Popular baby names in Michigan, 1913

The most popular baby names in Michigan in 1913 were Mary for girls (744 babies) and John for boys (704). Social Security records list 27,469 babies born in Michigan in 1913 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Michigan in 1913

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: 34 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Leone: 17 babies, 4× the national rate
Eleanore: 31 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Lenore: 18 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Angeline: 39 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Leota: 16 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Marian: 108 babies, 3× the national rate
June: 54 babies, 3× the national rate
Bernadine: 15 babies, 3× the national rate
Luella: 38 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Boys

Lyle: 28 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Clayton: 31 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Clair: 15 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Gerald: 79 babies, 3× the national rate
Ronald: 27 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Wilfred: 24 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Donald: 216 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Gordon: 58 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Cornelius: 16 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Leo: 105 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Michigan, 1913

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	Mary	744	–	1
2	Helen	674	–	2
3	Dorothy	520	–	3
4	Margaret	485	–	4
5	Ruth	382	–	5
6	Mildred	289	–	6
7	Marie	263	↑2	10
8	Evelyn	260	↑6	12
9	Florence	250	↑1	13
10	Irene	249	↓3	21
11	Elizabeth	242	↓3	8
12	Frances	230	↑1	9
13	Anna	221	↓2	7
14	Alice	216	↓2	11
15	Eleanor	204	↑8	34
16	Virginia	203	↑4	15
17	Gertrude	181	↓1	33
18	Esther	171	↓1	32
19	Lillian	170	↓4	16
20	Edna	164	↓2	18
21	Rose	159	↑4	14
22	Bernice	152	↑5	45
23	Marion	151	↑7	51
24	Lucille	150	↑8	31
25	Gladys	146	↓6	19
26	Catherine	144	↑3	22
27	Josephine	144	↑8	24
28	Doris	143	↓2	44
29	Grace	142	↓8	25
30	Ethel	132	↑3	20
31	Thelma	131	↑3	26
32	Beatrice	129	↓8	37
33	Clara	122	↑3	36
34	Martha	122	↓6	28
35	Marjorie	120	↑4	48
36	Edith	119	↑8	29
37	Elsie	110	↑12	40
38	Ann	109	↑3	46
39	Genevieve	108	↓1	84
40	Leona	108	–	74
41	Louise	108	↓4	17
42	Marian	108	↑1	93
43	Jean	107	↑2	60
44	Hazel	106	↓22	27
45	Katherine	99	↑5	54
46	Viola	94	–	52
47	Violet	94	new	82
48	Eva	92	↓6	50
49	Pauline	92	new	35
50	Agnes	83	↓19	41

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	John	704	–	1
2	William	515	–	2
3	Robert	399	–	4
4	George	374	↑1	6
5	Joseph	359	↑1	5
6	James	307	↑4	3
7	Charles	303	↓3	7
8	Edward	288	↓1	8
9	Harold	258	–	13
10	Frank	230	↓2	9
11	Donald	216	–	25
12	Walter	212	–	11
13	Arthur	181	–	17
14	Richard	175	↑2	19
15	Albert	156	↓1	16
16	Harry	155	↑2	15
17	Henry	151	–	12
18	Raymond	146	↓3	18
19	Kenneth	145	–	33
20	Carl	135	–	23
21	Clarence	127	–	21
22	Stanley	123	↑5	41
23	Louis	121	↑2	20
24	Paul	117	↓1	14
25	Howard	116	↓1	26
26	Thomas	106	↑3	10
27	Leo	105	↑8	48
28	Jack	103	↑2	28
29	Ralph	101	↓7	22
30	Lawrence	100	↓2	35
31	Elmer	97	↑7	45
32	Francis	96	↓1	30
33	Fred	94	–	27
34	Earl	92	↓8	31
35	Leonard	89	↑2	46
36	Ernest	88	–	34
37	Edwin	87	↑13	55
38	Frederick	84	↓4	49
39	Russell	81	↓7	50
40	Gerald	79	↑6	84
41	Norman	79	–	57
42	Bernard	72	↑5	52
43	Peter	71	↓4	51
44	Chester	66	↑4	56
45	Floyd	65	new	58
46	Herbert	65	new	39
47	Alfred	64	↓2	42
48	Roy	64	↓6	32
49	Anthony	62	↓6	38
50	Clifford	60	↓6	68

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