Popular baby names in Illinois, 1914

The most popular baby names in Illinois in 1914 were Mary for girls (2,332 babies) and John for boys (2,242). Social Security records list 74,292 babies born in Illinois in 1914 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Illinois in 1914

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: 69 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Emilie: 23 babies, 4× the national rate
Laverne: 61 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Bernadine: 40 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Adeline: 120 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Eleanore: 60 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Valeria: 20 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Bernice: 470 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Lorraine: 123 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Wanda: 111 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Boys

Bruno: 59 babies, 5× the national rate
Casimir: 28 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Anton: 64 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Laverne: 29 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Carlo: 18 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Loren: 45 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Herschel: 24 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Sigmund: 18 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Roman: 28 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Delmar: 23 babies, 2.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Illinois, 1914

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	Mary	2,332	–	1
2	Helen	1,835	–	2
3	Dorothy	1,349	–	3
4	Margaret	993	–	4
5	Ruth	965	–	5
6	Mildred	859	–	7
7	Marie	712	–	10
8	Anna	675	↑2	6
9	Evelyn	632	↑2	11
10	Frances	616	↓2	9
11	Florence	584	↓2	13
12	Virginia	550	↑2	14
13	Rose	519	↓1	15
14	Elizabeth	518	↑3	8
15	Lillian	499	–	16
16	Irene	482	↓3	22
17	Eleanor	475	↑4	28
18	Alice	473	↓2	12
19	Bernice	470	–	43
20	Lucille	433	–	30
21	Catherine	416	↑1	18
22	Josephine	412	↓4	23
23	Ann	389	–	40
24	Louise	310	–	17
25	Jean	308	↑7	54
26	Edna	293	–	19
27	Gladys	293	↑1	20
28	Grace	285	↑2	25
29	Ethel	283	↓2	21
30	Gertrude	276	↑1	32
31	Anne	271	↓2	53
32	Martha	262	↑5	27
33	Genevieve	260	↑6	76
34	Hazel	259	↓1	29
35	Esther	254	↓10	35
36	Marjorie	253	↓2	45
37	Edith	247	↓2	31
38	Clara	240	↑2	37
39	Lois	237	↑9	51
40	Betty	227	↑2	62
41	Elsie	221	↓5	46
42	Stella	221	↑4	65
43	Marion	220	↓2	50
44	Julia	212	↓6	42
45	Pauline	211	↑2	34
46	Violet	205	new	83
47	Doris	202	new	36
48	Jane	201	new	71
49	Ruby	193	↓4	24
50	Sophie	192	new	100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	John	2,242	–	1
2	William	1,557	–	2
3	Robert	1,328	↑1	4
4	Joseph	1,298	↓1	5
5	Edward	1,142	–	8
6	George	1,100	–	6
7	James	1,081	–	3
8	Charles	1,055	–	7
9	Frank	892	–	9
10	Walter	715	–	10
11	Harold	595	–	14
12	Raymond	581	–	16
13	Paul	469	–	13
14	Harry	442	↑3	19
15	Thomas	441	–	11
16	Arthur	439	↓2	18
17	Richard	412	↑2	17
18	Albert	409	↓2	15
19	Henry	409	↓1	12
20	Stanley	402	–	39
21	Louis	398	↑2	20
22	Carl	359	↓1	24
23	Donald	339	↓1	23
24	Ralph	304	–	21
25	Clarence	297	–	22
26	Kenneth	284	–	30
27	Howard	273	↑2	26
28	Fred	263	↓1	28
29	Anthony	249	↑2	37
30	Lawrence	233	–	35
31	Roy	232	↑1	32
32	Michael	230	↑1	40
33	Earl	228	↑4	33
34	Eugene	224	–	43
35	Elmer	222	↓7	46
36	Leonard	217	↑6	45
37	Jack	214	↓1	27
38	Russell	213	–	49
39	Francis	212	↓4	31
40	Herbert	212	↑3	42
41	Peter	210	↓2	48
42	Leo	201	↑2	47
43	Chester	194	new	56
44	David	187	↓3	29
45	Bernard	174	↓5	50
46	Joe	173	new	34
47	Andrew	164	new	44
48	Samuel	158	new	36
49	Lester	157	↓2	57
50	Edwin	156	↓4	53

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