Popular baby names in Illinois, 1933

The most popular baby names in Illinois in 1933 were Mary for girls (2,754 babies) and Robert for boys (3,505). Social Security records list 97,542 babies born in Illinois in 1933 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Illinois in 1933

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

Girls

Andrea: 28 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Therese: 50 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Marilynn: 35 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Bernadine: 62 babies, 3× the national rate
Angeline: 54 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Adrienne: 43 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Rosemary: 279 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Bernadette: 49 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Eleanore: 34 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Pat: 135 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Boys

Norbert: 59 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Sheldon: 54 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Nick: 56 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Jerome: 188 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Delmar: 34 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Emil: 37 babies, 2× the national rate
Laverne: 30 babies, 2× the national rate
Dominic: 28 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Illinois, 1933

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	Mary	2,754	–	1
2	Barbara	1,720	–	3
3	Patricia	1,518	↑2	6
4	Betty	1,490	↓1	2
5	Joan	1,416	↓1	5
6	Dorothy	1,103	–	4
7	Shirley	1,011	–	9
8	Marilyn	929	–	16
9	Nancy	774	↑2	11
10	Carol	754	↑8	20
11	Dolores	740	↓2	21
12	Margaret	688	–	7
13	Helen	682	↓3	8
14	Joyce	682	↑1	12
15	Jean	648	↓1	14
16	Doris	596	↑1	10
17	Lois	593	↓4	19
18	Phyllis	575	↑4	28
19	Donna	547	↑2	24
20	Ruth	540	↓4	13
21	Norma	508	↓2	23
22	Virginia	503	↓2	15
23	Alice	428	↑3	22
24	Beverly	412	↑1	26
25	Geraldine	387	↓1	42
26	Janet	370	↑14	25
27	Frances	368	–	18
28	Marlene	347	↑13	50
29	Rose	347	–	35
30	Elizabeth	341	↑1	17
31	Gloria	339	↓8	31
32	Arlene	334	↑2	74
33	Rita	328	↑2	53
34	Joanne	321	↓2	56
35	Anna	311	↓5	29
36	Marjorie	304	↓3	41
37	Evelyn	302	↓9	30
38	Lorraine	301	↓1	54
39	Delores	297	↓1	52
40	June	292	↓1	45
41	Rosemary	279	↑1	>100
42	Elaine	265	↑1	61
43	Audrey	263	↑3	59
44	Ann	262	↑1	34
45	Marie	256	↓9	33
46	Eleanor	252	↑4	38
47	Carolyn	251	new	40
48	Irene	251	new	46
49	Jane	245	new	47
50	Mildred	242	↓6	32

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	Robert	3,505	–	1
2	John	2,706	–	3
3	James	2,575	–	2
4	Richard	2,297	↑2	5
5	Donald	2,263	↓1	7
6	William	2,099	↓1	4
7	Charles	1,452	–	6
8	Ronald	1,185	↑1	12
9	George	995	↓1	8
10	Thomas	975	↑2	10
11	Joseph	858	–	9
12	Edward	843	↓2	11
13	Kenneth	733	–	15
14	Jack	647	↑3	17
15	Frank	636	↑1	16
16	Raymond	598	↓1	19
17	Paul	596	↓3	14
18	Harold	576	↑1	18
19	David	573	↓1	13
20	Gerald	558	–	22
21	Eugene	447	–	23
22	Walter	412	–	21
23	Jerry	397	↑9	31
24	Arthur	387	↓1	25
25	Carl	347	↓1	28
26	Ralph	346	↓1	29
27	Wayne	324	↑6	52
28	Fred	305	↓1	34
29	Norman	302	↓3	37
30	Leonard	295	↑7	47
31	Henry	291	↓2	24
32	Albert	274	↓1	30
33	Roger	274	↑2	48
34	Howard	267	↑2	36
35	Lawrence	267	↓5	38
36	Harry	265	↓8	35
37	Daniel	260	↓3	42
38	Michael	257	↑1	53
39	Roy	242	↑10	39
40	Earl	225	↑2	41
41	Louis	225	↓3	40
42	Anthony	224	↑3	46
43	Don	223	↓2	54
44	Stanley	222	↑3	55
45	Dale	220	↓5	65
46	Bill	215	new	59
47	Marvin	214	↓3	44
48	Leroy	213	new	56
49	Clarence	212	↓6	43
50	Bernard	211	–	63

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