Popular baby names in Delaware, 1939

The most popular baby names in Delaware in 1939 were Mary for girls (98 babies) and John for boys (148). John ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 3,199 babies born in Delaware in 1939 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Delaware in 1939

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: 25 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Ann: 28 babies, 3× the national rate
Doris: 30 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Catherine: 18 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Joyce: 48 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Elizabeth: 33 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Phyllis: 26 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Janet: 33 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Ruth: 29 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Geraldine: 16 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Francis: 30 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Harry: 25 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Howard: 17 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Joseph: 62 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Wayne: 19 babies, 2.3× the national rate
George: 55 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Walter: 23 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Daniel: 18 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Delaware, 1939

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1938	US rank
1	Mary	98	↑1	1
2	Barbara	82	↓1	2
3	Patricia	68	–	3
4	Joyce	48	↑10	12
5	Dorothy	46	↑5	9
6	Margaret	45	–	10
7	Shirley	40	↓3	5
8	Nancy	39	–	7
9	Betty	37	↓2	4
10	Carol	34	↑12	6
11	Joan	34	↓2	11
12	Elizabeth	33	↑3	18
13	Janet	33	↓2	17
14	Doris	30	↓9	29
15	Ruth	29	↑2	22
16	Ann	28	↑26	33
17	Virginia	28	↑2	21
18	Phyllis	26	↑6	30
19	Joanne	25	↓1	53
20	Carolyn	24	↑5	14
21	Helen	24	↑5	16
22	Frances	22	↓6	26
23	Sandra	22	↓10	13
24	Judith	19	↑9	8
25	Catherine	18	↓2	49
26	Alice	17	↓5	31
27	Janice	17	new	24
28	Beverly	16	↑21	25
29	Geraldine	16	new	41
30	Elaine	15	↑5	45
31	Eleanor	14	↑1	63
32	Lois	14	↓3	35
33	Marie	14	↓21	37
34	Martha	14	new	27
35	Jane	13	↑15	46
36	Anna	12	↓9	43
37	Dolores	12	new	58
38	Jean	12	↓18	32
39	Julia	12	new	91
40	Louise	12	↓1	59
41	Edna	11	new	81
42	Gladys	11	new	>100
43	Kathleen	11	↓12	48
44	Mildred	11	new	55
45	Norma	11	new	38
46	Susan	11	new	44
47	Charlotte	10	↓19	66
48	Elsie	10	new	>100
49	Jacqueline	10	↓19	72
50	Loretta	10	↓16	65

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1938	US rank
1	John	148	↑2	3
2	Robert	130	–	1
3	William	123	↓2	4
4	James	110	–	2
5	Charles	87	–	6
6	Richard	69	–	5
7	David	62	↑5	7
8	Joseph	62	↑1	12
9	George	55	↓1	11
10	Thomas	45	↑1	9
11	Ronald	44	↑4	10
12	Edward	40	↓2	15
13	Donald	36	↓6	8
14	Francis	30	–	53
15	Paul	26	↓2	17
16	Harry	25	↑19	45
17	Kenneth	24	↓1	13
18	Walter	23	↓1	25
19	Michael	20	–	18
20	Wayne	19	↑18	39
21	Daniel	18	↑26	38
22	Gerald	17	↑8	19
23	Howard	17	↓5	47
24	Lawrence	15	↑2	36
25	Raymond	15	↑3	22
26	Frank	14	↓2	20
27	Albert	13	↑2	41
28	Harold	13	↓3	23
29	Alfred	12	↑16	70
30	Carl	12	↓9	30
31	Clarence	12	↓8	60
32	Eugene	12	–	37
33	Larry	12	new	14
34	Louis	12	↓1	49
35	Arthur	11	↓1	32
36	Henry	10	↓14	31
37	Roger	10	↑4	28
38	Samuel	10	↓18	63
39	Anthony	9	↑7	48
40	Earl	9	new	50
41	Clifford	8	new	88
42	Jay	8	new	>100
43	Leroy	8	new	61
44	Ralph	8	↓7	35
45	Allen	7	new	72
46	Edwin	7	new	96
47	Harvey	7	new	>100
48	Herbert	7	new	68
49	Jerome	7	new	93
50	Leonard	7	↓14	54

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