Popular baby names in Delaware, 1935

The most popular baby names in Delaware in 1935 were Mary for girls (92 babies) and William for boys (139). William ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 2,865 babies born in Delaware in 1935 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Delaware in 1935

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

Girls

Charlotte: 16 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Doris: 44 babies, 3× the national rate
Marie: 25 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Ruth: 36 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Eleanor: 15 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Jean: 30 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Elizabeth: 30 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Dolores: 24 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Margaret: 42 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Boys

Francis: 27 babies, 5× the national rate
Louis: 20 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Howard: 20 babies, 2.9× the national rate
William: 139 babies, 2.5× the national rate
George: 56 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Walter: 22 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Delaware, 1935

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Mary	92	–	1
2	Shirley	89	↑3	2
3	Barbara	59	↓1	3
4	Patricia	52	↑2	5
5	Joan	45	↓1	7
6	Doris	44	↑4	13
7	Betty	42	↓4	4
8	Margaret	42	↓1	8
9	Dorothy	38	↓1	6
10	Ruth	36	↑7	15
11	Nancy	34	↑3	9
12	Helen	33	↑7	10
13	Elizabeth	30	↓4	17
14	Jean	30	↓2	18
15	Marie	25	↓2	33
16	Dolores	24	↓1	26
17	Carol	22	new	11
18	Virginia	21	↑4	16
19	Frances	20	↓3	19
20	Janet	18	↑4	22
21	Martha	18	↑14	24
22	Charlotte	16	↑3	65
23	Anna	15	↓5	34
24	Eleanor	15	↓13	48
25	Phyllis	15	↓5	27
26	Alice	14	↓3	25
27	Carolyn	14	↑1	28
28	Evelyn	14	↑5	31
29	Joanne	14	↓2	44
30	June	14	↑9	55
31	Sarah	14	↑1	61
32	Ann	13	↓11	30
33	Catherine	13	↓7	42
34	Elaine	13	new	51
35	Irene	13	↓6	52
36	Lois	13	new	21
37	Edith	12	new	87
38	Norma	11	↓2	29
39	Esther	10	new	94
40	Florence	10	new	74
41	Geraldine	10	new	40
42	Joyce	10	↓11	12
43	Agnes	9	↑5	>100
44	Beatrice	9	new	>100
45	Delores	9	new	57
46	Emma	9	new	89
47	Ethel	9	new	82
48	Gloria	9	new	32
49	Jane	9	↓11	43
50	Janice	9	new	47

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	William	139	↑1	4
2	John	125	↓1	3
3	Robert	117	↑1	1
4	James	110	↓1	2
5	Charles	75	↑1	6
6	Richard	65	↓1	5
7	Donald	58	↑1	7
8	George	56	↑1	8
9	Joseph	44	↓2	10
10	Ronald	32	↑4	12
11	Edward	31	↓1	13
12	Francis	27	–	53
13	David	25	↑2	11
14	Paul	25	↓1	14
15	Thomas	25	↓4	9
16	Walter	22	↑3	23
17	Howard	20	–	39
18	Louis	20	↑31	42
19	Raymond	19	↑7	17
20	Kenneth	16	↑3	15
21	Arthur	14	↑8	29
22	Clarence	14	↑18	48
23	Eugene	14	↓2	26
24	Frank	14	↑3	16
25	Daniel	13	↑6	43
26	Henry	12	↑9	27
27	Jack	12	new	18
28	Samuel	12	↑15	62
29	Anthony	11	↑10	52
30	Harold	11	↓8	20
31	Harry	11	↓15	37
32	Norman	11	↓8	38
33	Carl	10	↓3	28
34	Elwood	10	new	>100
35	Lawrence	10	↑3	35
36	Wayne	10	new	49
37	Albert	9	↓9	31
38	Alfred	9	↓13	63
39	Earl	9	↑8	46
40	Frederick	9	new	73
41	Gerald	9	↓8	21
42	Harvey	9	↓8	99
43	Ralph	9	↓25	32
44	Ernest	7	↓24	55
45	Floyd	7	new	76
46	Franklin	7	↓14	71
47	Fred	7	new	34
48	Stanley	7	↓4	56
49	Bernard	6	↓3	67
50	Herbert	6	↓9	58

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