Popular baby names in Kansas, 1915

The most popular baby names in Kansas in 1915 were Mary for girls (671 babies) and John for boys (593). Social Security records list 25,863 babies born in Kansas in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Kansas in 1915

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

Girls

Velda: 16 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Neva: 32 babies, 5× the national rate
Maxine: 139 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Nadine: 20 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Fern: 69 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Letha: 25 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Wilma: 149 babies, 4× the national rate
Maurine: 17 babies, 4× the national rate
Berniece: 19 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Opal: 115 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Boys

Loren: 32 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Dean: 36 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Merle: 41 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Eldon: 27 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Orval: 17 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Alva: 17 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Keith: 27 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Dale: 65 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Forrest: 39 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Virgil: 80 babies, 3.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Kansas, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	671	–	1
2	Dorothy	458	↑1	3
3	Helen	455	↓1	2
4	Ruth	371	↑2	5
5	Margaret	330	↓1	4
6	Mildred	306	↓1	6
7	Frances	235	–	9
8	Evelyn	188	↑6	10
9	Virginia	183	↑13	12
10	Hazel	170	↑6	26
11	Alice	169	↑10	13
12	Lois	159	↑6	47
13	Anna	158	↓5	7
14	Esther	152	↑1	33
15	Doris	150	↑20	34
16	Edna	150	↑3	20
17	Wilma	149	↑3	80
18	Irene	140	↓7	17
19	Maxine	139	↑8	98
20	Marie	136	↓10	11
21	Ruby	135	↓8	24
22	Florence	134	↓5	14
23	Thelma	134	↓14	30
24	Pauline	133	↑1	32
25	Elizabeth	132	↓13	8
26	Edith	129	↑10	31
27	Marjorie	120	↓3	39
28	Martha	120	↑6	25
29	Lucille	116	–	29
30	Opal	115	↑7	90
31	Louise	111	↓5	18
32	Gladys	110	↓9	21
33	Ethel	109	↓5	23
34	Velma	105	↓3	94
35	Bernice	97	↑7	42
36	Vera	92	↓6	65
37	Josephine	90	↑3	22
38	Grace	87	↓5	27
39	Viola	87	↓1	59
40	Juanita	83	↑8	92
41	Eleanor	81	new	28
42	Elsie	81	↑3	41
43	Clara	80	↓11	38
44	Eva	80	new	55
45	Rose	77	new	16
46	Leona	74	↓2	74
47	Agnes	73	new	45
48	Vivian	72	new	78
49	Nellie	71	new	63
50	Pearl	70	new	56

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	John	593	–	1
2	William	500	–	2
3	Charles	424	–	7
4	Robert	381	–	4
5	James	375	–	3
6	George	298	–	6
7	Harold	283	–	12
8	Paul	221	↑1	13
9	Kenneth	202	↓1	28
10	Donald	190	↑1	20
11	Frank	185	↓1	9
12	Joseph	175	–	5
13	Ralph	174	↑5	21
14	Richard	165	↑14	15
15	Raymond	162	↓2	16
16	Howard	161	↑3	25
17	Arthur	157	↑7	18
18	Carl	155	↑4	22
19	Walter	155	↓2	11
20	Edward	148	↓6	8
21	Lawrence	141	↑2	37
22	Clarence	138	↓6	24
23	Henry	133	↑4	14
24	Albert	130	↓9	17
25	Harry	122	↓5	19
26	Eugene	116	↑5	41
27	Jack	112	↑10	27
28	Roy	112	↓7	32
29	Earl	108	↓4	33
30	Leonard	98	↑9	44
31	Francis	97	↓2	29
32	Floyd	91	↑2	59
33	Lloyd	90	↑2	62
34	Glenn	89	↑12	87
35	Gerald	88	↑7	78
36	Leo	88	↑5	47
37	Ernest	85	↓7	35
38	Fred	85	↓6	26
39	Thomas	83	↓13	10
40	Willard	82	new	58
41	Virgil	80	new	>100
42	Chester	79	new	54
43	Cecil	78	↑5	76
44	Elmer	78	↓11	45
45	Melvin	78	new	60
46	Wayne	77	new	97
47	Lester	76	↑3	57
48	Joe	74	↓1	38
49	Louis	73	↓9	23
50	Marvin	72	new	72

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