Popular baby names in Ohio, 1923

The most popular baby names in Ohio in 1923 were Mary for girls (4,127 babies) and Robert for boys (4,264). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 108,187 babies born in Ohio in 1923 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Ohio in 1923

Names given at least 15 times in Ohio that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Treva: 29 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Garnet: 35 babies, 4× the national rate
Glenna: 59 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Joann: 37 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Donna: 220 babies, 3× the national rate
Joanne: 40 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Betty: 2,801 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Eileen: 324 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Rosemary: 260 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Marilyn: 247 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Karl: 73 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Dwight: 56 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Ned: 36 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Forest: 35 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Steve: 158 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Sanford: 31 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Mike: 110 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Myron: 65 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Lowell: 73 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Andy: 30 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Ohio, 1923

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	Mary	4,127	–	1
2	Betty	2,801	–	5
3	Dorothy	2,303	↑1	2
4	Helen	1,993	↓1	3
5	Ruth	1,761	–	6
6	Margaret	1,458	–	4
7	Virginia	1,237	–	7
8	Marjorie	828	↑2	16
9	Mildred	823	–	8
10	Jean	790	↑2	19
11	Doris	772	↑2	11
12	Evelyn	745	↓4	12
13	Elizabeth	727	↓2	9
14	Martha	690	–	21
15	Anna	658	–	13
16	Frances	636	–	10
17	Alice	604	–	15
18	Irene	541	–	17
19	Florence	529	–	18
20	Lois	479	↑13	27
21	Eleanor	452	↑1	28
22	June	435	↑5	42
23	Marie	422	↓3	14
24	Rose	420	↓3	23
25	Norma	408	↑6	41
26	Phyllis	390	↑13	45
27	Thelma	386	↓2	31
28	Lillian	384	↓4	20
29	Rita	371	–	50
30	Ann	368	↑4	52
31	Pauline	365	↓3	37
32	Catherine	360	↓2	24
33	Esther	360	↓7	47
34	Josephine	330	↑3	30
35	Eileen	324	↑3	95
36	Louise	322	↑7	22
37	Grace	310	↓2	39
38	Jane	309	↓6	55
39	Edna	306	↓16	32
40	Kathryn	306	↑1	72
41	Lucille	305	↓5	35
42	Edith	302	↓2	36
43	Patricia	299	↑6	56
44	Marian	296	↑1	65
45	Barbara	292	new	33
46	Jeanne	292	↑4	90
47	Ethel	279	↓3	38
48	Shirley	279	new	26
49	Wilma	265	new	74
50	Gladys	264	↓8	29

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	Robert	4,264	–	2
2	John	2,986	–	1
3	William	2,909	–	3
4	James	2,141	–	4
5	Charles	1,855	–	5
6	Richard	1,774	–	9
7	George	1,442	–	6
8	Donald	1,373	–	10
9	Joseph	1,218	↑1	7
10	Paul	1,177	↓1	14
11	Edward	1,146	–	8
12	Harold	926	–	13
13	Frank	839	–	11
14	Thomas	763	↑1	12
15	Raymond	741	↑1	15
16	Jack	731	↓2	17
17	Ralph	634	–	23
18	Harry	612	↑1	22
19	Walter	608	↓1	16
20	Carl	600	–	28
21	Kenneth	550	–	21
22	Albert	516	–	20
23	Arthur	477	↑3	19
24	Eugene	465	–	25
25	Howard	447	↓2	26
26	David	409	↑1	24
27	Earl	396	↓2	31
28	Clarence	382	↑1	29
29	Henry	343	↑1	18
30	Louis	332	↓2	27
31	Leonard	324	↑7	37
32	Lawrence	311	↓1	36
33	Fred	283	–	33
34	Russell	270	↓2	52
35	Stanley	270	↓1	41
36	Francis	258	↑8	34
37	Norman	251	↑5	44
38	Herbert	250	↓1	40
39	Roy	248	↓4	32
40	Daniel	247	–	47
41	Ernest	241	–	38
42	Bernard	222	↓6	46
43	Dale	221	↑7	90
44	Gerald	220	↑4	54
45	Elmer	219	↓2	57
46	Andrew	218	–	53
47	Warren	218	new	43
48	Anthony	215	↓9	39
49	Glenn	207	new	84
50	Frederick	201	new	60

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