Popular baby names in Ohio, 1910

The most popular baby names in Ohio in 1910 were Mary for girls (1,099 babies) and John for boys (431). Social Security records list 21,126 babies born in Ohio in 1910 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Ohio in 1910

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

Girls

Garnet: 17 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Marcella: 41 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Lenore: 18 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Rosella: 16 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Eleanore: 18 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Rosemary: 17 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Freda: 38 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Norma: 46 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Kathryn: 107 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Goldie: 53 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Boys

Donald: 67 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Russell: 48 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Paul: 146 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Wilbur: 22 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Carl: 92 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Warren: 18 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Kenneth: 59 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Mike: 15 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Orville: 15 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Howard: 83 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Ohio, 1910

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	Mary	1,099	1
2	Helen	698	2
3	Dorothy	487	4
4	Ruth	457	5
5	Margaret	452	3
6	Mildred	395	8
7	Anna	290	6
8	Florence	278	12
9	Elizabeth	261	7
10	Marie	242	9
11	Frances	227	11
12	Virginia	203	29
13	Thelma	201	25
14	Edna	188	18
15	Alice	184	10
16	Evelyn	170	17
17	Ethel	169	13
18	Gladys	166	15
19	Hazel	164	24
20	Martha	164	28
21	Catherine	161	22
22	Rose	156	16
23	Grace	150	23
24	Lillian	147	14
25	Esther	144	38
26	Clara	132	32
27	Edith	132	35
28	Gertrude	129	26
29	Irene	128	21
30	Louise	128	20
31	Lucille	128	31
32	Josephine	120	30
33	Eleanor	117	55
34	Pauline	113	42
35	Mabel	108	46
36	Kathryn	107	80
37	Elsie	102	44
38	Ann	100	52
39	Doris	97	64
40	Emma	92	34
41	Bertha	88	33
42	Katherine	87	57
43	Beatrice	86	36
44	Nellie	82	51
45	Betty	81	69
46	Julia	80	49
47	Marjorie	79	68
48	Bernice	74	58
49	Sarah	74	40
50	Agnes	71	41

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	John	431	1
2	William	321	3
3	James	265	2
4	Robert	260	4
5	Charles	235	7
6	George	213	5
7	Joseph	173	6
8	Frank	168	8
9	Edward	155	9
10	Paul	146	15
11	Harold	119	18
12	Raymond	109	19
13	Harry	107	16
14	Walter	100	13
15	Carl	92	26
16	Richard	88	21
17	Thomas	87	12
18	Howard	83	27
19	Clarence	79	20
20	Albert	77	14
21	Ralph	77	28
22	Arthur	70	17
23	Donald	67	44
24	Henry	66	10
25	Earl	65	33
26	Lawrence	64	35
27	Fred	63	22
28	Kenneth	59	43
29	Louis	51	24
30	Roy	51	29
31	David	49	30
32	Russell	48	58
33	Elmer	45	48
34	Jack	40	23
35	Anthony	39	37
36	Herman	39	52
37	Michael	39	45
38	Stanley	39	47
39	Eugene	38	39
40	Leonard	37	46
41	Francis	35	36
42	Ray	33	68
43	Theodore	32	54
44	Chester	30	61
45	Herbert	29	41
46	Samuel	29	32
47	Lester	28	64
48	Peter	28	56
49	Andrew	27	42
50	Alfred	26	38

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