Top Names of 1928
The most popular names recorded in 1928 were Mary for girls
and Robert for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 66,872 |
| 2 | Betty | 36,083 |
| 3 | Dorothy | 33,733 |
| 4 | Helen | 22,937 |
| 5 | Margaret | 20,295 |
| 6 | Ruth | 17,859 |
| 7 | Doris | 16,574 |
| 8 | Barbara | 14,872 |
| 9 | Virginia | 14,500 |
| 10 | Shirley | 14,215 |
| 11 | Patricia | 12,331 |
| 12 | Jean | 12,209 |
| 13 | Frances | 12,137 |
| 14 | Elizabeth | 11,767 |
| 15 | Mildred | 11,652 |
| 16 | Anna | 10,575 |
| 17 | Evelyn | 10,533 |
| 18 | Lois | 10,425 |
| 19 | Alice | 10,139 |
| 20 | Dolores | 9,614 |
| 21 | Marie | 9,286 |
| 22 | Martha | 8,252 |
| 23 | Norma | 8,165 |
| 24 | Rose | 8,161 |
| 25 | Gloria | 8,119 |
| 26 | Phyllis | 7,924 |
| 27 | Joan | 7,854 |
| 28 | Irene | 7,731 |
| 29 | Marjorie | 7,632 |
| 30 | Joyce | 7,244 |
| 31 | Louise | 7,053 |
| 32 | Florence | 6,970 |
| 33 | Catherine | 6,910 |
| 34 | Ruby | 6,692 |
| 35 | Lillian | 6,577 |
| 36 | Eleanor | 6,535 |
| 37 | Annie | 6,329 |
| 38 | Marilyn | 6,066 |
| 39 | Lorraine | 5,982 |
| 40 | Thelma | 5,978 |
| 41 | Gladys | 5,791 |
| 42 | Josephine | 5,671 |
| 43 | Nancy | 5,537 |
| 44 | June | 5,517 |
| 45 | Edna | 5,473 |
| 46 | Beverly | 5,437 |
| 47 | Marion | 5,420 |
| 48 | Pauline | 5,391 |
| 49 | Theresa | 5,331 |
| 50 | Geraldine | 5,156 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Robert | 60,701 |
| 2 | John | 53,761 |
| 3 | James | 52,753 |
| 4 | William | 49,119 |
| 5 | Charles | 31,244 |
| 6 | Richard | 28,794 |
| 7 | Donald | 25,705 |
| 8 | George | 24,391 |
| 9 | Joseph | 22,319 |
| 10 | Edward | 18,492 |
| 11 | Thomas | 16,582 |
| 12 | Frank | 13,570 |
| 13 | Paul | 13,159 |
| 14 | Harold | 12,669 |
| 15 | Jack | 12,494 |
| 16 | Raymond | 11,947 |
| 17 | Kenneth | 11,167 |
| 18 | Walter | 10,651 |
| 19 | David | 9,992 |
| 20 | Eugene | 9,709 |
| 21 | Henry | 9,313 |
| 22 | Arthur | 8,880 |
| 23 | Albert | 8,812 |
| 24 | Ralph | 8,100 |
| 25 | Herbert | 8,065 |
| 26 | Harry | 7,604 |
| 27 | Billy | 7,310 |
| 28 | Carl | 6,946 |
| 29 | Willie | 6,817 |
| 30 | Joe | 6,682 |
| 31 | Howard | 6,496 |
| 32 | Louis | 6,297 |
| 33 | Alfred | 6,252 |
| 34 | Roy | 6,229 |
| 35 | Clarence | 6,068 |
| 36 | Fred | 6,036 |
| 37 | Earl | 5,966 |
| 38 | Lawrence | 5,596 |
| 39 | Norman | 5,590 |
| 40 | Francis | 5,516 |
| 41 | Gerald | 5,487 |
| 42 | Leonard | 5,130 |
| 43 | Ernest | 4,941 |
| 44 | Anthony | 4,718 |
| 45 | Stanley | 4,481 |
| 46 | Marvin | 4,452 |
| 47 | Daniel | 4,426 |
| 48 | Melvin | 4,249 |
| 49 | Bernard | 4,067 |
| 50 | Ronald | 3,969 |