Popular baby names in Illinois, 1911

The most popular baby names in Illinois in 1911 were Mary for girls (1,207 babies) and John for boys (679). Social Security records list 28,487 babies born in Illinois in 1911 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Illinois in 1911

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

Girls

Stephanie: 26 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Bernadine: 20 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Angeline: 44 babies, 3× the national rate
Harriett: 24 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Eleanore: 20 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Bernice: 232 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Fern: 52 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Joan: 28 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Annette: 26 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Genevieve: 104 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Stanley: 102 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Tony: 21 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Dale: 15 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Steve: 24 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Glenn: 31 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Edmund: 21 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Russell: 64 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Martin: 48 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Wayne: 23 babies, 2× the national rate
Mike: 20 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Illinois, 1911

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	Mary	1,207	–	1
2	Helen	950	–	2
3	Dorothy	590	–	4
4	Margaret	527	–	3
5	Ruth	474	↑1	5
6	Mildred	453	↓1	8
7	Marie	382	–	9
8	Anna	361	–	6
9	Frances	322	↑1	10
10	Florence	303	↓1	12
11	Evelyn	284	↑3	16
12	Lillian	279	↓1	13
13	Elizabeth	274	–	7
14	Rose	271	↓2	14
15	Alice	254	↑2	11
16	Irene	243	↓1	21
17	Bernice	232	↓1	51
18	Lucille	224	↑10	32
19	Josephine	203	↑1	29
20	Virginia	202	↑9	26
21	Edna	197	↑4	17
22	Catherine	195	↓3	20
23	Gladys	183	↓1	18
24	Hazel	182	↓3	25
25	Ann	174	↓2	53
26	Eleanor	173	↑1	49
27	Gertrude	173	↓9	30
28	Grace	173	↓2	23
29	Ethel	164	↓5	15
30	Louise	164	↑1	19
31	Esther	155	↑4	34
32	Clara	151	↑5	33
33	Edith	139	↓3	31
34	Martha	137	↑5	28
35	Marjorie	133	↑12	59
36	Marion	124	↑5	58
37	Elsie	122	↓4	41
38	Agnes	121	↓6	39
39	Thelma	119	↑1	27
40	Pauline	116	↓6	38
41	Anne	111	↑1	64
42	Stella	111	new	72
43	Mabel	106	↓7	43
44	Genevieve	104	new	93
45	Ruby	103	new	22
46	Myrtle	100	–	50
47	Julia	98	new	44
48	Vera	96	new	67
49	Betty	95	↓5	69
50	Pearl	94	↓1	48

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	John	679	–	1
2	William	471	–	2
3	James	342	↑1	3
4	Joseph	335	↓1	6
5	George	328	–	4
6	Charles	302	–	7
7	Edward	292	↑1	9
8	Robert	288	↓1	5
9	Frank	249	–	8
10	Harold	184	↑1	16
11	Walter	175	↓1	12
12	Harry	166	↑2	13
13	Raymond	135	↑3	19
14	Thomas	130	↓1	10
15	Henry	128	↑3	11
16	Arthur	126	↓4	18
17	Paul	121	–	17
18	Carl	118	↑8	26
19	Albert	115	↓4	15
20	Stanley	102	↑1	44
21	Ralph	98	↑2	24
22	Richard	94	–	20
23	Louis	93	↓3	21
24	Fred	90	↑3	22
25	Anthony	85	↑8	35
26	Clarence	75	↓7	23
27	Kenneth	75	↑2	40
28	Donald	73	↑6	36
29	Earl	71	↓1	34
30	Howard	68	↓6	28
31	Jack	67	↓6	25
32	Michael	67	↓1	38
33	Herbert	64	↑13	41
34	Russell	64	↑8	55
35	Leo	63	↓5	51
36	Roy	61	↓1	31
37	David	59	↑8	27
38	Francis	59	–	33
39	Peter	57	↓3	50
40	Bernard	56	–	54
41	Elmer	56	–	48
42	Eugene	54	↑2	43
43	Alfred	52	↑7	39
44	Edwin	52	new	60
45	Lawrence	52	↓13	37
46	Joe	51	↓9	29
47	Leonard	48	↓8	46
48	Martin	48	new	75
49	Sam	47	new	47
50	Ernest	45	new	32

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