Popular baby names in Ohio, 1927

The most popular baby names in Ohio in 1927 were Mary for girls (4,026 babies) and Robert for boys (4,272). Social Security records list 107,928 babies born in Ohio in 1927 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Ohio in 1927

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

Girls

Donna: 564 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Joanne: 162 babies, 3× the national rate
Joann: 95 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Glenna: 51 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Annabelle: 62 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Eileen: 304 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Janet: 265 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Patty: 47 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Rosemary: 308 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Goldie: 65 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Boys

Emerson: 30 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Ned: 38 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Myron: 84 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Steve: 127 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Dwight: 55 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Forest: 27 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Dale: 278 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Nick: 63 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Lowell: 74 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Sanford: 28 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Ohio, 1927

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Mary	4,026	–	1
2	Betty	2,733	–	3
3	Dorothy	1,914	–	2
4	Helen	1,506	–	4
5	Ruth	1,439	–	6
6	Margaret	1,206	–	5
7	Virginia	958	–	8
8	Jean	886	–	14
9	Patricia	879	↑4	18
10	Doris	780	↓1	7
11	Shirley	685	↑13	9
12	Lois	663	↑3	19
13	Norma	652	↑4	26
14	Barbara	633	↑6	10
15	Evelyn	630	↓3	15
16	Martha	604	–	24
17	Phyllis	594	↑4	29
18	Mildred	584	↓8	11
19	Elizabeth	579	–	13
20	Marjorie	570	↓9	25
21	Donna	564	↑10	70
22	Alice	554	↓4	17
23	Anna	552	↓9	16
24	Marilyn	514	↑6	46
25	Rose	512	↓3	23
26	Frances	500	↓3	12
27	Joan	485	↑2	41
28	Dolores	424	↑14	34
29	Irene	422	↓3	21
30	Eleanor	392	↓3	33
31	June	383	↓3	43
32	Pauline	369	↑1	42
33	Florence	366	↓8	28
34	Gloria	343	↓2	22
35	Rita	338	↑3	54
36	Thelma	334	↓1	38
37	Nancy	326	new	56
38	Rosemary	308	↑5	86
39	Eileen	304	↓3	91
40	Juanita	301	↑8	55
41	Wanda	301	↑8	66
42	Wilma	301	↑3	68
43	Catherine	289	↓6	31
44	Josephine	289	↑3	39
45	Jane	284	↓6	60
46	Lillian	283	↓5	32
47	Louise	283	new	27
48	Geraldine	281	↓4	58
49	Marie	279	↓15	20
50	Grace	277	new	50

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Robert	4,272	–	1
2	William	3,086	–	4
3	John	2,841	–	2
4	James	2,593	–	3
5	Richard	2,364	–	6
6	Donald	1,962	↑1	8
7	Charles	1,860	↓1	5
8	George	1,262	–	7
9	Paul	1,137	–	13
10	Joseph	1,032	↑1	9
11	Edward	1,009	↓1	10
12	Jack	904	↑2	16
13	Thomas	879	↓1	11
14	Harold	782	↓1	14
15	Raymond	777	–	15
16	Frank	728	–	12
17	Kenneth	652	↑1	18
18	Ralph	605	↓1	24
19	Carl	595	–	26
20	Eugene	592	↑2	20
21	Walter	582	↓1	17
22	David	501	↑1	21
23	Harry	483	↓2	25
24	Howard	417	↑3	28
25	Arthur	412	–	22
26	Albert	397	↓2	23
27	Clarence	369	↑1	32
28	Earl	353	↓2	33
29	Gerald	323	↑4	38
30	Louis	308	↑2	29
31	Fred	306	–	35
32	Norman	302	↑4	39
33	Lawrence	300	↓3	37
34	Henry	290	↓5	19
35	Dale	278	↑4	81
36	Herbert	257	↑1	42
37	Russell	250	↓2	54
38	Roy	247	↑2	34
39	Daniel	237	↑2	46
40	Leonard	235	↓6	40
41	Stanley	232	↑1	44
42	Glenn	224	↑7	76
43	Ernest	214	↓5	41
44	Bernard	213	–	50
45	Francis	211	↑3	36
46	Don	193	new	90
47	Ray	187	↓1	60
48	Theodore	185	↑2	62
49	Gene	182	new	72
50	Ronald	182	new	63

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