Popular baby names in Maryland, 1914

The most popular baby names in Maryland in 1914 were Mary for girls (718 babies) and William for boys (619). William ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 16,785 babies born in Maryland in 1914 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maryland in 1914

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: 62 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Naomi: 42 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Elva: 20 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Rosalie: 20 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Catherine: 210 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Audrey: 34 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Rebecca: 26 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Isabelle: 20 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Cecelia: 18 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Elizabeth: 287 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Boys

Emory: 16 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Carroll: 26 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Elwood: 22 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Irvin: 26 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Calvin: 27 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Wilson: 24 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Roland: 32 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Franklin: 28 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Milton: 55 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Marshall: 16 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maryland, 1914

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	Mary	718	–	1
2	Margaret	410	–	4
3	Dorothy	398	–	3
4	Helen	313	–	2
5	Elizabeth	287	–	8
6	Anna	268	↑1	6
7	Ruth	225	↑3	5
8	Catherine	210	–	18
9	Mildred	206	↓3	7
10	Evelyn	193	↑1	11
11	Marie	179	↓2	10
12	Lillian	146	–	16
13	Frances	129	↑1	9
14	Virginia	125	↓1	14
15	Thelma	124	↑1	26
16	Louise	107	↓1	17
17	Edna	106	↑1	19
18	Alice	103	↓1	12
19	Gladys	97	↑7	20
20	Eleanor	93	↑12	28
21	Gertrude	90	↑4	32
22	Florence	87	↑2	13
23	Edith	86	↑6	31
24	Ethel	82	↓5	21
25	Rose	82	↑2	15
26	Doris	81	↑10	36
27	Agnes	79	↓6	44
28	Sarah	78	–	47
29	Martha	74	↑9	27
30	Pauline	73	↑4	34
31	Grace	71	↓9	25
32	Katherine	71	↓12	48
33	Ida	70	↑7	49
34	Clara	67	↑1	37
35	Elsie	66	↑11	46
36	Hazel	66	↑1	29
37	Emma	63	↓7	39
38	Hilda	62	↓7	>100
39	Josephine	61	↓6	23
40	Pearl	59	↑9	56
41	Esther	58	↓2	35
42	Julia	58	new	42
43	Myrtle	57	–	60
44	Beatrice	56	new	38
45	Bertha	51	↓22	41
46	Bessie	50	new	55
47	Anne	49	↑3	53
48	Eva	49	–	52
49	Viola	49	↓2	57
50	Irene	48	↓9	22

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	William	619	–	2
2	John	549	–	1
3	James	449	↑1	3
4	Charles	427	↓1	7
5	Joseph	312	↑1	5
6	George	306	↓1	6
7	Robert	218	–	4
8	Edward	196	–	8
9	Harry	160	↑1	19
10	Thomas	139	↓1	11
11	Walter	132	↑4	10
12	Frank	127	↓1	9
13	Albert	123	–	15
14	Henry	101	↑2	12
15	Paul	95	↓3	13
16	Howard	94	↓2	26
17	Raymond	93	↑4	16
18	Richard	93	↑1	17
19	Arthur	84	↓1	18
20	Louis	79	–	20
21	Samuel	75	↑3	36
22	Bernard	67	–	50
23	Francis	62	↓6	31
24	Melvin	58	↑5	59
25	Clarence	56	↑5	22
26	David	56	↓3	29
27	Milton	55	new	69
28	Earl	53	↑3	33
29	Ernest	51	↑6	38
30	Herbert	50	↓2	42
31	Frederick	49	↓6	52
32	Lawrence	49	↑2	35
33	Daniel	48	↑8	55
34	Elmer	47	↓7	46
35	Carl	46	↑4	24
36	Alfred	43	↑6	41
37	Russell	43	↑13	49
38	Harold	42	↓2	14
39	Norman	41	↓7	54
40	Andrew	40	↓2	44
41	Donald	40	↑2	23
42	Herman	38	↑7	51
43	Leroy	37	↓6	60
44	Michael	34	new	40
45	Benjamin	33	↑2	70
46	Eugene	33	↑2	43
47	Theodore	33	new	64
48	Vernon	33	↓4	83
49	Kenneth	32	↓3	30
50	Roland	32	new	>100

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