Popular baby names in Kansas, 1913

The most popular baby names in Kansas in 1913 were Mary for girls (437 babies) and John for boys (354). Social Security records list 15,931 babies born in Kansas in 1913 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Kansas in 1913

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

Girls

Leota: 17 babies, 6× the national rate
Neva: 22 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Fern: 44 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Wilma: 87 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Maxine: 59 babies, 4× the national rate
Elva: 24 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Alta: 23 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Leah: 16 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Opal: 69 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Erma: 37 babies, 3.1× the national rate

Boys

Orval: 15 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Loren: 20 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Merle: 29 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Dale: 35 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Wayne: 56 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Eldon: 17 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Glenn: 75 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Lyle: 22 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Virgil: 47 babies, 4× the national rate
Glen: 33 babies, 3.8× the national rate

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

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	Mary	437	–	1
2	Helen	338	–	2
3	Dorothy	278	–	3
4	Mildred	252	–	6
5	Margaret	237	–	4
6	Ruth	217	–	5
7	Alice	147	↑3	11
8	Frances	133	↑1	9
9	Hazel	116	↑3	27
10	Anna	114	↑8	7
11	Thelma	108	↓3	26
12	Elizabeth	106	↑2	8
13	Marie	106	↓6	10
14	Ruby	101	↑8	23
15	Esther	100	–	32
16	Irene	100	↑1	21
17	Evelyn	94	↑4	12
18	Lucille	92	↑12	31
19	Florence	91	↑1	13
20	Virginia	88	↑12	15
21	Edna	87	↓2	18
22	Wilma	87	↑5	92
23	Gladys	85	↓12	19
24	Ethel	82	↓1	20
25	Martha	80	↑11	28
26	Josephine	75	↑9	24
27	Vera	74	↑1	68
28	Louise	71	↓4	17
29	Doris	70	↑17	44
30	Opal	69	↓5	86
31	Edith	67	↓18	29
32	Lois	67	↓3	59
33	Pauline	67	↓2	35
34	Rose	67	new	14
35	Grace	65	↓2	25
36	Velma	65	↓20	89
37	Marjorie	64	↓11	48
38	Eva	63	↑10	50
39	Bernice	62	↑5	45
40	Clara	61	↓1	36
41	Maxine	59	↑4	>100
42	Viola	57	↑1	52
43	Elsie	55	↓9	40
44	Vivian	53	new	83
45	Mabel	52	↓4	56
46	Katherine	51	↑1	54
47	Bertha	50	↓5	39
48	Eleanor	50	new	34
49	Lillian	50	↑1	16
50	Marguerite	50	new	78

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	John	354	–	1
2	William	288	–	2
3	Charles	257	↑2	7
4	James	233	–	3
5	Robert	206	↓2	4
6	George	204	–	6
7	Harold	175	–	13
8	Kenneth	141	↑5	33
9	Paul	124	↑1	14
10	Frank	123	↓2	9
11	Raymond	116	↑1	18
12	Ralph	115	↓3	22
13	Joseph	103	↓2	5
14	Clarence	95	–	21
15	Donald	95	↑9	25
16	Edward	95	↓1	8
17	Walter	93	↑5	11
18	Roy	88	↑11	32
19	Albert	86	↑4	16
20	Lawrence	85	↑1	35
21	Carl	83	↓5	23
22	Harry	81	↓5	15
23	Henry	81	↑4	12
24	Howard	79	↓4	26
25	Thomas	77	↑3	10
26	Glenn	75	↑8	85
27	Richard	73	↓9	19
28	Earl	71	↓9	31
29	Arthur	70	↓3	17
30	Ernest	59	↑2	34
31	Fred	58	–	27
32	Leonard	58	new	46
33	Wayne	56	new	>100
34	Floyd	54	↑1	58
35	Francis	54	↑4	30
36	Leo	53	↑10	48
37	Lester	53	↑10	59
38	Lloyd	53	↓8	67
39	Russell	52	new	50
40	Eugene	50	↓15	43
41	Joe	50	new	37
42	Woodrow	50	new	44
43	Cecil	49	↓7	74
44	Louis	48	↓2	20
45	Chester	47	new	56
46	Virgil	47	↓6	>100
47	Elmer	46	↓14	45
48	Gerald	43	new	84
49	Melvin	42	↓6	61
50	Jack	41	↓9	28

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