Popular baby names in Maryland, 1922

The most popular baby names in Maryland in 1922 were Mary for girls (1,189 babies) and William for boys (1,021). William ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 26,899 babies born in Maryland in 1922 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maryland in 1922

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: 103 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Adelaide: 15 babies, 3× the national rate
Catherine: 297 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Irma: 40 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Madeline: 57 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Angela: 21 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Naomi: 61 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Regina: 37 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Matilda: 18 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Frieda: 15 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Carroll: 44 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Wilmer: 18 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Irvin: 32 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Morton: 20 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Austin: 19 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Preston: 18 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Calvin: 47 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Wilson: 21 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Roland: 55 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Jerome: 48 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maryland, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	1,189	–	1
2	Dorothy	646	–	2
3	Margaret	619	–	4
4	Helen	450	–	3
5	Ruth	379	–	5
6	Doris	334	–	11
7	Anna	323	–	12
8	Elizabeth	316	–	9
9	Catherine	297	↑1	24
10	Mildred	279	↓1	8
11	Virginia	245	–	7
12	Evelyn	216	↑1	13
13	Marie	210	↑1	14
14	Betty	207	↑3	6
15	Frances	202	↓3	10
16	Lillian	178	–	19
17	Alice	154	↓2	15
18	Florence	139	↑2	18
19	Thelma	130	↓1	31
20	Eleanor	121	↑3	28
21	Louise	116	↑1	22
22	Edna	112	↓1	29
23	Ethel	109	↓4	32
24	Martha	109	↑10	21
25	Edith	107	–	34
26	Grace	105	↑1	38
27	Hilda	103	↑9	>100
28	Jean	103	↑22	20
29	Pauline	100	↑15	36
30	Gertrude	98	↑11	48
31	Bertha	94	↑16	63
32	Agnes	93	↑6	62
33	Gladys	93	↓9	25
34	Hazel	93	↓2	37
35	Sarah	89	↑2	51
36	Jane	88	↓10	55
37	Charlotte	84	↓6	76
38	Norma	83	↑11	46
39	Bernice	82	↑4	41
40	Elsie	82	–	59
41	Irene	81	↓13	17
42	Shirley	81	new	39
43	Audrey	80	↓4	89
44	Katherine	80	↓11	54
45	Ida	79	new	65
46	Rose	79	↓11	23
47	Esther	75	↑1	44
48	Emma	73	↓19	50
49	Clara	71	↓4	47
50	Josephine	71	↓20	27

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	William	1,021	–	3
2	John	851	–	1
3	James	687	↑1	4
4	Charles	676	↓1	5
5	Robert	532	–	2
6	George	520	–	6
7	Joseph	447	–	7
8	Edward	321	–	8
9	Thomas	253	–	11
10	Richard	227	↑2	9
11	Harry	212	↓1	22
12	Walter	183	↓1	15
13	Frank	169	↑3	10
14	Paul	165	↑1	14
15	Donald	162	↑5	12
16	Raymond	154	↑2	16
17	Albert	144	↓4	20
18	Howard	136	↑1	26
19	Bernard	134	↑8	46
20	Harold	134	↑6	13
21	Earl	124	↑4	31
22	Henry	124	↓8	17
23	Arthur	122	–	19
24	Francis	119	↓7	34
25	Kenneth	116	↑6	21
26	Louis	112	↓5	27
27	Clarence	104	↓5	29
28	David	103	↑1	24
29	Melvin	101	↓5	50
30	Leonard	96	↑6	38
31	Samuel	86	↑1	43
32	Frederick	84	↑3	60
33	Lawrence	79	↑6	36
34	Ralph	76	↓6	23
35	Milton	74	↑11	74
36	Norman	72	↓3	44
37	Daniel	71	↑8	47
38	Stanley	71	↓1	41
39	Vernon	69	↓5	68
40	Ernest	68	↓2	37
41	Leroy	67	↓1	55
42	Carl	66	↑5	30
43	Jack	63	↑5	18
44	Eugene	62	↓2	25
45	Russell	62	↓1	49
46	Alfred	58	↑3	42
47	Elmer	57	↓4	54
48	Herbert	56	↓7	40
49	Herman	56	new	66
50	Edwin	55	new	52

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