Popular baby names in Maryland, 1932

The most popular baby names in Maryland in 1932 were Mary for girls (995 babies) and William for boys (820). William ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 23,875 babies born in Maryland in 1932 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maryland in 1932

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

Girls

Rosalie: 50 babies, 4× the national rate
Hilda: 42 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Regina: 25 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Charlotte: 96 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Catherine: 143 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Mabel: 29 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Delores: 103 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Agnes: 52 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Henrietta: 15 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Naomi: 31 babies, 2× the national rate

Boys

Carroll: 45 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Irvin: 22 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Reginald: 15 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Nathan: 18 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Carlton: 17 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Calvin: 44 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Nathaniel: 22 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Wilbert: 18 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Gilbert: 53 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Jerome: 45 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maryland, 1932

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Mary	995	–	1
2	Betty	501	–	2
3	Dorothy	378	–	4
4	Margaret	348	–	7
5	Joan	292	↑7	5
6	Shirley	282	↑1	9
7	Doris	278	↓2	10
8	Helen	269	↓2	8
9	Barbara	230	↑4	3
10	Patricia	212	↑1	6
11	Ruth	210	↓3	11
12	Dolores	189	↑2	18
13	Jean	178	↑5	15
14	Nancy	173	↑3	13
15	Elizabeth	171	↓6	17
16	Anna	164	↓6	24
17	Frances	159	↓2	19
18	Virginia	149	↓2	14
19	Evelyn	147	↑4	23
20	Gloria	146	–	25
21	Catherine	143	↓2	39
22	Alice	126	↓1	21
23	Mildred	125	↓1	26
24	Delores	103	↑1	56
25	June	101	↑12	44
26	Joyce	100	↑16	12
27	Charlotte	96	↓3	74
28	Geraldine	93	↑1	42
29	Janet	93	↑16	35
30	Lois	92	↑17	20
31	Phyllis	86	↑1	30
32	Marie	83	↓2	31
33	Peggy	82	↓5	40
34	Audrey	81	↑1	61
35	Ann	80	↓2	34
36	Rose	80	↓9	33
37	Thelma	80	↓6	51
38	Martha	79	↑8	27
39	Lillian	78	↓5	48
40	Norma	76	↓14	22
41	Louise	75	↑2	36
42	Gladys	74	↑6	54
43	Lorraine	74	↓4	55
44	Jane	73	new	49
45	Carolyn	72	new	46
46	Eleanor	70	↓6	45
47	Florence	69	↓6	47
48	Ethel	64	↓4	66
49	Edna	62	↓13	50
50	Edith	61	↓12	69

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	William	820	–	4
2	John	807	–	3
3	Robert	764	–	1
4	James	713	↑1	2
5	Charles	650	↓1	6
6	Joseph	418	–	9
7	George	380	–	8
8	Donald	372	↑1	7
9	Richard	336	↓1	5
10	Thomas	306	–	10
11	Edward	244	–	11
12	Paul	169	–	13
13	Raymond	142	↑2	19
14	Harry	130	↓1	32
15	Walter	129	↓1	21
16	Ronald	127	↑25	16
17	Kenneth	125	↑3	14
18	Howard	122	–	36
19	Frank	120	–	15
20	David	118	↓4	12
21	Albert	114	↓4	26
22	Eugene	110	↑6	22
23	Louis	99	↑7	39
24	Francis	98	↓3	43
25	Jack	95	↑12	17
26	Henry	91	↓3	23
27	Harold	87	↓3	18
28	Melvin	87	↑8	51
29	Clarence	80	↑2	40
30	Bernard	78	↓8	60
31	Daniel	76	↑7	42
32	Lawrence	76	–	35
33	Earl	74	↓8	41
34	Herbert	72	↑1	44
35	Norman	70	↓9	37
36	Carl	66	↓9	28
37	Franklin	66	new	66
38	Arthur	65	↓9	25
39	Ernest	65	↑1	47
40	Samuel	65	↓1	56
41	Frederick	64	↑5	73
42	Leroy	64	↓8	53
43	Ralph	54	↓10	27
44	Stanley	54	↓2	52
45	Gilbert	53	new	97
46	Michael	52	new	54
47	Vernon	52	–	78
48	Anthony	50	new	45
49	Theodore	50	↓5	67
50	Alfred	49	↓1	49

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