Popular baby names in Pennsylvania, 1913

The most popular baby names in Pennsylvania in 1913 were Mary for girls (4,739 babies) and John for boys (3,706). Social Security records list 93,942 babies born in Pennsylvania in 1913 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Pennsylvania in 1913

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: 72 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Sara: 282 babies, 3× the national rate
Sophia: 107 babies, 3× the national rate
Anna: 2,327 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Susan: 127 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Veronica: 140 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Kathryn: 496 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Carmella: 39 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Minerva: 30 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Miriam: 162 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Boys

Regis: 27 babies, 10× the national rate
Clair: 65 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Steve: 179 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Mike: 142 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Micheal: 26 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Marlin: 21 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Aloysius: 31 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Michael: 644 babies, 3× the national rate
Elwood: 79 babies, 3× the national rate
Andy: 35 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Pennsylvania, 1913

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	Mary	4,739	–	1
2	Helen	2,694	–	2
3	Anna	2,327	–	7
4	Margaret	1,991	–	4
5	Dorothy	1,557	–	3
6	Elizabeth	1,388	–	8
7	Ruth	1,231	–	5
8	Mildred	939	–	6
9	Catherine	919	–	22
10	Rose	832	–	14
11	Marie	784	–	10
12	Frances	698	↑1	9
13	Florence	678	↓1	13
14	Josephine	651	↑2	24
15	Alice	562	↓1	11
16	Grace	522	↓1	25
17	Eleanor	519	↑5	34
18	Evelyn	503	↑5	12
19	Kathryn	496	↑2	66
20	Ethel	472	↓3	20
21	Martha	463	↓1	28
22	Irene	456	↑11	21
23	Ann	454	↑4	46
24	Edna	436	↓5	18
25	Lillian	436	↓7	16
26	Julia	430	↑5	42
27	Esther	429	↓1	32
28	Edith	407	–	29
29	Virginia	405	↑1	15
30	Anne	393	↓5	57
31	Agnes	378	↓7	41
32	Jean	378	↑6	60
33	Gertrude	362	↓4	33
34	Stella	361	↑3	69
35	Louise	359	↑5	17
36	Sarah	352	–	43
37	Gladys	349	↓3	19
38	Emma	346	↓6	38
39	Bertha	334	↑3	39
40	Thelma	334	↓1	26
41	Pauline	326	↓6	35
42	Beatrice	300	↑6	37
43	Betty	296	↑1	67
44	Marion	293	↓3	51
45	Hazel	285	–	27
46	Sara	282	new	>100
47	Katherine	279	↑3	54
48	Elsie	268	↓1	40
49	Clara	265	↓6	36
50	Mabel	252	↓4	56

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	John	3,706	–	1
2	William	2,393	–	2
3	Joseph	2,327	–	5
4	Charles	1,566	–	7
5	George	1,496	↑1	6
6	James	1,477	↓1	3
7	Robert	1,362	–	4
8	Frank	1,184	–	9
9	Edward	1,085	–	8
10	Harry	818	–	15
11	Paul	765	–	14
12	Thomas	758	↑1	10
13	Walter	666	↓1	11
14	Michael	644	–	40
15	Albert	595	–	16
16	Anthony	502	–	38
17	Harold	461	–	13
18	Samuel	425	↑1	36
19	Henry	418	↑4	12
20	Andrew	414	↑7	47
21	Francis	407	–	30
22	Stanley	407	↑4	41
23	Raymond	400	↓5	18
24	Richard	399	↓4	19
25	Louis	396	↓3	20
26	Ralph	380	↓1	22
27	Arthur	333	↓3	17
28	David	331	–	29
29	Donald	313	↑4	25
30	Howard	309	↓1	26
31	Clarence	291	↑3	21
32	Kenneth	286	↓2	33
33	Peter	280	↓1	51
34	Carl	273	↓3	23
35	Earl	244	–	31
36	Stephen	238	↑6	86
37	Russell	220	↑2	50
38	Daniel	216	↓2	54
39	Jack	214	↑1	28
40	Alfred	211	↑1	42
41	Fred	211	↑4	27
42	Herbert	206	↑8	39
43	Frederick	202	↑4	49
44	Lawrence	199	↓6	35
45	Elmer	197	↓2	45
46	Eugene	195	↓9	43
47	Bernard	193	new	52
48	Vincent	183	↑1	66
49	Steve	179	new	>100
50	Leonard	175	new	46

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