Popular baby names in North Dakota, 1911

The most popular baby names in North Dakota in 1911 were Mary for girls (96 babies) and John for boys (45). Social Security records list 3,086 babies born in North Dakota in 1911 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in North Dakota in 1911

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

Girls

Olga: 19 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Adeline: 15 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Lydia: 19 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Myrtle: 38 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Alma: 28 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Esther: 44 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Agnes: 38 babies, 3× the national rate
Hilda: 15 babies, 3× the national rate
Ella: 25 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Emma: 39 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Boys

Theodore: 18 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Donald: 16 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Harold: 28 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Clarence: 17 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Walter: 25 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Raymond: 17 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in North Dakota, 1911

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	Mary	96	–	1
2	Margaret	72	↑1	3
3	Helen	71	↑1	2
4	Ruth	61	↑6	5
5	Alice	58	↓3	11
6	Anna	48	↓1	6
7	Esther	44	↑11	34
8	Gladys	43	↓1	18
9	Irene	42	↑13	21
10	Elizabeth	40	↑5	7
11	Dorothy	39	↑2	4
12	Edna	39	↑12	17
13	Emma	39	↑4	35
14	Agnes	38	↓2	39
15	Myrtle	38	↓6	50
16	Evelyn	37	↓2	16
17	Bertha	36	↑21	36
18	Mildred	36	↓10	8
19	Lillian	34	↑1	13
20	Frances	33	↓1	10
21	Hazel	33	↑4	25
22	Martha	33	↑6	28
23	Clara	31	↓7	33
24	Mabel	31	↑7	43
25	Florence	30	↓19	12
26	Alma	28	↑6	62
27	Ida	28	↓4	45
28	Elsie	27	↓1	41
29	Ella	25	↓8	63
30	Grace	25	↑3	23
31	Rose	25	↓2	14
32	Bernice	24	new	51
33	Edith	24	new	31
34	Ethel	24	↓23	15
35	Pauline	23	↑8	38
36	Katherine	22	new	55
37	Louise	22	↓7	19
38	Marie	21	↓12	9
39	Thelma	20	↓4	27
40	Doris	19	new	56
41	Lydia	19	↑4	>100
42	Olga	19	↑4	>100
43	Eva	18	new	46
44	Lena	18	↓4	70
45	Lucille	18	↓11	32
46	Pearl	18	↓5	48
47	Gertrude	17	new	30
48	Violet	17	new	83
49	Ann	16	–	53
50	Ruby	16	↓6	22

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	John	45	–	1
2	William	36	–	2
3	George	33	–	4
4	Robert	29	↑4	5
5	Harold	28	↑8	16
6	Edward	26	↑6	9
7	Walter	25	↑3	12
8	Joseph	24	↑1	6
9	Charles	21	↓2	7
10	James	21	↑5	3
11	Theodore	18	↑7	56
12	Arthur	17	↓8	18
13	Clarence	17	↓2	23
14	Raymond	17	↑24	19
15	Donald	16	↑17	36
16	Frank	16	↓11	8
17	Henry	15	↓3	11
18	Carl	14	↑8	26
19	Leonard	14	↑9	46
20	Albert	13	↓14	15
21	Alfred	13	↑4	39
22	Earl	13	↑9	34
23	Elmer	13	↑10	48
24	Fred	13	↓4	22
25	Harry	13	↓2	13
26	Paul	12	↑17	17
27	Arnold	10	new	>100
28	Clifford	10	↓9	62
29	Edwin	10	↓13	60
30	Herbert	10	new	41
31	Peter	10	new	50
32	Roy	10	↓11	31
33	Ernest	9	↓11	32
34	Kenneth	9	↓17	40
35	Lawrence	9	new	37
36	Lloyd	9	↑1	74
37	Philip	9	new	69
38	Richard	9	↑1	20
39	Stanley	9	new	44
40	Andrew	8	↑10	42
41	Norman	8	new	63
42	Thomas	8	↓18	10
43	Alvin	7	↓13	89
44	Anton	7	new	>100
45	Emil	7	↓18	>100
46	Francis	7	↓12	33
47	Gordon	7	new	97
48	Jack	7	↓13	25
49	Lester	7	new	65
50	Melvin	7	↓21	73

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