Popular baby names in Ohio, 1922

The most popular baby names in Ohio in 1922 were Mary for girls (4,383 babies) and Robert for boys (4,081). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 104,532 babies born in Ohio in 1922 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Ohio in 1922

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: 37 babies, 5× the national rate
Donna: 164 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Annabelle: 71 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Glenna: 41 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Betty: 2,466 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Joanne: 29 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Janice: 85 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Eileen: 314 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Rosemary: 229 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Margery: 50 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Emerson: 39 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Karl: 74 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Steve: 166 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Sanford: 35 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Mike: 112 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Andy: 36 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Dwight: 49 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Forest: 31 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Cletus: 25 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Nick: 80 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Ohio, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	4,383	–	1
2	Betty	2,466	↑2	6
3	Helen	2,120	↓1	3
4	Dorothy	2,088	↓1	2
5	Ruth	1,728	–	5
6	Margaret	1,540	–	4
7	Virginia	1,212	–	7
8	Evelyn	796	↑3	13
9	Mildred	776	↓1	8
10	Marjorie	762	↓1	16
11	Elizabeth	727	↑2	9
12	Jean	726	↑2	20
13	Doris	698	↑4	11
14	Martha	676	↓2	21
15	Anna	662	↓5	12
16	Frances	600	↓1	10
17	Alice	587	↓1	15
18	Irene	537	↑1	17
19	Florence	503	↓1	18
20	Marie	499	↑1	14
21	Rose	413	↓1	23
22	Eleanor	401	↑2	28
23	Edna	380	↑4	29
24	Lillian	379	↑1	19
25	Thelma	375	↓3	31
26	Esther	369	↑10	44
27	June	366	↑2	45
28	Pauline	365	↓2	36
29	Rita	364	↑5	52
30	Catherine	359	↓7	24
31	Norma	358	↑7	46
32	Jane	349	↓4	55
33	Lois	349	↓3	35
34	Ann	345	↓3	49
35	Grace	340	↓3	38
36	Lucille	321	↑1	33
37	Josephine	319	↓2	27
38	Eileen	314	↑2	96
39	Phyllis	312	↑7	53
40	Edith	301	↑2	34
41	Kathryn	301	↓8	73
42	Gladys	286	↓3	25
43	Louise	282	↑1	22
44	Ethel	280	↓1	32
45	Marian	266	↓4	67
46	Clara	261	↑1	47
47	Anne	258	new	66
48	Hazel	255	↓3	37
49	Patricia	255	new	69
50	Jeanne	254	new	97

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Robert	4,081	–	2
2	John	2,961	–	1
3	William	2,657	–	3
4	James	2,096	–	4
5	Charles	1,749	–	5
6	Richard	1,575	–	9
7	George	1,368	–	6
8	Donald	1,282	↑3	12
9	Paul	1,139	–	14
10	Joseph	1,128	↓2	7
11	Edward	1,039	↓1	8
12	Harold	892	–	13
13	Frank	800	–	10
14	Jack	707	↑1	18
15	Thomas	702	↑2	11
16	Raymond	659	↓2	16
17	Ralph	643	↓1	23
18	Walter	629	–	15
19	Harry	583	–	22
20	Carl	573	–	30
21	Kenneth	564	–	21
22	Albert	525	–	20
23	Howard	466	–	26
24	Eugene	439	↑1	25
25	Earl	422	↑2	31
26	Arthur	415	↓2	19
27	David	381	↑3	24
28	Louis	361	↑3	27
29	Clarence	335	↓3	29
30	Henry	321	↓1	17
31	Lawrence	311	↑1	36
32	Russell	299	↑1	49
33	Fred	275	↑6	33
34	Stanley	266	↑1	41
35	Roy	258	↑1	32
36	Bernard	247	↑8	46
37	Herbert	237	↑6	40
38	Leonard	237	↓1	38
39	Anthony	236	↑3	39
40	Daniel	236	–	47
41	Ernest	229	–	37
42	Norman	223	↑4	44
43	Elmer	219	↓9	54
44	Francis	214	↑5	34
45	Joe	213	↓7	35
46	Andrew	209	↓1	53
47	Chester	200	↑1	64
48	Gerald	200	new	58
49	Ray	199	new	65
50	Dale	197	–	89

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