Popular baby names in Delaware, 1938

The most popular baby names in Delaware in 1938 were Barbara for girls (109 babies) and William for boys (143). Barbara ranked #2 nationally for girls. William ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 3,186 babies born in Delaware in 1938 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Delaware in 1938

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

Girls

Joanne: 23 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Marie: 30 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Doris: 43 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Charlotte: 16 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Catherine: 19 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Jacqueline: 15 babies, 3× the national rate
Kathleen: 15 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Anna: 17 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Janet: 30 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Barbara: 109 babies, 2× the national rate

Boys

Francis: 31 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Samuel: 18 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Clarence: 16 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Howard: 19 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Walter: 26 babies, 2.3× the national rate
William: 143 babies, 2.2× the national rate
George: 61 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Norman: 15 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Delaware, 1938

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1937	US rank
1	Barbara	109	↑1	2
2	Mary	96	↓1	1
3	Patricia	58	–	3
4	Shirley	49	↑7	5
5	Doris	43	↑1	25
6	Margaret	43	↑4	9
7	Betty	37	↓2	4
8	Nancy	34	–	7
9	Joan	33	↓5	10
10	Dorothy	30	↓3	8
11	Janet	30	↓2	16
12	Marie	30	↑20	37
13	Sandra	27	↑27	14
14	Joyce	26	↑10	11
15	Elizabeth	25	↑1	17
16	Frances	24	↑1	23
17	Ruth	24	↓4	21
18	Joanne	23	↑3	57
19	Virginia	23	↓1	22
20	Jean	21	↑7	27
21	Alice	19	↑4	29
22	Carol	19	↓3	6
23	Catherine	19	↓1	48
24	Phyllis	19	↓12	28
25	Carolyn	18	↓5	15
26	Helen	18	↓12	13
27	Anna	17	↑14	40
28	Charlotte	16	↑5	70
29	Lois	16	new	33
30	Jacqueline	15	new	69
31	Kathleen	15	new	58
32	Eleanor	14	↓9	60
33	Judith	14	new	12
34	Loretta	14	↑2	62
35	Elaine	13	↑2	42
36	June	13	new	79
37	Marion	13	new	>100
38	Irene	12	↓10	72
39	Louise	12	↑10	59
40	Pauline	12	new	97
41	Rosalie	12	new	66
42	Ann	11	↓27	32
43	Constance	11	new	>100
44	Grace	11	new	100
45	Bernice	10	↑1	>100
46	Marlene	10	↓2	51
47	Agnes	9	new	>100
48	Anne	9	new	84
49	Beverly	9	↓7	18
50	Jane	9	↓19	44

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1937	US rank
1	William	143	–	4
2	Robert	139	–	1
3	John	126	–	3
4	James	108	–	2
5	Charles	83	–	6
6	Richard	65	↑1	5
7	Donald	62	↓1	7
8	George	61	–	11
9	Joseph	51	–	12
10	Edward	37	–	13
11	Thomas	37	↑3	9
12	David	36	↓1	8
13	Paul	34	↓1	15
14	Francis	31	↑3	51
15	Ronald	31	↓2	10
16	Kenneth	26	↑14	14
17	Walter	26	↑1	26
18	Howard	19	↑4	42
19	Michael	18	↑23	21
20	Samuel	18	↑30	62
21	Carl	17	↑4	29
22	Henry	17	↑5	30
23	Clarence	16	↑21	58
24	Frank	16	↓4	18
25	Harold	15	↑15	23
26	Lawrence	15	↑5	36
27	Norman	15	new	43
28	Raymond	15	↓12	20
29	Albert	14	new	37
30	Gerald	14	↓9	19
31	Ernest	13	↑16	55
32	Eugene	13	↓3	33
33	Louis	13	↑3	47
34	Arthur	12	↓6	32
35	Harry	12	↓20	44
36	Leonard	12	new	57
37	Ralph	12	↓18	35
38	Wayne	12	↓6	40
39	Jack	10	↓16	25
40	Bernard	9	new	75
41	Roger	9	new	31
42	Stanley	9	new	59
43	Theodore	9	new	84
44	Alan	8	new	91
45	Alfred	8	↓2	69
46	Anthony	8	↓22	46
47	Daniel	8	↓8	39
48	Fred	8	new	38
49	Lewis	8	new	>100
50	Philip	8	↓5	64

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