Popular baby names in Pennsylvania, 1915

The most popular baby names in Pennsylvania in 1915 were Mary for girls (7,970 babies) and John for boys (6,443). Social Security records list 159,552 babies born in Pennsylvania in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Pennsylvania in 1915

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: 127 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Anna: 3,623 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Susan: 184 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Sophia: 156 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Isabella: 53 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Sara: 412 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Philomena: 61 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Kathryn: 787 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Miriam: 283 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Veronica: 183 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Regis: 54 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Clair: 114 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Andy: 93 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Marlin: 42 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Mike: 309 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Michael: 1,092 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Steve: 350 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Aloysius: 47 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Stephen: 427 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Carmen: 48 babies, 2.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Pennsylvania, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	7,970	–	1
2	Helen	4,617	–	2
3	Anna	3,623	–	7
4	Margaret	3,324	–	4
5	Dorothy	2,847	–	3
6	Ruth	2,218	↑1	5
7	Elizabeth	2,109	↓1	8
8	Catherine	1,426	–	19
9	Mildred	1,385	–	6
10	Marie	1,300	–	11
11	Rose	1,290	–	16
12	Florence	1,192	–	14
13	Frances	1,174	–	9
14	Josephine	1,068	–	22
15	Eleanor	948	↑3	28
16	Evelyn	918	–	10
17	Alice	863	↓2	13
18	Grace	854	↓1	27
19	Ann	839	–	43
20	Kathryn	787	–	60
21	Virginia	766	↑3	12
22	Martha	765	–	25
23	Lillian	733	↓2	15
24	Anne	705	↑1	52
25	Jean	693	↑3	48
26	Ethel	687	↓3	23
27	Esther	661	↓1	33
28	Julia	659	↑1	44
29	Edith	656	↑5	31
30	Edna	642	↓3	20
31	Irene	642	↓1	17
32	Stella	623	↑1	64
33	Pauline	621	↑3	32
34	Emma	618	↑3	40
35	Gertrude	617	↓3	35
36	Agnes	588	↓1	45
37	Louise	588	↓6	18
38	Betty	568	↑2	53
39	Thelma	537	↓1	30
40	Gladys	504	↑1	21
41	Bertha	481	↑9	46
42	Katherine	480	↑1	49
43	Jane	469	↑6	69
44	Sarah	469	↓5	51
45	Marion	464	↓3	50
46	Beatrice	451	–	37
47	Rita	441	new	71
48	Elsie	426	new	41
49	Clara	413	↓5	38
50	Sara	412	↓5	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	John	6,443	–	1
2	William	4,045	↑1	2
3	Joseph	3,968	↓1	5
4	Charles	2,652	–	7
5	George	2,558	–	6
6	Robert	2,533	↑1	4
7	James	2,383	↓1	3
8	Frank	1,905	–	9
9	Edward	1,848	–	8
10	Paul	1,401	–	13
11	Harry	1,275	–	19
12	Thomas	1,183	↑2	10
13	Walter	1,168	↓1	11
14	Michael	1,092	↓1	43
15	Albert	1,057	–	17
16	Anthony	905	–	36
17	Richard	865	–	15
18	Stanley	766	–	34
19	Harold	756	↑1	12
20	Raymond	742	↑2	16
21	Francis	741	↑4	29
22	Henry	710	↑2	14
23	Louis	686	↓2	23
24	Andrew	672	↓5	46
25	Samuel	625	↓2	39
26	Peter	600	↑3	49
27	Donald	596	↑3	20
28	Ralph	577	↓1	21
29	David	571	↓1	31
30	Carl	568	↑2	22
31	Howard	550	↑2	25
32	Arthur	522	↓6	18
33	Kenneth	492	↓2	28
34	Clarence	434	–	24
35	Stephen	427	–	86
36	Earl	404	–	33
37	Daniel	359	↑6	55
38	Bernard	356	new	48
39	Steve	350	↓1	>100
40	Alfred	346	–	42
41	Jack	346	↓2	27
42	Vincent	343	↑6	65
43	Fred	331	↓1	26
44	Eugene	329	↑2	41
45	Russell	319	↓8	51
46	Frederick	318	new	52
47	Chester	317	↓6	54
48	Mike	309	↑1	>100
49	Elmer	306	↓2	45
50	Norman	305	–	50

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