Popular baby names in Maryland, 1915

The most popular baby names in Maryland in 1915 were Mary for girls (963 babies) and William for boys (763). William ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 21,728 babies born in Maryland in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maryland in 1915

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: 88 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Catherine: 289 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Naomi: 49 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Dorothea: 29 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Estella: 19 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Audrey: 46 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Regina: 24 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Elva: 21 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Irma: 35 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Carolyn: 29 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Carroll: 30 babies, 5× the national rate
Preston: 21 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Irvin: 30 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Austin: 17 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Calvin: 27 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Melvin: 89 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Franklin: 31 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Adam: 16 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Charles: 571 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Milton: 59 babies, 2.3× the national rate

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

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	963	–	1
2	Margaret	489	–	4
3	Dorothy	486	–	3
4	Helen	414	–	2
5	Ruth	328	↑2	5
6	Anna	318	–	7
7	Elizabeth	310	↓2	8
8	Catherine	289	–	19
9	Evelyn	264	↑1	10
10	Mildred	264	↓1	6
11	Marie	213	–	11
12	Frances	185	↑1	9
13	Lillian	171	↓1	15
14	Virginia	169	–	12
15	Thelma	163	–	30
16	Alice	139	↑2	13
17	Doris	138	↑9	34
18	Louise	137	↓2	18
19	Edna	131	↓2	20
20	Ethel	128	↑4	23
21	Emma	118	↑16	40
22	Gladys	118	↓3	21
23	Grace	116	↑8	27
24	Gertrude	110	↓3	35
25	Florence	109	↓3	14
26	Rose	106	↓1	16
27	Katherine	104	↑5	49
28	Edith	95	↓5	31
29	Agnes	94	↓2	45
30	Eleanor	93	↓10	28
31	Elsie	91	↑4	41
32	Martha	91	↓3	25
33	Pauline	91	↓3	32
34	Hilda	88	↑4	>100
35	Sarah	87	↓7	51
36	Esther	84	↑5	33
37	Hazel	83	↓1	26
38	Bertha	81	↑7	46
39	Beatrice	76	↑5	37
40	Clara	75	↓6	38
41	Ida	67	↓8	54
42	Irene	66	↑8	17
43	Annie	65	new	36
44	Josephine	65	↓5	22
45	Laura	65	new	61
46	Charlotte	62	new	81
47	Bessie	60	↓1	57
48	Julia	60	↓6	44
49	Anne	58	↓2	52
50	Myrtle	58	↓7	58

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	William	763	–	2
2	John	692	–	1
3	Charles	571	↑1	7
4	James	559	↓1	3
5	George	422	↑1	6
6	Joseph	407	↓1	5
7	Robert	304	–	4
8	Edward	261	–	8
9	Harry	199	–	19
10	Thomas	191	–	10
11	Frank	167	↑1	9
12	Walter	144	↓1	11
13	Paul	141	↑2	13
14	Howard	135	↑2	25
15	Albert	134	↓2	17
16	Henry	130	↓2	14
17	Richard	124	↑1	15
18	Francis	115	↑5	29
19	Raymond	109	↓2	16
20	Samuel	102	↑1	39
21	Arthur	99	↓2	18
22	Clarence	98	↑3	24
23	Louis	97	↓3	23
24	Melvin	89	–	60
25	Harold	78	↑13	12
26	Frederick	70	↑5	52
27	David	69	↓1	31
28	Donald	69	↑13	20
29	Norman	65	↑10	50
30	Elmer	63	↑4	45
31	Bernard	61	↓9	48
32	Earl	59	↓4	33
33	Milton	59	↓6	73
34	Carl	58	↑1	22
35	Herman	55	↑7	56
36	Ralph	55	new	21
37	Benjamin	54	↑8	71
38	Kenneth	53	↑11	28
39	Lawrence	53	↓7	37
40	Herbert	52	↓10	40
41	Ernest	51	↓12	35
42	Andrew	50	↓2	46
43	Daniel	50	↓10	55
44	Leroy	50	↓1	66
45	Alfred	46	↓9	42
46	Edwin	46	new	53
47	Edgar	45	new	85
48	Vernon	44	–	80
49	Leo	43	new	47
50	Leonard	43	new	44

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