Popular baby names in North Dakota, 1921

The most popular baby names in North Dakota in 1921 were Mary for girls (241 babies) and John for boys (295). Social Security records list 13,941 babies born in North Dakota in 1921 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in North Dakota in 1921

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

Alvina: 21 babies, 14.5× the national rate
Ione: 27 babies, 13.6× the national rate
Monica: 15 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Erna: 15 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Avis: 15 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Luella: 31 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Adeline: 42 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Delores: 26 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Fern: 37 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Lila: 24 babies, 4.5× the national rate

Boys

Anton: 30 babies, 19.1× the national rate
Reuben: 26 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Lynn: 18 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Ervin: 40 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Lyle: 42 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Duane: 22 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Orville: 39 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Gordon: 70 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Otto: 19 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Vernon: 78 babies, 4.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in North Dakota, 1921

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	241	↑1	1
2	Dorothy	223	↑1	2
3	Margaret	207	↑1	4
4	Helen	206	↓3	3
5	Ruth	188	–	5
6	Doris	168	↑5	13
7	Evelyn	144	↓1	12
8	Irene	143	↓1	18
9	Esther	116	↓1	42
10	Mildred	114	↑3	7
11	Alice	101	↓2	15
12	Frances	99	↑4	9
13	Lorraine	98	↑9	61
14	Lillian	97	↑3	19
15	Marjorie	97	↑3	16
16	Florence	95	↓4	17
17	Elizabeth	94	↑2	10
18	Gladys	90	↓8	24
19	Lois	77	↑8	38
20	Eleanor	74	↑10	29
21	Jean	73	↑10	25
22	Rose	72	↑7	20
23	Edna	71	↓8	27
24	Betty	70	↑17	8
25	Phyllis	70	new	60
26	Agnes	68	↓12	56
27	Viola	67	↓6	66
28	Lucille	64	↓4	31
29	Anna	62	↓9	11
30	Martha	62	↑4	21
31	Marie	59	↓5	14
32	Hazel	58	–	34
33	Pearl	58	new	65
34	Bernice	57	↓6	39
35	Vivian	55	↑3	68
36	Clara	53	↓11	45
37	Elsie	53	↓2	55
38	Marion	53	new	43
39	Virginia	53	↓2	6
40	Violet	52	↓7	81
41	Ethel	51	↓18	32
42	Emma	50	↓2	52
43	Norma	48	new	51
44	June	46	↓2	50
45	Kathryn	46	↓1	64
46	Marian	45	↓10	69
47	Elaine	44	new	97
48	Grace	44	↓9	35
49	Bertha	43	new	59
50	Joyce	43	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	John	295	–	1
2	Robert	276	–	2
3	William	190	–	3
4	Donald	168	↑2	13
5	James	154	↓1	4
6	George	139	↓1	6
7	Harold	137	–	12
8	Raymond	121	–	16
9	Arthur	114	–	19
10	Kenneth	114	↑4	22
11	Joseph	110	↑2	7
12	Richard	104	–	10
13	Walter	102	↓2	15
14	Charles	100	↓4	5
15	Edward	83	–	8
16	Vernon	78	↑18	68
17	Frank	74	↑8	9
18	Ralph	74	↑12	23
19	Warren	73	↑31	24
20	Lawrence	72	↓1	37
21	Gordon	70	↑15	84
22	Leo	70	↑18	50
23	Paul	69	↓1	14
24	Roy	66	↓3	32
25	Albert	65	↓5	20
26	Howard	65	↑5	27
27	Earl	64	↓1	31
28	Lloyd	64	↓10	58
29	Clarence	63	↓13	28
30	Marvin	62	↑7	59
31	Edwin	58	↓7	54
32	Elmer	58	↓4	48
33	Harry	58	↑9	21
34	Eugene	55	↑7	26
35	Clifford	54	↓2	62
36	Herbert	54	↓9	42
37	Henry	53	↓20	17
38	Ernest	52	↓9	38
39	Leonard	52	↓7	39
40	Melvin	52	↓2	53
41	Norman	51	↓6	46
42	Peter	49	↑1	57
43	Arnold	48	↓20	91
44	Alvin	47	↓5	73
45	Carl	45	↓1	30
46	Thomas	44	↑2	11
47	Russell	43	new	52
48	Lyle	42	new	>100
49	Ervin	40	new	>100
50	Glenn	40	new	80

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