Popular baby names in Maryland, 1918

The most popular baby names in Maryland in 1918 were Mary for girls (1,076 babies) and William for boys (929). William ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 25,515 babies born in Maryland in 1918 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maryland in 1918

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

Girls

Alverta: 16 babies, 13.1× the national rate
Hilda: 106 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Naomi: 61 babies, 3× the national rate
Audrey: 67 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Catherine: 279 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Matilda: 22 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Rosalie: 25 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Leah: 16 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Doris: 237 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Miriam: 41 babies, 2× the national rate

Boys

Carroll: 42 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Sterling: 16 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Irvin: 41 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Elwood: 25 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Roland: 54 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Morton: 15 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Preston: 15 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Franklin: 44 babies, 3× the national rate
Nelson: 23 babies, 3× the national rate
Jerome: 34 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maryland, 1918

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	Mary	1,076	–	1
2	Margaret	592	–	4
3	Dorothy	538	–	3
4	Helen	516	–	2
5	Ruth	399	–	5
6	Anna	365	↑1	10
7	Elizabeth	326	↓1	9
8	Mildred	304	–	6
9	Evelyn	287	↑3	11
10	Catherine	279	↓1	20
11	Virginia	249	–	7
12	Frances	242	↑1	8
13	Marie	240	↓3	12
14	Doris	237	–	19
15	Lillian	185	–	15
16	Thelma	161	↑2	32
17	Alice	148	↓1	13
18	Ethel	147	↑1	28
19	Louise	138	↑2	18
20	Edna	137	–	23
21	Florence	137	↓4	14
22	Edith	125	↑4	30
23	Katherine	122	↑6	50
24	Rose	119	↓1	17
25	Gladys	114	↑2	22
26	Grace	114	↓2	31
27	Gertrude	110	↓5	39
28	Martha	107	↑3	25
29	Pauline	107	↑10	35
30	Hilda	106	↑6	>100
31	Sarah	106	↑9	52
32	Eleanor	99	↓7	26
33	Agnes	93	↑1	47
34	Bertha	91	↑1	51
35	Esther	87	↑7	38
36	Hazel	86	↑2	33
37	Clara	85	↑7	43
38	Emma	85	↓10	46
39	Elsie	84	↓9	49
40	Ida	80	↓8	57
41	Beatrice	78	–	40
42	Charlotte	77	↓9	78
43	Jane	77	↑3	53
44	Julia	76	↑4	48
45	Josephine	74	↓8	24
46	Nellie	73	new	65
47	Irene	72	↓4	16
48	Rita	68	new	58
49	Audrey	67	new	>100
50	Myrtle	66	new	62

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	William	929	–	2
2	John	860	–	1
3	Charles	705	–	5
4	James	575	–	3
5	Joseph	477	↑1	7
6	George	444	↓1	6
7	Robert	414	–	4
8	Edward	360	–	8
9	Harry	221	↑1	20
10	Thomas	209	↓1	10
11	Walter	193	↑1	11
12	Frank	179	↓1	9
13	Henry	178	↑1	16
14	Paul	174	↑2	14
15	Albert	170	–	19
16	Howard	156	↑1	26
17	Richard	154	↓4	12
18	Raymond	141	↑1	15
19	Clarence	133	↑8	23
20	Francis	126	↓2	30
21	Donald	113	↑5	18
22	Arthur	104	↓2	17
23	Louis	103	↓1	24
24	Earl	101	↑5	31
25	Melvin	99	↓4	56
26	Samuel	98	↓3	43
27	Bernard	93	↓3	47
28	David	93	↑7	28
29	Harold	86	↓4	13
30	Frederick	85	↑6	59
31	Lawrence	82	–	38
32	Ralph	81	↑7	22
33	Elmer	78	–	44
34	Ernest	74	↓4	37
35	Herbert	69	↑6	40
36	Norman	69	↑1	49
37	Milton	66	↑3	76
38	Vernon	66	↓4	66
39	Kenneth	60	↑11	27
40	Herman	56	↑9	65
41	Leonard	56	↓3	41
42	Leroy	56	↓10	57
43	Daniel	54	↑1	52
44	Roland	54	↓1	>100
45	Russell	54	↑2	50
46	Anthony	53	–	39
47	Carl	53	↓19	25
48	Stanley	51	↓6	36
49	Edgar	49	new	89
50	Alfred	46	new	42

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