Popular baby names in Pennsylvania, 1911

The most popular baby names in Pennsylvania in 1911 were Mary for girls (3,188 babies) and John for boys (1,672). Social Security records list 52,586 babies born in Pennsylvania in 1911 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Pennsylvania in 1911

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: 59 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Suzanne: 18 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Kathryn: 333 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Susan: 110 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Carmella: 23 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Anna: 1,555 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Sara: 146 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Miriam: 104 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Veronica: 74 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Sophia: 54 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Boys

Regis: 22 babies, 12.5× the national rate
Clair: 30 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Russel: 21 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Elwood: 32 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Mike: 66 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Michael: 300 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Andy: 16 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Stewart: 16 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Steve: 56 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Stephen: 103 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Pennsylvania, 1911

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	Mary	3,188	–	1
2	Helen	1,733	–	2
3	Anna	1,555	–	6
4	Margaret	1,404	–	3
5	Dorothy	1,022	↑1	4
6	Elizabeth	962	↓1	7
7	Ruth	725	–	5
8	Catherine	653	↑1	20
9	Mildred	628	↓1	8
10	Rose	581	↑2	14
11	Marie	556	↓1	9
12	Florence	525	↓1	12
13	Frances	475	–	10
14	Alice	385	–	11
15	Grace	358	↑2	23
16	Josephine	347	↓1	29
17	Edna	341	↑2	17
18	Ethel	337	↓2	15
19	Kathryn	333	↑2	73
20	Evelyn	322	↑2	16
21	Lillian	320	↓3	13
22	Martha	298	↓2	28
23	Esther	289	↑5	34
24	Ann	287	–	53
25	Julia	285	↑4	44
26	Edith	282	↑1	31
27	Agnes	281	↓2	39
28	Eleanor	281	↑2	49
29	Gertrude	271	↓6	30
30	Irene	269	↑1	21
31	Emma	254	↓5	35
32	Louise	247	↑8	19
33	Gladys	242	↑4	18
34	Virginia	230	↑12	26
35	Bertha	229	↑1	36
36	Clara	229	↑6	33
37	Anne	222	↓4	64
38	Pauline	220	↓4	38
39	Stella	217	↓4	72
40	Sarah	216	↓8	42
41	Thelma	216	↑6	27
42	Jean	205	↑2	74
43	Katherine	204	↓4	55
44	Marion	195	↑1	58
45	Mabel	193	↓4	43
46	Hazel	184	↓8	25
47	Beatrice	178	↑1	37
48	Elsie	173	↓5	41
49	Betty	166	new	69
50	Ida	160	↓1	45

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	John	1,672	–	1
2	William	1,020	↑1	2
3	Joseph	988	↓1	6
4	Charles	740	–	7
5	James	696	–	3
6	George	680	–	4
7	Robert	532	–	5
8	Frank	490	–	8
9	Edward	451	–	9
10	Paul	368	↑2	17
11	Harry	363	↓1	13
12	Thomas	332	↓1	10
13	Walter	324	–	12
14	Michael	300	–	38
15	Albert	240	–	15
16	Anthony	217	–	35
17	Andrew	215	↑10	42
18	Harold	201	↑1	16
19	Francis	192	↑3	33
20	Henry	187	↑3	11
21	Samuel	175	↓1	30
22	Louis	172	↓1	21
23	Richard	171	↑2	20
24	Stanley	169	↑2	44
25	Raymond	167	↓8	19
26	Arthur	163	↓8	18
27	Ralph	160	↓3	24
28	Carl	156	↑2	26
29	David	155	–	27
30	Howard	141	↓2	28
31	Peter	136	↑1	50
32	Clarence	122	↓1	23
33	Kenneth	121	↑1	40
34	Donald	118	↑4	36
35	Daniel	116	↑4	53
36	Alfred	104	↑5	39
37	Stephen	103	↑6	84
38	Earl	100	↓3	34
39	Fred	97	↓6	22
40	Norman	90	↑7	63
41	Russell	90	↓5	55
42	Frederick	84	–	52
43	Bernard	81	↑1	54
44	Lawrence	80	↓7	37
45	Philip	76	new	69
46	Elmer	75	↑2	48
47	Martin	75	new	75
48	Jack	73	↓8	25
49	Eugene	71	↓3	43
50	Herbert	69	–	41

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