Popular baby names in Maryland, 1917

The most popular baby names in Maryland in 1917 were Mary for girls (1,031 babies) and William for boys (822). William ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 23,337 babies born in Maryland in 1917 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maryland in 1917

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, 3.7× the national rate
Adelaide: 18 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Catherine: 266 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Miriam: 46 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Dolores: 44 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Carolyn: 34 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Charlotte: 89 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Madeline: 47 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Rosalie: 22 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Regina: 26 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Carroll: 36 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Ellsworth: 16 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Irvin: 34 babies, 4× the national rate
Roland: 56 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Elwood: 19 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Melvin: 107 babies, 3× the national rate
Jerome: 35 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Phillip: 22 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Franklin: 35 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Calvin: 23 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maryland, 1917

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Mary	1,031	–	1
2	Margaret	528	–	4
3	Dorothy	525	–	3
4	Helen	488	–	2
5	Ruth	335	–	5
6	Elizabeth	321	↑1	8
7	Anna	299	↓1	7
8	Mildred	290	↑1	6
9	Catherine	266	↓1	18
10	Marie	263	↑1	12
11	Virginia	239	↓1	10
12	Evelyn	234	–	11
13	Frances	198	↑1	9
14	Doris	189	↑1	25
15	Lillian	185	↓2	15
16	Alice	147	↑1	13
17	Florence	137	↑7	14
18	Thelma	131	↓2	32
19	Ethel	129	–	24
20	Edna	126	↓2	20
21	Louise	124	↓1	19
22	Gertrude	114	↑10	37
23	Rose	111	↑8	16
24	Grace	110	↓3	30
25	Eleanor	108	↓2	26
26	Edith	107	↓4	28
27	Gladys	104	↑6	23
28	Emma	101	↓1	46
29	Katherine	97	↓3	49
30	Elsie	94	↓2	50
31	Martha	93	↑6	22
32	Ida	91	↑10	56
33	Charlotte	89	↑10	76
34	Agnes	88	↓4	48
35	Bertha	88	↑1	51
36	Hilda	88	↓7	>100
37	Josephine	87	↑1	21
38	Hazel	86	↓4	31
39	Pauline	84	↑2	33
40	Sarah	84	↓15	52
41	Beatrice	83	↑3	39
42	Esther	82	↓2	38
43	Irene	80	↓8	17
44	Clara	79	↓5	41
45	Mabel	71	↑1	68
46	Jane	70	new	55
47	Blanche	60	new	91
48	Julia	60	new	47
49	Anne	58	new	53
50	Bessie	57	new	61

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	William	822	–	2
2	John	740	–	1
3	Charles	665	–	7
4	James	558	–	3
5	George	447	↑1	6
6	Joseph	417	↓1	5
7	Robert	383	–	4
8	Edward	284	–	8
9	Thomas	213	–	10
10	Harry	205	–	19
11	Frank	169	↑1	9
12	Walter	164	↓1	11
13	Richard	144	↑3	14
14	Henry	138	↑3	15
15	Albert	135	↓1	18
16	Paul	130	↓3	13
17	Howard	122	↓2	26
18	Francis	120	↑2	30
19	Raymond	120	↑5	16
20	Arthur	108	↑1	17
21	Melvin	107	↑5	57
22	Louis	98	↓3	23
23	Samuel	94	↓5	42
24	Bernard	89	↑8	49
25	Harold	84	↑5	12
26	Donald	82	↑7	20
27	Clarence	81	↓5	25
28	Carl	77	↑7	24
29	Earl	76	↓6	32
30	Ernest	73	↑1	37
31	Lawrence	72	↑11	36
32	Leroy	72	↑4	60
33	Elmer	71	↓4	45
34	Vernon	71	↑3	71
35	David	69	↓10	28
36	Frederick	69	↓8	51
37	Norman	69	↑1	46
38	Leonard	68	↓4	41
39	Ralph	68	↓12	21
40	Milton	64	↑6	75
41	Herbert	63	↑4	40
42	Stanley	59	↓3	34
43	Roland	56	new	>100
44	Daniel	54	↓1	54
45	Andrew	53	↓1	48
46	Anthony	53	new	38
47	Russell	52	new	52
48	Edwin	51	↓7	55
49	Herman	51	↓2	58
50	Kenneth	47	↓1	27

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