Top Names of 1927
The most popular names recorded in 1927 were Mary for girls
and Robert for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 70,642 |
| 2 | Dorothy | 35,993 |
| 3 | Betty | 35,423 |
| 4 | Helen | 25,317 |
| 5 | Margaret | 21,964 |
| 6 | Ruth | 19,412 |
| 7 | Doris | 16,512 |
| 8 | Virginia | 15,733 |
| 9 | Shirley | 13,314 |
| 10 | Barbara | 13,161 |
| 11 | Mildred | 13,053 |
| 12 | Frances | 12,988 |
| 13 | Elizabeth | 12,523 |
| 14 | Jean | 12,512 |
| 15 | Evelyn | 11,495 |
| 16 | Anna | 11,215 |
| 17 | Alice | 10,679 |
| 18 | Patricia | 10,554 |
| 19 | Lois | 10,505 |
| 20 | Marie | 10,317 |
| 21 | Irene | 8,607 |
| 22 | Gloria | 8,534 |
| 23 | Rose | 8,497 |
| 24 | Martha | 8,304 |
| 25 | Marjorie | 8,115 |
| 26 | Norma | 7,997 |
| 27 | Louise | 7,704 |
| 28 | Florence | 7,645 |
| 29 | Phyllis | 7,425 |
| 30 | Ruby | 7,264 |
| 31 | Catherine | 7,256 |
| 32 | Lillian | 7,182 |
| 33 | Eleanor | 6,963 |
| 34 | Dolores | 6,769 |
| 35 | Joyce | 6,684 |
| 36 | Annie | 6,562 |
| 37 | Gladys | 6,418 |
| 38 | Thelma | 6,304 |
| 39 | Josephine | 6,108 |
| 40 | Edna | 6,086 |
| 41 | Joan | 6,032 |
| 42 | Pauline | 6,011 |
| 43 | June | 5,738 |
| 44 | Lorraine | 5,729 |
| 45 | Lucille | 5,634 |
| 46 | Marilyn | 5,554 |
| 47 | Ethel | 5,483 |
| 48 | Edith | 5,403 |
| 49 | Bernice | 5,305 |
| 50 | Grace | 5,304 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Robert | 61,674 |
| 2 | John | 55,949 |
| 3 | James | 53,675 |
| 4 | William | 51,476 |
| 5 | Charles | 31,941 |
| 6 | Richard | 26,768 |
| 7 | George | 25,949 |
| 8 | Donald | 23,834 |
| 9 | Joseph | 23,505 |
| 10 | Edward | 19,114 |
| 11 | Thomas | 17,027 |
| 12 | Frank | 14,377 |
| 13 | Paul | 13,605 |
| 14 | Harold | 13,226 |
| 15 | Raymond | 12,807 |
| 16 | Jack | 12,802 |
| 17 | Walter | 11,346 |
| 18 | Kenneth | 10,848 |
| 19 | Henry | 9,871 |
| 20 | Eugene | 9,742 |
| 21 | David | 9,426 |
| 22 | Arthur | 9,338 |
| 23 | Albert | 9,128 |
| 24 | Ralph | 8,434 |
| 25 | Harry | 8,019 |
| 26 | Carl | 7,277 |
| 27 | Willie | 6,969 |
| 28 | Howard | 6,831 |
| 29 | Louis | 6,665 |
| 30 | Joe | 6,542 |
| 31 | Billy | 6,463 |
| 32 | Clarence | 6,460 |
| 33 | Earl | 6,406 |
| 34 | Roy | 6,387 |
| 35 | Fred | 6,313 |
| 36 | Francis | 5,644 |
| 37 | Lawrence | 5,572 |
| 38 | Gerald | 5,511 |
| 39 | Norman | 5,494 |
| 40 | Leonard | 5,312 |
| 41 | Ernest | 5,208 |
| 42 | Herbert | 5,017 |
| 43 | Anthony | 4,918 |
| 44 | Stanley | 4,902 |
| 45 | Alfred | 4,756 |
| 46 | Daniel | 4,615 |
| 47 | Marvin | 4,397 |
| 48 | Melvin | 4,202 |
| 49 | Samuel | 4,189 |
| 50 | Bernard | 4,165 |