Popular baby names in Ohio, 1914

The most popular baby names in Ohio in 1914 were Mary for girls (2,731 babies) and John for boys (1,848). Social Security records list 61,311 babies born in Ohio in 1914 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Ohio in 1914

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: 42 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Treva: 19 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Glenna: 28 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Donna: 52 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Rosemary: 72 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Kathryn: 297 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Annabelle: 33 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Leota: 26 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Janice: 22 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Catharine: 20 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Andy: 33 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Dwight: 40 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Rolland: 15 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Steve: 129 babies, 3× the national rate
Mike: 95 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Forest: 27 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Karl: 62 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Sanford: 15 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Don: 57 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Dale: 71 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Ohio, 1914

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	Mary	2,731	–	1
2	Helen	1,630	–	2
3	Dorothy	1,192	–	3
4	Ruth	1,152	–	5
5	Margaret	1,093	–	4
6	Mildred	691	–	7
7	Elizabeth	533	–	8
8	Virginia	515	↑1	14
9	Anna	505	↓1	6
10	Florence	468	–	13
11	Evelyn	451	↑3	11
12	Frances	441	↓1	9
13	Alice	408	↑2	12
14	Marie	392	↓2	10
15	Martha	387	↓2	27
16	Catherine	385	↑1	18
17	Thelma	326	↑1	26
18	Edna	325	↑4	19
19	Irene	320	↑2	22
20	Grace	311	↑5	25
21	Rose	309	↓5	15
22	Esther	300	↑1	35
23	Kathryn	297	↑10	63
24	Eleanor	292	↑3	28
25	Ann	285	↑11	40
26	Lucille	285	↑5	30
27	Josephine	276	↑1	23
28	Pauline	275	↑7	34
29	Hazel	272	↓5	29
30	Lillian	266	↓11	16
31	Marjorie	265	↓5	45
32	Ethel	256	↓3	21
33	Betty	254	↑5	62
34	Edith	248	↓4	31
35	Gladys	248	↓15	20
36	Louise	234	↓4	17
37	Doris	228	↑4	36
38	Julia	212	↑1	42
39	Clara	210	↓2	37
40	Gertrude	210	↓6	32
41	Jean	187	↑1	54
42	Katherine	181	↑5	48
43	Jane	171	↓3	71
44	Anne	169	↑6	53
45	Elsie	165	new	46
46	Agnes	160	↑3	44
47	Bernice	160	↓2	43
48	Marian	153	new	90
49	Lois	149	new	51
50	Emma	147	↓2	39

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	John	1,848	–	1
2	Robert	1,584	–	4
3	William	1,382	–	2
4	Charles	1,070	–	7
5	James	879	–	3
6	Joseph	864	–	5
7	George	825	–	6
8	Paul	672	–	13
9	Frank	626	↑1	9
10	Edward	608	↓1	8
11	Harold	500	–	14
12	Richard	473	↑1	17
13	Donald	434	↑3	23
14	Ralph	414	↑4	21
15	Carl	403	↓3	24
16	Walter	403	↓2	10
17	Raymond	401	↓2	16
18	Harry	396	↓1	19
19	Thomas	334	↑2	11
20	Albert	315	–	15
21	Howard	308	↓2	26
22	Kenneth	289	↑1	30
23	Arthur	279	↓1	18
24	Clarence	267	↑2	22
25	Henry	248	–	12
26	Louis	233	↓2	20
27	Earl	229	–	33
28	Jack	217	↑8	27
29	Lawrence	217	↓1	35
30	Russell	214	↑1	49
31	Stanley	206	↑4	39
32	Fred	193	↓3	28
33	David	182	↓1	29
34	Andrew	163	↑5	44
35	Elmer	163	↓5	46
36	Bernard	162	↑7	50
37	Michael	155	↓3	40
38	Anthony	153	↑3	37
39	Eugene	153	↓2	43
40	Leonard	152	new	45
41	Joe	149	↑9	34
42	Francis	147	↓4	31
43	Herbert	147	↓3	42
44	Ernest	142	↑1	38
45	Roy	142	↓12	32
46	Alfred	136	↑1	41
47	Norman	129	↓3	54
48	Steve	129	new	>100
49	Lester	128	new	57
50	Frederick	123	↓4	52

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