Popular baby names in Delaware, 1919

The most popular baby names in Delaware in 1919 were Mary for girls (181 babies) and William for boys (145). William ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 3,685 babies born in Delaware in 1919 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Delaware in 1919

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

Girls

Hilda: 15 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Sara: 16 babies, 4× the national rate
Elizabeth: 75 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Catherine: 40 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Jane: 22 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Anne: 18 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Anna: 63 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Grace: 32 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Stella: 16 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Alice: 48 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Francis: 37 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Samuel: 27 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Stanley: 23 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Alfred: 19 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Norman: 15 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Ralph: 29 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Howard: 26 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Charles: 87 babies, 2.1× the national rate
William: 145 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Delaware, 1919

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Mary	181	–	1
2	Helen	103	–	2
3	Margaret	95	↑1	4
4	Dorothy	91	↓1	3
5	Elizabeth	75	–	8
6	Anna	63	–	10
7	Ruth	63	–	5
8	Alice	48	↑4	13
9	Frances	47	–	9
10	Marie	42	↑5	12
11	Catherine	40	↓1	23
12	Mildred	38	↓4	6
13	Virginia	38	–	7
14	Grace	32	↑19	34
15	Evelyn	31	↑4	11
16	Josephine	30	↑22	26
17	Doris	28	↑32	18
18	Eleanor	28	↓4	30
19	Florence	28	↓8	14
20	Jean	28	↑5	37
21	Edith	27	↓5	29
22	Betty	25	↑25	15
23	Esther	25	↑13	38
24	Rose	25	↑8	19
25	Irene	24	↓4	16
26	Ethel	23	↓9	28
27	Lillian	23	↑16	17
28	Pauline	23	↓5	36
29	Jane	22	↑5	53
30	Beatrice	21	↑5	41
31	Ann	20	↓7	49
32	Gladys	20	↓12	21
33	Edna	19	↓11	22
34	Louise	19	↓5	20
35	Sarah	19	↓8	46
36	Anne	18	↓18	63
37	Hazel	17	↓9	32
38	Elsie	16	new	47
39	Katherine	16	new	51
40	Martha	16	new	25
41	Pearl	16	↓2	56
42	Sara	16	↓16	>100
43	Stella	16	new	70
44	Thelma	16	↑1	31
45	Clara	15	new	43
46	Hilda	15	↓9	>100
47	Marian	14	new	82
48	Bertha	13	new	52
49	Ellen	13	new	92
50	Jennie	13	new	93

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	William	145	↑1	2
2	John	141	↓1	1
3	James	100	–	3
4	Charles	87	↑1	5
5	Joseph	74	↓1	7
6	Robert	69	–	4
7	George	63	–	6
8	Edward	54	–	8
9	Francis	37	↑3	34
10	Frank	36	↑4	9
11	Paul	34	–	15
12	Thomas	33	↓2	10
13	Walter	33	–	11
14	Ralph	29	↑13	22
15	Harry	27	↓6	20
16	Samuel	27	↑5	43
17	Howard	26	↓2	24
18	Richard	24	↑5	12
19	Stanley	23	↑5	37
20	Harold	22	↓3	13
21	Albert	21	↓5	18
22	Henry	21	↑4	16
23	Raymond	20	↓5	14
24	Alfred	19	↑1	42
25	Louis	18	↑4	28
26	Arthur	17	↑8	19
27	Earl	17	↑9	31
28	Norman	15	↓8	48
29	Benjamin	14	↑8	79
30	Clarence	14	↓11	25
31	Herbert	14	↑9	40
32	David	13	↓10	27
33	Ernest	11	↑5	36
34	Eugene	11	new	33
35	Leon	11	new	80
36	Alexander	10	↓4	>100
37	Jack	10	new	21
38	Anthony	9	↓8	41
39	Daniel	9	↑7	51
40	Donald	9	↓5	17
41	Michael	9	new	46
42	Oliver	9	new	>100
43	Andrew	8	↑2	47
44	Clinton	8	new	>100
45	Elmer	8	↑2	44
46	Elwood	8	new	>100
47	Fred	8	new	30
48	Harvey	8	–	85
49	Melvin	8	new	56
50	Roy	8	new	32

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