Popular baby names in Maryland, 1928

The most popular baby names in Maryland in 1928 were Mary for girls (1,132 babies) and John for boys (875). John ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 25,995 babies born in Maryland in 1928 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maryland in 1928

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

Girls

Maude: 16 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Regina: 43 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Hilda: 56 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Cecelia: 18 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Charlotte: 103 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Rosalie: 36 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Elva: 16 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Catherine: 192 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Henrietta: 24 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Angela: 16 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Carroll: 58 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Irvin: 52 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Elwood: 18 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Roland: 59 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Melvin: 117 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Calvin: 59 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Harry: 187 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Gilbert: 52 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Franklin: 28 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Oliver: 23 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maryland, 1928

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	Mary	1,132	–	1
2	Betty	579	↑1	2
3	Dorothy	480	↓1	3
4	Margaret	432	–	5
5	Doris	398	↑1	7
6	Helen	339	↓1	4
7	Ruth	287	–	6
8	Anna	250	↑1	16
9	Elizabeth	236	↑1	14
10	Shirley	195	↑3	10
11	Catherine	192	↓3	33
12	Mildred	181	↑2	15
13	Frances	178	↓1	13
14	Virginia	178	↓3	9
15	Evelyn	174	–	17
16	Dolores	166	↑7	20
17	Marie	159	↓1	21
18	Jean	151	↑2	12
19	Gloria	142	↓1	25
20	Alice	125	↓3	19
21	Lillian	122	↓2	35
22	Thelma	118	↓1	40
23	Patricia	108	↑27	11
24	Eleanor	106	↑17	36
25	Charlotte	103	↓3	72
26	Norma	103	↑8	23
27	Barbara	99	↑10	8
28	Gladys	97	↑8	41
29	Audrey	95	↓5	60
30	Florence	94	↓2	32
31	Louise	93	↓6	31
32	Rose	91	↓3	24
33	Lois	90	new	18
34	Irene	88	↑6	28
35	Martha	88	↑9	22
36	Jane	86	↓1	62
37	Edith	83	↓11	56
38	Ethel	80	↓11	55
39	Lorraine	80	↓6	39
40	Edna	79	↓9	45
41	Phyllis	79	↑6	26
42	Agnes	75	↓4	85
43	Marion	75	new	47
44	Bernice	74	↓1	53
45	Geraldine	74	↑3	50
46	Ann	73	new	54
47	Theresa	71	↓1	49
48	June	69	↓3	44
49	Nancy	68	new	43
50	Sarah	68	↓18	64

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	John	875	↑1	2
2	William	866	↓1	4
3	James	729	–	3
4	Charles	696	–	5
5	Robert	662	–	1
6	George	450	–	8
7	Joseph	412	–	9
8	Richard	334	↑2	6
9	Edward	292	↓1	10
10	Donald	284	↑1	7
11	Thomas	268	↓2	11
12	Walter	202	↑4	18
13	Harry	187	–	26
14	Paul	179	↓2	13
15	Raymond	174	–	16
16	Albert	141	↓2	23
17	Herbert	138	↑28	25
18	Howard	134	↑2	31
19	Frank	131	↓1	12
20	Francis	124	↓1	40
21	Kenneth	123	↓4	17
22	Melvin	117	↑6	48
23	Henry	114	↑1	21
24	Harold	111	↓2	14
25	David	104	–	19
26	Eugene	103	–	20
27	Earl	102	–	37
28	Jack	101	↑8	15
29	Louis	99	↓6	32
30	Bernard	98	↓9	49
31	Arthur	94	↓1	22
32	Clarence	92	↑9	35
33	Ralph	87	↓2	24
34	Norman	85	↓1	39
35	Stanley	84	–	45
36	Carl	80	↑1	28
37	Leroy	80	↓5	51
38	Samuel	80	↓9	52
39	Alfred	78	new	33
40	Lawrence	78	↓2	38
41	Ernest	75	↓2	43
42	Daniel	70	↑2	47
43	Frederick	69	↓9	67
44	Leonard	61	↓4	42
45	Theodore	61	new	66
46	Calvin	59	↓3	94
47	Roland	59	–	>100
48	Carroll	58	new	>100
49	Gilbert	52	new	96
50	Irvin	52	new	>100

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