Popular baby names in Maryland, 1924

The most popular baby names in Maryland in 1924 were Mary for girls (1,248 babies) and William for boys (1,096). William ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 27,739 babies born in Maryland in 1924 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maryland in 1924

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: 82 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Regina: 45 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Catherine: 288 babies, 3× the national rate
Rosalie: 39 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Cecelia: 23 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Elva: 19 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Angela: 18 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Charlotte: 100 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Irma: 35 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Doris: 392 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Irvin: 46 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Carroll: 38 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Morton: 21 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Preston: 16 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Austin: 16 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Franklin: 40 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Bernard: 130 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Elwood: 18 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Roland: 52 babies, 2.4× the national rate
August: 16 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maryland, 1924

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Mary	1,248	–	1
2	Dorothy	611	–	2
3	Margaret	550	–	5
4	Helen	416	–	3
5	Ruth	409	–	6
6	Betty	403	↑4	4
7	Doris	392	↓1	9
8	Elizabeth	306	↓1	11
9	Anna	301	–	13
10	Catherine	288	↑1	27
11	Mildred	260	↓3	8
12	Frances	236	–	10
13	Virginia	223	↑1	7
14	Marie	202	↑1	14
15	Evelyn	189	↓2	12
16	Lillian	182	–	23
17	Alice	152	↑1	15
18	Thelma	141	↑1	33
19	Gladys	133	↑4	30
20	Florence	131	↑1	20
21	Ethel	128	↓4	39
22	Shirley	125	↑7	19
23	Jean	116	↑4	16
24	Louise	111	↓2	24
25	Irene	106	↑14	18
26	Sarah	106	↑2	54
27	Charlotte	100	↑5	80
28	Edith	99	↑5	36
29	Edna	95	↓9	31
30	Jane	94	↑20	53
31	Eleanor	92	↓7	29
32	Gertrude	92	↑9	60
33	Audrey	89	↑2	84
34	Agnes	88	↓9	63
35	Grace	87	↓4	43
36	Norma	86	↑9	40
37	Emma	85	↓1	57
38	Gloria	85	↑10	41
39	Martha	83	↑1	21
40	Hilda	82	↑4	>100
41	Rose	81	↓11	25
42	Josephine	80	↓8	34
43	Ida	79	new	70
44	Clara	77	↑2	56
45	Marjorie	76	new	17
46	Ann	75	new	55
47	Hazel	74	↓5	42
48	Katherine	74	↓22	59
49	Elsie	72	↓11	61
50	Marion	72	new	46

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	William	1,096	–	3
2	John	922	–	2
3	James	766	–	4
4	Charles	741	–	5
5	Robert	676	–	1
6	George	479	–	6
7	Joseph	446	–	7
8	Edward	295	–	9
9	Richard	280	↑2	8
10	Thomas	278	↓1	11
11	Harry	212	↑1	22
12	Walter	185	↑1	16
13	Frank	174	↑1	12
14	Donald	169	↑2	10
15	Raymond	162	↑2	15
16	Paul	160	↓6	14
17	Albert	159	↓2	21
18	Francis	156	↑3	34
19	Henry	147	↓1	18
20	Howard	141	–	26
21	Bernard	130	↑1	46
22	Kenneth	126	↑1	19
23	Harold	117	↑4	13
24	Clarence	116	↑2	29
25	Earl	114	↓1	33
26	Calvin	109	↑20	44
27	Samuel	109	↑8	45
28	Melvin	106	–	48
29	Louis	104	↓10	28
30	Arthur	103	↓5	20
31	David	101	↓2	24
32	Norman	93	–	42
33	Ralph	88	↓3	23
34	Eugene	85	↓3	25
35	Lawrence	84	↓1	36
36	Stanley	83	↑6	40
37	Herbert	82	–	41
38	Frederick	80	↑12	62
39	Ernest	78	↑4	37
40	Carl	74	↑5	27
41	Leonard	74	↓1	38
42	Daniel	68	↓9	47
43	Elmer	68	↓7	57
44	Alfred	66	new	43
45	Jack	66	↑3	17
46	Vernon	64	↓8	68
47	Leroy	63	↓6	53
48	Russell	61	new	52
49	Andrew	59	↓5	56
50	Anthony	59	↓3	39

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