Popular baby names in California, 1921

The most popular baby names in California in 1921 were Mary for girls (1,697 babies) and Robert for boys (1,875). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 58,984 babies born in California in 1921 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in California in 1921

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

Girls

Emiko: 17 babies, 27.5× the national rate
Michiko: 16 babies, 24× the national rate
Shizuko: 25 babies, 23.5× the national rate
Sumiko: 16 babies, 21.6× the national rate
Toshiko: 22 babies, 21.2× the national rate
Kiyoko: 29 babies, 20.2× the national rate
Mitsuko: 16 babies, 19× the national rate
Masako: 26 babies, 18.1× the national rate
Chiyoko: 17 babies, 17.2× the national rate
Yoshiko: 33 babies, 15.7× the national rate

Boys

Akira: 16 babies, 19.3× the national rate
Shigeru: 20 babies, 18.4× the national rate
Minoru: 22 babies, 17× the national rate
Kazuo: 25 babies, 16.9× the national rate
Kiyoshi: 21 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Hideo: 19 babies, 14.7× the national rate
Toshio: 25 babies, 14.6× the national rate
Masao: 22 babies, 14.2× the national rate
Hiroshi: 24 babies, 12.7× the national rate
Yoshio: 22 babies, 11.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in California, 1921

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	1,697	–	1
2	Dorothy	1,162	–	2
3	Betty	780	↑3	8
4	Helen	743	–	3
5	Margaret	715	↓2	4
6	Virginia	683	↓1	6
7	Barbara	653	↑1	40
8	Ruth	541	↓1	5
9	Frances	477	–	9
10	Marjorie	444	↑3	16
11	Evelyn	430	↓1	12
12	Alice	393	↓1	15
13	Jean	385	↑2	25
14	Elizabeth	361	↓2	10
15	June	338	↑2	50
16	Marie	330	–	14
17	Doris	323	↓3	13
18	Patricia	295	↑4	84
19	Mildred	280	↓1	7
20	Eleanor	254	↓1	29
21	Florence	253	–	17
22	Josephine	249	↓2	28
23	Lorraine	247	↑3	61
24	Rose	244	–	20
25	Lois	241	↓2	38
26	Phyllis	214	↑3	60
27	Lillian	208	↓2	19
28	Lucille	200	↑2	31
29	Shirley	199	↑12	44
30	Irene	197	↓2	18
31	Catherine	188	↑13	23
32	Jane	188	↓5	47
33	Esther	186	↑4	42
34	Grace	183	↑6	35
35	Norma	182	↑7	51
36	Louise	179	↓2	22
37	Anna	168	↓4	11
38	Pauline	168	↑7	37
39	Bernice	167	↓4	39
40	Marion	164	↓4	43
41	Geraldine	163	↓3	62
42	Maria	162	↑1	>100
43	Edith	161	↓11	33
44	Martha	161	↑6	21
45	Marian	157	↓14	69
46	Carmen	152	new	>100
47	Jeanne	151	new	>100
48	Gladys	150	–	24
49	Katherine	150	–	49
50	Gloria	149	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Robert	1,875	–	2
2	John	1,489	–	1
3	William	1,416	–	3
4	George	890	–	6
5	James	866	–	4
6	Frank	689	↑1	9
7	Jack	650	↑2	18
8	Richard	629	–	10
9	Charles	584	↓3	5
10	Donald	532	↑2	13
11	Edward	524	↓1	8
12	Joseph	474	↓1	7
13	Raymond	383	–	16
14	Albert	365	↑1	20
15	Harold	337	↓1	12
16	Joe	334	–	36
17	Paul	333	↑4	14
18	Thomas	330	↓1	11
19	Henry	293	–	17
20	Walter	293	↓2	15
21	Arthur	291	↓1	19
22	Kenneth	286	↑1	22
23	Harry	285	↓1	21
24	David	270	–	25
25	Manuel	261	–	>100
26	Fred	251	↑1	33
27	Ralph	233	↓1	23
28	Eugene	229	↑2	26
29	Warren	214	↑13	24
30	Ernest	209	↓1	38
31	Howard	204	↑2	27
32	Louis	204	↓4	29
33	Alfred	199	↓2	43
34	Roy	187	↓2	32
35	Tony	168	↑12	>100
36	Francis	158	↑10	35
37	Lawrence	157	↓2	37
38	Stanley	155	↓1	41
39	Earl	154	↓5	31
40	Carl	140	↓1	30
41	Clarence	140	↓1	28
42	Daniel	129	new	49
43	Leonard	129	–	39
44	Peter	128	–	57
45	Lloyd	124	new	58
46	Herbert	122	↓8	42
47	Jose	121	↓11	>100
48	Norman	120	↓7	46
49	Theodore	116	new	65
50	Melvin	112	–	53

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