Popular baby names in California, 1915

The most popular baby names in California in 1915 were Mary for girls (998 babies) and John for boys (1,033). Social Security records list 35,835 babies born in California in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in California in 1915

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

Girls

Lupe: 17 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Consuelo: 15 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Ramona: 27 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Jacqueline: 21 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Patricia: 94 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Angie: 21 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Carmen: 41 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Beth: 18 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Barbara: 217 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Gloria: 18 babies, 4× the national rate

Boys

Minoru: 17 babies, 28× the national rate
Kazuo: 15 babies, 24.7× the national rate
Hiroshi: 24 babies, 23.7× the national rate
Yoshio: 18 babies, 20.2× the national rate
Masao: 16 babies, 18.8× the national rate
Guido: 20 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Salvador: 15 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Manuel: 134 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Francisco: 15 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Tony: 86 babies, 4.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in California, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	998	–	1
2	Dorothy	717	–	3
3	Helen	602	–	2
4	Margaret	535	–	4
5	Ruth	395	–	5
6	Virginia	345	↑2	12
7	Frances	332	↓1	9
8	Evelyn	326	↓1	10
9	Alice	282	↑2	13
10	Elizabeth	271	↓1	8
11	Marie	255	↓1	11
12	Florence	228	–	14
13	Josephine	220	↑6	22
14	Eleanor	219	↑3	28
15	Barbara	217	↓1	83
16	Rose	208	↓1	16
17	Mildred	196	↓4	6
18	Marjorie	189	↓2	39
19	Betty	181	↑4	53
20	Louise	174	↑2	18
21	Bernice	163	↑10	42
22	Lillian	159	↓4	15
23	Jean	158	↓2	48
24	Grace	155	↑2	27
25	Lois	153	↑4	47
26	Doris	152	↓2	34
27	Edith	148	↓2	31
28	Esther	148	↑7	33
29	Irene	146	↓2	17
30	Hazel	143	↑3	26
31	Jane	137	↑14	69
32	Lucille	130	↓2	29
33	Marion	127	↑8	50
34	Anna	125	↑2	7
35	Catherine	125	↓3	19
36	Katherine	125	↓2	49
37	Thelma	124	↓17	30
38	Gladys	113	↓10	21
39	Edna	112	↓2	20
40	Ann	110	↑8	43
41	Marian	109	new	86
42	Martha	107	↓2	25
43	June	105	new	96
44	Pauline	101	↓1	32
45	Ethel	100	↓1	23
46	Elsie	99	↓8	41
47	Eva	97	new	55
48	Patricia	94	new	>100
49	Lorraine	93	new	>100
50	Lena	88	new	77

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	John	1,033	–	1
2	William	886	–	2
3	Robert	840	–	4
4	George	631	–	6
5	James	530	–	3
6	Frank	523	–	9
7	Charles	448	–	7
8	Joseph	366	↑1	5
9	Edward	344	↓1	8
10	Jack	296	–	27
11	Albert	286	↑1	17
12	Richard	286	↓1	15
13	Harold	241	↑5	12
14	Arthur	240	↑8	18
15	Walter	231	↓2	11
16	Thomas	227	↓1	10
17	Donald	223	↓1	20
18	Henry	211	↓4	14
19	Joe	199	↑5	38
20	Paul	196	–	13
21	Fred	192	↓4	26
22	Harry	191	↓1	19
23	Raymond	179	↓4	16
24	Louis	168	↓1	23
25	Ralph	155	↑3	21
26	Ernest	153	↑3	35
27	Manuel	134	↑5	>100
28	Kenneth	132	↓3	28
29	David	130	↓3	31
30	Alfred	126	↓3	42
31	Roy	126	–	32
32	Carl	125	↑3	22
33	Lawrence	119	↓3	37
34	Howard	116	↓1	25
35	Francis	115	↑1	29
36	Peter	106	new	49
37	Eugene	103	–	41
38	Stanley	97	↓4	34
39	Herbert	94	↑6	40
40	Edwin	93	↑2	53
41	Melvin	91	new	60
42	Clarence	88	↓4	24
43	Elmer	86	↓3	45
44	Tony	86	↑2	>100
45	Earl	85	↓6	33
46	Norman	83	↑1	50
47	Anthony	74	↓6	36
48	Lloyd	74	new	62
49	Leo	73	new	47
50	Leonard	71	↓1	44

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