Popular baby names in Pennsylvania, 1919

The most popular baby names in Pennsylvania in 1919 were Mary for girls (7,428 babies) and John for boys (6,791). Social Security records list 172,420 babies born in Pennsylvania in 1919 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Pennsylvania in 1919

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, 4.4× the national rate
Sophia: 149 babies, 3× the national rate
Anna: 3,170 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Regina: 240 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Clare: 52 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Veronica: 221 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Sara: 447 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Philomena: 51 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Kathryn: 739 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Sophie: 423 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Regis: 45 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Clair: 132 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Marlin: 60 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Andy: 82 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Mike: 319 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Michael: 1,020 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Steve: 338 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Micheal: 41 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Carmen: 59 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Stephen: 381 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Pennsylvania, 1919

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Mary	7,428	–	1
2	Helen	4,724	–	2
3	Margaret	3,547	–	4
4	Dorothy	3,285	↑1	3
5	Anna	3,170	↓1	10
6	Ruth	2,578	–	5
7	Elizabeth	2,268	–	8
8	Mildred	1,557	↑1	6
9	Betty	1,437	↑5	15
10	Catherine	1,368	↓2	23
11	Marie	1,334	–	12
12	Frances	1,306	↓2	9
13	Rose	1,294	↓1	19
14	Florence	1,219	↓1	14
15	Eleanor	1,102	↑1	30
16	Virginia	1,063	↑1	7
17	Josephine	1,047	↓2	26
18	Jean	987	↑3	37
19	Evelyn	986	↓1	11
20	Alice	862	↑2	13
21	Ann	813	↓2	49
22	Grace	813	↓2	34
23	Irene	800	–	16
24	Martha	765	↑2	25
25	Lillian	752	–	17
26	Kathryn	739	↓2	66
27	Pauline	729	↑4	36
28	Ethel	726	↓1	28
29	Esther	707	↑1	38
30	Julia	672	↓1	48
31	Anne	659	↓3	63
32	Edith	658	↑2	29
33	Agnes	640	↓1	50
34	Jane	626	↑2	53
35	Doris	623	↑9	18
36	Thelma	605	↑2	31
37	Gertrude	596	↑3	39
38	Rita	588	↓1	54
39	Stella	587	↓4	70
40	Edna	573	↓7	22
41	Louise	571	↓2	20
42	Gladys	550	↓1	21
43	Emma	516	↓1	45
44	Marion	492	↓1	44
45	Beatrice	469	↑1	41
46	Sarah	463	↑3	46
47	Elsie	449	new	47
48	Clara	447	↑2	43
49	Marjorie	447	new	33
50	Sara	447	↓5	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	John	6,791	–	1
2	William	4,404	–	2
3	Joseph	4,202	–	7
4	Robert	3,549	–	4
5	Charles	2,842	↑1	5
6	James	2,762	↓1	3
7	George	2,675	–	6
8	Edward	2,154	–	8
9	Frank	1,971	–	9
10	Paul	1,589	–	15
11	Walter	1,407	↑2	11
12	Harry	1,383	↓1	20
13	Thomas	1,357	↓1	10
14	Richard	1,138	↑1	12
15	Albert	1,117	↓1	18
16	Michael	1,020	–	46
17	Raymond	974	–	14
18	Harold	958	↑1	13
19	Anthony	841	↓1	41
20	Francis	827	–	34
21	Donald	826	–	17
22	Stanley	786	–	37
23	Henry	712	–	16
24	Louis	676	↑3	28
25	Andrew	665	↓1	47
26	David	633	↑2	27
27	Ralph	633	↓2	22
28	Samuel	613	↓2	43
29	Arthur	610	–	19
30	Howard	610	↑2	24
31	Carl	534	↓1	29
32	Earl	531	↑1	31
33	Jack	531	↑2	21
34	Kenneth	531	–	26
35	Peter	526	↓4	57
36	Eugene	471	↑8	33
37	Bernard	435	–	45
38	Clarence	435	↓2	25
39	Daniel	411	↓1	51
40	Fred	384	–	30
41	Leonard	383	↑7	39
42	Stephen	381	↓3	97
43	Alfred	374	↓2	42
44	Vincent	362	new	72
45	Lawrence	361	↑2	38
46	Russell	360	↓1	50
47	Theodore	348	new	54
48	Herbert	343	↑1	40
49	Elmer	342	↑1	44
50	Steve	338	↓7	>100

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