Most popular boys’ names in District of Columbia, 1912

Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).

Rank	Name	Babies
1	William	105
2	John	100
3	James	95
4	Charles	66
5	Robert	56
6	George	51
7	Joseph	42
8	Edward	37
9	Thomas	27
10	Richard	23
11	Raymond	21
12	Harry	19
13	David	16
13	Frank	16
13	Henry	16
13	Louis	16
13	Walter	16
18	Paul	15
18	Ralph	15
18	Samuel	15
21	Arthur	14
21	Howard	14
21	Lawrence	14
24	Francis	13
25	Albert	12

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Eugene	11
26	Milton	11
28	Alfred	10
28	Carl	10
28	Ernest	10
28	Philip	10
32	Clarence	9
32	Frederick	9
32	Leonard	9
35	Bernard	8
35	Daniel	8
35	Fred	8
35	Herbert	8
39	Benjamin	7
39	Kenneth	7
39	Leroy	7
39	Nathaniel	7
39	Stanley	7
39	Theodore	7
45	Donald	6
45	Harold	6
45	Herman	6
45	Lewis	6
49	Alvin	5
49	Andrew	5
49	Earl	5
49	Franklin	5
49	Harvey	5
49	Jack	5
49	Jerome	5
49	Roy	5
49	Vincent	5
49	Willie	5