Popular baby names in Delaware, 1915

The most popular baby names in Delaware in 1915 were Mary for girls (141 babies) and John for boys (118). Social Security records list 2,858 babies born in Delaware in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Delaware in 1915

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

Girls

Blanche: 18 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Marguerite: 17 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Elsie: 28 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Anne: 20 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Catherine: 33 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Ann: 20 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Beatrice: 21 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Sarah: 17 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Anna: 56 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Elizabeth: 52 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Samuel: 21 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Anthony: 21 babies, 3× the national rate
Elmer: 15 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Charles: 81 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Francis: 20 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Earl: 17 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Stanley: 15 babies, 2.1× the national rate
William: 115 babies, 2× the national rate

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

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	141	–	1
2	Margaret	72	–	4
3	Helen	71	–	2
4	Dorothy	69	↑1	3
5	Anna	56	↑2	7
6	Elizabeth	52	↓2	8
7	Mildred	49	↑2	6
8	Ruth	41	↓2	5
9	Catherine	33	↑1	19
10	Elsie	28	↑16	41
11	Frances	26	–	9
12	Florence	25	–	14
13	Edna	24	↑11	20
14	Ethel	23	↑9	23
15	Alice	22	↑3	13
16	Josephine	22	↑34	22
17	Beatrice	21	↑13	37
18	Edith	21	↓2	31
19	Virginia	21	↑2	12
20	Ann	20	↑9	43
21	Anne	20	↑11	52
22	Eleanor	20	↓3	28
23	Grace	20	↓15	27
24	Marie	20	↓11	11
25	Lillian	19	↓10	15
26	Blanche	18	↓1	87
27	Martha	18	↑20	25
28	Gladys	17	↑5	21
29	Hazel	17	↓1	26
30	Marguerite	17	↑16	85
31	Sarah	17	↑11	51
32	Clara	16	↓10	38
33	Doris	16	new	34
34	Marjorie	16	new	39
35	Irene	15	↑13	17
36	Rose	15	↓19	16
37	Bertha	14	new	46
38	Emma	14	↓11	40
39	Esther	14	↓1	33
40	Evelyn	14	↑4	10
41	Jean	14	↑8	48
42	Louise	14	↓2	18
43	Gertrude	13	↑2	35
44	Pauline	13	↓30	32
45	Agnes	11	new	45
46	Ella	11	new	75
47	Emily	11	new	99
48	Eva	11	new	55
49	Hilda	11	↓15	>100
50	Julia	11	↓14	44

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	John	118	↑1	1
2	William	115	↓1	2
3	Charles	81	↑1	7
4	James	75	↓1	3
5	Joseph	66	↑1	5
6	George	64	↓1	6
7	Robert	44	↑1	4
8	Edward	34	↓1	8
9	Thomas	33	–	10
10	Walter	25	↑5	11
11	Frank	22	–	9
12	Harry	22	–	19
13	Paul	22	↑5	13
14	Anthony	21	↑2	36
15	Samuel	21	↓1	39
16	Albert	20	↑6	17
17	Francis	20	↓4	29
18	Earl	17	new	33
19	Henry	17	–	14
20	Harold	16	↑4	12
21	Howard	16	↓4	25
22	Elmer	15	↑21	45
23	Fred	15	↑16	26
24	Stanley	15	new	34
25	Norman	14	↑9	50
26	Alfred	13	↓3	42
27	Richard	13	↓6	15
28	Benjamin	12	new	71
29	Edgar	12	new	85
30	Clarence	11	↓4	24
31	Ernest	11	↓21	35
32	Raymond	11	↓7	16
33	Roland	11	↑9	>100
34	Horace	10	new	>100
35	Ralph	10	↓15	21
36	Frederick	9	new	52
37	Harvey	9	new	95
38	Leon	9	↑9	82
39	Philip	9	↑10	69
40	Andrew	8	new	46
41	Daniel	8	new	55
42	David	8	↓10	31
43	Lawrence	8	↑3	37
44	Michael	8	↓15	43
45	Preston	8	new	>100
46	Willard	8	new	58
47	Arthur	7	↓16	18
48	Eugene	7	↓15	41
49	Herbert	7	↓21	40
50	Louis	7	↓9	23

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