Popular baby names in Michigan, 1915

The most popular baby names in Michigan in 1915 were Mary for girls (1,447 babies) and John for boys (1,368). Social Security records list 52,000 babies born in Michigan in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Michigan in 1915

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

Girls

Ardis: 27 babies, 8× the national rate
Marvel: 19 babies, 5× the national rate
Donna: 65 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Crystal: 17 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Bernadine: 38 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Ethelyn: 16 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Rhea: 18 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Eleanore: 54 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Genevieve: 231 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Marian: 208 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Boys

Clare: 29 babies, 13.2× the national rate
Reino: 18 babies, 12.9× the national rate
Arne: 16 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Eino: 17 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Ford: 24 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Duane: 23 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Maxwell: 20 babies, 4× the national rate
Rolland: 16 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Vern: 23 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Stuart: 25 babies, 3.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Michigan, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	1,447	–	1
2	Helen	1,288	–	2
3	Dorothy	1,051	–	3
4	Margaret	845	–	4
5	Ruth	689	–	5
6	Virginia	444	↑7	12
7	Evelyn	433	↑8	10
8	Irene	427	↑2	17
9	Mildred	419	↓2	6
10	Marie	416	↑1	11
11	Frances	411	↓3	9
12	Elizabeth	398	↓6	8
13	Alice	376	↓1	13
14	Anna	349	↑2	7
15	Florence	332	↓6	14
16	Eleanor	318	↓2	28
17	Lillian	312	↑1	15
18	Lucille	295	↑10	29
19	Doris	292	↑1	34
20	Rose	279	↓1	16
21	Esther	264	↑3	33
22	Gertrude	264	↓5	35
23	Grace	255	–	27
24	Josephine	247	↑1	22
25	Marion	247	↓4	50
26	Jean	241	↑7	48
27	Genevieve	231	↑12	76
28	Marjorie	223	↑1	39
29	Edna	220	↑1	20
30	Ann	218	↑2	43
31	Catherine	217	↓4	19
32	Bernice	209	↓10	42
33	Marian	208	↑9	86
34	Beatrice	199	↓3	37
35	Gladys	191	↓1	21
36	Elsie	183	↑13	41
37	Hazel	182	↑4	26
38	Leona	182	↓1	74
39	Stella	178	↑1	64
40	Martha	175	↓5	25
41	Clara	173	↓15	38
42	Ethel	173	↑1	23
43	Edith	170	↑2	31
44	Louise	167	↓6	18
45	Katherine	165	new	49
46	Agnes	164	↓2	45
47	Thelma	162	↓11	30
48	Betty	161	new	53
49	Julia	154	↓3	44
50	Pauline	149	↓2	32

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	John	1,368	–	1
2	William	1,072	–	2
3	Robert	989	–	4
4	Joseph	684	↑2	5
5	Edward	680	–	8
6	George	669	↓2	6
7	James	590	↑1	3
8	Charles	584	↓1	7
9	Frank	469	↑1	9
10	Harold	458	↓1	12
11	Donald	445	–	20
12	Walter	427	–	11
13	Richard	342	↑3	15
14	Henry	340	↑1	14
15	Arthur	332	↓1	18
16	Raymond	318	↓3	16
17	Stanley	312	↑4	34
18	Albert	305	↑1	17
19	Kenneth	298	↑4	28
20	Harry	282	↓3	19
21	Carl	270	↓1	22
22	Paul	257	↓4	13
23	Clarence	240	↑2	24
24	Thomas	235	↓2	10
25	Louis	225	↑1	23
26	Howard	223	↓2	25
27	Jack	217	↑1	27
28	Leonard	198	↑4	44
29	Francis	197	↑11	29
30	Ralph	190	↓1	21
31	Russell	179	↑4	51
32	Lawrence	178	↓2	37
33	Bernard	175	↑14	48
34	Leo	174	↓3	47
35	Earl	167	↓8	33
36	Ernest	158	↑10	35
37	Frederick	158	↓4	52
38	Norman	154	↑1	50
39	Fred	153	↑2	26
40	Alfred	150	↑8	42
41	Gerald	143	↑4	78
42	Anthony	141	↓8	36
43	Chester	141	–	54
44	Floyd	135	↑5	59
45	Elmer	133	↓7	45
46	Roy	127	↓9	32
47	Peter	124	↓11	49
48	Edwin	121	↓6	53
49	Gordon	116	new	90
50	Joe	107	new	38

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