Popular baby names in Illinois, 1910

The most popular baby names in Illinois in 1910 were Mary for girls (1,076 babies) and John for boys (644). Social Security records list 26,651 babies born in Illinois in 1910 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Illinois in 1910

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

Girls

Ferne: 15 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Bernadine: 20 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Stephanie: 17 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Johanna: 22 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Eleanore: 21 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Adeline: 54 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Bernice: 213 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Harriet: 79 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Erna: 15 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Sophie: 75 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Boys

Anton: 22 babies, 7× the national rate
Emil: 26 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Stanley: 92 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Tony: 23 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Patrick: 26 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Stephen: 34 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Phillip: 16 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Peter: 58 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Steve: 23 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Orville: 21 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Illinois, 1910

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	Mary	1,076	1
2	Helen	917	2
3	Dorothy	553	4
4	Margaret	501	3
5	Mildred	426	8
6	Ruth	423	5
7	Marie	374	9
8	Anna	370	6
9	Florence	308	12
10	Frances	287	11
11	Lillian	268	14
12	Rose	268	16
13	Elizabeth	259	7
14	Evelyn	259	17
15	Irene	231	21
16	Bernice	213	58
17	Alice	212	10
18	Gertrude	190	26
19	Catherine	184	22
20	Josephine	184	30
21	Hazel	183	24
22	Gladys	182	15
23	Ann	181	52
24	Ethel	174	13
25	Edna	171	18
26	Grace	171	23
27	Eleanor	169	55
28	Lucille	168	31
29	Virginia	155	29
30	Edith	145	35
31	Louise	140	20
32	Agnes	133	41
33	Elsie	126	44
34	Pauline	125	42
35	Esther	123	38
36	Mabel	122	46
37	Clara	118	32
38	Jean	118	77
39	Martha	118	28
40	Thelma	110	25
41	Marion	104	59
42	Anne	102	67
43	Viola	102	48
44	Betty	101	69
45	Violet	101	89
46	Myrtle	99	43
47	Marjorie	98	68
48	Bertha	97	33
49	Pearl	92	39
50	Katherine	91	57

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	John	644	1
2	William	422	3
3	Joseph	364	6
4	James	329	2
5	George	278	5
6	Charles	270	7
7	Robert	261	4
8	Edward	258	9
9	Frank	236	8
10	Walter	173	13
11	Harold	167	18
12	Arthur	133	17
13	Thomas	131	12
14	Harry	123	16
15	Albert	117	14
16	Raymond	116	19
17	Paul	112	15
18	Henry	111	10
19	Clarence	105	20
20	Louis	95	24
21	Stanley	92	47
22	Richard	91	21
23	Ralph	76	28
24	Howard	72	27
25	Jack	72	23
26	Carl	68	26
27	Fred	67	22
28	Earl	63	33
29	Kenneth	63	43
30	Leo	63	51
31	Michael	63	45
32	Lawrence	60	35
33	Anthony	59	37
34	Donald	59	44
35	Roy	59	29
36	Peter	58	56
37	Joe	54	25
38	Francis	53	36
39	Leonard	49	46
40	Bernard	48	62
41	Elmer	46	48
42	Russell	43	58
43	Andrew	41	42
44	Eugene	40	39
45	David	38	30
46	Herbert	38	41
47	Lloyd	38	67
48	Ray	38	68
49	Theodore	38	54
50	Alfred	34	38

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