Popular baby names in Washington, 1922

The most popular baby names in Washington in 1922 were Mary for girls (531 babies) and Robert for boys (803). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 19,518 babies born in Washington in 1922 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Washington in 1922

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

Girls

Joy: 18 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Patricia: 154 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Carol: 49 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Iris: 21 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Nadine: 18 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Roberta: 46 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Peggy: 35 babies, 3.3× the national rate
June: 143 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Phyllis: 128 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Donna: 35 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Boys

Bob: 37 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Dick: 16 babies, 5× the national rate
Bill: 60 babies, 4× the national rate
Gordon: 81 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Don: 38 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Delbert: 31 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Jim: 25 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Wallace: 57 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Lyle: 27 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Ronald: 25 babies, 2.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Washington, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	531	–	1
2	Betty	447	↑1	6
3	Dorothy	400	↓1	2
4	Margaret	334	–	4
5	Helen	271	–	3
6	Virginia	240	–	7
7	Ruth	196	–	5
8	Marjorie	182	–	16
9	Doris	164	↑2	11
10	Patricia	154	↓1	69
11	Frances	152	↓1	10
12	June	143	↑6	45
13	Evelyn	136	↓1	13
14	Jean	135	↓1	20
15	Barbara	132	↑1	40
16	Phyllis	128	↑6	53
17	Shirley	118	↑3	39
18	Alice	115	↓3	15
19	Lois	107	↓5	35
20	Marie	100	↑4	14
21	Elizabeth	96	↓4	9
22	Mildred	93	↓3	8
23	Norma	91	↑4	46
24	Irene	87	↑4	17
25	Maxine	86	↑1	82
26	Florence	78	↓5	18
27	Eleanor	73	↑3	28
28	Marian	73	↑16	67
29	Lorraine	70	↑8	56
30	Edith	69	↑5	34
31	Geraldine	66	↑2	58
32	Anna	65	↑7	12
33	Gloria	65	new	61
34	Grace	65	↑7	38
35	Bernice	64	↓4	41
36	Gladys	62	↓11	25
37	Marion	62	↑8	42
38	Ethel	60	↑5	32
39	Lillian	60	↓10	19
40	Elsie	57	↓8	59
41	Jeanne	57	new	97
42	Rose	56	new	23
43	Catherine	55	↓3	24
44	Josephine	55	new	27
45	Lucille	55	↓7	33
46	Wilma	55	new	77
47	Louise	54	↓11	22
48	Esther	53	↓25	44
49	Joyce	52	new	>100
50	Hazel	51	↓16	37

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Robert	803	–	2
2	John	520	↑1	1
3	William	489	↓1	3
4	James	368	–	4
5	Donald	345	–	12
6	Richard	277	↑1	9
7	George	260	↓1	6
8	Jack	253	↑1	18
9	Charles	221	↓1	5
10	Harold	166	–	13
11	Frank	151	–	10
12	Kenneth	148	↑1	21
13	Edward	141	↓1	8
14	Joseph	117	↑11	7
15	Roy	113	↑11	32
16	Thomas	109	↓2	11
17	Harry	108	↓1	22
18	Arthur	104	↓1	19
19	Albert	102	↑3	20
20	Raymond	97	↑1	16
21	Walter	96	↓6	15
22	David	95	↓4	24
23	Ralph	94	↓3	23
24	Earl	90	↑13	31
25	Eugene	88	↓2	25
26	Paul	87	↓2	14
27	Clarence	81	↑14	29
28	Gordon	81	↑2	76
29	Howard	81	↓10	26
30	Fred	73	↓2	33
31	Lawrence	70	↓2	36
32	Norman	69	↑15	44
33	Ernest	68	↑9	37
34	Ray	68	↑14	65
35	Henry	66	↓3	17
36	Joe	64	↑8	35
37	Warren	62	↓10	45
38	Gerald	61	–	58
39	Lloyd	61	↓3	59
40	Bill	60	new	>100
41	Wallace	57	new	87
42	Leonard	56	↓7	38
43	Carl	55	↓9	30
44	Elmer	54	↓1	54
45	Vernon	54	new	68
46	Herbert	53	new	40
47	Melvin	52	↓7	50
48	Glenn	49	↓3	79
49	Wayne	49	new	78
50	Stanley	48	↓19	41

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