Popular baby names in Maryland, 1926

The most popular baby names in Maryland in 1926 were Mary for girls (1,145 babies) and William for boys (1,000). William ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 26,631 babies born in Maryland in 1926 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maryland in 1926

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

Girls

Regina: 47 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Hilda: 70 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Cecelia: 24 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Catherine: 257 babies, 3× the national rate
Annabelle: 20 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Elva: 18 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Rosalie: 36 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Charlotte: 106 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Miriam: 40 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Naomi: 45 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Irvin: 60 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Carroll: 46 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Randolph: 15 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Preston: 18 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Morton: 17 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Carlton: 17 babies, 3× the national rate
Roland: 59 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Franklin: 40 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Melvin: 131 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Bernard: 128 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maryland, 1926

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Mary	1,145	–	1
2	Betty	502	↑2	3
3	Dorothy	491	↓1	2
4	Margaret	451	↓1	5
5	Helen	404	–	4
6	Doris	379	–	7
7	Ruth	330	–	6
8	Elizabeth	272	↑1	11
9	Catherine	257	↑1	31
10	Anna	247	↓2	15
11	Mildred	244	↑1	9
12	Frances	203	↑1	10
13	Evelyn	195	↑1	13
14	Virginia	195	↓3	8
15	Shirley	186	↑5	14
16	Marie	171	↓1	18
17	Jean	160	↑4	12
18	Lillian	136	↓1	28
19	Gloria	135	↓1	20
20	Thelma	125	↓1	36
21	Alice	115	↓5	17
22	Edith	114	↑3	42
23	Louise	109	↑6	27
24	Audrey	106	new	60
25	Charlotte	106	↑6	78
26	Eleanor	105	↓3	32
27	Gladys	104	↓5	35
28	Edna	103	↓2	38
29	Florence	101	↓5	26
30	Irene	97	–	21
31	Martha	95	↑11	24
32	Ethel	93	↓4	41
33	Rose	92	↑2	25
34	June	88	↓7	40
35	Josephine	87	↑5	37
36	Pauline	87	new	39
37	Grace	86	↓5	46
38	Katherine	85	new	72
39	Jane	84	↑5	56
40	Phyllis	79	new	33
41	Dolores	74	↑6	49
42	Norma	74	↓4	29
43	Agnes	73	↓7	77
44	Theresa	73	new	64
45	Bernice	72	↓11	45
46	Barbara	71	new	16
47	Elsie	70	↓4	69
48	Hilda	70	↓9	>100
49	Ann	69	new	55
50	Nancy	68	new	57

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	William	1,000	–	4
2	John	883	–	2
3	James	742	–	3
4	Charles	691	–	5
5	Robert	682	–	1
6	George	486	–	6
7	Joseph	464	–	8
8	Edward	320	↑1	10
9	Richard	300	↑1	7
10	Thomas	277	↓2	11
11	Paul	220	↑2	13
12	Donald	217	↑2	9
13	Harry	178	↓2	25
14	Walter	173	↓2	17
15	Frank	170	–	12
16	Albert	156	↑1	21
17	Raymond	155	↓1	15
18	Henry	146	–	19
19	Howard	133	↑2	27
20	Melvin	131	↑7	47
21	Francis	130	↓1	35
22	Bernard	128	↑3	49
23	Earl	119	↓1	32
24	Arthur	110	↑7	20
25	David	109	↓1	22
26	Kenneth	105	↓3	18
27	Louis	102	↓8	30
28	Harold	101	↓2	14
29	Eugene	94	↑1	23
30	Clarence	93	↓2	29
31	Norman	92	↑8	39
32	Carl	89	↑4	26
33	Leonard	88	↑8	38
34	Jack	86	↑13	16
35	Leroy	86	↑7	51
36	Ralph	85	↓7	24
37	Samuel	82	↓4	48
38	Vernon	81	↓3	66
39	Frederick	79	↑5	64
40	Alfred	75	↑10	45
41	Elmer	73	↑4	61
42	Calvin	70	↓10	65
43	Herbert	70	↓6	44
44	Russell	70	↓4	52
45	Lawrence	68	↓7	36
46	Stanley	65	↓12	43
47	Daniel	64	↓1	46
48	Milton	62	↓5	83
49	Ernest	60	new	37
50	Irvin	60	new	>100

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