Popular baby names in Delaware, 1945

The most popular baby names in Delaware in 1945 were Mary for girls (139 babies) and Robert for boys (201). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 4,636 babies born in Delaware in 1945 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Delaware in 1945

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

Girls

Constance: 15 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Jacqueline: 20 babies, 3× the national rate
Sarah: 16 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Elizabeth: 44 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Joann: 15 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Ruth: 32 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Jane: 31 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Phyllis: 26 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Doris: 23 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Lois: 21 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Boys

Francis: 23 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Albert: 25 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Samuel: 17 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Allen: 15 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Joseph: 86 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Harry: 24 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Howard: 18 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Walter: 28 babies, 2× the national rate
Stanley: 15 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Delaware, 1945

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1944	US rank
1	Mary	139	–	1
2	Barbara	109	–	3
3	Carol	86	↑1	5
4	Patricia	84	↓1	4
5	Sandra	57	↑2	6
6	Nancy	54	↓1	7
7	Linda	51	↑1	2
8	Margaret	51	↑1	15
9	Shirley	48	↑6	14
10	Elizabeth	44	↑12	26
11	Judith	43	↑1	9
12	Susan	37	↓1	10
13	Joan	36	↓3	25
14	Diane	35	↑16	22
15	Kathleen	35	↑3	19
16	Joyce	33	↓10	18
17	Ruth	32	↑11	33
18	Jane	31	↑13	36
19	Donna	30	↑13	17
20	Betty	29	↓4	11
21	Janet	29	↓4	20
22	Carolyn	28	↓8	12
23	Dorothy	26	↓2	21
24	Phyllis	26	↑5	40
25	Beverly	25	–	37
26	Frances	24	↓6	34
27	Helen	24	↓4	31
28	Doris	23	↓1	46
29	Janice	22	new	24
30	Ann	21	↑8	39
31	Gloria	21	new	23
32	Lois	21	↑8	48
33	Bonnie	20	↓7	35
34	Jacqueline	20	new	63
35	Alice	18	↑11	41
36	Judy	18	↑1	13
37	Sharon	18	↓13	8
38	Virginia	18	↓25	28
39	Geraldine	17	–	56
40	Karen	17	new	16
41	Marie	17	↑2	49
42	Elaine	16	↓6	44
43	Marilyn	16	new	27
44	Sarah	16	new	76
45	Carole	15	↓10	51
46	Constance	15	new	>100
47	Jean	15	↓14	38
48	Joann	15	new	80
49	Brenda	14	new	29
50	Catherine	14	↓31	50

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1944	US rank
1	Robert	201	↑2	2
2	John	194	↑2	3
3	William	174	↓2	4
4	James	147	↓2	1
5	Richard	98	–	5
6	Joseph	86	↑1	14
7	Charles	82	↓1	7
8	Thomas	79	↑1	8
9	David	78	↓1	6
10	George	61	↑1	15
11	Donald	60	↓1	12
12	Edward	51	↑1	18
13	Michael	51	↑4	9
14	Ronald	49	↓2	10
15	Paul	38	↓1	17
16	Kenneth	31	↓1	16
17	Walter	28	↑2	27
18	Albert	25	↑11	49
19	Frank	25	↑4	21
20	Gerald	25	↑17	25
21	Harry	24	↑3	47
22	Lawrence	24	↑5	30
23	Wayne	24	↓7	35
24	Francis	23	↓4	76
25	Stephen	22	↑14	26
26	Ralph	20	↑9	44
27	Gary	18	↑3	13
28	Howard	18	↓7	54
29	Roger	18	new	22
30	Anthony	17	↑16	46
31	Eugene	17	↑17	50
32	Samuel	17	–	62
33	Arthur	16	new	34
34	Daniel	16	↓9	24
35	Harold	16	↓4	28
36	Allen	15	↑5	74
37	Dennis	15	↓1	19
38	Raymond	15	↓20	23
39	Stanley	15	↓1	59
40	Ernest	14	↑7	60
41	Henry	14	↓19	37
42	Larry	14	↓16	11
43	Norman	14	↑1	65
44	Alan	13	↓4	52
45	Bruce	13	new	48
46	Earl	13	new	71
47	Andrew	12	↓2	86
48	Franklin	12	new	>100
49	Fred	12	new	51
50	Peter	12	↓8	38

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