Popular baby names in Delaware, 1931

The most popular baby names in Delaware in 1931 were Mary for girls (101 babies) and William for boys (132). William ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 2,887 babies born in Delaware in 1931 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Delaware in 1931

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

Girls

Jean: 51 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Elizabeth: 43 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Eleanor: 21 babies, 3× the national rate
Jane: 17 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Alice: 32 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Ann: 21 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Louise: 21 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Catherine: 20 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Margaret: 58 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Doris: 45 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Boys

Francis: 24 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Samuel: 16 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Harry: 26 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Louis: 19 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Norman: 19 babies, 2.5× the national rate
William: 132 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Ralph: 21 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Howard: 16 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Delaware, 1931

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Mary	101	–	1
2	Betty	73	–	2
3	Joan	58	↑27	5
4	Margaret	58	↑2	7
5	Jean	51	↑5	13
6	Dorothy	48	↓3	3
7	Helen	48	↓3	6
8	Doris	45	↓3	10
9	Elizabeth	43	↓2	16
10	Barbara	42	↑1	4
11	Ruth	35	↓3	11
12	Alice	32	↑10	21
13	Frances	30	↓1	18
14	Dolores	29	↓5	14
15	Shirley	27	↑24	9
16	Nancy	23	↓1	17
17	Ann	21	↑8	35
18	Eleanor	21	↓1	40
19	Louise	21	↑15	33
20	Catherine	20	↑3	36
21	Patricia	20	↑6	8
22	Phyllis	20	↑10	29
23	Virginia	19	↓7	12
24	Marie	18	↓6	27
25	Rose	18	↑20	30
26	Irene	17	↓13	37
27	Jane	17	↑1	50
28	Anna	15	↓14	25
29	Florence	15	↓9	43
30	Anne	14	↓4	80
31	Charlotte	14	↑2	75
32	Norma	13	new	22
33	Hilda	12	new	>100
34	Thelma	12	↑6	53
35	Evelyn	11	↓16	24
36	Mildred	11	↓7	26
37	Edna	10	new	52
38	Gloria	10	new	23
39	Jacqueline	10	new	78
40	Janet	10	↓9	45
41	Josephine	10	new	51
42	Marion	10	new	66
43	Edith	9	↑3	65
44	Ethel	9	new	67
45	Janice	9	new	>100
46	June	9	new	44
47	Martha	9	new	28
48	Sara	9	new	>100
49	Theresa	9	↓25	59
50	Carolyn	8	↓9	60

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	William	132	–	4
2	John	126	–	3
3	Robert	125	↑1	1
4	James	108	↓1	2
5	Charles	77	–	6
6	Donald	52	↑4	7
7	George	51	↑1	8
8	Joseph	51	↓1	9
9	Richard	47	↓3	5
10	Thomas	38	↑3	10
11	Edward	36	↓2	11
12	Raymond	27	↑4	17
13	Harry	26	↓2	30
14	Frank	25	↑3	16
15	Paul	25	↓1	12
16	Francis	24	↓4	42
17	David	21	↑5	13
18	Ralph	21	↑1	25
19	Louis	19	↓1	37
20	Norman	19	↓5	36
21	Eugene	18	↑7	21
22	Albert	17	↓2	24
23	Howard	16	–	34
24	Samuel	16	↑7	56
25	Walter	15	–	20
26	Earl	14	↑11	40
27	Kenneth	14	new	14
28	Ronald	14	new	27
29	Jack	13	new	15
30	Stanley	13	↑4	49
31	Harold	12	↓7	18
32	Alfred	11	↑1	50
33	Daniel	11	↑3	44
34	Fred	10	new	33
35	Henry	10	↑5	22
36	Anthony	9	↓1	46
37	Arthur	9	↓11	23
38	Carl	9	↓11	28
39	Edwin	9	new	67
40	Harvey	9	↓1	93
41	Leon	9	↑6	84
42	Leonard	9	↑6	48
43	Theodore	9	new	70
44	Lawrence	8	↓15	38
45	Lester	8	↑5	96
46	Benjamin	7	new	>100
47	Gerald	7	new	26
48	Herbert	7	↓2	41
49	Leroy	7	–	52
50	Willard	7	new	>100

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