Popular baby names in North Dakota, 1925

The most popular baby names in North Dakota in 1925 were Dorothy for girls (217 babies) and Robert for boys (336). Dorothy ranked #2 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 12,317 babies born in North Dakota in 1925 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in North Dakota in 1925

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: 20 babies, 21.3× the national rate
Ione: 17 babies, 14.1× the national rate
Deloris: 23 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Adeline: 39 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Mavis: 22 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Luella: 28 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Delores: 54 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Fern: 30 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Clarice: 17 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Lorraine: 101 babies, 4× the national rate

Boys

Anton: 21 babies, 20.8× the national rate
Reuben: 21 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Duane: 51 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Ervin: 35 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Lyle: 45 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Adam: 18 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Gordon: 85 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Wilbert: 25 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Orville: 26 babies, 5× the national rate
Lowell: 19 babies, 4.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in North Dakota, 1925

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Dorothy	217	↑1	2
2	Mary	214	↓1	1
3	Helen	175	–	4
4	Betty	151	–	3
5	Doris	127	↑2	8
6	Ruth	126	–	6
7	Margaret	124	↓2	5
8	Irene	110	↑1	19
9	Lorraine	101	↑3	51
10	Alice	97	↓2	15
11	Evelyn	97	↓1	12
12	Esther	94	↓1	56
13	Lois	86	↑2	18
14	Marjorie	80	↑10	21
15	Joyce	79	↑12	59
16	Mildred	71	↑6	9
17	Jean	70	↑2	14
18	Frances	68	↓5	11
19	Shirley	68	↑12	17
20	Florence	66	↓3	24
21	Gladys	66	↑8	33
22	Elaine	60	↑10	73
23	Anna	59	↑3	13
24	Phyllis	59	↓10	40
25	Viola	58	↑10	84
26	June	57	↑24	39
27	Edna	56	↓6	37
28	Marie	56	↑6	16
29	Violet	56	↓1	92
30	Delores	54	↑17	>100
31	Rose	54	↓6	26
32	Elizabeth	53	↓14	10
33	Lillian	52	↓13	25
34	Marion	52	↓4	47
35	Lucille	51	↓2	41
36	Virginia	50	↓13	7
37	Bernice	48	↑8	46
38	Patricia	48	↑10	28
39	Donna	47	↓2	>100
40	Marian	47	↓2	67
41	Eleanor	45	↓25	31
42	Beverly	44	new	>100
43	Elsie	44	↑6	63
44	Dolores	43	↓2	64
45	Edith	42	new	42
46	Leona	40	–	>100
47	Norma	40	↓6	34
48	Adeline	39	new	>100
49	Hazel	39	↓6	45
50	Vivian	39	↓14	76

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Robert	336	–	1
2	John	253	–	2
3	Donald	218	–	10
4	James	185	–	4
5	William	173	–	3
6	George	137	↑1	6
7	Kenneth	128	↑3	19
8	Harold	120	↓2	14
9	Richard	120	–	8
10	Raymond	119	↓2	15
11	Walter	96	↑3	16
12	Charles	92	–	5
13	Gordon	85	↑10	72
14	Edward	82	↓3	9
15	Joseph	79	↓2	7
16	Leo	75	↑11	54
17	Eugene	74	↑12	24
18	Marvin	65	↑7	51
19	Howard	63	↑15	26
20	Clarence	62	↑10	30
21	Lloyd	62	↑3	62
22	Roy	61	↑13	32
23	Paul	59	↓2	13
24	Elmer	57	↑14	61
25	Clifford	56	↑1	59
26	Arthur	55	↓11	20
27	Vernon	55	↓11	67
28	Duane	51	new	>100
29	Leonard	51	↑2	38
30	Peter	51	↑2	60
31	Earl	50	↑5	31
32	Frank	48	↓15	12
33	Edwin	47	↓5	57
34	Leroy	47	↑15	52
35	Arnold	46	↓17	95
36	Melvin	46	new	50
37	Alvin	45	↓18	70
38	Lawrence	45	↓1	36
39	Lyle	45	new	>100
40	Ernest	44	↓1	37
41	Norman	44	↑1	41
42	Gerald	43	↑4	45
43	Ralph	43	↓23	25
44	Albert	42	↓22	21
45	Carl	41	↑3	28
46	Henry	41	↓13	18
47	Stanley	40	new	40
48	Wallace	40	↓5	92
49	Thomas	39	new	11
50	Calvin	38	↓3	47

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