Popular baby names in Maryland, 1937

The most popular baby names in Maryland in 1937 were Mary for girls (878 babies) and Robert for boys (834). Social Security records list 23,607 babies born in Maryland in 1937 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maryland in 1937

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: 26 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Catherine: 142 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Hilda: 23 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Rosalie: 33 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Mable: 20 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Agnes: 38 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Gertrude: 35 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Pearl: 26 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Angela: 20 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Doris: 216 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Irvin: 32 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Randolph: 16 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Carroll: 38 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Wilbert: 24 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Wilson: 15 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Clifton: 21 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Bernard: 83 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Roland: 40 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Frederick: 82 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Stuart: 17 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maryland, 1937

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1936	US rank
1	Mary	878	–	1
2	Shirley	497	–	4
3	Patricia	443	↑1	3
4	Barbara	386	↓1	2
5	Margaret	318	↑2	10
6	Dorothy	296	↑3	8
7	Joan	269	↓1	9
8	Betty	263	↓3	5
9	Nancy	242	↓1	7
10	Doris	216	↑1	22
11	Helen	184	↓1	12
12	Ruth	171	↑1	15
13	Elizabeth	168	↓1	17
14	Jean	154	↑1	23
15	Catherine	142	↑3	47
16	Frances	137	↓2	19
17	Virginia	133	↓1	16
18	Carol	116	↑14	6
19	Carolyn	116	↑2	20
20	Beverly	114	↑19	14
21	Anna	113	↓4	39
22	Gloria	111	↑7	32
23	Janet	110	↑2	18
24	Evelyn	108	↑4	36
25	Joyce	108	↓5	11
26	Lois	98	↑7	29
27	Phyllis	94	↓5	27
28	Ann	93	↓9	30
29	Dolores	93	↓6	37
30	Alice	84	↓6	28
31	Delores	84	↓4	68
32	Mildred	84	↓1	43
33	Rose	83	↑1	38
34	Marie	81	↓4	35
35	Norma	79	↑2	33
36	Charlotte	78	↓10	67
37	Marlene	78	↑1	40
38	Eleanor	72	↑4	53
39	Geraldine	70	↓3	44
40	Sylvia	69	–	50
41	Janice	66	new	25
42	Peggy	66	↓7	31
43	Edith	63	↑5	96
44	Martha	60	↑3	24
45	Carole	59	new	56
46	Louise	59	new	48
47	Elaine	57	↑3	45
48	Audrey	55	↓7	85
49	Lillian	54	↓5	84
50	Sandra	53	new	26

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1936	US rank
1	Robert	834	↑1	1
2	William	819	↑1	4
3	John	745	↓2	3
4	James	707	–	2
5	Charles	564	–	6
6	Joseph	375	↑3	12
7	Donald	361	↓1	7
8	Richard	352	–	5
9	George	324	↓2	10
10	Thomas	299	–	9
11	Edward	284	–	13
12	David	242	–	8
13	Paul	215	↑1	15
14	Ronald	208	↓1	11
15	Kenneth	152	↑1	14
16	Harry	124	↓1	41
17	Raymond	113	↑1	19
18	Frank	109	↓1	18
19	Walter	105	–	26
20	Albert	101	↑5	37
21	Francis	97	↑2	55
22	Louis	97	↓1	46
23	Howard	96	↓3	42
24	Melvin	86	↑3	50
25	Bernard	83	↑5	73
26	Michael	83	↑16	27
27	Frederick	82	↑7	68
28	Ralph	81	↑1	34
29	Earl	79	↓5	48
30	Daniel	78	↑1	39
31	Carl	77	↓9	28
32	Harold	77	↑3	21
33	Lawrence	74	↓1	38
34	Henry	73	↓8	30
35	Eugene	67	↓2	33
36	Arthur	65	↑2	31
37	Stanley	65	–	57
38	Clarence	63	↑5	54
39	Leroy	63	↓11	56
40	Ernest	62	↓1	53
41	Samuel	56	↓5	66
42	Jack	55	↓2	23
43	Herbert	54	↑3	65
44	Norman	54	–	43
45	Anthony	52	new	47
46	Gerald	52	↓5	20
47	Jerry	52	new	17
48	Wayne	50	–	44
49	Franklin	48	↓4	77
50	Gary	45	new	29

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