Popular baby names in Ohio, 1912

The most popular baby names in Ohio in 1912 were Mary for girls (1,868 babies) and John for boys (1,111). Social Security records list 40,949 babies born in Ohio in 1912 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Ohio in 1912

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: 24 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Glenna: 15 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Leota: 22 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Marcella: 67 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Donna: 28 babies, 3× the national rate
Rosemary: 35 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Annabelle: 23 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Freda: 58 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Rosella: 19 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Angela: 40 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Boys

Emerson: 24 babies, 4× the national rate
Dwight: 29 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Ellsworth: 18 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Clair: 15 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Wilbur: 86 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Dale: 38 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Nelson: 35 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Lowell: 23 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Karl: 31 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Steve: 51 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Ohio, 1912

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	Mary	1,868	–	1
2	Helen	1,108	–	2
3	Ruth	835	↑1	5
4	Dorothy	807	↓1	3
5	Margaret	737	–	4
6	Mildred	544	–	6
7	Elizabeth	460	↑1	8
8	Anna	377	↓1	7
9	Florence	343	–	12
10	Marie	333	–	10
11	Evelyn	314	↑2	13
12	Virginia	307	↑5	20
13	Frances	301	↓2	9
14	Alice	299	↓2	11
15	Thelma	263	↓1	26
16	Martha	262	–	29
17	Edna	257	↓2	16
18	Catherine	251	↑4	21
19	Lillian	230	↑4	14
20	Irene	220	↑4	22
21	Rose	216	↓2	15
22	Lucille	215	↑5	32
23	Ethel	211	↓2	18
24	Hazel	207	↓6	25
25	Gladys	203	↓5	19
26	Esther	200	↓1	33
27	Edith	195	↑1	31
28	Eleanor	194	↑12	39
29	Gertrude	189	↑1	30
30	Grace	189	↓4	24
31	Louise	180	↑3	17
32	Clara	179	↑4	34
33	Marjorie	177	↓4	56
34	Kathryn	171	↓2	71
35	Josephine	169	↓2	28
36	Ann	164	↑3	47
37	Pauline	161	↓6	38
38	Emma	148	↑4	35
39	Bertha	146	↑2	36
40	Katherine	141	↑9	53
41	Mabel	141	↓3	46
42	Betty	139	new	66
43	Doris	125	–	48
44	Elsie	120	↓9	42
45	Julia	118	↓1	44
46	Beatrice	115	↓1	37
47	Jane	115	new	89
48	Bernice	113	↓11	51
49	Anne	111	new	58
50	Agnes	109	↓4	40

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	John	1,111	–	1
2	Robert	931	↑1	4
3	William	865	↓1	2
4	Charles	658	–	7
5	James	616	↑1	3
6	Joseph	535	↑1	5
7	George	506	↓2	6
8	Paul	426	↑2	14
9	Frank	379	–	9
10	Harold	362	↑1	13
11	Edward	361	↓3	8
12	Harry	289	↑1	16
13	Walter	281	↓1	11
14	Raymond	274	↑1	18
15	Ralph	272	↓1	23
16	Carl	265	↑1	24
17	Richard	264	↑1	19
18	Donald	252	↓2	27
19	Howard	249	↑3	25
20	Thomas	214	–	10
21	Albert	213	↓2	17
22	Arthur	210	↑1	15
23	Kenneth	209	↑3	33
24	Clarence	190	↓3	21
25	Louis	174	↓1	20
26	Earl	152	↑2	34
27	Lawrence	151	↑2	38
28	Henry	132	↓3	12
29	Fred	130	↓2	26
30	David	127	↑7	29
31	Russell	118	↑4	56
32	Anthony	114	↓2	37
33	Elmer	113	↓1	47
34	Herbert	113	↓1	39
35	Jack	113	↓4	28
36	Roy	103	↑10	31
37	Stanley	103	↑7	43
38	Eugene	102	↑3	41
39	Francis	101	–	35
40	Michael	98	–	42
41	Edwin	97	↑7	54
42	Chester	94	new	55
43	Floyd	93	new	59
44	Andrew	90	↓8	44
45	Leonard	89	↑4	45
46	Wilbur	86	↑1	92
47	Ernest	84	↓13	32
48	Lester	84	↓3	58
49	Norman	84	↓7	61
50	Frederick	83	new	51

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