Popular baby names in Maryland, 1920

The most popular baby names in Maryland in 1920 were Mary for girls (1,208 babies) and William for boys (1,020). William ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 27,846 babies born in Maryland in 1920 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maryland in 1920

Names given at least 15 times in Maryland that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Hilda: 116 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Regina: 42 babies, 3× the national rate
Angela: 24 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Catherine: 313 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Adelaide: 15 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Charlotte: 113 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Constance: 42 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Annabelle: 18 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Audrey: 79 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Naomi: 55 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Boys

Carroll: 54 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Emory: 20 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Irvin: 30 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Carlton: 16 babies, 3× the national rate
Wilmer: 16 babies, 3× the national rate
Roland: 53 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Preston: 17 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Nelson: 25 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Austin: 16 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Milton: 83 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maryland, 1920

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Mary	1,208	–	1
2	Margaret	642	↑1	4
3	Dorothy	583	↓1	2
4	Helen	488	–	3
5	Ruth	446	–	5
6	Anna	346	–	10
7	Doris	345	↑4	14
8	Elizabeth	330	↑1	8
9	Mildred	326	↓2	6
10	Catherine	313	↓2	21
11	Marie	294	↑2	13
12	Frances	265	↑2	9
13	Virginia	259	↓3	7
14	Evelyn	246	↓2	12
15	Lillian	198	–	18
16	Alice	169	–	15
17	Thelma	152	↑2	31
18	Florence	145	↑3	16
19	Ethel	137	↓2	30
20	Louise	137	↓2	19
21	Gladys	123	↑1	22
22	Edith	122	↑5	32
23	Elsie	119	↑16	51
24	Edna	118	↓4	27
25	Hilda	116	↑15	>100
26	Charlotte	113	↑10	79
27	Pauline	113	↑1	36
28	Eleanor	111	↓5	25
29	Grace	105	↓5	37
30	Sarah	103	↑1	50
31	Emma	100	↓1	46
32	Martha	98	↓6	23
33	Agnes	97	↑1	54
34	Rose	97	↓2	20
35	Gertrude	96	↓6	42
36	Jane	95	↑8	48
37	Josephine	95	↑6	28
38	Katherine	95	↓13	45
39	Irene	91	↓6	17
40	Betty	88	↓5	11
41	Audrey	79	↑7	>100
42	Mabel	78	new	83
43	Bertha	77	↓5	57
44	Ida	77	↑1	66
45	Beatrice	76	↓3	41
46	Rita	75	new	52
47	Esther	72	↓6	39
48	Hazel	71	↓11	34
49	Bernice	68	–	40
50	Bessie	68	new	71

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	William	1,020	–	2
2	John	895	–	1
3	James	744	↑1	4
4	Charles	727	↓1	5
5	Robert	495	–	3
6	Joseph	479	–	7
7	George	465	–	6
8	Edward	389	–	8
9	Thomas	274	–	11
10	Harry	227	–	21
11	Walter	215	↑1	13
12	Paul	192	↑3	14
13	Henry	188	↑4	17
14	Richard	186	↓1	10
15	Albert	179	↓1	19
16	Frank	173	↓5	9
17	Francis	147	↑1	34
18	Raymond	147	↓2	15
19	Harold	133	↑4	12
20	Arthur	126	–	18
21	Howard	126	↓2	24
22	Earl	122	↑9	31
23	Bernard	121	↑4	46
24	Melvin	113	–	54
25	Clarence	112	–	26
26	Louis	109	–	28
27	Donald	107	↓5	16
28	Samuel	99	↓7	44
29	David	94	↑3	25
30	Kenneth	94	↑8	23
31	Ralph	92	↑3	22
32	Ernest	83	↑1	37
33	Milton	83	↑3	74
34	Elmer	80	↑12	45
35	Frederick	80	↓6	60
36	Leroy	80	↓6	56
37	Herbert	79	↑5	41
38	Lawrence	78	↓3	36
39	Daniel	74	–	52
40	Carl	73	↑1	27
41	Norman	72	↓1	47
42	Leonard	68	↓14	38
43	Vernon	68	↑7	65
44	Eugene	66	new	30
45	Stanley	64	↓8	40
46	Warren	64	new	39
47	Russell	56	new	51
48	Alfred	54	new	42
49	Carroll	54	new	>100
50	Roland	53	new	>100

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