Popular baby names in California, 1911

The most popular baby names in California in 1911 were Mary for girls (390 babies) and John for boys (214). Social Security records list 9,983 babies born in California in 1911 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in California in 1911

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

Girls

Aileen: 19 babies, 8× the national rate
Anita: 35 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Dolores: 31 babies, 5.4× the national rate
June: 22 babies, 5× the national rate
Lorraine: 25 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Barbara: 48 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Patricia: 21 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Constance: 19 babies, 4× the national rate
Muriel: 22 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Claire: 20 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Boys

Manuel: 26 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Jose: 17 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Jack: 71 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Victor: 19 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Vernon: 15 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Edwin: 23 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Alvin: 15 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Lloyd: 18 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in California, 1911

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	Mary	390	–	1
2	Dorothy	241	↑1	4
3	Helen	209	↓1	2
4	Margaret	204	–	3
5	Ruth	156	↑1	5
6	Frances	136	↓1	10
7	Alice	127	↑1	11
8	Evelyn	125	↓1	16
9	Marie	103	↑3	9
10	Elizabeth	96	–	7
11	Florence	94	–	12
12	Virginia	92	↓3	26
13	Mildred	89	–	8
14	Grace	81	↑5	23
15	Lillian	81	↑14	13
16	Hazel	79	↓1	25
17	Marjorie	78	↑6	59
18	Doris	77	↑9	56
19	Rose	76	↓5	14
20	Louise	72	↓4	19
21	Eleanor	71	↑1	49
22	Josephine	70	↓5	29
23	Thelma	66	↑2	27
24	Bernice	65	–	51
25	Gladys	61	↓5	18
26	Catherine	59	↑4	20
27	Anna	57	↑5	6
28	Edna	56	↓7	17
29	Irene	55	↓1	21
30	Esther	52	↑4	34
31	Beatrice	50	↑10	37
32	Ethel	49	↓1	15
33	Barbara	48	new	>100
34	Elsie	48	↑4	41
35	Lucille	47	↓17	32
36	Edith	46	↓10	31
37	Jean	46	↑8	74
38	Gertrude	45	↑1	30
39	Betty	42	↓2	69
40	Jane	42	new	98
41	Marian	42	↑2	>100
42	Marion	42	↓7	58
43	Mabel	41	↓3	43
44	Pauline	40	new	38
45	Ann	39	↓12	53
46	Ida	39	new	45
47	Agnes	37	new	39
48	Julia	37	new	44
49	Martha	37	new	28
50	Vera	36	new	67

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	John	214	–	1
2	William	203	–	2
3	Robert	153	↑1	5
4	George	143	↑1	4
5	James	119	↓2	3
6	Charles	110	↑2	7
7	Frank	109	↓1	8
8	Joseph	82	↓1	6
9	Jack	71	↑1	25
10	Edward	69	↓1	9
11	Harry	69	↑9	13
12	Thomas	68	↑7	10
13	Arthur	58	↑5	18
14	Raymond	56	↓2	19
15	Paul	54	↑7	17
16	Albert	53	↓3	15
17	Richard	51	↓6	20
18	Fred	50	↑6	22
19	Louis	50	↓3	21
20	Harold	49	↓6	16
21	Henry	45	↓6	11
22	Joe	43	↓1	29
23	Walter	42	↓6	12
24	Ralph	39	↑7	24
25	Alfred	34	↑4	39
26	Lawrence	33	↑7	37
27	Carl	32	↑3	26
28	Donald	29	↓3	36
29	Kenneth	29	↑8	40
30	Roy	28	↑2	31
31	Stanley	28	new	44
32	Clarence	26	↓6	23
33	Ernest	26	↓10	32
34	Manuel	26	↓7	>100
35	Francis	24	↓7	33
36	Leo	24	new	51
37	Earl	23	↑5	34
38	Edwin	23	↑10	60
39	David	22	↑2	27
40	Eugene	21	↓5	43
41	Victor	19	↑4	81
42	Andrew	18	↓3	42
43	Daniel	18	new	53
44	Elmer	18	↓6	48
45	Howard	18	↓9	28
46	Lloyd	18	new	74
47	Peter	18	new	50
48	Ray	18	↓2	71
49	Herbert	17	new	41
50	Jose	17	↓1	>100

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