Popular baby names in Michigan, 1917

The most popular baby names in Michigan in 1917 were Mary for girls (1,774 babies) and John for boys (1,614). Social Security records list 63,520 babies born in Michigan in 1917 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Michigan in 1917

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

Girls

Ilah: 19 babies, 13.7× the national rate
Ardis: 25 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Rhea: 23 babies, 4× the national rate
Donna: 76 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Stephanie: 41 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Eleanore: 72 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Angeline: 86 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Johanna: 32 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Wanda: 138 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Leone: 19 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Boys

Clare: 31 babies, 11.2× the national rate
Eino: 17 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Reino: 16 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Toivo: 15 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Casimer: 19 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Lavern: 22 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Thaddeus: 37 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Aloysius: 25 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Duane: 28 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Rolland: 22 babies, 3.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Michigan, 1917

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Mary	1,774	–	1
2	Helen	1,485	–	2
3	Dorothy	1,214	–	3
4	Margaret	1,012	–	4
5	Ruth	868	–	5
6	Virginia	707	–	10
7	Elizabeth	514	↑3	8
8	Mildred	509	↑1	6
9	Frances	489	↓1	9
10	Evelyn	474	↑2	11
11	Irene	465	↓4	17
12	Marie	455	↑1	12
13	Florence	431	↓2	14
14	Eleanor	402	↑1	26
15	Alice	384	↓1	13
16	Doris	365	↑2	25
17	Anna	361	↓1	7
18	Lillian	355	↓1	15
19	Betty	330	↑17	34
20	Gertrude	329	–	37
21	Jean	323	↑5	40
22	Rose	313	–	16
23	Josephine	310	↓4	21
24	Marion	304	↓1	45
25	Lucille	301	–	29
26	Esther	296	↓2	38
27	Bernice	289	↑1	42
28	Marjorie	283	↓7	36
29	Beatrice	275	↑2	39
30	Genevieve	270	↑2	77
31	Grace	268	↓4	30
32	Ann	256	↑1	44
33	June	248	new	73
34	Marian	242	↓4	74
35	Stella	238	↑7	62
36	Martha	227	↑5	22
37	Gladys	225	↑1	23
38	Catherine	222	↓9	18
39	Louise	222	↑9	19
40	Edith	216	↓3	28
41	Clara	215	↓7	41
42	Edna	215	↓7	20
43	Jane	206	new	55
44	Leona	198	↓1	80
45	Julia	196	↓1	47
46	Hazel	195	↑4	31
47	Pauline	195	new	33
48	Katherine	194	new	49
49	Geraldine	189	new	89
50	Anne	188	↓1	53

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	John	1,614	–	1
2	Robert	1,421	–	4
3	William	1,233	–	2
4	Edward	832	–	8
5	George	791	–	6
6	Joseph	787	–	5
7	Charles	704	–	7
8	James	671	–	3
9	Donald	644	–	20
10	Walter	568	–	11
11	Frank	567	–	9
12	Harold	528	–	12
13	Richard	455	–	14
14	Raymond	452	↑1	16
15	Arthur	426	↓1	17
16	Henry	408	–	15
17	Stanley	336	–	34
18	Harry	335	↑1	19
19	Kenneth	314	↓1	27
20	Paul	309	↑1	13
21	Carl	297	↑1	24
22	Jack	292	↑1	22
23	Albert	287	↓3	18
24	Clarence	261	↑4	25
25	Thomas	256	↑2	10
26	Howard	246	–	26
27	Louis	236	↓2	23
28	Leonard	233	↑2	41
29	Ralph	233	↓5	21
30	Lawrence	231	↑3	36
31	Gerald	224	↓2	69
32	Earl	222	–	32
33	Leo	209	↑2	47
34	Bernard	200	↑6	49
35	Francis	196	↑2	30
36	Roy	195	↑12	33
37	Fred	194	↑6	29
38	Frederick	193	–	51
39	Russell	189	↓8	52
40	Chester	182	↑7	56
41	Peter	172	↑3	50
42	Elmer	170	↓6	45
43	Anthony	168	↓4	38
44	Edwin	167	↓3	55
45	Norman	163	↓11	46
46	Alfred	161	↓4	43
47	David	161	↓1	28
48	Theodore	151	new	63
49	Lloyd	143	new	53
50	Ernest	138	↓5	37

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