Popular baby names in Ohio, 1921

The most popular baby names in Ohio in 1921 were Mary for girls (4,386 babies) and Robert for boys (4,245). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 109,065 babies born in Ohio in 1921 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Ohio in 1921

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: 52 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Glenna: 58 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Donna: 162 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Betty: 2,215 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Joanne: 29 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Jayne: 31 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Annabelle: 73 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Wilda: 38 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Eileen: 314 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Rosemary: 212 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Steve: 167 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Ned: 36 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Nick: 92 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Dwight: 59 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Emerson: 28 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Mike: 121 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Lowell: 77 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Dale: 209 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Forest: 28 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Karl: 60 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Ohio, 1921

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	4,386	–	1
2	Helen	2,341	–	3
3	Dorothy	2,231	–	2
4	Betty	2,215	–	8
5	Ruth	1,934	–	5
6	Margaret	1,624	–	4
7	Virginia	1,357	–	6
8	Mildred	893	–	7
9	Marjorie	828	↑5	16
10	Anna	814	↑1	11
11	Evelyn	780	↓1	12
12	Martha	744	–	21
13	Elizabeth	743	↓4	10
14	Jean	635	↑2	25
15	Frances	610	↓2	9
16	Alice	602	↓1	15
17	Doris	593	–	13
18	Florence	566	–	17
19	Irene	552	↑2	18
20	Rose	475	↑2	20
21	Marie	458	↓2	14
22	Thelma	457	↑5	30
23	Catherine	440	–	23
24	Eleanor	425	↓4	29
25	Lillian	419	↑5	19
26	Pauline	419	↓1	37
27	Edna	385	↓3	27
28	Jane	384	↓2	47
29	June	379	↑7	50
30	Lois	374	↓1	38
31	Ann	364	↑2	53
32	Grace	362	↑10	35
33	Kathryn	360	↑1	64
34	Rita	360	↑7	48
35	Josephine	358	↓7	28
36	Esther	357	↓4	42
37	Lucille	356	↓6	31
38	Norma	333	↑11	51
39	Gladys	317	↑1	24
40	Eileen	314	↑4	100
41	Marian	312	↑4	69
42	Edith	305	↓5	33
43	Ethel	305	↓4	32
44	Louise	302	↓9	22
45	Hazel	299	↓7	34
46	Phyllis	299	new	60
47	Clara	291	↓4	45
48	Wilma	264	↑2	72
49	Bernice	260	↓3	39
50	Geraldine	254	new	62

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Robert	4,245	–	2
2	John	3,010	–	1
3	William	2,839	–	3
4	James	2,009	–	4
5	Charles	1,888	–	5
6	Richard	1,520	↑1	10
7	George	1,433	↓1	6
8	Joseph	1,297	–	7
9	Paul	1,173	–	14
10	Edward	1,141	–	8
11	Donald	1,139	–	13
12	Harold	937	–	12
13	Frank	850	–	9
14	Raymond	711	–	16
15	Jack	704	↑3	18
16	Ralph	698	↑1	23
17	Thomas	657	↓1	11
18	Walter	653	↓3	15
19	Harry	632	–	21
20	Carl	630	–	30
21	Kenneth	539	↑1	22
22	Albert	522	↓1	20
23	Howard	502	–	27
24	Arthur	501	–	19
25	Eugene	464	–	26
26	Clarence	400	–	28
27	Earl	396	–	31
28	Warren	385	↑3	24
29	Henry	370	↓1	17
30	David	366	↓1	25
31	Louis	362	↓1	29
32	Lawrence	349	–	37
33	Russell	306	↑1	52
34	Elmer	281	↑6	48
35	Stanley	275	↓2	41
36	Roy	273	↑1	32
37	Leonard	268	↑1	39
38	Joe	258	↓3	36
39	Fred	249	↓3	33
40	Daniel	240	new	49
41	Ernest	239	↑2	38
42	Anthony	236	↑3	40
43	Herbert	235	↓1	42
44	Bernard	232	↓5	45
45	Andrew	231	new	51
46	Norman	228	–	46
47	Michael	222	↑2	47
48	Chester	213	↓4	56
49	Francis	211	↓8	35
50	Dale	209	new	93

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