Popular baby names in Ohio, 1924

The most popular baby names in Ohio in 1924 were Mary for girls (4,201 babies) and Robert for boys (4,436). Social Security records list 111,861 babies born in Ohio in 1924 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Ohio in 1924

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: 50 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Glenna: 59 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Joanne: 68 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Donna: 274 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Joann: 46 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Angela: 67 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Eileen: 312 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Freda: 92 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Rosella: 44 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Marilyn: 280 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Boys

Emerson: 42 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Sanford: 41 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Dwight: 60 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Andy: 35 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Forest: 33 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Rolland: 29 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Cletus: 28 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Steve: 145 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Nick: 89 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Mike: 110 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Ohio, 1924

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Mary	4,201	–	1
2	Betty	2,869	–	4
3	Dorothy	2,273	–	2
4	Helen	1,967	–	3
5	Ruth	1,716	–	6
6	Margaret	1,460	–	5
7	Virginia	1,173	–	7
8	Jean	826	↑2	16
9	Marjorie	803	↓1	17
10	Mildred	785	↓1	8
11	Doris	749	–	9
12	Martha	729	↑2	21
13	Elizabeth	719	–	11
14	Evelyn	700	↓2	12
15	Anna	695	–	13
16	Lois	601	↑4	22
17	Alice	598	–	15
18	Frances	579	↓2	10
19	Patricia	521	↑24	35
20	Irene	516	↓2	18
21	Eleanor	500	–	29
22	Norma	497	↑3	40
23	Florence	492	↓4	20
24	Phyllis	468	↑2	44
25	June	460	↓3	45
26	Rose	458	↓2	25
27	Lillian	417	↑1	23
28	Marie	401	↓5	14
29	Thelma	391	↓2	33
30	Pauline	376	↑1	38
31	Catherine	370	↑1	27
32	Barbara	358	↑13	28
33	Shirley	357	↑15	19
34	Rita	346	↓5	49
35	Grace	331	↑2	43
36	Jane	331	↑2	53
37	Lucille	325	↑4	37
38	Louise	324	↓2	24
39	Edna	322	–	31
40	Esther	319	↓7	51
41	Josephine	313	↓7	34
42	Eileen	312	↓7	93
43	Ethel	299	↑4	39
44	Geraldine	298	new	58
45	Wilma	296	↑4	67
46	Ann	294	↓16	55
47	Jeanne	291	↓1	90
48	Marian	289	↓4	64
49	Juanita	283	new	48
50	Kathryn	282	↓10	81

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Robert	4,436	–	1
2	John	3,145	–	2
3	William	3,076	–	3
4	James	2,347	–	4
5	Charles	1,902	–	5
6	Richard	1,886	–	8
7	Donald	1,467	↑1	10
8	George	1,386	↓1	6
9	Joseph	1,190	–	7
10	Paul	1,130	–	14
11	Edward	1,116	–	9
12	Harold	911	–	13
13	Frank	848	–	12
14	Jack	840	↑2	17
15	Thomas	836	↓1	11
16	Raymond	740	↓1	15
17	Ralph	707	–	23
18	Kenneth	632	↑3	19
19	Walter	608	–	16
20	Harry	600	↓2	22
21	Carl	598	↓1	27
22	Albert	514	–	21
23	Arthur	487	–	20
24	Howard	484	↑1	26
25	Eugene	474	↓1	25
26	David	466	–	24
27	Earl	394	–	33
28	Louis	359	↑2	28
29	Clarence	356	↓1	29
30	Henry	317	↓1	18
31	Lawrence	310	↑1	36
32	Leonard	297	↓1	38
33	Fred	293	–	32
34	Roy	273	↑5	31
35	Norman	269	↑2	42
36	Gerald	266	↑8	49
37	Russell	261	↓3	52
38	Bernard	249	↑4	46
39	Ernest	245	↑2	37
40	Herbert	240	↓2	41
41	Elmer	230	↑4	57
42	Stanley	226	↓7	40
43	Daniel	222	↓3	47
44	Dale	218	↓1	84
45	Ray	212	new	60
46	Francis	210	↓10	34
47	Edwin	206	new	55
48	Wayne	206	new	74
49	Calvin	205	new	44
50	Anthony	201	↓2	39

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