Popular baby names in Maryland, 1939

The most popular baby names in Maryland in 1939 were Mary for girls (847 babies) and Robert for boys (838). Social Security records list 24,485 babies born in Maryland in 1939 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maryland in 1939

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

Girls

Dorothea: 16 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Catherine: 181 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Regina: 26 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Agnes: 42 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Constance: 61 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Cecelia: 15 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Delores: 84 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Rosalie: 58 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Hilda: 19 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Miriam: 18 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Irvin: 27 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Carroll: 38 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Clifton: 29 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Preston: 15 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Francis: 116 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Milton: 41 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Edgar: 29 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Harry: 127 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Calvin: 38 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Oliver: 16 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maryland, 1939

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1938	US rank
1	Mary	847	–	1
2	Barbara	498	–	2
3	Patricia	422	–	3
4	Shirley	339	–	5
5	Nancy	326	↑2	7
6	Joan	298	↑2	11
7	Margaret	289	↓2	10
8	Betty	287	↓2	4
9	Dorothy	228	–	9
10	Catherine	181	↑8	49
11	Elizabeth	181	↓1	18
12	Helen	163	↓1	16
13	Joyce	156	↑3	12
14	Carol	155	↑5	6
15	Frances	144	–	26
16	Carolyn	143	↑12	14
17	Ruth	142	↓5	22
18	Doris	133	↓4	29
19	Beverly	126	↓2	25
20	Janet	122	–	17
21	Jean	119	↓8	32
22	Phyllis	119	↑5	30
23	Virginia	113	↓2	21
24	Judith	111	↑23	8
25	Sandra	107	↓2	13
26	Gloria	100	↓4	36
27	Marie	96	↑13	37
28	Anna	94	↓2	43
29	Ann	91	↑8	33
30	Alice	89	↓6	31
31	Delores	84	↑3	79
32	Linda	78	new	15
33	Elaine	76	↑8	45
34	Evelyn	76	↓5	40
35	Lois	76	↓2	35
36	Charlotte	75	↓5	66
37	Geraldine	75	↑2	41
38	Eleanor	72	↓3	63
39	Mildred	72	↑6	55
40	Martha	68	↓10	27
41	Rose	67	↑5	42
42	Janice	64	↓10	24
43	Donna	63	new	20
44	Marlene	62	↑4	64
45	Constance	61	new	>100
46	Norma	60	↓10	38
47	Peggy	60	↓3	34
48	Carole	59	↓5	47
49	Rosalie	58	↓24	>100
50	June	57	new	83

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1938	US rank
1	Robert	838	–	1
2	John	817	↑1	3
3	William	801	↓1	4
4	James	757	–	2
5	Charles	632	–	6
6	Joseph	385	↑2	12
7	Richard	383	↓1	5
8	George	374	↓1	11
9	Donald	319	–	8
10	Thomas	302	–	9
11	Ronald	273	–	10
12	David	265	↑1	7
13	Edward	240	↓1	15
14	Paul	168	–	17
15	Kenneth	160	–	13
16	Michael	146	↑3	18
17	Walter	134	–	25
18	Frank	127	↑4	20
19	Harry	127	↓1	45
20	Raymond	122	↓4	22
21	Francis	116	↑2	53
22	Wayne	102	↑9	39
23	Howard	91	↓3	47
24	Albert	90	–	41
25	Henry	89	–	31
26	Arthur	88	↑1	32
27	Melvin	86	↑17	51
28	Samuel	82	↑7	63
29	Lawrence	81	↓8	36
30	Louis	81	↓4	49
31	Ralph	80	↑2	35
32	Harold	78	↓3	23
33	Carl	77	↑3	30
34	Gary	76	new	21
35	Earl	75	↓7	50
36	Clarence	74	↑5	60
37	Frederick	72	↓5	71
38	Stanley	71	↑10	57
39	Norman	70	↓2	44
40	Bernard	69	↓6	76
41	Daniel	64	↓3	38
42	Ernest	63	–	55
43	Gerald	62	↑4	19
44	Larry	62	↑2	14
45	Eugene	59	↓15	37
46	Herbert	57	↓6	68
47	Leroy	55	↓8	61
48	Jerome	54	new	93
49	Anthony	53	new	48
50	Jerry	53	new	16

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