Popular baby names in Maryland, 1967

The most popular baby names in Maryland in 1967 were Lisa for girls (998 babies) and Michael for boys (1,553). Social Security records list 54,603 babies born in Maryland in 1967 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maryland in 1967

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

Girls

Towanda: 30 babies, 16.9× the national rate
Sharron: 16 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Antoinette: 50 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Dionne: 19 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Deena: 15 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Vera: 18 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Eleanor: 17 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Bernadette: 43 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Lauren: 42 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Latonya: 19 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Carroll: 22 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Donnell: 19 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Darnell: 20 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Lamont: 18 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Vernon: 45 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Harry: 72 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Nathaniel: 37 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Maurice: 56 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Wayne: 157 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Bernard: 49 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maryland, 1967

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1966	US rank
1	Lisa	998	–	1
2	Kimberly	802	–	2
3	Mary	530	↑1	4
4	Michelle	522	↑1	3
5	Karen	509	↓2	6
6	Dawn	415	↑4	27
7	Susan	397	↑1	5
8	Donna	389	↓2	19
9	Patricia	349	↓2	11
10	Melissa	337	↑14	9
11	Jennifer	332	↑2	10
12	Tammy	325	↓1	8
13	Angela	318	↑1	7
14	Michele	315	↑9	36
15	Pamela	302	↑5	17
16	Tina	299	↑6	21
17	Deborah	287	↓8	22
18	Sandra	284	↓6	20
19	Laura	272	↓2	15
20	Sharon	270	↓5	30
21	Elizabeth	268	↓2	13
22	Christine	252	↑4	14
23	Cynthia	249	↓7	18
24	Amy	246	↑9	12
25	Tracy	231	↑7	29
26	Barbara	228	↓5	33
27	Linda	227	↓9	26
28	Kelly	225	↑1	23
29	Stephanie	221	↑9	25
30	Teresa	212	↓2	28
31	Denise	206	↓4	34
32	Cheryl	204	↑2	35
33	Julie	199	↑4	16
34	Theresa	198	↓3	43
35	Wendy	194	↑4	32
36	Kathleen	192	↓1	40
37	Robin	191	↓12	45
38	Brenda	187	↓8	31
39	Diane	161	↑3	44
40	Lori	161	↓4	24
41	Nancy	153	↑2	37
42	Rebecca	153	↑4	39
43	Christina	150	new	53
44	Sherry	148	↑3	51
45	Jacqueline	139	↓1	52
46	Margaret	138	↑3	58
47	Rhonda	130	↑1	41
48	Andrea	129	↑2	48
49	Leslie	129	new	66
50	Carol	128	↓9	47

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1966	US rank
1	Michael	1,553	–	1
2	John	1,236	–	4
3	David	1,201	–	2
4	James	1,196	–	3
5	Robert	1,124	–	5
6	William	916	–	6
7	Richard	622	–	8
8	Mark	616	↑4	7
9	Brian	593	↑4	10
10	Joseph	580	↑1	15
11	Charles	554	↓3	20
12	Thomas	550	↓2	12
13	Christopher	549	↑3	9
14	Kevin	543	–	17
15	Timothy	520	–	11
16	Steven	516	↑1	14
17	Jeffrey	514	↓8	13
18	Paul	388	–	18
19	Eric	362	↑9	23
20	Anthony	359	–	21
21	Kenneth	348	↓2	22
22	Daniel	337	–	19
23	Stephen	313	–	26
24	Scott	312	↑1	16
25	Ronald	307	↓4	24
26	Donald	292	–	27
27	Matthew	272	↑9	28
28	Edward	269	↓4	31
29	Gregory	266	↓2	25
30	George	258	↓1	36
31	Patrick	232	↑3	30
32	Keith	230	–	34
33	Gary	228	↓2	32
34	Andrew	203	↓1	35
35	Douglas	201	–	33
36	Sean	166	↑2	44
37	Raymond	163	–	48
38	Wayne	157	↑1	62
39	Rodney	156	↓9	37
40	Craig	154	↑2	46
41	Larry	148	↑2	38
42	Troy	144	↑7	40
43	Bryan	133	↓3	52
44	Dennis	122	new	43
45	Todd	122	↓4	29
46	Shawn	117	new	51
47	Lawrence	104	↑1	67
48	Jerry	101	new	41
49	Frank	100	↓5	45
50	Jonathan	98	new	56

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