Popular baby names in Iowa, 1913

The most popular baby names in Iowa in 1913 were Mary for girls (480 babies) and John for boys (461). Social Security records list 19,734 babies born in Iowa in 1913 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Iowa in 1913

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

Girls

Gretchen: 18 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Leota: 21 babies, 6× the national rate
Maxine: 103 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Lenore: 15 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Berniece: 15 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Arlene: 30 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Ila: 16 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Wilma: 80 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Fern: 36 babies, 3× the national rate
Marcella: 30 babies, 3× the national rate

Boys

Dale: 71 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Keith: 28 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Eldon: 30 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Lyle: 33 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Lowell: 31 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Wayne: 65 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Dean: 18 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Merle: 26 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Wendell: 19 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Dwight: 16 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Iowa, 1913

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	Mary	480	–	1
2	Helen	469	–	2
3	Dorothy	370	–	3
4	Margaret	348	↑1	4
5	Ruth	313	↑1	5
6	Mildred	273	↓2	6
7	Alice	176	↑2	11
8	Florence	157	↑5	13
9	Marie	156	↓1	10
10	Evelyn	155	↑4	12
11	Frances	155	↓4	9
12	Esther	140	↓1	32
13	Marjorie	137	↑9	48
14	Edna	136	↑2	18
15	Irene	135	↓3	21
16	Hazel	133	↓1	27
17	Elizabeth	129	↑7	8
18	Gladys	125	↓8	19
19	Bernice	122	–	45
20	Lucille	120	↓3	31
21	Lois	106	↑12	59
22	Maxine	103	↑5	>100
23	Virginia	102	↑5	15
24	Anna	101	↓6	7
25	Elsie	95	↑14	40
26	Thelma	93	↓5	26
27	Viola	93	↑13	52
28	Grace	92	↓8	25
29	Leona	90	↑6	74
30	Lillian	86	↓4	16
31	Edith	85	↑5	29
32	Ethel	85	↓2	20
33	Martha	82	↓10	28
34	Louise	81	↓3	17
35	Wilma	80	↓6	92
36	Catherine	79	↑11	22
37	Doris	79	↓5	44
38	Velma	78	↑3	89
39	Vera	78	↑3	68
40	Clara	74	↑9	36
41	Gertrude	73	↓16	33
42	Eleanor	71	new	34
43	Kathryn	71	↑2	66
44	Opal	67	new	86
45	Josephine	66	new	24
46	Ruby	66	↓12	23
47	Mabel	65	↓9	56
48	Agnes	64	↓11	41
49	Genevieve	58	new	84
50	Vivian	57	↓6	83

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	John	461	–	1
2	Robert	338	–	4
3	William	322	–	2
4	Harold	246	↑2	13
5	Charles	238	↑2	7
6	James	236	↓2	3
7	George	209	↓2	6
8	Donald	196	–	25
9	Raymond	173	–	18
10	Kenneth	167	↑1	33
11	Paul	163	↓1	14
12	Edward	150	↑3	8
13	Richard	143	↑5	19
14	Joseph	128	↓2	5
15	Walter	120	↑7	11
16	Frank	116	↑3	9
17	Clarence	114	↓4	21
18	Howard	111	↑6	26
19	Harry	107	↑4	15
20	Carl	103	↓4	23
21	Ralph	103	↓4	22
22	Arthur	98	↓8	17
23	Albert	97	↑3	16
24	Henry	96	↓4	12
25	Earl	87	↓4	31
26	Thomas	86	↑6	10
27	Lawrence	85	↓2	35
28	Francis	83	↑1	30
29	Leo	83	↑7	48
30	Leonard	80	↓2	46
31	Lloyd	79	↑9	67
32	Russell	76	↑6	50
33	Elmer	73	↓3	45
34	Fred	73	↓7	27
35	Dale	71	↑8	>100
36	Lester	69	↑3	59
37	Herbert	65	↑8	39
38	Roy	65	↓7	32
39	Wayne	65	↓2	>100
40	Floyd	64	↓6	58
41	Marvin	64	↑5	77
42	Ernest	63	↑2	34
43	Gerald	61	↓8	84
44	Louis	59	new	20
45	Jack	58	new	28
46	Leroy	56	new	63
47	Arnold	55	↑3	92
48	Melvin	54	↓7	61
49	Glenn	53	↓16	85
50	Eugene	52	new	43

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