Popular baby names in Delaware, 1921

The most popular baby names in Delaware in 1921 were Mary for girls (141 babies) and William for boys (155). William ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 3,562 babies born in Delaware in 1921 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Delaware in 1921

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

Girls

Anne: 21 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Grace: 35 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Beatrice: 25 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Jane: 22 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Elizabeth: 64 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Catherine: 34 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Anna: 54 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Pauline: 26 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Kathryn: 15 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Alice: 40 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Francis: 42 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Daniel: 17 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Harry: 39 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Michael: 16 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Clarence: 25 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Stanley: 18 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Walter: 43 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Alfred: 16 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Samuel: 16 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Joseph: 84 babies, 2.1× the national rate

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

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	141	–	1
2	Helen	107	↑3	3
3	Dorothy	81	↓1	2
4	Margaret	79	↓1	4
5	Elizabeth	64	↓1	10
6	Ruth	58	↑5	5
7	Anna	54	↓1	11
8	Frances	44	↑2	9
9	Mildred	43	↓2	7
10	Alice	40	↓1	15
11	Virginia	38	↑2	6
12	Betty	35	↑9	8
13	Grace	35	↑5	35
14	Catherine	34	↑2	23
15	Marie	34	↓1	14
16	Evelyn	31	↓1	12
17	Irene	31	–	18
18	Florence	26	↓6	17
19	Pauline	26	↑16	37
20	Thelma	26	–	30
21	Beatrice	25	new	41
22	Louise	24	↑1	22
23	Doris	23	↑3	13
24	Eleanor	22	↓16	29
25	Jane	22	↑21	47
26	Anne	21	↑2	70
27	Edna	21	↑6	27
28	Edith	19	↓9	33
29	Marjorie	19	new	16
30	Gladys	18	↓5	24
31	Martha	18	↓7	21
32	Ann	17	↓5	53
33	Jean	17	↑3	25
34	Sarah	17	↑6	54
35	Josephine	16	↑12	28
36	Rose	16	↑1	20
37	Ethel	15	↓8	32
38	Kathryn	15	new	64
39	Lillian	15	↓8	19
40	Audrey	14	new	82
41	Elsie	14	↑3	55
42	Myrtle	14	new	73
43	Charlotte	12	new	79
44	Clara	12	↓12	45
45	Emma	12	↓11	52
46	Esther	12	new	42
47	Hazel	12	↓25	34
48	Jennie	12	new	99
49	Julia	12	new	58
50	Katherine	12	new	49

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	William	155	–	3
2	John	151	–	1
3	James	110	↑2	4
4	Joseph	84	↓1	7
5	Robert	78	↑1	2
6	Charles	77	↓2	5
7	George	52	–	6
8	Edward	48	–	8
9	Walter	43	↑1	15
10	Francis	42	↑1	35
11	Harry	39	↑2	21
12	Paul	34	↑4	14
13	Richard	31	↑5	10
14	Thomas	29	↓5	11
15	Henry	28	↓1	17
16	Clarence	25	↑14	28
17	Albert	24	–	20
18	Frank	24	↓6	9
19	Howard	23	↓4	27
20	Louis	23	↑4	29
21	Ralph	21	↓2	23
22	Raymond	21	↓2	16
23	Arthur	18	↑6	19
24	Harold	18	↑7	12
25	Stanley	18	↑8	41
26	Daniel	17	↑13	49
27	Alfred	16	↓5	43
28	Michael	16	↓2	47
29	Samuel	16	↓8	44
30	Earl	14	↑6	31
31	David	12	↑13	25
32	Fred	11	new	33
33	Jack	11	↑17	18
34	Andrew	10	↑8	51
35	Donald	10	↓1	13
36	Kenneth	10	↑11	22
37	Lawrence	10	new	37
38	Norman	10	↑2	46
39	Everett	9	new	95
40	Harvey	9	↓3	87
41	Herbert	9	↑5	42
42	Leon	9	↓7	74
43	Leonard	9	↓11	39
44	Willard	9	new	89
45	Anthony	8	↓17	40
46	Elmer	8	new	48
47	Ernest	8	↓24	38
48	Gilbert	8	new	>100
49	Horace	8	new	>100
50	Melvin	8	new	53

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