Popular baby names in Pennsylvania, 1914

The most popular baby names in Pennsylvania in 1914 were Mary for girls (5,981 babies) and John for boys (5,192). Social Security records list 121,918 babies born in Pennsylvania in 1914 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Pennsylvania in 1914

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: 73 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Anna: 2,836 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Sara: 360 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Philomena: 49 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Sophia: 124 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Carmella: 53 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Kathryn: 613 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Regina: 134 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Susan: 128 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Catherine: 1,197 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Boys

Regis: 43 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Clair: 86 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Andy: 71 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Mike: 242 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Steve: 286 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Michael: 885 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Nick: 109 babies, 3× the national rate
Micheal: 31 babies, 3× the national rate
Elwood: 91 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Carmen: 41 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Pennsylvania, 1914

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	Mary	5,981	–	1
2	Helen	3,324	–	2
3	Anna	2,836	–	6
4	Margaret	2,608	–	4
5	Dorothy	2,077	–	3
6	Elizabeth	1,711	–	8
7	Ruth	1,557	–	5
8	Catherine	1,197	↑1	18
9	Mildred	1,135	↓1	7
10	Marie	988	↑1	10
11	Rose	944	↓1	15
12	Florence	931	↑1	13
13	Frances	863	↓1	9
14	Josephine	756	–	23
15	Alice	720	–	12
16	Evelyn	682	↑2	11
17	Grace	659	↓1	25
18	Eleanor	654	↓1	28
19	Ann	632	↑4	40
20	Kathryn	613	↓1	63
21	Lillian	594	↑4	16
22	Martha	561	↓1	27
23	Ethel	544	↓3	21
24	Virginia	537	↑5	14
25	Anne	528	↑5	53
26	Esther	520	↑1	35
27	Edna	500	↓3	19
28	Jean	500	↑4	54
29	Julia	500	↓3	42
30	Irene	489	↓8	22
31	Louise	488	↑4	17
32	Gertrude	484	↑1	32
33	Stella	478	↑1	65
34	Edith	476	↓6	31
35	Agnes	470	↓4	44
36	Pauline	461	↑5	34
37	Emma	436	↑1	39
38	Thelma	424	↑2	26
39	Sarah	404	↓3	47
40	Betty	396	↑3	62
41	Gladys	393	↓4	20
42	Marion	368	↑2	50
43	Katherine	363	↑4	48
44	Clara	360	↑5	37
45	Sara	360	↑1	>100
46	Beatrice	350	↓4	38
47	Jennie	334	new	77
48	Hazel	333	↓3	29
49	Jane	328	new	71
50	Bertha	322	↓11	41

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	John	5,192	–	1
2	Joseph	3,119	↑1	5
3	William	3,078	↓1	2
4	Charles	2,111	–	7
5	George	1,978	–	6
6	James	1,906	–	3
7	Robert	1,812	–	4
8	Frank	1,516	–	9
9	Edward	1,437	–	8
10	Paul	1,078	↑1	13
11	Harry	1,006	↓1	19
12	Walter	905	↑1	10
13	Michael	885	↑1	40
14	Thomas	874	↓2	11
15	Albert	793	–	15
16	Anthony	652	–	37
17	Richard	633	↑7	17
18	Stanley	575	↑4	39
19	Andrew	563	↑1	44
20	Harold	553	↓3	14
21	Louis	541	↑4	20
22	Raymond	541	↑1	16
23	Samuel	536	↓5	36
24	Henry	528	↓5	12
25	Francis	490	↓4	31
26	Arthur	454	↑1	18
27	Ralph	443	↓1	21
28	David	438	–	29
29	Peter	428	↑4	48
30	Donald	411	↓1	23
31	Kenneth	411	↑1	30
32	Carl	398	↑2	24
33	Howard	396	↓3	26
34	Clarence	358	↓3	22
35	Stephen	342	↑1	80
36	Earl	311	↓1	33
37	Russell	292	–	49
38	Steve	286	↑11	>100
39	Jack	266	–	27
40	Alfred	263	–	41
41	Chester	260	new	56
42	Fred	259	↓1	28
43	Daniel	255	↓5	55
44	Lawrence	252	–	35
45	Nicholas	252	new	>100
46	Eugene	251	–	43
47	Elmer	247	↓2	46
48	Vincent	243	–	61
49	Mike	242	new	>100
50	Norman	242	new	54

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