Popular baby names in Maryland, 1931

The most popular baby names in Maryland in 1931 were Mary for girls (930 babies) and William for boys (860). William ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 23,442 babies born in Maryland in 1931 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maryland in 1931

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: 39 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Hilda: 49 babies, 4× the national rate
Elva: 15 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Charlotte: 111 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Estelle: 22 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Delores: 111 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Madeline: 26 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Rosalie: 27 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Catherine: 145 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Angela: 16 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Carroll: 43 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Irvin: 23 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Roland: 61 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Bernard: 103 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Franklin: 32 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Clifton: 20 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Calvin: 40 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Rudolph: 31 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Wilbert: 19 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Charles: 691 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maryland, 1931

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Mary	930	–	1
2	Betty	535	–	2
3	Dorothy	366	–	3
4	Margaret	353	↑1	7
5	Doris	281	↓1	10
6	Helen	260	–	6
7	Shirley	256	–	9
8	Ruth	229	–	11
9	Elizabeth	208	–	16
10	Anna	200	↑1	25
11	Patricia	192	↑8	8
12	Joan	191	↑10	5
13	Barbara	174	↑12	4
14	Dolores	173	↓4	14
15	Frances	167	↑1	18
16	Virginia	162	↓2	12
17	Nancy	160	↑1	17
18	Jean	152	↓5	13
19	Catherine	145	↓7	36
20	Gloria	141	↑1	23
21	Alice	137	↑6	21
22	Mildred	137	↓5	26
23	Evelyn	115	↓8	24
24	Charlotte	111	↑2	75
25	Delores	111	↑4	58
26	Norma	98	↑14	22
27	Rose	95	↑5	30
28	Peggy	93	↑19	42
29	Geraldine	91	↑9	38
30	Marie	90	↓10	27
31	Thelma	89	↓7	53
32	Phyllis	87	↓4	29
33	Ann	86	↓2	35
34	Lillian	83	↓11	47
35	Audrey	82	↓5	64
36	Edna	76	↑7	52
37	June	76	↓3	44
38	Edith	73	↑4	65
39	Lorraine	73	↓4	49
40	Eleanor	72	↓7	40
41	Florence	72	↑8	43
42	Joyce	72	new	15
43	Louise	71	↓7	33
44	Ethel	65	↑1	67
45	Janet	65	↓4	45
46	Martha	64	–	28
47	Lois	62	↑1	20
48	Gladys	61	new	55
49	Grace	59	new	70
50	Rita	58	new	48

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	William	860	–	4
2	John	771	–	3
3	Robert	738	↑1	1
4	Charles	691	↑1	6
5	James	669	↓2	2
6	Joseph	376	–	9
7	George	365	–	8
8	Richard	347	–	5
9	Donald	343	–	7
10	Thomas	263	↑1	10
11	Edward	255	↓1	11
12	Paul	162	–	12
13	Harry	144	↑2	30
14	Walter	143	↓1	20
15	Raymond	137	↓1	17
16	David	131	–	13
17	Albert	129	↑4	24
18	Howard	119	↑1	34
19	Frank	116	↑5	16
20	Kenneth	114	↑2	14
21	Francis	104	↓3	42
22	Bernard	103	↓5	54
23	Henry	99	↓3	22
24	Harold	95	↑7	18
25	Earl	85	↑1	40
26	Norman	85	↑2	36
27	Carl	84	↑19	28
28	Eugene	82	↓1	21
29	Arthur	79	↑3	23
30	Louis	79	↓5	37
31	Clarence	78	↑4	39
32	Lawrence	78	↑8	38
33	Ralph	78	↓4	25
34	Leroy	77	↑2	52
35	Herbert	72	↓2	41
36	Melvin	72	↓13	51
37	Jack	70	↓7	15
38	Daniel	68	↑1	44
39	Samuel	65	↓5	56
40	Ernest	64	↓3	47
41	Ronald	63	new	27
42	Stanley	62	↓4	49
43	Roland	61	new	>100
44	Theodore	61	↑1	70
45	Leonard	58	↓2	48
46	Frederick	53	↓5	73
47	Vernon	53	↓3	74
48	Andrew	49	new	65
49	Alfred	47	new	50
50	Elmer	47	new	82

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