Popular baby names in District of Columbia, 1944

The most popular baby names in District of Columbia in 1944 were Mary for girls (520 babies) and John for boys (786). John ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 19,139 babies born in District of Columbia in 1944 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 1944

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, 3.1× the national rate
Veronica: 24 babies, 3× the national rate
Deborah: 26 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Ernestine: 16 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Marguerite: 15 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Anne: 61 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Stephanie: 17 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Yvonne: 32 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Cynthia: 43 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Vivian: 29 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Boys

Reginald: 19 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Maurice: 30 babies, 4× the national rate
Eric: 32 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Christopher: 24 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Jonathan: 15 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Karl: 15 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Alexander: 15 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Hugh: 17 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Bernard: 40 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Jeffrey: 36 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in District of Columbia, 1944

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1943	US rank
1	Mary	520	–	1
2	Barbara	431	–	2
3	Patricia	424	–	4
4	Carol	234	↑1	5
5	Linda	215	↓1	3
6	Nancy	209	–	7
7	Margaret	202	↑2	14
8	Sandra	202	–	6
9	Susan	192	↑1	13
10	Carolyn	187	↑1	11
11	Judith	175	↓4	9
12	Sharon	166	↑4	8
13	Joan	160	–	22
14	Joyce	149	↑1	18
15	Elizabeth	134	↓3	23
16	Diane	129	↑3	24
17	Shirley	126	↑1	15
18	Dorothy	115	↓1	19
19	Donna	110	↑1	17
20	Betty	107	↓6	10
21	Janet	101	↑1	21
22	Gloria	96	↑6	25
23	Karen	93	–	16
24	Jean	91	↑5	37
25	Kathleen	85	↓4	20
26	Ann	83	↓2	39
27	Martha	82	↑4	29
28	Beverly	74	↑4	35
29	Helen	74	↓3	31
30	Frances	70	↓3	33
31	Pamela	70	↑10	44
32	Judy	67	↑5	12
33	Virginia	65	↓8	26
34	Janice	64	↑11	28
35	Catherine	63	–	49
36	Anne	61	↓2	86
37	Carole	61	↓4	43
38	Brenda	59	↑2	30
39	Delores	59	new	97
40	Ruth	59	↓10	32
41	Alice	54	↑1	38
42	Cheryl	54	new	36
43	Ellen	52	↑3	63
44	Bonnie	51	↓1	34
45	Jacqueline	50	↓7	64
46	Doris	48	new	42
47	Jane	48	↓8	41
48	Gail	44	↓4	56
49	Joanne	44	new	55
50	Cynthia	43	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1943	US rank
1	John	786	–	3
2	Robert	669	–	2
3	James	631	–	1
4	William	599	–	4
5	Richard	391	–	5
6	Charles	361	–	7
7	Michael	321	↑1	9
8	Thomas	297	↓1	8
9	David	275	–	6
10	Joseph	235	↑1	13
11	George	225	↓1	14
12	Edward	172	↑1	18
13	Ronald	170	↓1	10
14	Donald	150	–	11
15	Paul	144	–	17
16	Kenneth	128	–	16
17	Frank	99	↑1	21
18	Raymond	94	↑2	22
19	Gary	93	–	15
20	Stephen	92	↓3	28
21	Lawrence	80	↑7	32
22	Larry	78	↑2	12
23	Daniel	72	–	25
24	Peter	72	↓3	40
25	Walter	72	↓3	26
26	Arthur	69	–	29
27	Dennis	67	–	20
28	Gerald	65	↑3	24
29	Harry	62	↑3	49
30	Carl	60	–	36
31	Harold	57	↑18	27
32	Bruce	54	↑4	51
33	Frederick	53	↑10	73
34	Henry	53	↓9	35
35	Douglas	51	↓2	34
36	Eugene	51	↑9	48
37	Ralph	50	↓8	42
38	Wayne	49	↑12	37
39	Howard	48	↓2	53
40	Philip	47	↑7	60
41	Louis	46	–	54
42	Francis	44	↓2	71
43	Roger	44	↓4	23
44	Steven	44	new	52
45	Alan	42	new	55
46	Albert	42	↓11	44
47	Anthony	41	new	46
48	Jerry	41	new	19
49	Norman	41	new	58
50	Bernard	40	new	94

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