Popular baby names in Indiana, 1917

The most popular baby names in Indiana in 1917 were Mary for girls (2,231 babies) and Robert for boys (1,314). Robert ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 45,386 babies born in Indiana in 1917 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Indiana in 1917

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

Girls

Waneta: 15 babies, 11× the national rate
Dorotha: 22 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Berneice: 15 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Garnet: 27 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Rosemary: 101 babies, 4× the national rate
Dortha: 18 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Crystal: 15 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Marietta: 19 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Imogene: 39 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Delores: 25 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Boys

Meredith: 15 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Herschel: 30 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Noble: 19 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Ora: 16 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Lowell: 63 babies, 5× the national rate
Merrill: 23 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Max: 121 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Forest: 23 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Dale: 94 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Vern: 15 babies, 3.3× the national rate

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

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Mary	2,231	–	1
2	Helen	1,114	–	2
3	Dorothy	829	–	3
4	Margaret	707	–	4
5	Ruth	670	–	5
6	Mildred	545	–	6
7	Virginia	537	↑1	10
8	Martha	480	↓1	22
9	Elizabeth	374	↑2	8
10	Frances	369	↓1	9
11	Anna	354	↓1	7
12	Evelyn	345	–	11
13	Thelma	302	↑3	32
14	Marjorie	291	–	36
15	Alice	269	↓2	13
16	Betty	267	↑13	34
17	Esther	226	↓2	38
18	Doris	224	↑4	25
19	Florence	224	↓1	14
20	Irene	223	↑1	17
21	Marie	217	↓4	12
22	Lois	208	↑2	43
23	Catherine	205	↓3	18
24	Lucille	195	↑2	29
25	Ruby	188	↑7	27
26	Edna	187	↓7	20
27	Pauline	187	↓4	33
28	Hazel	182	↓1	31
29	Edith	180	↓4	28
30	Lillian	180	↑4	15
31	Wilma	179	↑2	82
32	Louise	170	↓4	19
33	Josephine	169	↑4	21
34	Kathryn	162	↓3	60
35	Maxine	159	–	93
36	Grace	154	↑6	30
37	Clara	153	↑3	41
38	Gladys	151	↓8	23
39	Ethel	149	↓3	24
40	Rose	139	new	16
41	Jane	138	new	55
42	Katherine	137	↓4	49
43	Juanita	133	↑5	87
44	Jean	131	new	40
45	Mabel	124	↓2	68
46	Ann	123	↓2	44
47	Vivian	120	new	79
48	Violet	119	↑1	84
49	Agnes	118	new	48
50	Vera	116	↓9	66

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Robert	1,314	–	4
2	John	1,180	–	1
3	William	1,029	↑1	2
4	Charles	960	↓1	7
5	James	819	–	3
6	George	595	–	6
7	Paul	503	–	13
8	Harold	460	–	12
9	Joseph	420	–	5
10	Richard	405	–	14
11	Donald	348	↑1	20
12	Edward	325	↓1	8
13	Raymond	309	↑4	16
14	Ralph	301	↓1	21
15	Kenneth	291	–	27
16	Walter	266	↓2	11
17	Frank	253	↑2	9
18	Harry	251	↓2	19
19	Thomas	241	↑1	10
20	Carl	240	↓2	24
21	Arthur	223	↑2	17
22	Howard	210	↓1	26
23	Clarence	198	↑2	25
24	Albert	191	–	18
25	Earl	186	↓3	32
26	Jack	160	↑2	22
27	Henry	153	↑2	15
28	Eugene	148	↓1	39
29	Francis	143	↑4	30
30	Roy	143	↑1	33
31	Russell	143	↓5	52
32	Herbert	142	↑3	40
33	Lawrence	140	↑1	36
34	Louis	134	↓4	23
35	Floyd	127	↑3	62
36	Lloyd	125	↑8	53
37	David	124	↑4	28
38	Max	121	new	>100
39	Wayne	120	↓2	96
40	Elmer	116	↑2	45
41	Ernest	114	↓1	37
42	Chester	112	↓6	56
43	Gerald	112	–	69
44	Fred	109	↓12	29
45	Stanley	108	–	34
46	Leonard	107	new	41
47	Wilbur	107	new	92
48	Frederick	103	new	51
49	Melvin	98	new	57
50	Leo	96	new	47

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