Popular baby names in Delaware, 1969

The most popular baby names in Delaware in 1969 were Kimberly for girls (128 babies) and Michael for boys (252). Kimberly ranked #4 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 8,006 babies born in Delaware in 1969 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Delaware in 1969

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

Girls

Crystal: 24 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Rose: 15 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Joanne: 16 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Dawn: 86 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Michele: 55 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Diane: 29 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Heather: 46 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Beth: 20 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Tanya: 18 babies, 2.1× the national rate
April: 17 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Boys

Francis: 17 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Wayne: 28 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Louis: 15 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Walter: 18 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Delaware, 1969

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1968	US rank
1	Kimberly	128	↑1	4
2	Lisa	128	↓1	1
3	Jennifer	109	↑1	3
4	Dawn	86	↑3	21
5	Michelle	85	↓2	2
6	Susan	67	↓1	11
7	Amy	61	↑6	6
8	Tammy	60	↑20	9
9	Melissa	59	↑5	5
10	Karen	57	↓4	13
11	Pamela	56	↑4	24
12	Christine	55	↑9	14
13	Mary	55	↓2	8
14	Michele	55	↑4	30
15	Kelly	54	↑2	15
16	Elizabeth	52	↓4	16
17	Patricia	51	↓7	18
18	Deborah	47	↑1	27
19	Heather	46	new	34
20	Laura	46	↓11	10
21	Cynthia	42	↑6	23
22	Stephanie	42	↓2	19
23	Tina	42	↑20	22
24	Tracy	42	↑10	17
25	Angela	41	↓3	7
26	Julie	38	↑10	12
27	Sharon	38	↓11	36
28	Lori	37	↑10	20
29	Donna	36	↓21	26
30	Linda	34	↑7	33
31	Denise	33	↓8	35
32	Kathleen	33	↑1	42
33	Rebecca	32	↓2	28
34	Robin	31	↑1	46
35	Christina	30	↑5	37
36	Diane	29	↑10	61
37	Barbara	27	↓7	39
38	Teresa	26	↑1	32
39	Wendy	26	↓14	29
40	Jacqueline	25	new	62
41	Carol	24	new	56
42	Crystal	24	new	>100
43	Cheryl	23	↓11	41
44	Dana	23	new	60
45	Nicole	23	new	47
46	Tracey	23	↑1	65
47	Nancy	22	↑3	45
48	Paula	22	new	50
49	Andrea	21	↓8	48
50	Brenda	21	↓1	38

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1968	US rank
1	Michael	252	–	1
2	John	207	↑1	4
3	Robert	201	↓1	5
4	David	196	↑1	2
5	William	175	↑1	6
6	James	170	↓2	3
7	Christopher	126	–	7
8	Brian	113	↑4	9
9	Mark	104	↓1	8
10	Richard	103	–	10
11	Jeffrey	96	↑2	11
12	Joseph	96	↓1	15
13	Charles	91	↑1	19
14	Thomas	90	↓5	13
15	Scott	80	–	12
16	Daniel	78	↑8	18
17	Kevin	70	–	16
18	Steven	68	–	14
19	Timothy	59	↑7	17
20	Paul	57	↑2	22
21	Stephen	57	↓5	27
22	Anthony	55	↓3	20
23	Eric	54	↑2	21
24	Gregory	54	↑3	26
25	Matthew	54	↓5	24
26	Ronald	53	↓5	29
27	Edward	48	↑1	32
28	Andrew	42	↑5	33
29	Kenneth	41	↓6	23
30	George	39	–	38
31	Patrick	37	↑3	31
32	Donald	33	↓3	30
33	Keith	29	↓2	36
34	Douglas	28	↓2	34
35	Gary	28	↑15	35
36	Wayne	28	↑6	75
37	Peter	27	↓1	43
38	Sean	26	↑1	37
39	Craig	25	new	39
40	Frank	25	↓2	47
41	Shawn	25	–	41
42	Todd	23	new	28
43	Jonathan	21	↓8	46
44	Larry	21	–	40
45	Raymond	20	–	50
46	Troy	20	new	42
47	Bryan	19	↓4	51
48	Jason	19	new	25
49	Walter	18	new	84
50	Bruce	17	↓2	72

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