Popular baby names in Delaware, 1918

The most popular baby names in Delaware in 1918 were Mary for girls (178 babies) and John for boys (147). Social Security records list 3,705 babies born in Delaware in 1918 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Delaware in 1918

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

Girls

Sara: 23 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Madeline: 15 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Hilda: 17 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Marguerite: 21 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Anne: 27 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Mabel: 21 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Blanche: 15 babies, 3× the national rate
Elizabeth: 74 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Sarah: 23 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Catherine: 40 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Boys

Francis: 35 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Norman: 18 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Howard: 27 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Harry: 38 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Samuel: 18 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Joseph: 89 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Delaware, 1918

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	Mary	178	–	1
2	Helen	90	–	2
3	Dorothy	86	↑2	3
4	Margaret	76	↓1	4
5	Elizabeth	74	↓1	9
6	Anna	59	–	10
7	Ruth	59	↑1	5
8	Mildred	50	↑1	6
9	Frances	48	↑1	8
10	Catherine	40	↓3	20
11	Florence	40	↑1	14
12	Alice	34	↑3	13
13	Virginia	34	↓2	7
14	Eleanor	33	↑2	26
15	Marie	32	↑5	12
16	Edith	31	↑19	30
17	Ethel	28	↑8	28
18	Anne	27	↑13	54
19	Evelyn	27	↑2	11
20	Gladys	25	new	22
21	Irene	25	↑6	16
22	Edna	24	↓8	23
23	Pauline	24	↓6	35
24	Ann	23	–	44
25	Jean	23	↑13	37
26	Sara	23	↓3	>100
27	Sarah	23	↑5	52
28	Hazel	22	↓2	33
29	Louise	21	↓11	18
30	Mabel	21	↑7	74
31	Marguerite	21	↑15	86
32	Rose	21	↓4	17
33	Grace	20	↓20	31
34	Jane	20	new	53
35	Beatrice	19	↑7	40
36	Esther	18	↑7	38
37	Hilda	17	new	>100
38	Josephine	17	↓16	24
39	Pearl	17	↑8	56
40	Rita	17	new	58
41	Gertrude	16	↑3	39
42	Kathryn	16	↑7	63
43	Lillian	16	↓24	15
44	Marion	16	new	45
45	Thelma	16	↓5	32
46	Agnes	15	↓5	47
47	Betty	15	↓13	21
48	Blanche	15	–	96
49	Doris	15	↓20	19
50	Julia	15	new	48

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	John	147	–	1
2	William	129	–	2
3	James	116	–	3
4	Joseph	89	–	7
5	Charles	82	↑1	5
6	Robert	72	↑1	4
7	George	64	↓2	6
8	Edward	54	–	8
9	Harry	38	–	20
10	Thomas	37	–	10
11	Paul	36	↑5	14
12	Francis	35	↑2	30
13	Walter	34	↓2	11
14	Frank	31	↓2	9
15	Howard	27	↑3	26
16	Albert	26	↓1	19
17	Harold	22	↑4	13
18	Raymond	22	↑8	15
19	Clarence	21	↓6	23
20	Norman	18	↑11	49
21	Samuel	18	↓4	43
22	David	16	↑3	28
23	Richard	16	↑12	12
24	Stanley	15	↑16	36
25	Alfred	14	↓5	42
26	Henry	14	↓4	16
27	Ralph	14	↓8	22
28	Leonard	13	↑15	41
29	Louis	13	new	24
30	Anthony	12	↑2	39
31	Victor	12	new	63
32	Alexander	11	↑12	>100
33	Lawrence	11	↑1	38
34	Arthur	10	↓7	17
35	Donald	10	new	18
36	Earl	10	↓3	31
37	Benjamin	9	↓1	79
38	Ernest	9	new	37
39	Frederick	9	↓15	59
40	Herbert	9	new	40
41	Roland	9	↓12	>100
42	Stephen	9	new	96
43	Warren	9	new	90
44	Alvin	8	new	80
45	Andrew	8	new	46
46	Daniel	8	new	52
47	Elmer	8	↓2	44
48	Harvey	8	↓20	88
49	Wallace	8	new	>100
50	Franklin	7	new	>100

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