Popular baby names in Ohio, 1926

The most popular baby names in Ohio in 1926 were Mary for girls (3,808 babies) and Robert for boys (4,264). Social Security records list 106,974 babies born in Ohio in 1926 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Ohio in 1926

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: 40 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Joanne: 143 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Donna: 408 babies, 3× the national rate
Eileen: 335 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Freda: 95 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Glenna: 54 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Janet: 272 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Maryann: 32 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Suzanne: 54 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Rosemary: 289 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Nick: 82 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Forest: 30 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Steve: 127 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Karl: 68 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Ned: 34 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Andy: 28 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Dwight: 51 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Dale: 237 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Ohio, 1926

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Mary	3,808	–	1
2	Betty	2,656	–	3
3	Dorothy	2,093	–	2
4	Helen	1,634	–	4
5	Ruth	1,497	–	6
6	Margaret	1,321	–	5
7	Virginia	964	–	8
8	Jean	881	–	12
9	Doris	772	–	7
10	Mildred	655	↑2	9
11	Marjorie	654	↓1	22
12	Evelyn	647	↓1	13
13	Patricia	647	↑4	23
14	Anna	604	–	15
15	Lois	599	↑3	19
16	Martha	581	↓3	24
17	Norma	579	↑2	29
18	Alice	569	↓3	17
19	Elizabeth	565	↓3	11
20	Barbara	547	↑7	16
21	Phyllis	530	–	33
22	Rose	516	↑4	25
23	Frances	511	↓3	10
24	Shirley	511	↑1	14
25	Florence	475	↑3	26
26	Irene	456	↓4	21
27	Eleanor	446	↓3	32
28	June	437	↓5	40
29	Joan	424	↑6	51
30	Marilyn	412	↑9	65
31	Donna	408	↑9	90
32	Gloria	394	↓2	20
33	Pauline	368	–	39
34	Marie	362	↓5	18
35	Thelma	359	↓1	36
36	Eileen	335	–	92
37	Catherine	334	↑4	31
38	Rita	327	↓7	50
39	Jane	318	↑5	56
40	Esther	309	↓3	62
41	Lillian	309	↓9	28
42	Dolores	294	new	49
43	Rosemary	289	new	95
44	Geraldine	286	new	54
45	Wilma	285	↑2	67
46	Ann	278	↓4	55
47	Josephine	278	↓1	37
48	Juanita	278	–	52
49	Wanda	275	↓4	66
50	Edna	274	↓12	38

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Robert	4,264	–	1
2	William	2,892	–	4
3	John	2,828	–	2
4	James	2,493	–	3
5	Richard	2,220	–	7
6	Charles	1,814	–	5
7	Donald	1,696	–	9
8	George	1,345	–	6
9	Paul	1,163	–	13
10	Edward	1,051	–	10
11	Joseph	1,021	–	8
12	Thomas	925	–	11
13	Harold	909	–	14
14	Jack	856	–	16
15	Raymond	748	↑1	15
16	Frank	682	↓1	12
17	Ralph	660	–	24
18	Kenneth	609	↑1	18
19	Carl	579	↓1	26
20	Walter	576	–	17
21	Harry	544	–	25
22	Eugene	534	↑1	23
23	David	509	↓1	22
24	Albert	474	–	21
25	Arthur	431	–	20
26	Earl	427	↑1	32
27	Howard	378	↓1	27
28	Clarence	347	↑1	29
29	Henry	319	↑2	19
30	Lawrence	310	↓2	36
31	Fred	298	↑4	31
32	Louis	292	↓2	30
33	Gerald	288	↑4	41
34	Leonard	279	–	38
35	Russell	274	↓3	52
36	Norman	272	↑6	39
37	Herbert	254	↓1	44
38	Ernest	239	↑6	37
39	Dale	237	↓1	84
40	Roy	237	↑1	34
41	Daniel	232	↓1	46
42	Stanley	232	↓9	43
43	Anthony	228	↓4	42
44	Bernard	216	↓1	49
45	Elmer	210	–	61
46	Ray	210	↑3	57
47	Joe	206	↑1	33
48	Francis	203	↓2	35
49	Glenn	189	↓2	75
50	Theodore	189	new	63

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