Popular baby names in Kansas, 1911

The most popular baby names in Kansas in 1911 were Mary for girls (278 babies) and John for boys (137). Social Security records list 7,752 babies born in Kansas in 1911 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Kansas in 1911

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

Girls

Fern: 30 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Wilma: 56 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Maxine: 30 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Faye: 20 babies, 4× the national rate
Erma: 29 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Opal: 56 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Freda: 19 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Goldie: 26 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Velma: 45 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Nina: 18 babies, 3× the national rate

Boys

Orville: 21 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Wayne: 23 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Virgil: 23 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Everett: 16 babies, 4× the national rate
Cecil: 23 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Maurice: 16 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Lloyd: 21 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Kenneth: 39 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Ray: 18 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Donald: 38 babies, 2.8× the national rate

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

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	Mary	278	–	1
2	Helen	210	–	2
3	Dorothy	178	–	4
4	Margaret	153	↑2	3
5	Mildred	151	–	8
6	Ruth	128	↓2	5
7	Frances	96	↑1	10
8	Edna	82	↑2	17
9	Esther	75	↑10	34
10	Thelma	74	↓3	27
11	Hazel	73	↓2	25
12	Edith	69	↑11	31
13	Gladys	68	↓2	18
14	Alice	66	↓1	11
15	Marie	65	↑6	9
16	Ruby	64	↑24	22
17	Ethel	60	–	15
18	Florence	60	↓2	12
19	Elizabeth	59	↓1	7
20	Evelyn	57	↑4	16
21	Opal	56	↑6	81
22	Wilma	56	new	>100
23	Vera	55	↑9	67
24	Anna	54	↓9	6
25	Grace	53	↑18	23
26	Irene	53	↓12	21
27	Lucille	50	↓7	32
28	Marjorie	49	↑9	59
29	Mabel	47	↑21	43
30	Martha	47	↓2	28
31	Pauline	47	↓1	38
32	Agnes	46	↑14	39
33	Louise	46	↑3	19
34	Clara	45	↓8	33
35	Velma	45	↓23	90
36	Doris	42	↓2	56
37	Pearl	42	↑2	48
38	Virginia	42	↓9	26
39	Elsie	40	↓6	41
40	Laura	40	new	57
41	Myrtle	39	new	50
42	Nellie	39	↓17	54
43	Bernice	36	↑2	51
44	Bertha	36	↓22	36
45	Lillian	36	new	13
46	Beulah	34	new	79
47	Gertrude	34	↑2	30
48	Lois	34	↓6	68
49	Bessie	33	new	40
50	Emma	33	↓2	35

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	John	137	–	1
2	Charles	93	↑1	7
3	James	89	↑1	3
4	George	87	↑1	4
5	William	85	↓3	2
6	Harold	68	↑1	16
7	Robert	68	↓1	5
8	Frank	60	↑1	8
9	Kenneth	39	↑10	40
10	Ralph	39	–	24
11	Donald	38	↑20	36
12	Fred	38	↑10	22
13	Henry	38	↑19	11
14	Raymond	37	↑2	19
15	Carl	36	↑10	26
16	Harry	36	↑2	13
17	Clarence	35	↓6	23
18	Edward	33	↑10	9
19	Roy	33	↑1	31
20	Joseph	32	↓8	6
21	Paul	32	↓13	17
22	Richard	32	↑12	20
23	Earl	31	↑4	34
24	Walter	30	↓7	12
25	Howard	27	↓10	28
26	Lawrence	27	↑7	37
27	Albert	24	↓14	15
28	Arthur	24	↓2	18
29	Elmer	24	↑6	48
30	Jack	24	↓7	25
31	Cecil	23	new	76
32	Virgil	23	new	>100
33	Wayne	23	new	>100
34	Eugene	22	↑9	43
35	Thomas	22	↓11	10
36	Francis	21	–	33
37	Lloyd	21	↑2	74
38	Orville	21	new	>100
39	Chester	20	↑6	58
40	Herbert	19	↓3	41
41	Ray	18	new	71
42	Russell	17	new	55
43	Everett	16	new	>100
44	Floyd	16	↓30	57
45	Maurice	16	new	99
46	Clyde	15	new	61
47	Ernest	15	↓26	32
48	Leonard	15	↓10	46
49	Melvin	15	↓2	73
50	Clifford	14	↓20	62

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