Popular baby names in Delaware, 1926

The most popular baby names in Delaware in 1926 were Mary for girls (115 babies) and William for boys (155). William ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 2,990 babies born in Delaware in 1926 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Delaware in 1926

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

Girls

Elsie: 19 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Elizabeth: 61 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Agnes: 17 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Ann: 21 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Eleanor: 28 babies, 3× the national rate
Doris: 57 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Marie: 38 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Grace: 19 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Catherine: 25 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Florence: 27 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Boys

Francis: 31 babies, 4× the national rate
Samuel: 17 babies, 3× the national rate
Clarence: 22 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Joseph: 76 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Alfred: 15 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Harry: 25 babies, 2.3× the national rate
William: 155 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Stanley: 15 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Delaware, 1926

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Mary	115	–	1
2	Betty	73	↑1	3
3	Margaret	65	↑4	5
4	Elizabeth	61	↓2	11
5	Doris	57	↑1	7
6	Helen	57	↓2	4
7	Dorothy	52	↓2	2
8	Ruth	43	–	6
9	Marie	38	–	18
10	Alice	33	↑5	17
11	Jean	33	↑5	12
12	Anna	32	↓2	15
13	Eleanor	28	–	32
14	Florence	27	↑5	26
15	Frances	27	↓4	10
16	Virginia	26	↑1	8
17	Catherine	25	↓5	31
18	Evelyn	25	↑3	13
19	Mildred	23	↓5	9
20	Gloria	22	↑14	20
21	Ann	21	↑5	55
22	Barbara	21	↑18	16
23	Elsie	19	↑7	69
24	Grace	19	↑7	46
25	Martha	19	new	24
26	Louise	18	↓4	27
27	Agnes	17	↑23	77
28	Pauline	17	↑21	39
29	Thelma	17	↓9	36
30	Edna	16	↓1	38
31	Irene	14	↓13	21
32	Anne	13	↓4	86
33	Esther	13	↑12	62
34	Sarah	13	↓11	63
35	Gladys	12	new	35
36	Jane	12	↓9	56
37	Ethel	11	↓4	41
38	Marian	11	new	70
39	Marion	11	↑3	47
40	Audrey	10	↓1	60
41	Beatrice	10	↑3	58
42	Edith	10	↓18	42
43	Lillian	10	↓2	28
44	Marjorie	10	↑4	22
45	Nancy	10	↓9	57
46	Phyllis	10	↓3	33
47	Carolyn	9	new	>100
48	Emma	9	new	59
49	Hazel	9	new	48
50	Josephine	9	↓15	37

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	William	155	–	4
2	John	126	–	2
3	Robert	93	↑1	1
4	James	91	↓1	3
5	Joseph	76	–	8
6	Charles	75	–	5
7	George	58	–	6
8	Edward	51	–	10
9	Richard	37	↑3	7
10	Thomas	34	↑3	11
11	Francis	31	↓2	35
12	Paul	30	↓2	13
13	Frank	29	↑1	12
14	Donald	27	↑18	9
15	Harry	25	↓4	25
16	Harold	24	↑1	14
17	Clarence	22	↑6	29
18	Walter	21	↓3	17
19	Ralph	20	↑14	24
20	Albert	18	↓4	21
21	Raymond	18	↓2	15
22	Samuel	17	↓2	48
23	Alfred	15	↑11	45
24	David	15	–	22
25	Stanley	15	↑4	43
26	Earl	14	↑9	32
27	Louis	14	↓2	30
28	Norman	14	↑17	39
29	Willard	14	↑18	100
30	Harvey	13	↑11	90
31	Howard	12	↓10	27
32	Leon	12	↑12	73
33	Henry	11	↓15	19
34	Anthony	10	↓12	42
35	Arthur	10	↓8	20
36	Carl	10	new	26
37	Lawrence	10	new	36
38	Calvin	9	↑11	65
39	Daniel	9	↓2	46
40	Fred	9	new	31
41	Jack	9	↑1	16
42	Leroy	9	↓16	51
43	Lewis	9	new	82
44	Edwin	8	↑6	55
45	Ernest	8	↓17	37
46	Eugene	8	↓15	23
47	Floyd	8	new	53
48	Franklin	8	new	>100
49	Gilbert	8	new	>100
50	Lester	8	new	78

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