Popular baby names in Illinois, 1917

The most popular baby names in Illinois in 1917 were Mary for girls (3,474 babies) and John for boys (3,146). Social Security records list 108,269 babies born in Illinois in 1917 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Illinois in 1917

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: 103 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Eleanore: 117 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Lorraine: 303 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Laverne: 119 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Adeline: 188 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Bernadine: 57 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Albina: 31 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Eileen: 276 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Angeline: 122 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Bernice: 646 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Casimir: 63 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Bruno: 94 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Florian: 28 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Casimer: 28 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Anton: 66 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Thaddeus: 49 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Teddy: 26 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Laverne: 38 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Sol: 41 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Mitchell: 50 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Illinois, 1917

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Mary	3,474	–	1
2	Helen	2,629	–	2
3	Dorothy	2,227	–	3
4	Ruth	1,440	↑1	5
5	Margaret	1,416	↓1	4
6	Mildred	1,107	–	6
7	Virginia	1,055	↑1	10
8	Evelyn	931	↑3	11
9	Marie	883	–	12
10	Florence	853	–	14
11	Frances	824	↓4	9
12	Anna	804	–	7
13	Irene	748	↑1	17
14	Lillian	724	↓1	15
15	Rose	689	↑1	16
16	Eleanor	687	↑3	26
17	Elizabeth	674	↓2	8
18	Bernice	646	↓1	42
19	Alice	640	↑2	13
20	Lucille	627	↓2	29
21	Josephine	624	↓1	21
22	Ann	504	↑1	44
23	Marjorie	503	↑3	36
24	Jean	502	–	40
25	Catherine	485	↓3	18
26	Betty	479	↑11	34
27	Esther	427	↑4	38
28	Louise	419	↓1	19
29	Marion	411	↑4	45
30	Anne	407	–	53
31	Grace	402	↓6	30
32	Martha	402	↓3	22
33	Doris	390	↑5	25
34	Edna	382	↓6	20
35	Lois	375	↑6	43
36	Ethel	364	–	24
37	Genevieve	360	↑3	77
38	Edith	357	↓3	28
39	Gertrude	352	↓7	37
40	Gladys	335	↓6	23
41	Hazel	334	↑1	31
42	Pauline	327	↑3	33
43	June	317	↑5	73
44	Stella	316	↓5	62
45	Charlotte	313	↑2	76
46	Jane	312	↓2	55
47	Elsie	306	↓4	50
48	Lorraine	303	new	>100
49	Marian	287	new	74
50	Violet	286	–	84

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	John	3,146	–	1
2	William	2,342	–	2
3	Robert	2,329	–	4
4	Edward	1,622	↑1	8
5	James	1,572	↑1	3
6	Joseph	1,562	↓2	5
7	Charles	1,520	↑1	7
8	George	1,468	↓1	6
9	Frank	1,157	–	9
10	Walter	985	–	11
11	Harold	858	–	12
12	Raymond	858	–	16
13	Richard	706	↑1	14
14	Arthur	623	↑2	17
15	Paul	623	↓2	13
16	Henry	597	↑3	15
17	Thomas	593	↑1	10
18	Harry	589	↓3	19
19	Donald	580	↓2	20
20	Stanley	521	↑1	34
21	Albert	514	↓1	18
22	Carl	471	–	24
23	Kenneth	467	↑1	27
24	Ralph	459	↓1	21
25	Louis	439	–	23
26	Howard	411	–	26
27	Clarence	396	↑4	25
28	Jack	374	↑9	22
29	Eugene	366	↑3	39
30	Fred	359	↓3	29
31	Earl	348	↓3	32
32	Leonard	346	↑3	41
33	Francis	345	↓3	30
34	Roy	342	↓1	33
35	Chester	326	↑4	56
36	Lawrence	323	↓2	36
37	Elmer	313	↓1	45
38	Anthony	310	↓9	38
39	David	288	↑8	28
40	Leo	287	↑3	47
41	Russell	275	↓3	52
42	Bernard	269	↓2	49
43	Herbert	266	↓2	40
44	Joe	262	↑6	35
45	Peter	251	↓3	50
46	Michael	250	↓2	44
47	Theodore	245	↑2	63
48	Norman	243	new	46
49	Edwin	239	↓4	55
50	Alfred	226	↓4	43

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