Popular baby names in Delaware, 1925

The most popular baby names in Delaware in 1925 were Mary for girls (101 babies) and William for boys (135). William ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 3,004 babies born in Delaware in 1925 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Delaware in 1925

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

Girls

Elizabeth: 71 babies, 4× the national rate
Theresa: 16 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Marie: 42 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Eleanor: 29 babies, 3× the national rate
Catherine: 29 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Sarah: 17 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Doris: 53 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Thelma: 21 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Ann: 15 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Jane: 15 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Boys

Francis: 41 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Samuel: 20 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Leroy: 16 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Harry: 32 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Anthony: 17 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Joseph: 69 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Howard: 19 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Delaware, 1925

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Mary	101	–	1
2	Elizabeth	71	↑1	10
3	Betty	69	↑2	3
4	Helen	66	–	4
5	Dorothy	63	↓3	2
6	Doris	53	↑3	8
7	Margaret	48	↓1	5
8	Ruth	43	↓1	6
9	Marie	42	↑2	16
10	Anna	35	↑3	13
11	Frances	31	↓3	11
12	Catherine	29	↑4	29
13	Eleanor	29	↑6	31
14	Mildred	29	↑3	9
15	Alice	27	↑9	15
16	Jean	27	↓6	14
17	Virginia	26	↓5	7
18	Irene	23	↑2	19
19	Florence	21	↓4	24
20	Thelma	21	↑18	35
21	Evelyn	19	↓7	12
22	Louise	17	↑7	27
23	Sarah	17	↑14	58
24	Edith	16	↑1	42
25	Theresa	16	new	80
26	Ann	15	↑1	52
27	Jane	15	↓9	53
28	Anne	14	↑14	85
29	Edna	14	↑20	37
30	Elsie	14	new	63
31	Grace	14	↑9	44
32	Clara	13	new	55
33	Ethel	13	↑11	43
34	Gloria	13	new	20
35	Josephine	13	↓13	36
36	Nancy	12	new	60
37	Norma	12	new	34
38	Pearl	12	↓2	90
39	Audrey	11	new	78
40	Barbara	11	↓17	22
41	Lillian	11	↓10	25
42	Marion	11	new	47
43	Phyllis	11	new	40
44	Beatrice	10	↓10	50
45	Esther	10	new	56
46	Hilda	10	new	>100
47	Mabel	10	new	>100
48	Marjorie	10	↓13	21
49	Pauline	10	↓28	38
50	Agnes	9	new	69

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	William	135	–	3
2	John	113	–	2
3	James	93	–	4
4	Robert	87	–	1
5	Joseph	69	↑1	7
6	Charles	65	↓1	5
7	George	63	–	6
8	Edward	47	–	9
9	Francis	41	↑6	35
10	Paul	35	↑1	13
11	Harry	32	↑9	23
12	Richard	32	↓2	8
13	Thomas	32	↓4	11
14	Frank	24	↓2	12
15	Walter	24	↓2	16
16	Albert	23	↑5	21
17	Harold	22	↑7	14
18	Henry	22	↑9	18
19	Raymond	22	↑9	15
20	Samuel	20	↑2	46
21	Howard	19	↓4	26
22	Anthony	17	↑13	39
23	Clarence	17	↓4	30
24	David	17	↓1	22
25	Louis	17	–	29
26	Leroy	16	new	52
27	Arthur	15	new	20
28	Ernest	14	↑14	37
29	Stanley	14	–	40
30	Bernard	13	↑15	48
31	Eugene	13	↓1	24
32	Donald	12	↓18	10
33	Ralph	12	↓17	25
34	Alfred	11	↓2	43
35	Earl	10	↑6	31
36	Roland	10	↑14	98
37	Daniel	9	new	44
38	Elmer	9	↓5	61
39	Leonard	9	new	38
40	Frederick	8	new	65
41	Harvey	8	↑6	88
42	Jack	8	new	17
43	Kenneth	8	new	19
44	Leon	8	↓10	76
45	Norman	8	↓27	41
46	Russell	8	↓2	53
47	Willard	8	↓21	97
48	Benjamin	7	new	93
49	Calvin	7	new	47
50	Edwin	7	new	57

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