Popular baby names in Delaware, 1924

The most popular baby names in Delaware in 1924 were Mary for girls (132 babies) and William for boys (138). William ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 3,143 babies born in Delaware in 1924 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Delaware in 1924

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

Girls

Jane: 27 babies, 4× the national rate
Elizabeth: 63 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Ida: 16 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Marian: 16 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Catherine: 28 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Pauline: 22 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Jean: 33 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Ann: 16 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Florence: 29 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Frances: 43 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Willard: 15 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Norman: 22 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Francis: 25 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Samuel: 19 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Howard: 24 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Clarence: 21 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Joseph: 76 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Ralph: 25 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Thomas: 45 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Delaware, 1924

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Mary	132	–	1
2	Dorothy	76	–	2
3	Elizabeth	63	↑1	11
4	Helen	59	↓1	3
5	Betty	51	↑1	4
6	Margaret	47	↓1	5
7	Ruth	44	–	6
8	Frances	43	↑4	10
9	Doris	39	↑1	9
10	Jean	33	↑14	16
11	Marie	33	–	14
12	Virginia	32	↑3	7
13	Anna	30	↓5	13
14	Evelyn	29	↑5	12
15	Florence	29	↑5	20
16	Catherine	28	↓2	27
17	Mildred	28	↓8	8
18	Jane	27	↓1	53
19	Eleanor	23	↓6	29
20	Irene	23	↑1	18
21	Pauline	22	↑8	38
22	Josephine	21	new	34
23	Barbara	20	new	28
24	Alice	19	↑1	15
25	Edith	17	↑1	36
26	Rose	17	↑9	25
27	Ann	16	↑21	55
28	Ida	16	new	70
29	Louise	16	↓6	24
30	Marian	16	new	64
31	Lillian	15	↓9	23
32	Emma	14	↑17	57
33	Jeannette	14	new	>100
34	Beatrice	13	↑8	50
35	Marjorie	13	↑6	17
36	Pearl	13	new	78
37	Sarah	13	↓1	54
38	Thelma	13	↓22	33
39	Blanche	12	new	>100
40	Grace	12	↓7	43
41	Katherine	12	↑9	59
42	Anne	11	↓12	79
43	Bertha	11	new	65
44	Ethel	11	↓16	39
45	Gladys	11	↓11	30
46	Julia	11	new	62
47	Kathryn	11	↓1	81
48	Martha	11	new	21
49	Edna	10	↓10	31
50	Gertrude	10	↓23	60

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	William	138	–	3
2	John	126	–	2
3	James	96	–	4
4	Robert	87	↑1	1
5	Charles	81	↓1	5
6	Joseph	76	–	7
7	George	65	–	6
8	Edward	48	–	9
9	Thomas	45	↑2	11
10	Richard	37	↑7	8
11	Paul	33	↑2	14
12	Frank	30	↑2	12
13	Walter	29	↓3	16
14	Donald	27	↑7	10
15	Francis	25	↓6	34
16	Ralph	25	↑6	23
17	Howard	24	↓2	26
18	Norman	22	new	42
19	Clarence	21	↑7	29
20	Harry	21	↓8	22
21	Albert	20	↑2	21
22	Samuel	19	↓4	45
23	David	17	↑5	24
24	Harold	16	↑3	13
25	Louis	16	↑4	28
26	Willard	15	↑12	97
27	Henry	14	↓8	18
28	Raymond	14	↓12	15
29	Stanley	14	↑1	40
30	Eugene	12	new	25
31	Lewis	12	new	77
32	Alfred	11	↓8	43
33	Elmer	11	new	57
34	Leon	11	↑3	76
35	Anthony	10	↓15	39
36	Fred	10	↓2	32
37	Lawrence	10	↓1	36
38	Philip	10	new	71
39	Preston	10	new	>100
40	Andrew	9	↑9	56
41	Earl	9	↑4	33
42	Ernest	9	↓11	37
43	Franklin	8	↓3	>100
44	Russell	8	new	52
45	Bernard	7	new	46
46	Carl	7	new	27
47	Harvey	7	new	88
48	Herbert	7	↓7	41
49	Oliver	7	new	>100
50	Roland	7	↓2	98

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