Popular baby names in Michigan, 1926

The most popular baby names in Michigan in 1926 were Mary for girls (2,114 babies) and Robert for boys (3,223). Social Security records list 81,876 babies born in Michigan in 1926 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Michigan in 1926

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

Girls

Delphine: 50 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Ardith: 23 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Ilene: 49 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Donna: 365 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Joyce: 487 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Jacquelyn: 32 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Shirley: 990 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Arlene: 203 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Genevieve: 160 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Eleanore: 49 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Clare: 34 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Lavern: 30 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Thaddeus: 27 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Ward: 25 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Duane: 106 babies, 3× the national rate
Gordon: 248 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Rolland: 22 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Bruce: 132 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Mitchell: 30 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Lyle: 91 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Michigan, 1926

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Mary	2,114	–	1
2	Betty	1,656	–	3
3	Dorothy	1,395	–	2
4	Helen	1,085	–	4
5	Margaret	1,012	↑1	5
6	Shirley	990	↑1	14
7	Virginia	899	↓2	8
8	Ruth	784	–	6
9	Barbara	726	↑2	16
10	Doris	635	↓1	7
11	Patricia	618	↑1	23
12	Jean	609	↓2	12
13	Irene	489	↑1	21
14	Joyce	487	↑13	44
15	Evelyn	483	–	13
16	Lois	481	↑5	19
17	Phyllis	472	↑2	33
18	Marjorie	471	↑2	22
19	Elizabeth	456	↓6	11
20	Alice	444	↓4	17
21	Frances	401	↓4	10
22	Eleanor	390	↑2	32
23	Lillian	369	↑8	28
24	Mildred	366	↓2	9
25	Donna	365	↑4	90
26	Gloria	361	–	20
27	Marie	351	↓4	18
28	Florence	349	↓3	26
29	Dolores	347	↑8	49
30	June	342	↓12	40
31	Marion	334	↓1	47
32	Rose	318	↑3	25
33	Geraldine	314	↓5	54
34	Anna	312	↓2	15
35	Norma	298	↑4	29
36	Elaine	282	↓2	68
37	Marilyn	277	↑11	65
38	Lorraine	271	↑3	53
39	Beverly	264	new	74
40	Marian	260	↓7	70
41	Joan	252	new	51
42	Catherine	237	↑1	31
43	Josephine	234	↓1	37
44	Maxine	233	↓8	85
45	Lucille	226	↓7	43
46	Louise	218	new	27
47	Bernice	206	↓7	45
48	Arlene	203	new	>100
49	Grace	203	↓3	46
50	Pauline	203	new	39

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Robert	3,223	–	1
2	John	1,995	–	2
3	William	1,942	–	4
4	Richard	1,593	↑1	7
5	James	1,499	↓1	3
6	Donald	1,497	–	9
7	George	991	–	6
8	Charles	979	–	5
9	Edward	896	–	10
10	Joseph	801	–	8
11	Harold	688	–	14
12	Jack	679	–	16
13	Raymond	599	–	15
14	Thomas	581	↑2	11
15	Kenneth	554	–	18
16	Frank	536	↓2	12
17	Arthur	511	–	20
18	Walter	497	–	17
19	Eugene	441	↑3	23
20	Gerald	413	↑1	41
21	Paul	383	↓2	13
22	Henry	353	↓2	19
23	Harry	352	–	25
24	Albert	320	↑2	21
25	David	319	↑11	22
26	Howard	312	↑8	27
27	Carl	307	↓3	26
28	Leonard	307	↑1	38
29	Ralph	307	↓4	24
30	Norman	283	↑2	39
31	Lawrence	282	↓1	36
32	Earl	279	↓1	32
33	Stanley	278	↓6	43
34	Louis	260	↓6	30
35	Gordon	248	↑7	76
36	Russell	247	↑2	52
37	Clarence	246	↓2	29
38	Fred	246	↑7	31
39	Bernard	238	↓6	49
40	Roy	210	↓3	34
41	Frederick	209	↑3	64
42	Ernest	204	↑1	37
43	Leo	204	↓4	54
44	Alfred	200	↑4	45
45	Francis	188	↓5	35
46	Marvin	187	↑1	50
47	Theodore	180	new	63
48	Herbert	176	↑2	44
49	Anthony	172	new	42
50	Ronald	170	new	88

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