Popular baby names in Illinois, 1925

The most popular baby names in Illinois in 1925 were Mary for girls (3,497 babies) and Robert for boys (4,648). Social Security records list 119,151 babies born in Illinois in 1925 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Illinois in 1925

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

Girls

Laverne: 290 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Stephanie: 31 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Lorraine: 800 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Dolores: 595 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Loretta: 318 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Eleanore: 92 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Bernadine: 72 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Adeline: 129 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Marilyn: 420 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Rosemary: 339 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Boys

Casimir: 36 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Bruno: 52 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Norbert: 91 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Delmar: 48 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Teddy: 38 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Thaddeus: 31 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Laverne: 50 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Sheldon: 37 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Emil: 81 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Vito: 34 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Illinois, 1925

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Mary	3,497	–	1
2	Dorothy	2,417	–	2
3	Betty	2,308	–	3
4	Helen	1,763	–	4
5	Margaret	1,191	–	5
6	Virginia	1,170	↑1	7
7	Ruth	1,161	↓1	6
8	Shirley	1,113	–	17
9	Lorraine	800	↑1	51
10	Evelyn	799	↓1	12
11	Doris	791	↑2	8
12	Mildred	743	↓1	9
13	Jean	735	↑1	14
14	Lois	708	↑3	18
15	Frances	679	↓3	11
16	Alice	672	↑4	15
17	Patricia	651	↑10	28
18	Marjorie	624	–	21
19	Dolores	595	↑9	64
20	Anna	585	↑1	13
21	Florence	576	↓6	24
22	Irene	570	↓3	19
23	June	570	↑2	39
24	Norma	566	↑5	34
25	Gloria	564	↑12	20
26	Marie	560	↓10	16
27	Elizabeth	556	↓4	10
28	Barbara	523	↑5	22
29	Eleanor	519	↓5	31
30	Rose	491	↓4	26
31	Lillian	484	↓9	25
32	Bernice	446	↓2	46
33	Phyllis	428	↑5	40
34	Marilyn	420	↑6	83
35	Lucille	412	↓4	41
36	Elaine	397	↓2	73
37	Catherine	385	↓5	29
38	Josephine	381	↓3	36
39	Rita	366	↑3	48
40	Marion	362	↓4	47
41	Martha	358	↓2	23
42	Geraldine	340	↑3	54
43	Rosemary	339	↑5	>100
44	Loretta	318	↑6	>100
45	Grace	316	↑1	44
46	Louise	316	↓5	27
47	Ann	314	↓4	52
48	Wilma	310	new	62
49	Charlotte	307	new	77
50	Marian	297	↓6	67

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Robert	4,648	–	1
2	John	3,412	–	2
3	William	3,105	–	3
4	James	2,429	–	4
5	Richard	1,783	↑3	8
6	Charles	1,736	↓1	5
7	Edward	1,566	–	9
8	George	1,528	↓2	6
9	Donald	1,417	↑1	10
10	Joseph	1,343	↓1	7
11	Frank	1,005	–	12
12	Raymond	915	–	15
13	Harold	901	–	14
14	Thomas	850	–	11
15	Paul	780	↑1	13
16	Walter	766	↓1	16
17	Jack	726	↑3	17
18	Kenneth	723	↓1	19
19	Arthur	694	↓1	20
20	Eugene	584	↓1	24
21	Harry	575	–	23
22	Ralph	566	↑1	25
23	Albert	548	↑1	21
24	Henry	518	↓2	18
25	Leonard	451	–	38
26	Howard	428	↑1	26
27	Louis	427	↑1	29
28	Carl	410	↓2	28
29	Clarence	394	–	30
30	David	392	–	22
31	Fred	383	↑3	33
32	Earl	382	↓1	31
33	Lawrence	379	–	36
34	Stanley	357	↑1	40
35	Norman	324	↑2	41
36	Roy	314	↓4	32
37	Gerald	303	↑7	45
38	Edwin	293	–	57
39	Francis	292	–	35
40	Anthony	290	↓4	39
41	Bernard	284	↓1	48
42	Herbert	274	↑5	42
43	Russell	268	↓2	53
44	Chester	266	↓2	73
45	Melvin	247	↑5	50
46	Theodore	244	new	63
47	Leroy	241	↓1	52
48	Michael	238	new	55
49	Peter	232	new	60
50	Leo	230	↓2	54

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