Popular baby names in Maryland, 1923

The most popular baby names in Maryland in 1923 were Mary for girls (1,226 babies) and William for boys (1,003). William ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 27,326 babies born in Maryland in 1923 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maryland in 1923

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

Girls

Alverta: 17 babies, 20.2× the national rate
Bernadette: 15 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Hilda: 77 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Regina: 43 babies, 3× the national rate
Catherine: 280 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Rosalie: 38 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Isabelle: 22 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Angela: 19 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Olivia: 15 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Audrey: 91 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Emory: 23 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Carroll: 54 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Irvin: 49 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Morton: 25 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Elwood: 22 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Jerome: 55 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Preston: 16 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Nelson: 22 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Franklin: 39 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Roland: 50 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maryland, 1923

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	Mary	1,226	–	1
2	Dorothy	629	–	2
3	Margaret	555	–	4
4	Helen	469	–	3
5	Ruth	378	–	6
6	Doris	347	–	11
7	Elizabeth	343	↑1	9
8	Mildred	307	↑2	8
9	Anna	292	↓2	13
10	Betty	283	↑4	5
11	Catherine	280	↓2	24
12	Frances	252	↑3	10
13	Evelyn	246	↓1	12
14	Virginia	227	↓3	7
15	Marie	216	↓2	14
16	Lillian	214	–	20
17	Ethel	151	↑6	38
18	Alice	150	↓1	15
19	Thelma	128	–	31
20	Edna	122	↑2	32
21	Florence	122	↓3	18
22	Louise	113	↓1	22
23	Gladys	108	↑10	29
24	Eleanor	107	↓4	28
25	Agnes	106	↑7	63
26	Katherine	106	↑18	60
27	Jean	105	↑1	19
28	Sarah	103	↑7	54
29	Shirley	101	↑13	26
30	Rose	95	↑16	23
31	Grace	94	↓5	39
32	Charlotte	93	↑5	77
33	Edith	93	↓8	36
34	Josephine	93	↑16	30
35	Audrey	91	↑8	85
36	Emma	91	↑12	53
37	Pauline	91	↓8	37
38	Elsie	87	↑2	61
39	Irene	87	↑2	17
40	Martha	87	↓16	21
41	Gertrude	85	↓11	59
42	Hazel	78	↓8	40
43	Esther	77	↑4	47
44	Hilda	77	↓17	>100
45	Norma	77	↓7	41
46	Clara	76	↑3	49
47	Geraldine	76	new	58
48	Gloria	72	new	48
49	Bernice	71	↓10	43
50	Jane	71	↓14	55

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	William	1,003	–	3
2	John	922	–	1
3	James	701	–	4
4	Charles	690	–	5
5	Robert	526	–	2
6	George	500	–	6
7	Joseph	493	–	7
8	Edward	305	–	8
9	Thomas	274	–	12
10	Paul	220	↑4	14
11	Richard	218	↓1	9
12	Harry	193	↓1	22
13	Walter	179	↓1	16
14	Frank	176	↓1	11
15	Albert	172	↑2	20
16	Donald	161	↓1	10
17	Raymond	161	↓1	15
18	Henry	152	↑4	18
19	Louis	138	↑7	27
20	Howard	134	↓2	26
21	Francis	131	↑3	34
22	Bernard	125	↓3	46
23	Kenneth	121	↑2	21
24	Earl	107	↓3	31
25	Arthur	104	↓2	19
26	Clarence	104	↑1	29
27	Harold	102	↓7	13
28	Melvin	102	↑1	48
29	David	99	↓1	24
30	Ralph	96	↑4	23
31	Eugene	94	↑13	25
32	Norman	94	↑4	44
33	Daniel	83	↑4	47
34	Lawrence	82	↓1	36
35	Samuel	82	↓4	45
36	Elmer	79	↑11	57
37	Herbert	76	↑11	40
38	Vernon	75	↑1	67
39	Warren	73	new	43
40	Leonard	72	↓10	37
41	Leroy	71	–	55
42	Stanley	71	↓4	41
43	Ernest	70	↓3	38
44	Andrew	66	new	53
45	Carl	65	↓3	28
46	Calvin	63	new	82
47	Anthony	62	new	39
48	Jack	61	↓5	17
49	Milton	61	↓14	81
50	Frederick	57	↓18	60

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