Popular baby names in Ohio, 1925

The most popular baby names in Ohio in 1925 were Mary for girls (3,810 babies) and Robert for boys (4,427). Social Security records list 108,289 babies born in Ohio in 1925 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Ohio in 1925

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: 32 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Glenna: 68 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Joann: 73 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Joanne: 85 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Donna: 297 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Wilda: 44 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Eileen: 329 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Freda: 92 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Eleanore: 67 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Suzanne: 43 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Rolland: 39 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Dwight: 74 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Emerson: 31 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Nick: 90 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Andy: 33 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Steve: 139 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Karl: 69 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Sanford: 32 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Mike: 102 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Dale: 255 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Ohio, 1925

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Mary	3,810	–	1
2	Betty	2,895	–	3
3	Dorothy	2,168	–	2
4	Helen	1,831	–	4
5	Ruth	1,654	–	6
6	Margaret	1,337	–	5
7	Virginia	1,102	–	7
8	Jean	923	–	14
9	Doris	815	↑2	8
10	Marjorie	747	↓1	21
11	Evelyn	710	↑3	12
12	Mildred	680	↓2	9
13	Martha	663	↓1	23
14	Anna	635	↑1	13
15	Alice	622	↑2	15
16	Elizabeth	611	↓3	10
17	Patricia	598	↑2	28
18	Lois	592	↓2	18
19	Norma	542	↑3	34
20	Frances	510	↓2	11
21	Phyllis	503	↑3	40
22	Irene	481	↓2	19
23	June	481	↑2	39
24	Eleanor	463	↓3	31
25	Shirley	461	↑8	17
26	Rose	425	–	26
27	Barbara	408	↑5	22
28	Florence	404	↓5	24
29	Marie	382	↓1	16
30	Gloria	380	new	20
31	Rita	372	↑3	48
32	Lillian	362	↓5	25
33	Pauline	359	↓3	38
34	Thelma	354	↓5	35
35	Joan	337	new	66
36	Eileen	329	↑6	96
37	Esther	321	↑3	56
38	Edna	320	↑1	37
39	Marilyn	301	new	83
40	Donna	297	new	>100
41	Catherine	293	↓10	29
42	Ann	292	↑4	52
43	Marian	291	↑5	67
44	Jane	289	↓8	53
45	Wanda	289	new	72
46	Josephine	284	↓5	36
47	Wilma	283	↓2	62
48	Juanita	279	↑1	49
49	Lucille	275	↓12	41
50	Louise	274	↓12	27

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Robert	4,427	–	1
2	William	3,006	↑1	3
3	John	2,943	↓1	2
4	James	2,390	–	4
5	Richard	2,090	↑1	8
6	Charles	1,831	↓1	5
7	Donald	1,604	–	10
8	George	1,305	–	6
9	Paul	1,278	↑1	13
10	Edward	1,107	↑1	9
11	Joseph	1,081	↓2	7
12	Thomas	872	↑3	11
13	Harold	865	↓1	14
14	Jack	781	–	17
15	Frank	771	↓2	12
16	Raymond	719	–	15
17	Ralph	665	–	25
18	Carl	637	↑3	28
19	Kenneth	630	↓1	19
20	Walter	588	↓1	16
21	Harry	579	↓1	23
22	David	508	↑4	22
23	Eugene	501	↑2	24
24	Albert	467	↓2	21
25	Arthur	442	↓2	20
26	Howard	441	↓2	26
27	Earl	412	–	31
28	Lawrence	340	↑3	36
29	Clarence	334	–	30
30	Louis	333	↓2	29
31	Henry	275	↓1	18
32	Russell	273	↑5	53
33	Stanley	272	↑9	40
34	Leonard	269	↓2	38
35	Fred	267	↓2	33
36	Herbert	265	↑4	42
37	Gerald	259	↓1	45
38	Dale	255	↑6	86
39	Anthony	254	↑11	39
40	Daniel	251	↑3	44
41	Roy	246	↓7	32
42	Norman	245	↓7	41
43	Bernard	220	↓5	48
44	Ernest	217	↓5	37
45	Elmer	210	↓4	61
46	Francis	208	–	35
47	Glenn	208	new	77
48	Joe	186	new	34
49	Ray	186	↓4	64
50	Michael	185	new	55

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