Popular baby names in Delaware, 1922

The most popular baby names in Delaware in 1922 were Mary for girls (162 babies) and William for boys (167). William ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 3,481 babies born in Delaware in 1922 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Delaware in 1922

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

Girls

Jennie: 15 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Elizabeth: 74 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Anne: 19 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Ann: 21 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Eleanor: 31 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Sarah: 18 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Catherine: 30 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Jane: 17 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Grace: 23 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Agnes: 15 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Francis: 32 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Harry: 35 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Alfred: 18 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Norman: 17 babies, 2.5× the national rate
William: 167 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Anthony: 17 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Paul: 40 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Walter: 40 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Delaware, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	162	–	1
2	Dorothy	93	↑1	2
3	Helen	82	↓1	3
4	Elizabeth	74	↑1	9
5	Margaret	70	↓1	4
6	Ruth	62	–	5
7	Anna	44	–	12
8	Betty	41	↑4	6
9	Frances	36	↓1	10
10	Doris	34	↑13	11
11	Mildred	34	↓2	8
12	Virginia	33	↓1	7
13	Eleanor	31	↑11	28
14	Marie	31	↑1	14
15	Catherine	30	↓1	24
16	Florence	28	↑2	18
17	Evelyn	27	↓1	13
18	Irene	27	↓1	17
19	Lillian	26	↑20	19
20	Rose	25	↑16	23
21	Grace	23	↓8	38
22	Alice	22	↓12	15
23	Ann	21	↑9	49
24	Edith	21	↑4	34
25	Jean	21	↑8	20
26	Pauline	21	↓7	36
27	Anne	19	↓1	66
28	Gladys	19	↑2	25
29	Louise	19	↓7	22
30	Sarah	18	↑4	51
31	Thelma	18	↓11	31
32	Jane	17	↓7	55
33	Edna	16	↓6	29
34	Agnes	15	new	62
35	Elsie	15	↑6	59
36	Jennie	15	↑12	>100
37	Marian	14	new	67
38	Beatrice	13	↓17	43
39	Ethel	13	↓2	32
40	Jeanette	13	new	>100
41	Marjorie	13	↓12	16
42	Martha	13	↓11	21
43	Pearl	13	new	71
44	Sophie	13	new	>100
45	Stella	13	new	88
46	Barbara	12	new	40
47	Hilda	12	new	>100
48	Josephine	12	↓13	27
49	Viola	12	new	72
50	Esther	11	↓4	44

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	William	167	–	3
2	John	130	–	1
3	James	89	–	4
4	Charles	82	↑2	5
5	George	79	↑2	6
6	Robert	76	↓1	2
7	Joseph	73	↓3	7
8	Edward	56	–	8
9	Paul	40	↑3	14
10	Walter	40	↓1	15
11	Frank	35	↑7	10
12	Harry	35	↓1	22
13	Thomas	34	↑1	11
14	Francis	32	↓4	34
15	Richard	32	↓2	9
16	Henry	30	↓1	17
17	Albert	23	–	20
18	Ralph	21	↑3	23
19	Arthur	20	↑4	19
20	Donald	20	↑15	12
21	Howard	20	↓2	26
22	Raymond	19	–	16
23	Alfred	18	↑4	42
24	Anthony	17	↑21	39
25	David	17	↑6	24
26	Norman	17	↑12	44
27	Harold	16	↓3	13
28	Frederick	14	new	60
29	Stanley	14	↓4	41
30	Earl	13	–	31
31	Lawrence	13	↑6	36
32	Carl	12	new	30
33	Clarence	12	↓17	29
34	Eugene	12	new	25
35	Leonard	12	↑8	38
36	Louis	12	↓16	27
37	Samuel	12	↓8	43
38	Bernard	11	new	46
39	Daniel	11	↓13	47
40	Warren	11	new	45
41	Herman	10	new	66
42	Michael	10	↓14	48
43	Stephen	10	new	>100
44	Edwin	9	new	52
45	Herbert	9	↓4	40
46	Horace	9	↑3	>100
47	Milton	9	new	74
48	Clifford	8	new	63
49	Kenneth	8	↓13	21
50	Lewis	8	new	75

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