Popular baby names in Delaware, 1936

The most popular baby names in Delaware in 1936 were Mary for girls (102 babies) and Robert for boys (119). Social Security records list 2,734 babies born in Delaware in 1936 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Delaware in 1936

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: 15 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Phyllis: 32 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Joan: 57 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Marie: 20 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Catherine: 15 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Alice: 21 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Dolores: 19 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Carolyn: 22 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Margaret: 39 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Janet: 22 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Boys

Samuel: 15 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Francis: 19 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Earl: 15 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Lawrence: 17 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Harry: 15 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Joseph: 48 babies, 2× the national rate
Albert: 16 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Delaware, 1936

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Mary	102	–	1
2	Barbara	76	↑1	3
3	Joan	57	↑2	7
4	Shirley	55	↓2	2
5	Patricia	51	↓1	5
6	Betty	49	↑1	4
7	Dorothy	39	↑2	6
8	Margaret	39	–	9
9	Phyllis	32	↑16	25
10	Nancy	30	↑1	8
11	Helen	26	↑1	11
12	Carolyn	22	↑15	23
13	Janet	22	↑7	21
14	Alice	21	↑12	27
15	Doris	20	↓9	15
16	Jean	20	↓2	20
17	Marie	20	↓2	33
18	Dolores	19	↓2	30
19	Elizabeth	19	↓6	18
20	Virginia	19	↓2	14
21	Ann	17	↑11	28
22	Ruth	16	↓12	16
23	Catherine	15	↑10	44
24	Grace	15	new	86
25	Lois	15	↑11	26
26	Charlotte	14	↓4	61
27	Eleanor	14	↓3	47
28	Carol	13	↓11	10
29	Frances	13	↓10	19
30	Janice	13	↑20	31
31	Joyce	13	↑11	12
32	Norma	13	↑6	29
33	Elaine	11	↑1	50
34	Jeanette	11	new	94
35	Loretta	11	new	70
36	Martha	11	↓15	24
37	Geraldine	10	↑4	41
38	Jacqueline	10	new	66
39	Jane	10	↑10	42
40	Joanne	10	↓11	48
41	Theresa	10	new	88
42	Anna	9	↓19	36
43	Edna	9	new	71
44	Ellen	9	new	99
45	Esther	9	↓6	>100
46	Gladys	9	new	84
47	Kathryn	9	new	>100
48	Louise	9	new	46
49	Patsy	9	new	52
50	Sandra	9	new	38

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Robert	119	↑2	1
2	John	118	–	3
3	James	112	↑1	2
4	William	107	↓3	4
5	Richard	63	↑1	5
6	Charles	60	↓1	6
7	Donald	52	–	7
8	Joseph	48	↑1	11
9	Thomas	47	↑6	8
10	George	44	↓2	9
11	Edward	33	–	13
12	Paul	30	↑2	15
13	David	29	–	10
14	Frank	20	↑10	16
15	Francis	19	↓3	50
16	Raymond	18	↑3	17
17	Lawrence	17	↑18	37
18	Albert	16	↑19	34
19	Ralph	16	↑24	31
20	Ronald	16	↓10	12
21	Walter	16	↓5	26
22	Earl	15	↑17	47
23	Harry	15	↑8	39
24	Kenneth	15	↓4	14
25	Samuel	15	↑3	67
26	Fred	14	↑21	36
27	Gerald	14	↑14	19
28	Anthony	12	↑1	48
29	Daniel	12	↓4	41
30	Eugene	12	↓7	29
31	Franklin	12	↑15	64
32	Howard	12	↓15	40
33	Roger	12	new	35
34	Harold	11	↓4	21
35	Henry	11	↓9	28
36	Louis	11	↓18	44
37	Alfred	9	↑1	60
38	Herbert	9	↑12	62
39	Melvin	9	new	53
40	Carl	8	↓7	27
41	Clarence	8	↓19	52
42	Frederick	8	↓2	70
43	Leonard	8	new	54
44	Norman	8	↓12	43
45	Edgar	7	new	>100
46	Ernest	7	↓2	55
47	Gary	7	new	38
48	Herman	7	new	>100
49	Leroy	7	new	57
50	Lewis	7	new	>100

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