Popular baby names in Illinois, 1915

The most popular baby names in Illinois in 1915 were Mary for girls (3,043 babies) and John for boys (3,066). Social Security records list 100,831 babies born in Illinois in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Illinois in 1915

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: 82 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Eleanore: 99 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Angeline: 143 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Bernadine: 56 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Adeline: 154 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Eileen: 204 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Laverne: 76 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Lorraine: 173 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Sophie: 263 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Bernice: 597 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Casimir: 61 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Bruno: 87 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Thaddeus: 45 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Laverne: 39 babies, 3× the national rate
Delmar: 33 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Anton: 56 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Mitchell: 46 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Seymour: 39 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Aloysius: 24 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Darrell: 27 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Illinois, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	3,043	–	1
2	Helen	2,432	–	2
3	Dorothy	1,809	–	3
4	Margaret	1,401	–	4
5	Ruth	1,365	–	5
6	Mildred	1,131	–	6
7	Marie	857	–	11
8	Anna	853	–	7
9	Florence	849	↑2	14
10	Virginia	849	↑2	12
11	Frances	830	↓1	9
12	Evelyn	806	↓3	10
13	Lillian	689	↑2	15
14	Elizabeth	669	–	8
15	Rose	658	↓2	16
16	Eleanor	630	↑1	28
17	Lucille	626	↑3	29
18	Alice	615	–	13
19	Irene	613	↓3	17
20	Josephine	612	↑2	22
21	Bernice	597	↓2	42
22	Catherine	504	↓1	19
23	Ann	469	–	43
24	Jean	434	↑1	48
25	Louise	419	↓1	18
26	Edna	395	–	20
27	Esther	391	↑8	33
28	Grace	388	–	27
29	Gladys	384	↓2	21
30	Anne	381	↑1	52
31	Gertrude	381	↓1	35
32	Martha	337	–	25
33	Genevieve	334	–	76
34	Marjorie	334	↑2	39
35	Edith	333	↑2	31
36	Pauline	329	↑9	32
37	Elsie	327	↑4	41
38	Marion	324	↑5	50
39	Hazel	322	↓5	26
40	Betty	310	–	53
41	Lois	310	↓2	47
42	Ethel	305	↓13	23
43	Clara	303	↓5	38
44	Doris	298	↑3	34
45	Agnes	294	new	45
46	Julia	282	↓2	44
47	Stella	279	↓5	64
48	Violet	276	↓2	82
49	Thelma	269	new	30
50	Sophie	263	–	97

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	John	3,066	–	1
2	William	2,190	–	2
3	Robert	1,924	–	4
4	Joseph	1,624	–	5
5	James	1,523	↑2	3
6	Edward	1,484	↓1	8
7	Charles	1,433	↑1	7
8	George	1,359	↓2	6
9	Frank	1,194	–	9
10	Walter	919	–	11
11	Harold	844	–	12
12	Raymond	764	–	16
13	Paul	685	–	13
14	Harry	605	–	19
15	Arthur	593	↑1	18
16	Richard	580	↑1	15
17	Thomas	578	↓2	10
18	Henry	565	↑1	14
19	Stanley	538	↑1	34
20	Donald	537	↑3	20
21	Albert	536	↓3	17
22	Carl	474	–	22
23	Kenneth	431	↑3	28
24	Ralph	427	–	21
25	Louis	415	↓4	23
26	Clarence	371	↓1	24
27	Fred	365	↑1	26
28	Howard	355	↓1	25
29	Eugene	332	↑5	41
30	Francis	322	↑9	29
31	Anthony	318	↓2	36
32	Earl	309	↑1	33
33	Lawrence	303	↓3	37
34	Jack	294	↑3	27
35	Elmer	289	–	45
36	Leonard	286	–	44
37	Russell	280	↑1	51
38	Leo	275	↑4	47
39	Bernard	268	↑6	48
40	Roy	268	↓9	32
41	Chester	262	↑2	54
42	Herbert	260	↓2	40
43	Edwin	245	↑7	53
44	Peter	240	↓3	49
45	Michael	231	↓13	43
46	Norman	225	new	50
47	Joe	211	↓1	38
48	Lester	209	↑1	57
49	David	208	↓5	31
50	Theodore	207	new	64

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