Popular baby names in Washington, 1919

The most popular baby names in Washington in 1919 were Mary for girls (419 babies) and Robert for boys (702). Robert ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 18,615 babies born in Washington in 1919 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Washington in 1919

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

Girls

Patricia: 86 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Donna: 28 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Carol: 31 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Amy: 20 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Maxine: 97 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Peggy: 22 babies, 3.5× the national rate
June: 108 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Gloria: 15 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Bette: 19 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Joyce: 31 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Boys

Bob: 29 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Rodney: 15 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Laurence: 23 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Grant: 15 babies, 4× the national rate
Don: 34 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Jim: 26 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Bill: 33 babies, 3× the national rate
Keith: 18 babies, 3× the national rate
Jack: 219 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Gene: 18 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Washington, 1919

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Mary	419	–	1
2	Dorothy	372	–	3
3	Helen	344	↑1	2
4	Margaret	325	↓1	4
5	Ruth	252	–	5
6	Betty	210	–	15
7	Virginia	191	↑1	7
8	Marjorie	162	↑3	33
9	Evelyn	155	↑1	11
10	Frances	147	↓3	9
11	Mildred	141	↑5	6
12	Alice	139	↓3	13
13	Doris	137	↓1	18
14	Jean	128	↑1	37
15	Lois	127	↑3	40
16	Florence	120	↓3	14
17	Elizabeth	111	↑2	8
18	June	108	↓4	64
19	Marie	105	↓2	12
20	Irene	99	↑5	16
21	Maxine	97	↑7	85
22	Bernice	93	↑9	42
23	Barbara	91	↓3	60
24	Hazel	90	↓2	32
25	Edith	89	↓2	29
26	Patricia	86	↑15	>100
27	Louise	83	↑3	20
28	Elsie	82	↑10	47
29	Gladys	81	↑4	21
30	Edna	79	↑10	22
31	Lillian	79	↑1	17
32	Phyllis	77	↓3	84
33	Vivian	76	↑4	72
34	Eleanor	74	↓8	30
35	Lucille	73	↓8	27
36	Thelma	71	↑11	31
37	Esther	70	↓16	38
38	Ethel	70	new	28
39	Shirley	70	↑6	89
40	Grace	65	↓16	34
41	Violet	64	↑7	74
42	Lorraine	63	new	62
43	Ellen	61	new	92
44	Gertrude	59	↓10	39
45	Pauline	59	↑4	36
46	Geraldine	57	↑4	68
47	Martha	57	↓12	25
48	Anna	54	new	10
49	Norma	54	new	83
50	Charlotte	53	new	79

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Robert	702	–	4
2	William	437	↑1	2
3	John	427	↓1	1
4	George	299	↑1	6
5	James	290	↓1	3
6	Richard	255	↑3	12
7	Charles	239	–	5
8	Donald	223	↓2	17
9	Jack	219	↓1	21
10	Harold	164	–	13
11	Frank	161	↑1	9
12	Walter	136	↑2	11
13	Edward	131	↓2	8
14	Harry	110	↓1	20
15	Raymond	105	↑1	14
16	Kenneth	103	↑3	26
17	Thomas	103	–	10
18	Albert	101	–	18
19	Howard	99	↑1	24
20	Arthur	96	↓5	19
21	Paul	96	–	15
22	Ralph	94	↑1	22
23	Henry	88	↑2	16
24	Joseph	87	↓2	7
25	Roy	87	↑1	32
26	Carl	81	↑1	29
27	Earl	80	↑2	31
28	Eugene	79	↑4	33
29	Lawrence	73	↑5	38
30	David	72	↓2	27
31	Elmer	71	↑7	44
32	Clarence	70	↓2	25
33	Fred	69	↓9	30
34	Leonard	69	↑8	39
35	Ernest	67	↓4	36
36	Stanley	65	–	37
37	Norman	57	↓2	48
38	Ray	56	↑12	69
39	Gerald	52	new	70
40	Vernon	52	↑5	65
41	Joe	50	↑8	35
42	Lloyd	49	↓9	58
43	Clifford	48	↑5	60
44	Herbert	48	↓4	40
45	Edwin	46	↓4	52
46	Alfred	45	↓7	42
47	Francis	45	↓3	34
48	Glenn	45	↓1	84
49	Gordon	43	↓12	86
50	Louis	42	↓7	28

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