Popular baby names in Missouri, 1912

The most popular baby names in Missouri in 1912 were Mary for girls (834 babies) and William for boys (617). William ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 26,405 babies born in Missouri in 1912 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Missouri in 1912

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

Girls

Nadine: 28 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Melba: 25 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Lora: 27 babies, 4× the national rate
Iona: 15 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Berniece: 19 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Opal: 148 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Vesta: 16 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Fern: 57 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Maurine: 15 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Willa: 16 babies, 3.3× the national rate

Boys

Charley: 28 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Lowell: 19 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Orville: 37 babies, 3× the national rate
Emmett: 22 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Loren: 15 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Delbert: 24 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Erwin: 15 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Virgil: 46 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Don: 22 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Forrest: 20 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Missouri, 1912

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	Mary	834	–	1
2	Helen	523	–	2
3	Dorothy	464	–	3
4	Ruth	392	↑2	5
5	Mildred	345	↓1	6
6	Margaret	316	↓1	4
7	Virginia	263	↑1	20
8	Marie	256	↓1	10
9	Anna	210	–	7
10	Frances	207	↑6	9
11	Thelma	191	↑4	26
12	Ruby	188	↑1	23
13	Edna	187	↓1	16
14	Elizabeth	169	↑5	8
15	Hazel	169	↑2	25
16	Lucille	163	↑4	32
17	Gladys	159	↓6	19
18	Grace	154	↑9	24
19	Irene	152	↑2	22
20	Opal	148	↓10	85
21	Florence	144	↑3	12
22	Ethel	139	↓8	18
23	Alice	132	↓1	11
24	Edith	131	↑1	31
25	Martha	125	↑4	29
26	Esther	120	↑11	33
27	Evelyn	120	↑7	13
28	Louise	120	↓5	17
29	Clara	117	↑12	34
30	Lillian	115	↓12	14
31	Catherine	112	↑1	21
32	Mabel	109	↓4	46
33	Gertrude	105	new	30
34	Bernice	103	↑5	51
35	Rose	103	↓2	15
36	Emma	101	↑6	35
37	Myrtle	99	↓6	50
38	Pauline	97	↓12	38
39	Bertha	94	↓9	36
40	Eva	93	↑9	49
41	Wilma	90	↑4	99
42	Elsie	89	↑4	42
43	Josephine	89	new	28
44	Alma	88	↓6	62
45	Bessie	87	↓9	43
46	Nellie	86	↓11	59
47	Beulah	85	↓7	80
48	Ida	83	–	45
49	Agnes	82	↑1	40
50	Viola	79	↓6	52

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	William	617	–	2
2	John	606	–	1
3	James	484	–	3
4	Charles	377	–	7
5	Robert	351	↑1	4
6	George	310	↓1	6
7	Joseph	241	↑1	5
8	Edward	236	↑1	8
9	Frank	204	↑4	9
10	Harold	203	↓3	13
11	Raymond	179	–	18
12	Paul	164	–	14
13	Walter	154	↑2	11
14	Clarence	146	↑4	21
15	Henry	146	↑6	12
16	Thomas	146	↓6	10
17	Ralph	143	↑3	23
18	Albert	142	↑5	17
19	Carl	140	–	24
20	Harry	140	↓6	16
21	Richard	127	↑1	19
22	Roy	127	↓6	31
23	Earl	121	↓6	34
24	Lawrence	118	–	38
25	Arthur	105	–	15
26	Jack	99	↑4	28
27	Howard	97	↑4	25
28	Elmer	96	↓1	47
29	Herbert	96	–	39
30	Louis	96	↑2	20
31	Eugene	89	↑2	41
32	Fred	85	↓4	26
33	Kenneth	82	↑3	33
34	Donald	76	new	27
35	Woodrow	75	new	46
36	Clyde	69	↓10	65
37	Joe	68	↑9	36
38	Ernest	67	↓4	32
39	Leonard	67	↓4	45
40	Herman	65	↑10	50
41	Russell	63	new	56
42	Cecil	62	new	76
43	Alfred	61	new	40
44	David	61	↓5	29
45	Francis	61	↓4	35
46	Floyd	56	↓6	59
47	Chester	55	↓9	55
48	Leo	54	new	49
49	Norman	52	new	61
50	Lester	51	↓13	58

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