Popular baby names in Maryland, 1930

The most popular baby names in Maryland in 1930 were Mary for girls (1,044 babies) and William for boys (901). William ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 24,714 babies born in Maryland in 1930 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maryland in 1930

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: 56 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Regina: 31 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Catherine: 193 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Charlotte: 104 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Agnes: 76 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Rosalie: 33 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Genevieve: 36 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Dorothea: 16 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Delores: 96 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Naomi: 37 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Boys

Carroll: 52 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Preston: 17 babies, 4× the national rate
Wilson: 18 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Irvin: 23 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Calvin: 61 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Elwood: 17 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Bernard: 123 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Franklin: 35 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Nelson: 20 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Melvin: 107 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maryland, 1930

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Mary	1,044	–	1
2	Betty	557	–	2
3	Dorothy	443	–	3
4	Doris	336	↑1	9
5	Margaret	336	↓1	5
6	Helen	316	–	4
7	Shirley	280	↑2	11
8	Ruth	264	↓1	10
9	Elizabeth	229	↓1	15
10	Dolores	222	↑2	13
11	Anna	201	↓1	23
12	Catherine	193	↓1	35
13	Jean	170	↑3	14
14	Virginia	169	↑4	12
15	Evelyn	163	–	19
16	Frances	162	↓3	16
17	Mildred	158	↓3	21
18	Nancy	155	↑7	24
19	Patricia	129	↑1	7
20	Marie	127	↓3	26
21	Gloria	125	↓2	30
22	Joan	123	↑11	8
23	Lillian	112	↑3	44
24	Thelma	112	↓3	45
25	Barbara	109	↑2	6
26	Charlotte	104	↓2	75
27	Alice	99	↓4	20
28	Phyllis	98	↑3	28
29	Delores	96	↑11	66
30	Audrey	92	↓8	63
31	Ann	91	new	41
32	Rose	86	↓2	29
33	Eleanor	85	↑8	39
34	June	85	↑15	47
35	Lorraine	85	↓3	46
36	Louise	85	↓8	31
37	Jane	80	↑2	55
38	Geraldine	77	↑6	43
39	Agnes	76	↑9	>100
40	Norma	76	↓11	25
41	Janet	75	new	53
42	Edith	74	↓6	61
43	Edna	74	↓8	51
44	Irene	74	↓6	33
45	Ethel	73	↓2	65
46	Martha	72	↓1	27
47	Peggy	72	↓5	67
48	Lois	71	↑2	17
49	Florence	70	new	38
50	Sarah	70	new	70

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	William	901	–	4
2	John	824	–	3
3	James	753	–	2
4	Robert	706	–	1
5	Charles	693	–	6
6	Joseph	448	–	9
7	George	443	–	8
8	Richard	326	–	5
9	Donald	321	↑1	7
10	Edward	298	↓1	10
11	Thomas	275	–	11
12	Paul	186	↑3	12
13	Walter	150	–	19
14	Raymond	146	↓2	16
15	Harry	142	↓1	28
16	David	130	↑3	15
17	Bernard	123	↑4	52
18	Francis	121	↑6	42
19	Howard	121	↓3	31
20	Henry	118	↓2	22
21	Albert	114	↓1	24
22	Kenneth	110	↑1	17
23	Melvin	107	↑4	50
24	Frank	106	↓7	13
25	Louis	106	↑1	34
26	Earl	105	↑2	38
27	Eugene	95	↑4	21
28	Norman	87	↑2	40
29	Ralph	85	↑6	25
30	Jack	82	↑7	14
31	Harold	81	↓6	18
32	Arthur	80	–	23
33	Herbert	80	↓11	35
34	Samuel	80	↑8	55
35	Clarence	77	↓1	39
36	Leroy	77	↑2	53
37	Ernest	72	↑4	43
38	Stanley	70	↑2	49
39	Daniel	69	↑5	47
40	Lawrence	64	↓11	36
41	Frederick	62	↓2	74
42	Calvin	61	↑7	>100
43	Leonard	61	↓10	45
44	Vernon	60	↓1	72
45	Theodore	58	↑5	67
46	Carl	54	↓10	26
47	Carroll	52	↑1	>100
48	Anthony	51	new	44
49	Milton	51	new	93
50	Gilbert	49	new	90

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