuel	49	↑1	62
39	Roger	48	↑5	24
40	Francis	46	↑9	64
41	Louis	45	new	53
42	Patrick	45	new	69
43	Frederick	44	new	70
44	Jack	44	new	34
45	Eugene	41	↓2	47
46	Fred	41	new	45
47	Philip	41	new	57
48	Stanley	41	–	54
49	Harold	39	↓8	27
50	Wayne	39	↓5	41

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