Popular baby names in Delaware, 1928

The most popular baby names in Delaware in 1928 were Mary for girls (116 babies) and William for boys (149). William ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 2,991 babies born in Delaware in 1928 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Delaware in 1928

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

Girls

Grace: 23 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Florence: 31 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Ann: 20 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Elizabeth: 46 babies, 3× the national rate
Theresa: 20 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Eleanor: 24 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Jane: 16 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Doris: 58 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Margaret: 66 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Anna: 35 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Boys

Francis: 33 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Howard: 26 babies, 3× the national rate
Harry: 29 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Alfred: 22 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Joseph: 74 babies, 2.5× the national rate
William: 149 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Clarence: 19 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Thomas: 46 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Delaware, 1928

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	Mary	116	–	1
2	Betty	70	↑1	2
3	Margaret	66	↑2	5
4	Dorothy	63	↓2	3
5	Doris	58	↑4	7
6	Helen	50	–	4
7	Elizabeth	46	↓3	14
8	Ruth	36	↓1	6
9	Anna	35	↓1	16
10	Barbara	34	↑11	8
11	Alice	31	↑2	19
12	Florence	31	↑8	32
13	Marie	28	↑1	21
14	Frances	27	↓4	13
15	Dolores	25	new	20
16	Eleanor	24	↑7	36
17	Grace	23	↑2	52
18	Virginia	23	↓2	9
19	Ann	20	↑6	54
20	Jean	20	↓8	12
21	Theresa	20	↑21	49
22	Lillian	19	↑10	35
23	Louise	19	↑13	31
24	Rose	19	↑10	24
25	Patricia	18	↑23	11
26	Catherine	17	↓11	33
27	Evelyn	16	↑1	17
28	Jane	16	↓6	62
29	Pauline	16	↓5	48
30	Irene	15	↓1	28
31	Mildred	15	↓20	15
32	Charlotte	14	↓14	72
33	Edna	14	↑2	45
34	Ethel	14	↓7	55
35	Thelma	14	↓5	40
36	Josephine	13	new	42
37	Marian	13	↓4	71
38	Marjorie	13	↑9	29
39	Norma	13	↑2	23
40	Shirley	13	↑10	10
41	Agnes	12	↑2	85
42	Ellen	12	↓4	98
43	Gladys	12	↓4	41
44	Bernice	11	↑1	53
45	Jeanette	11	new	>100
46	Lois	11	new	18
47	Marion	11	new	47
48	Martha	11	new	22
49	Nancy	11	↓9	43
50	Beatrice	9	↓24	70

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	William	149	–	4
2	John	118	–	2
3	Robert	103	↑1	1
4	James	93	↓1	3
5	Joseph	74	↑1	9
6	Charles	73	↓1	5
7	George	55	–	8
8	Thomas	46	↑2	11
9	Edward	39	↓1	10
10	Donald	33	↑9	7
11	Francis	33	↑3	40
12	Paul	33	–	13
13	Harry	29	↓4	26
14	Howard	26	↓1	31
15	Frank	24	↑12	12
16	Alfred	22	↑8	33
17	Richard	22	↓6	6
18	Clarence	19	↑22	35
19	Walter	19	↓3	18
20	Albert	16	↑3	23
21	Ralph	16	–	24
22	Eugene	15	↑11	20
23	Henry	15	↓8	21
24	Anthony	14	↓7	44
25	Earl	14	↑6	37
26	Raymond	13	–	16
27	Samuel	13	↓5	52
28	Leon	12	–	81
29	Louis	12	↑20	32
30	Arthur	11	–	22
31	David	11	↓13	19
32	Harold	11	↓12	14
33	Herbert	11	new	25
34	Leonard	11	↑9	42
35	Stanley	11	↓6	45
36	Daniel	10	↑1	47
37	Jack	10	↑5	15
38	Franklin	9	↑9	>100
39	Leroy	9	↓4	51
40	Vernon	9	new	70
41	Alvin	8	↓5	72
42	Calvin	8	new	94
43	Elmer	8	↓9	63
44	Kenneth	8	new	17
45	Norman	8	↓20	39
46	Bernard	7	new	49
47	Clifford	7	↓1	68
48	Ernest	7	↓16	43
49	Morris	7	new	>100
50	Theodore	7	↓11	66

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