Popular baby names in Maryland, 1913

The most popular baby names in Maryland in 1913 were Mary for girls (617 babies) and William for boys (462). William ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 13,015 babies born in Maryland in 1913 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maryland in 1913

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, 3.8× the national rate
Angela: 17 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Naomi: 31 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Regina: 17 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Catherine: 165 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Amelia: 22 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Katherine: 77 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Jeannette: 15 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Margaret: 343 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Elizabeth: 224 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Boys

Carroll: 22 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Roland: 24 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Franklin: 22 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Jerome: 17 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Bernard: 54 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Melvin: 46 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Vernon: 31 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Charles: 352 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Frederick: 47 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Norman: 41 babies, 2.1× the national rate

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

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	Mary	617	–	1
2	Margaret	343	–	4
3	Dorothy	269	↑1	3
4	Helen	264	↓1	2
5	Elizabeth	224	–	8
6	Mildred	173	↑3	6
7	Anna	170	↓1	7
8	Catherine	165	–	22
9	Marie	144	↑2	10
10	Ruth	144	↓3	5
11	Evelyn	138	↓1	12
12	Lillian	121	↑2	16
13	Virginia	117	↑2	15
14	Frances	109	↓2	9
15	Louise	96	↓2	17
16	Thelma	94	↑2	26
17	Alice	90	↑2	11
18	Edna	87	↑2	18
19	Ethel	79	↓3	20
20	Katherine	77	↑11	54
21	Agnes	75	↑12	41
22	Grace	73	↑10	25
23	Bertha	70	↑7	39
24	Florence	70	↓7	13
25	Gertrude	70	↑1	33
26	Gladys	65	↓5	19
27	Rose	64	↓4	14
28	Sarah	61	–	43
29	Edith	60	↓2	29
30	Emma	57	↓5	38
31	Hilda	56	↓2	>100
32	Eleanor	54	↑8	34
33	Josephine	54	↑5	24
34	Pauline	54	↑16	35
35	Clara	51	↑6	36
36	Doris	50	–	44
37	Hazel	50	↓13	27
38	Martha	47	↓16	28
39	Esther	46	↓4	32
40	Ida	45	↑8	49
41	Irene	44	↑1	21
42	Nellie	44	↓3	58
43	Myrtle	43	–	53
44	Ella	42	new	70
45	Mabel	42	↑1	56
46	Elsie	41	↓9	40
47	Viola	41	↓13	52
48	Eva	40	new	50
49	Pearl	40	new	55
50	Anne	38	new	57

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	William	462	–	2
2	John	410	–	1
3	Charles	352	↑1	7
4	James	328	↓1	3
5	George	267	–	6
6	Joseph	262	–	5
7	Robert	183	–	4
8	Edward	174	–	8
9	Thomas	138	–	10
10	Harry	122	↑2	15
11	Frank	111	↑3	9
12	Paul	87	↑6	14
13	Albert	78	↑2	16
14	Howard	77	↓1	26
15	Walter	75	↓5	11
16	Henry	73	↓5	12
17	Francis	67	↑5	30
18	Arthur	66	↑7	17
19	Richard	65	↓2	19
20	Louis	58	↓4	20
21	Raymond	58	↓1	18
22	Bernard	54	↑6	52
23	David	52	↑15	29
24	Samuel	51	↓5	36
25	Frederick	47	↑6	49
26	Ralph	47	↑10	22
27	Elmer	46	–	45
28	Herbert	46	↑17	39
29	Melvin	46	↑10	61
30	Clarence	43	↓6	21
31	Earl	43	↓8	31
32	Norman	41	↓3	57
33	Woodrow	39	↑17	44
34	Lawrence	38	↑1	35
35	Ernest	36	↓1	34
36	Harold	36	↓3	13
37	Leroy	36	↑9	63
38	Andrew	34	new	47
39	Carl	33	↓18	23
40	Leonard	33	↓14	46
41	Daniel	32	↑2	54
42	Alfred	31	new	42
43	Donald	31	new	25
44	Vernon	31	↓2	83
45	Philip	29	new	69
46	Kenneth	27	↓5	33
47	Benjamin	26	↓7	70
48	Eugene	25	↓1	43
49	Herman	25	↓1	53
50	Russell	25	new	50

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