Popular baby names in Maryland, 1912

The most popular baby names in Maryland in 1912 were Mary for girls (562 babies) and William for boys (433). William ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 11,774 babies born in Maryland in 1912 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maryland in 1912

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

Girls

Hilda: 56 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Naomi: 31 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Catherine: 140 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Elizabeth: 205 babies, 2× the national rate
Charlotte: 33 babies, 2× the national rate
Rebecca: 18 babies, 2× the national rate

Boys

Carroll: 21 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Roland: 33 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Irvin: 15 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Franklin: 19 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Wilson: 19 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Vernon: 29 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Charles: 311 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Norman: 39 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Milton: 38 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Bernard: 40 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maryland, 1912

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	Mary	562	–	1
2	Margaret	296	–	4
3	Helen	256	–	2
4	Dorothy	230	↑1	3
5	Elizabeth	205	↑2	8
6	Anna	175	–	7
7	Ruth	170	↑2	5
8	Catherine	140	–	21
9	Mildred	133	↓5	6
10	Evelyn	131	↑1	13
11	Marie	130	↓1	10
12	Frances	99	↑6	9
13	Louise	93	↑8	17
14	Lillian	87	↓2	14
15	Virginia	86	↑4	20
16	Ethel	82	–	18
17	Florence	82	↑3	12
18	Thelma	82	↓3	26
19	Alice	76	↓6	11
20	Edna	73	↓6	16
21	Gladys	73	↑11	19
22	Martha	69	↑3	29
23	Rose	63	↑7	15
24	Hazel	62	↑9	25
25	Emma	61	↑10	35
26	Gertrude	61	↑1	30
27	Edith	60	↓1	31
28	Sarah	60	↑8	41
29	Hilda	56	↓7	>100
30	Bertha	54	↓1	36
31	Katherine	54	↑6	53
32	Grace	53	↓15	24
33	Agnes	52	↓10	40
34	Viola	52	↑15	52
35	Esther	48	new	33
36	Doris	47	↑9	48
37	Elsie	47	↓13	42
38	Josephine	47	↑3	28
39	Nellie	47	↓5	59
40	Eleanor	46	↓2	39
41	Clara	44	↓10	34
42	Irene	44	–	22
43	Myrtle	44	↓15	50
44	Julia	42	↑2	44
45	Beatrice	41	new	37
46	Mabel	40	↓6	46
47	Bessie	35	–	43
48	Ida	34	↓9	45
49	Laura	34	new	57
50	Pauline	34	new	38

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	William	433	–	2
2	John	384	–	1
3	James	314	–	3
4	Charles	311	–	7
5	George	219	↑1	6
6	Joseph	204	↓1	5
7	Robert	157	–	4
8	Edward	139	↑1	8
9	Thomas	108	↓1	10
10	Walter	89	↑7	11
11	Henry	88	–	12
12	Harry	86	↓2	16
13	Howard	77	↑2	25
14	Frank	76	–	9
15	Albert	65	↓3	17
16	Louis	63	↓3	20
17	Richard	61	↑3	19
18	Paul	58	↓2	14
19	Samuel	58	↑6	30
20	Raymond	57	↑2	18
21	Carl	48	↑18	24
22	Francis	48	↑2	35
23	Earl	44	↓2	34
24	Clarence	43	↑3	21
25	Arthur	42	↓7	15
26	Leonard	42	↑17	45
27	Elmer	41	↑6	47
28	Bernard	40	↑4	60
29	Norman	39	↑6	61
30	Milton	38	↑20	64
31	Frederick	37	↓12	51
32	Roland	33	↑14	>100
33	Harold	32	new	13
34	Ernest	31	↓4	32
35	Lawrence	31	↓6	38
36	Ralph	31	↓2	23
37	Anthony	30	new	37
38	David	30	↓15	29
39	Melvin	30	↓8	71
40	Benjamin	29	↑7	67
41	Kenneth	29	new	33
42	Vernon	29	new	90
43	Daniel	28	↓15	53
44	Stanley	28	new	43
45	Herbert	27	↑3	39
46	Leroy	27	↓2	66
47	Eugene	26	↓11	41
48	Herman	26	↓6	50
49	Theodore	26	↓8	52
50	Woodrow	26	new	46

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