Popular baby names in Indiana, 1925

The most popular baby names in Indiana in 1925 were Mary for girls (2,222 babies) and Robert for boys (2,414). Social Security records list 52,599 babies born in Indiana in 1925 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Indiana in 1925

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

Girls

Madonna: 20 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Bettye: 52 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Joann: 42 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Deloris: 38 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Joanna: 18 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Annabelle: 42 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Patty: 18 babies, 3× the national rate
Norma: 446 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Wilma: 270 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Rosemary: 179 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Boys

Verlin: 17 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Ora: 19 babies, 7× the national rate
Noble: 20 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Max: 159 babies, 5× the national rate
Herschel: 20 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Lowell: 63 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Forest: 22 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Rex: 47 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Vern: 18 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Alva: 17 babies, 3.1× the national rate

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

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Mary	2,222	–	1
2	Betty	1,843	–	3
3	Dorothy	984	–	2
4	Helen	800	–	4
5	Ruth	627	↑2	6
6	Margaret	603	–	5
7	Virginia	548	↓2	7
8	Martha	481	–	23
9	Norma	446	↑1	34
10	Doris	435	↑1	8
11	Marjorie	415	↓2	21
12	Phyllis	399	↑6	40
13	Barbara	363	↑8	22
14	Mildred	362	↓2	9
15	Anna	322	↓1	13
16	Evelyn	320	↓3	12
17	Lois	320	↓2	18
18	Patricia	320	↑5	28
19	Alice	318	↓3	15
20	Wilma	270	↓3	62
21	Jean	268	↓2	14
22	Frances	256	↓2	11
23	Elizabeth	237	↓1	10
24	Joan	219	↑9	66
25	Thelma	198	↓1	35
26	Rosemary	179	↓1	>100
27	Wanda	168	↓1	72
28	Esther	161	↓1	56
29	Juanita	161	↑1	49
30	Catherine	157	↑9	29
31	June	157	↑1	39
32	Maxine	153	↓3	79
33	Marie	148	↑4	16
34	Shirley	145	↑13	17
35	Irene	143	↓4	19
36	Kathryn	143	↑13	88
37	Gloria	142	new	20
38	Rose	142	↑5	26
39	Edna	138	↓11	37
40	Pauline	138	↓5	38
41	Florence	135	↓3	24
42	Lillian	135	↓6	25
43	Marilyn	134	↑1	83
44	Ruby	133	↓10	30
45	Ethel	127	↑3	43
46	Jane	127	new	53
47	Bonnie	122	new	>100
48	Edith	117	↓7	42
49	Eleanor	110	↓9	31
50	Violet	110	new	92

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Robert	2,414	–	1
2	William	1,366	–	3
3	James	1,325	↑1	4
4	John	1,235	↓1	2
5	Charles	1,092	–	5
6	Richard	901	–	8
7	Donald	712	–	10
8	Paul	602	↑1	13
9	George	574	↓1	6
10	Harold	468	–	14
11	Jack	463	–	17
12	Joseph	395	–	7
13	Kenneth	355	↑1	19
14	Edward	345	↓1	9
15	Thomas	329	↑1	11
16	Raymond	304	↓1	15
17	Ralph	295	–	25
18	Frank	282	↑2	12
19	Walter	273	–	16
20	Harry	246	↑1	23
21	Eugene	236	↓3	24
22	Carl	229	–	28
23	Arthur	203	↑1	20
24	David	192	↑3	22
25	Howard	191	↑4	26
26	Earl	186	↓3	31
27	Albert	181	↓1	21
28	Norman	177	↑3	41
29	Clarence	172	↓1	30
30	Max	159	↑9	>100
31	Wayne	157	↑4	74
32	Russell	152	↓7	53
33	Gerald	149	↑8	45
34	Roy	149	↑2	32
35	Billy	140	↑11	49
36	Henry	138	↓2	18
37	Lawrence	136	↓5	36
38	Francis	128	–	35
39	Louis	128	↓6	29
40	Ernest	122	↑2	37
41	Marvin	120	↑2	51
42	Fred	119	↓12	33
43	Dale	117	↓3	86
44	Joe	117	new	34
45	Lloyd	115	new	62
46	Floyd	114	↑4	58
47	Melvin	114	↑1	50
48	Bernard	105	↓4	48
49	Glenn	101	new	77
50	Chester	99	↓1	73

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