Popular baby names in Delaware, 1920

The most popular baby names in Delaware in 1920 were Mary for girls (165 babies) and William for boys (167). William ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 3,744 babies born in Delaware in 1920 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Delaware in 1920

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: 16 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Sara: 15 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Eleanor: 45 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Elizabeth: 77 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Anne: 20 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Ann: 20 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Marian: 15 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Alice: 44 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Anna: 54 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Florence: 39 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Benjamin: 15 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Francis: 37 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Samuel: 21 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Howard: 29 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Michael: 16 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Joseph: 97 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Alfred: 18 babies, 2.2× the national rate
William: 167 babies, 2× the national rate
Charles: 95 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Delaware, 1920

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Mary	165	–	1
2	Dorothy	106	↑2	2
3	Margaret	81	–	4
4	Elizabeth	77	↑1	8
5	Helen	76	↓3	3
6	Anna	54	–	10
7	Mildred	53	↑5	6
8	Eleanor	45	↑10	25
9	Alice	44	↓1	15
10	Frances	42	↓1	9
11	Ruth	41	↓4	5
12	Florence	39	↑7	16
13	Virginia	38	–	7
14	Marie	35	↓4	13
15	Evelyn	27	–	12
16	Catherine	26	↓5	21
17	Irene	26	↑8	17
18	Grace	25	↓4	37
19	Edith	24	↑2	32
20	Thelma	24	↑24	31
21	Betty	23	↑1	11
22	Hazel	23	↑15	34
23	Louise	23	↑11	19
24	Martha	23	↑16	23
25	Gladys	22	↑7	22
26	Doris	21	↓9	14
27	Ann	20	↑4	49
28	Anne	20	↑8	65
29	Ethel	20	↓3	30
30	Barbara	19	new	47
31	Lillian	19	↓4	18
32	Clara	18	↑13	44
33	Edna	18	–	27
34	Emma	18	new	46
35	Pauline	18	↓7	36
36	Jean	17	↓16	33
37	Rose	17	↓13	20
38	Agnes	16	new	54
39	Hilda	16	↑7	>100
40	Sarah	16	↓5	50
41	Gertrude	15	new	42
42	Marian	15	↑5	73
43	Sara	15	↓1	>100
44	Elsie	14	↓6	51
45	Stella	14	↓2	82
46	Jane	13	↓17	48
47	Josephine	12	↓31	28
48	Mabel	12	new	83
49	Regina	12	new	>100
50	Rita	12	new	52

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	William	167	–	2
2	John	160	–	1
3	Joseph	97	↑2	7
4	Charles	95	–	5
5	James	90	↓2	4
6	Robert	79	–	3
7	George	76	–	6
8	Edward	52	–	8
9	Thomas	40	↑3	11
10	Walter	39	↑3	13
11	Francis	37	↓2	34
12	Frank	33	↓2	9
13	Harry	31	↑2	21
14	Henry	29	↑8	17
15	Howard	29	↑2	24
16	Paul	29	↓5	14
17	Albert	26	↑4	19
18	Richard	25	–	10
19	Ralph	24	↓5	22
20	Raymond	22	↑3	15
21	Samuel	21	↓5	44
22	Alfred	18	↑2	42
23	Ernest	17	↑10	37
24	Louis	17	↑1	28
25	Eugene	16	↑9	30
26	Michael	16	↑15	50
27	Benjamin	15	↑2	83
28	Anthony	14	↑10	43
29	Arthur	14	↓3	18
30	Clarence	14	–	26
31	Harold	14	↓11	12
32	Leonard	14	new	38
33	Stanley	14	↓14	40
34	Donald	13	↑6	16
35	Leon	13	–	75
36	Earl	12	↓9	31
37	Harvey	11	↑11	87
38	Theodore	11	new	63
39	Daniel	10	–	52
40	Norman	10	↓12	47
41	Victor	10	new	81
42	Andrew	9	↑1	49
43	Clifford	9	new	59
44	David	9	↓12	25
45	Frederick	9	new	60
46	Herbert	9	↓15	41
47	Kenneth	9	new	23
48	Alexander	8	↓12	>100
49	Franklin	8	new	>100
50	Jack	8	↓13	20

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