Popular baby names in Ohio, 1911

The most popular baby names in Ohio in 1911 were Mary for girls (1,277 babies) and John for boys (500). Social Security records list 24,593 babies born in Ohio in 1911 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Ohio in 1911

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: 26 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Marcella: 50 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Angela: 36 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Rosemary: 20 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Bernadine: 15 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Eleanore: 19 babies, 3× the national rate
Donna: 18 babies, 3× the national rate
Luella: 37 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Loretta: 74 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Norma: 53 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Boys

Mike: 30 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Steve: 28 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Wilbur: 40 babies, 3× the national rate
Wayne: 29 babies, 3× the national rate
Donald: 109 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Paul: 174 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Willard: 24 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Dan: 15 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Ohio, 1911

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	Mary	1,277	–	1
2	Helen	810	–	2
3	Dorothy	592	–	4
4	Ruth	573	–	5
5	Margaret	510	–	3
6	Mildred	404	–	8
7	Anna	330	–	6
8	Elizabeth	311	↑1	7
9	Florence	249	↓1	12
10	Marie	243	–	9
11	Frances	227	–	10
12	Alice	224	↑3	11
13	Evelyn	213	↑3	16
14	Thelma	206	↓1	27
15	Edna	201	↓1	17
16	Martha	198	↑4	28
17	Virginia	194	↓5	26
18	Hazel	191	↑1	25
19	Rose	191	↑3	14
20	Gladys	185	↓2	18
21	Ethel	170	↓4	15
22	Catherine	167	↓1	20
23	Lillian	164	↑1	13
24	Irene	153	↑5	21
25	Esther	150	–	34
26	Grace	150	↓3	23
27	Lucille	149	↑4	32
28	Edith	147	↓1	31
29	Marjorie	136	↑18	59
30	Gertrude	133	↓2	30
31	Pauline	132	↑3	38
32	Kathryn	131	↑4	73
33	Josephine	125	↓1	29
34	Louise	125	↓4	19
35	Elsie	122	↑2	41
36	Clara	120	↓10	33
37	Bernice	118	↑11	51
38	Mabel	118	↓3	43
39	Ann	113	↓1	53
40	Eleanor	110	↓7	49
41	Bertha	107	–	36
42	Emma	107	↓2	35
43	Doris	96	↓4	56
44	Julia	86	↑2	44
45	Beatrice	83	↓2	37
46	Agnes	80	↑4	39
47	Sarah	78	↑2	42
48	Jean	77	new	74
49	Katherine	77	↓7	55
50	Nellie	76	↓6	54

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	John	500	–	1
2	William	408	–	2
3	Robert	339	↑1	5
4	Charles	307	↑1	7
5	George	265	↑1	4
6	James	255	↓3	3
7	Joseph	252	–	6
8	Edward	202	↑1	9
9	Frank	187	↓1	8
10	Paul	174	–	17
11	Harold	164	–	16
12	Walter	152	↑2	12
13	Harry	132	–	13
14	Ralph	114	↑7	24
15	Raymond	113	↓3	19
16	Donald	109	↑7	36
17	Carl	104	↓2	26
18	Richard	104	↓2	20
19	Albert	100	↑1	15
20	Thomas	92	↓3	10
21	Clarence	90	↓2	23
22	Howard	89	↓4	28
23	Arthur	88	↓1	18
24	Louis	73	↑5	21
25	Henry	72	↓1	11
26	Kenneth	72	↑2	40
27	Fred	66	–	22
28	Earl	61	↓3	34
29	Lawrence	61	↓3	37
30	Anthony	60	↑5	35
31	Jack	56	↑3	25
32	Elmer	55	↑1	48
33	Herbert	54	↑12	41
34	Ernest	51	new	32
35	Russell	50	↓3	55
36	Andrew	48	↑13	42
37	David	47	↓6	27
38	Clifford	46	new	62
39	Francis	46	↑2	33
40	Michael	46	↓3	38
41	Eugene	45	↓2	43
42	Norman	44	new	63
43	Samuel	43	↑3	30
44	Stanley	42	↓6	44
45	Lester	41	↑2	65
46	Roy	40	↓16	31
47	Wilbur	40	new	>100
48	Edwin	39	new	60
49	Leonard	38	↓9	46
50	Herman	37	↓14	49

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