Popular baby names in Delaware, 1932

The most popular baby names in Delaware in 1932 were Mary for girls (96 babies) and William for boys (124). William ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 2,929 babies born in Delaware in 1932 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Delaware in 1932

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

Girls

Florence: 22 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Charlotte: 15 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Janet: 23 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Joanne: 15 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Doris: 50 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Phyllis: 28 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Marie: 27 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Catherine: 20 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Elizabeth: 34 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Jean: 34 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Francis: 32 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Harry: 25 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Howard: 23 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Alfred: 15 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Joseph: 64 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Paul: 39 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Louis: 16 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Norman: 16 babies, 2.2× the national rate
William: 124 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Ralph: 19 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Delaware, 1932

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Mary	96	–	1
2	Betty	64	–	2
3	Barbara	62	↑7	3
4	Joan	51	↓1	5
5	Doris	50	↑3	10
6	Margaret	45	↓2	7
7	Dorothy	42	↓1	4
8	Helen	38	↓1	8
9	Patricia	38	↑12	6
10	Ruth	36	↑1	11
11	Elizabeth	34	↓2	17
12	Jean	34	↓7	15
13	Nancy	31	↑3	13
14	Phyllis	28	↑8	30
15	Marie	27	↑9	31
16	Shirley	26	↓1	9
17	Alice	24	↓5	21
18	Dolores	23	↓4	18
19	Janet	23	↑21	35
20	Florence	22	↑9	47
21	Anna	21	↑7	24
22	Frances	21	↓9	19
23	Catherine	20	↓3	39
24	Virginia	19	↓1	14
25	Lois	16	new	20
26	Charlotte	15	↑5	74
27	Joanne	15	new	62
28	Beatrice	14	new	87
29	Eleanor	14	↓11	45
30	Theresa	14	↑19	60
31	Ann	13	↓14	34
32	Carolyn	13	↑18	46
33	Emma	13	new	76
34	Grace	13	new	72
35	Irene	13	↓9	43
36	Jane	13	↓9	49
37	Edna	12	–	50
38	Evelyn	12	↓3	23
39	Josephine	12	↑2	57
40	Joyce	12	new	12
41	Mildred	12	↓5	26
42	Rose	12	↓17	33
43	Sarah	12	new	67
44	Bernice	11	new	71
45	June	11	↑1	44
46	Lillian	11	new	48
47	Marion	11	↓5	73
48	Martha	11	↓1	27
49	Gladys	10	new	54
50	Julia	10	new	92

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	William	124	–	4
2	Robert	113	↑1	1
3	John	103	↓1	3
4	James	101	–	2
5	Richard	69	↑4	5
6	Donald	65	–	7
7	Joseph	64	↑1	9
8	Charles	61	↓3	6
9	George	56	↓2	8
10	Edward	40	↑1	11
11	Paul	39	↑4	13
12	Francis	32	↑4	43
13	Thomas	31	↓3	10
14	David	28	↑3	12
15	Harry	25	↓2	32
16	Howard	23	↑7	36
17	Albert	19	↑5	26
18	Frank	19	↓4	15
19	Ralph	19	↓1	27
20	Raymond	18	↓8	19
21	Walter	17	↑4	21
22	Louis	16	↓3	39
23	Norman	16	↓3	37
24	Alfred	15	↑8	49
25	Henry	15	↑10	23
26	Ernest	14	new	47
27	Daniel	13	↑6	42
28	Harold	13	↑3	18
29	Leonard	13	↑13	48
30	Samuel	13	↓6	56
31	Earl	12	↓5	41
32	Anthony	11	↑4	45
33	Franklin	11	new	66
34	Ronald	11	↓6	16
35	Carl	10	↑3	28
36	Kenneth	10	↓9	14
37	Calvin	9	new	>100
38	Clarence	9	new	40
39	Frederick	9	new	73
40	Herbert	9	↑8	44
41	Eugene	8	↓20	22
42	Harvey	8	↓2	95
43	Theodore	8	–	67
44	Benjamin	7	↑2	>100
45	Fred	7	↓11	33
46	Preston	7	new	>100
47	Vernon	7	new	78
48	Alvin	6	new	87
49	Arthur	6	↓12	25
50	Herman	6	new	89

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