Popular baby names in Pennsylvania, 1910

The most popular baby names in Pennsylvania in 1910 were Mary for girls (2,913 babies) and John for boys (1,326). Social Security records list 45,214 babies born in Pennsylvania in 1910 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Pennsylvania in 1910

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

Girls

Catharine: 58 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Carmella: 30 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Suzanne: 16 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Elda: 20 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Sara: 165 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Sophia: 68 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Anna: 1,534 babies, 3× the national rate
Kathryn: 290 babies, 3× the national rate
Philomena: 19 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Susan: 89 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Boys

Clair: 19 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Michael: 219 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Elwood: 23 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Steve: 56 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Mike: 45 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Anthony: 194 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Karl: 18 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Stephen: 67 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Joseph: 831 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Stanley: 120 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Pennsylvania, 1910

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	Mary	2,913	1
2	Helen	1,604	2
3	Anna	1,534	6
4	Margaret	1,311	3
5	Elizabeth	891	7
6	Dorothy	798	4
7	Ruth	664	5
8	Mildred	599	8
9	Catherine	568	22
10	Marie	512	9
11	Florence	494	12
12	Rose	492	16
13	Frances	393	11
14	Alice	382	10
15	Josephine	353	30
16	Ethel	346	13
17	Grace	324	23
18	Lillian	309	14
19	Edna	302	18
20	Martha	301	28
21	Kathryn	290	80
22	Evelyn	288	17
23	Gertrude	282	26
24	Ann	273	52
25	Agnes	265	41
26	Emma	256	34
27	Edith	255	35
28	Esther	244	38
29	Julia	244	49
30	Eleanor	242	55
31	Irene	233	21
32	Sarah	227	40
33	Anne	225	67
34	Pauline	213	42
35	Stella	213	72
36	Bertha	211	33
37	Gladys	211	15
38	Hazel	211	24
39	Katherine	210	57
40	Louise	201	20
41	Mabel	197	46
42	Clara	195	32
43	Elsie	194	44
44	Jean	192	77
45	Marion	181	59
46	Virginia	179	29
47	Thelma	175	25
48	Beatrice	173	36
49	Ida	171	47
50	Sara	165	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	John	1,326	1
2	Joseph	831	6
3	William	793	3
4	Charles	546	7
5	James	514	2
6	George	504	5
7	Robert	404	4
8	Frank	385	8
9	Edward	350	9
10	Harry	288	16
11	Thomas	259	12
12	Paul	253	15
13	Walter	235	13
14	Michael	219	45
15	Albert	212	14
16	Anthony	194	37
17	Raymond	152	19
18	Arthur	144	17
19	Harold	139	18
20	Samuel	130	32
21	Louis	129	24
22	Francis	128	36
23	Henry	126	10
24	Ralph	125	28
25	Richard	122	21
26	Stanley	120	47
27	Andrew	118	42
28	Howard	115	27
29	David	108	30
30	Carl	94	26
31	Clarence	90	20
32	Peter	89	56
33	Fred	86	22
34	Kenneth	84	43
35	Earl	81	33
36	Russell	80	58
37	Lawrence	79	35
38	Donald	74	44
39	Daniel	72	53
40	Jack	72	23
41	Alfred	68	38
42	Frederick	68	69
43	Stephen	67	96
44	Bernard	64	62
45	Theodore	64	54
46	Eugene	62	39
47	Norman	62	63
48	Elmer	60	48
49	Leo	59	51
50	Herbert	58	41

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