Popular baby names in Ohio, 1919

The most popular baby names in Ohio in 1919 were Mary for girls (3,812 babies) and Robert for boys (3,166). Robert ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 93,908 babies born in Ohio in 1919 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Ohio in 1919

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: 51 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Glenna: 45 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Bette: 109 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Donna: 109 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Betty: 1,357 babies, 3× the national rate
Wilda: 42 babies, 3× the national rate
Annabelle: 58 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Eileen: 258 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Rosemary: 132 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Freda: 87 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Mike: 171 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Steve: 173 babies, 3× the national rate
Nick: 90 babies, 3× the national rate
Forest: 38 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Denver: 25 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Russel: 39 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Andy: 35 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Lowell: 74 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Dwight: 43 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Karl: 55 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Ohio, 1919

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Mary	3,812	–	1
2	Helen	2,271	–	2
3	Dorothy	1,950	↑1	3
4	Ruth	1,824	↓1	5
5	Margaret	1,524	–	4
6	Betty	1,357	↑1	15
7	Virginia	1,141	↓1	7
8	Mildred	933	–	6
9	Elizabeth	787	–	8
10	Evelyn	754	↑1	11
11	Anna	716	↓1	10
12	Martha	634	↑1	25
13	Frances	612	↓1	9
14	Florence	562	–	14
15	Alice	557	–	13
16	Jean	518	↑4	37
17	Irene	516	↓1	16
18	Rose	496	↓1	19
19	Marie	491	–	12
20	Marjorie	478	↓2	33
21	Doris	471	↑1	18
22	Eleanor	417	↓1	30
23	Lucille	413	↑8	27
24	Esther	408	↑3	38
25	Jane	392	↑10	53
26	Lillian	392	↑3	17
27	Thelma	382	↓3	31
28	Catherine	381	↓3	23
29	Josephine	375	↑4	26
30	Edna	374	↓4	22
31	Gladys	362	↑3	21
32	Pauline	360	↓4	36
33	Ann	355	↓10	49
34	Edith	333	↓2	29
35	Lois	318	↑7	40
36	Grace	317	↓6	34
37	Kathryn	314	–	66
38	Rita	312	↑5	54
39	Louise	294	–	20
40	Ethel	292	↓4	28
41	Hazel	287	↓3	32
42	Clara	267	↓2	43
43	June	265	↑4	64
44	Eileen	258	↑6	>100
45	Gertrude	245	new	39
46	Anne	243	↓1	63
47	Bernice	242	new	42
48	Katherine	240	↓4	51
49	Agnes	237	new	50
50	Geraldine	237	new	68

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Robert	3,166	–	4
2	John	2,583	–	1
3	William	2,154	–	2
4	Charles	1,618	–	5
5	James	1,556	–	3
6	George	1,294	–	6
7	Richard	1,106	↑1	12
8	Joseph	1,071	↓1	7
9	Paul	973	↑1	15
10	Edward	917	↓1	8
11	Donald	824	↑1	17
12	Frank	786	↓1	9
13	Harold	748	–	13
14	Harry	640	↑4	20
15	Raymond	622	–	14
16	Walter	601	↓2	11
17	Ralph	600	↓1	22
18	Carl	582	↑1	29
19	Thomas	538	↓2	10
20	Jack	525	–	21
21	Albert	469	↑1	18
22	Howard	446	↓1	24
23	Kenneth	431	↑1	26
24	Arthur	407	↓1	19
25	Earl	392	–	31
26	Clarence	378	–	25
27	Eugene	342	↑4	33
28	Louis	324	↓1	28
29	Russell	293	↑5	50
30	Henry	283	↓2	16
31	Lawrence	281	↑2	38
32	Fred	279	↑4	30
33	Stanley	275	↓3	37
34	Joe	254	↑5	35
35	David	251	↓6	27
36	Elmer	236	↓4	44
37	Herbert	232	↑1	40
38	Roy	223	↓3	32
39	Francis	222	↑2	34
40	Bernard	216	↑9	45
41	Anthony	210	↑2	41
42	Norman	206	↑3	48
43	Chester	202	↓3	53
44	Andrew	197	↓2	47
45	Michael	195	↑2	46
46	Leonard	191	↓9	39
47	Theodore	190	new	54
48	Ernest	189	new	36
49	Alfred	181	new	42
50	Gerald	181	new	70

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