Popular baby names in Indiana, 1911

The most popular baby names in Indiana in 1911 were Mary for girls (612 babies) and John for boys (222). Social Security records list 11,294 babies born in Indiana in 1911 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Indiana in 1911

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

Girls

Fern: 28 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Marcella: 20 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Geneva: 38 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Luella: 19 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Wilma: 49 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Maxine: 28 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Freda: 20 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Eloise: 15 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Violet: 54 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Naomi: 26 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Boys

Lowell: 15 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Wilbur: 32 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Wayne: 20 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Marion: 20 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Russell: 38 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Kenneth: 54 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Chester: 33 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Everett: 18 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Donald: 57 babies, 3× the national rate
Virgil: 15 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Indiana, 1911

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	Mary	612	–	1
2	Helen	370	–	2
3	Dorothy	308	↑1	4
4	Ruth	249	↓1	5
5	Mildred	217	–	8
6	Margaret	199	–	3
7	Martha	125	↑2	28
8	Elizabeth	119	↑4	7
9	Thelma	119	↓2	27
10	Florence	117	↑6	12
11	Anna	111	↑4	6
12	Marie	111	↑2	9
13	Edna	107	↓5	17
14	Esther	107	↑4	34
15	Frances	103	↓2	10
16	Evelyn	100	↑4	16
17	Hazel	99	↓7	25
18	Alice	91	↓7	11
19	Irene	89	–	21
20	Edith	87	↓3	31
21	Lucille	86	↑4	32
22	Gladys	83	↑1	18
23	Ruby	81	↑9	22
24	Ethel	80	↑10	15
25	Virginia	80	↓3	26
26	Louise	77	↓5	19
27	Catherine	71	↓1	20
28	Mabel	68	↑3	43
29	Pauline	66	↓5	38
30	Lois	65	new	68
31	Marjorie	64	new	59
32	Grace	61	↓2	23
33	Lillian	61	↓6	13
34	Clara	59	↓5	33
35	Eva	54	↑3	46
36	Violet	54	new	83
37	Alma	50	↑3	62
38	Nellie	50	↓5	54
39	Opal	50	↑2	81
40	Bernice	49	↓4	51
41	Kathryn	49	new	73
42	Rose	49	↓3	14
43	Wilma	49	new	>100
44	Elsie	48	↓2	41
45	Vivian	48	new	80
46	Gertrude	45	↓11	30
47	Pearl	45	new	48
48	Agnes	44	↓11	39
49	Bertha	44	↓1	36
50	Josephine	43	↓22	29

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	John	222	↑1	1
2	William	180	↓1	2
3	Robert	171	–	5
4	James	155	–	3
5	Charles	141	–	7
6	George	113	–	4
7	Joseph	90	–	6
8	Paul	83	↑2	17
9	Walter	65	↑5	12
10	Harold	61	↓2	16
11	Raymond	58	↑9	19
12	Carl	57	–	26
13	Donald	57	↑22	36
14	Edward	55	↓5	9
15	Kenneth	54	↑2	40
16	Ralph	53	↓3	24
17	Arthur	51	↑1	18
18	Harry	50	↓2	13
19	Richard	49	↑3	20
20	Lawrence	48	↑10	37
21	Earl	41	↑8	34
22	Frank	41	↓7	8
23	Clarence	39	↓12	23
24	Henry	38	↑2	11
25	Russell	38	↓2	55
26	Albert	37	↓1	15
27	Thomas	37	↓3	10
28	Chester	33	new	58
29	Fred	33	↓8	22
30	Wilbur	32	↑19	>100
31	Howard	31	↓12	28
32	Herbert	29	↑12	41
33	Louis	29	↓5	21
34	Ernest	27	↓2	32
35	Eugene	24	↑6	43
36	Francis	24	↑1	33
37	Herman	24	↑5	49
38	Ray	24	↓5	71
39	Roy	24	↓8	31
40	David	22	↓6	27
41	Leonard	22	↓2	46
42	Alfred	20	new	39
43	Leo	20	new	51
44	Marion	20	new	>100
45	Wayne	20	new	>100
46	Jack	19	↑4	25
47	Leroy	19	new	59
48	Norman	19	new	63
49	Edwin	18	new	60
50	Everett	18	new	>100

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