Popular baby names in Maryland, 1921

The most popular baby names in Maryland in 1921 were Mary for girls (1,302 babies) and William for boys (1,063). William ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 28,569 babies born in Maryland in 1921 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maryland in 1921

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: 96 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Regina: 45 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Amanda: 15 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Naomi: 66 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Rosalie: 35 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Catherine: 286 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Charlotte: 104 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Cecelia: 23 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Doris: 350 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Audrey: 93 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Carroll: 42 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Irvin: 43 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Wilmer: 19 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Franklin: 60 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Morton: 20 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Clifton: 37 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Roland: 53 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Jerome: 47 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Elwood: 20 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Preston: 15 babies, 2.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maryland, 1921

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	1,302	–	1
2	Dorothy	669	↑1	2
3	Margaret	600	↓1	4
4	Helen	512	–	3
5	Ruth	400	–	5
6	Doris	350	↑1	13
7	Anna	343	↓1	11
8	Elizabeth	328	–	10
9	Mildred	327	–	7
10	Catherine	286	–	23
11	Virginia	259	↑2	6
12	Frances	252	–	9
13	Evelyn	248	↑1	12
14	Marie	244	↓3	14
15	Alice	180	↑1	15
16	Lillian	179	↓1	19
17	Betty	153	↑23	8
18	Thelma	151	↓1	30
19	Ethel	136	–	32
20	Florence	135	↓2	17
21	Edna	132	↑3	27
22	Louise	126	↓2	22
23	Eleanor	122	↑5	29
24	Gladys	120	↓3	24
25	Edith	119	↓3	33
26	Jane	112	↑10	47
27	Grace	111	↑2	35
28	Irene	110	↑11	18
29	Emma	107	↑2	52
30	Josephine	105	↑7	28
31	Charlotte	104	↓5	79
32	Hazel	103	↑16	34
33	Katherine	103	↑5	49
34	Martha	98	↓2	21
35	Rose	98	↓1	20
36	Hilda	96	↓11	>100
37	Sarah	95	↓7	54
38	Agnes	94	↓5	56
39	Audrey	93	↑2	82
40	Elsie	93	↓17	55
41	Gertrude	93	↓6	46
42	Marjorie	92	new	16
43	Bernice	90	↑6	39
44	Pauline	90	↓17	37
45	Clara	89	new	45
46	Rita	89	–	48
47	Bertha	81	↓4	59
48	Esther	81	↓1	42
49	Norma	78	new	51
50	Jean	74	new	25

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	William	1,063	–	3
2	John	895	–	1
3	Charles	765	↑1	5
4	James	717	↓1	4
5	Robert	534	–	2
6	George	533	↑1	6
7	Joseph	519	↓1	7
8	Edward	352	–	8
9	Thomas	263	–	11
10	Harry	235	–	21
11	Walter	214	–	15
12	Richard	197	↑2	10
13	Albert	195	↑2	20
14	Henry	176	↓1	17
15	Paul	174	↓3	14
16	Frank	165	–	9
17	Francis	164	–	35
18	Raymond	163	–	16
19	Howard	153	↑2	27
20	Donald	144	↑7	13
21	Louis	131	↑5	29
22	Clarence	127	↑3	28
23	Arthur	117	↓3	19
24	Melvin	117	–	53
25	Earl	115	↓3	31
26	Harold	113	↓7	12
27	Bernard	112	↓4	45
28	Ralph	100	↑3	23
29	David	97	–	25
30	Warren	96	↑16	24
31	Kenneth	95	↓1	22
32	Samuel	93	↓4	44
33	Norman	89	↑8	46
34	Vernon	88	↑9	68
35	Frederick	87	–	61
36	Leonard	84	↑6	39
37	Stanley	81	↑8	41
38	Ernest	79	↓6	38
39	Lawrence	78	↓1	37
40	Leroy	78	↓4	55
41	Herbert	77	↓4	42
42	Eugene	75	↑2	26
43	Elmer	74	↓9	48
44	Russell	74	↑3	52
45	Daniel	72	↓6	49
46	Milton	69	↓13	75
47	Carl	66	↓7	30
48	Jack	64	new	18
49	Alfred	61	↓1	43
50	Franklin	60	new	>100

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