Popular baby names in Michigan, 1911

The most popular baby names in Michigan in 1911 were Mary for girls (456 babies) and John for boys (230). Social Security records list 12,959 babies born in Michigan in 1911 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Michigan in 1911

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

Girls

Donna: 17 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Eleanore: 15 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Arlene: 19 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Angeline: 25 babies, 3.5× the national rate
June: 22 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Cecilia: 24 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Marian: 59 babies, 3× the national rate
Ila: 16 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Lila: 19 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Cecelia: 24 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Boys

Gerald: 29 babies, 4× the national rate
Donald: 64 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Harold: 100 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Russell: 31 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Norman: 28 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Kenneth: 44 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Leonard: 36 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Theodore: 28 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Gordon: 15 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Stanley: 36 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Michigan, 1911

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	Mary	456	↑1	1
2	Helen	436	↓1	2
3	Dorothy	320	↑1	4
4	Margaret	310	↓1	3
5	Ruth	225	–	5
6	Mildred	175	↑1	8
7	Marie	158	↑3	9
8	Florence	154	↓2	12
9	Frances	152	↓1	10
10	Anna	147	↓1	6
11	Elizabeth	143	↑2	7
12	Irene	139	↓1	21
13	Evelyn	132	↑2	16
14	Alice	125	–	11
15	Lillian	124	↑1	13
16	Gertrude	111	↑1	30
17	Grace	111	↑1	23
18	Beatrice	106	↑2	37
19	Esther	101	↑11	34
20	Lucille	101	↑2	32
21	Clara	100	↓2	33
22	Eleanor	94	↑1	49
23	Marion	94	↑9	58
24	Gladys	88	↓12	18
25	Edna	87	↑4	17
26	Hazel	85	↓5	25
27	Rose	85	↓1	14
28	Virginia	83	↑10	26
29	Josephine	81	↓5	29
30	Elsie	80	↑18	41
31	Ethel	80	–	15
32	Agnes	77	↑2	39
33	Doris	74	↑9	56
34	Louise	74	↑2	19
35	Leona	73	↑4	76
36	Martha	73	↓11	28
37	Viola	73	↓9	47
38	Catherine	72	↓5	20
39	Thelma	72	↓12	27
40	Bernice	69	↓5	51
41	Edith	68	↓4	31
42	Ann	63	new	53
43	Vera	62	↑7	67
44	Katherine	60	↑2	55
45	Marguerite	60	↓5	87
46	Marjorie	60	new	59
47	Julia	59	new	44
48	Marian	59	new	>100
49	Mabel	58	↓8	43
50	Eva	56	↓7	46

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	John	230	–	1
2	William	171	–	2
3	Robert	136	↑2	5
4	George	122	↓1	4
5	Charles	109	↑3	7
6	Joseph	107	↑3	6
7	Edward	103	↓1	9
8	Harold	100	↑2	16
9	Frank	94	↓2	8
10	James	88	↓6	3
11	Walter	74	↑2	12
12	Donald	64	↑4	36
13	Harry	64	↓2	13
14	Arthur	61	↑6	18
15	Raymond	53	↓3	19
16	Fred	46	↑12	22
17	Albert	45	↑1	15
18	Clarence	45	↓4	23
19	Henry	45	↑2	11
20	Kenneth	44	↓5	40
21	Carl	43	↓2	26
22	Richard	40	↑5	20
23	Howard	38	↑3	28
24	Paul	38	↑5	17
25	Lawrence	37	↑6	37
26	Leonard	36	↓1	46
27	Stanley	36	↓5	44
28	Thomas	36	↓5	10
29	Jack	33	↑4	25
30	Louis	31	↑2	21
31	Russell	31	↑3	55
32	David	30	↑10	27
33	Gerald	29	↑13	88
34	Ralph	29	↓17	24
35	Norman	28	–	63
36	Roy	28	↓6	31
37	Theodore	28	new	56
38	Ernest	27	–	32
39	Bernard	26	↑1	54
40	Edwin	25	↑3	60
41	Leo	25	–	51
42	Elmer	24	↑2	48
43	Peter	24	↑4	50
44	Andrew	23	new	42
45	Earl	22	↓21	34
46	Alfred	21	↓10	39
47	Francis	21	↓2	33
48	Eugene	19	new	43
49	Joe	19	new	29
50	Anthony	18	↓1	35

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