Popular baby names in Pennsylvania, 1921

The most popular baby names in Pennsylvania in 1921 were Mary for girls (7,772 babies) and John for boys (7,194). Social Security records list 189,573 babies born in Pennsylvania in 1921 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Pennsylvania in 1921

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: 65 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Sophia: 128 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Regina: 282 babies, 3× the national rate
Philomena: 71 babies, 3× the national rate
Anna: 2,985 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Veronica: 223 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Matilda: 123 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Sara: 444 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Angeline: 183 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Carmella: 91 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Regis: 58 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Clair: 116 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Marlin: 62 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Steve: 379 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Andy: 86 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Mike: 283 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Michael: 1,054 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Stephen: 411 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Carmen: 68 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Isadore: 46 babies, 2.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Pennsylvania, 1921

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	7,772	–	1
2	Helen	4,873	–	3
3	Dorothy	3,857	↑1	2
4	Margaret	3,647	↓1	4
5	Anna	2,985	–	11
6	Ruth	2,698	–	5
7	Betty	2,348	↑1	8
8	Elizabeth	2,260	↓1	10
9	Mildred	1,451	–	7
10	Catherine	1,434	–	23
11	Marie	1,391	–	14
12	Frances	1,322	↑2	9
13	Florence	1,293	↓1	17
14	Virginia	1,260	↑2	6
15	Jean	1,240	↑3	25
16	Rose	1,224	↓3	20
17	Eleanor	1,172	↓2	29
18	Evelyn	1,163	↑1	12
19	Josephine	1,049	↓2	28
20	Irene	1,030	–	18
21	Doris	979	↑4	13
22	Grace	903	–	35
23	Alice	901	↓2	15
24	Ann	868	–	53
25	Martha	849	↓2	21
26	Jane	838	↑2	47
27	Lillian	811	↓1	19
28	Kathryn	754	↑3	64
29	Ethel	749	↓2	32
30	Pauline	706	↓1	37
31	Edith	705	↑1	33
32	Marjorie	689	↑13	16
33	Esther	675	↓3	42
34	Rita	665	–	48
35	Agnes	654	↑4	56
36	Louise	647	↑1	22
37	Anne	629	↓1	70
38	Edna	618	↓3	27
39	Julia	615	↓6	58
40	Gladys	602	–	24
41	Gertrude	564	↑2	46
42	Thelma	563	↓4	30
43	Marion	541	↓2	43
44	Beatrice	505	↑3	41
45	Stella	498	↓1	86
46	Emma	496	↓4	52
47	Clara	479	↑3	45
48	June	465	new	50
49	Marian	461	↓3	69
50	Sara	444	↓1	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	John	7,194	–	1
2	William	5,441	–	3
3	Robert	4,389	–	2
4	Joseph	4,375	–	7
5	James	3,353	–	4
6	Charles	3,124	–	5
7	George	2,999	–	6
8	Edward	2,473	–	8
9	Frank	1,997	–	9
10	Paul	1,707	–	14
11	Thomas	1,616	–	11
12	Richard	1,484	↑2	10
13	Harry	1,468	–	21
14	Walter	1,357	↓2	15
15	Albert	1,203	–	20
16	Donald	1,161	↑2	13
17	Raymond	1,065	↑2	16
18	Michael	1,054	↓1	47
19	Harold	1,040	↓3	12
20	Anthony	959	↑1	40
21	Francis	950	↓1	35
22	Ralph	784	–	23
23	David	760	↑4	25
24	Henry	755	–	17
25	Stanley	740	↓2	41
26	Louis	735	–	29
27	Kenneth	686	↑5	22
28	Andrew	679	↓3	51
29	Jack	679	↑4	18
30	Arthur	678	↓2	19
31	Samuel	647	↓2	44
32	Eugene	595	↑4	26
33	Howard	593	↑1	27
34	Carl	583	↓4	30
35	Earl	569	↓4	31
36	Warren	548	↑13	24
37	Peter	542	↓2	57
38	Bernard	526	–	45
39	Leonard	504	–	39
40	Clarence	492	–	28
41	Daniel	467	↓4	49
42	Lawrence	435	↑4	37
43	Fred	417	↓1	33
44	Stephen	411	↓3	97
45	Norman	396	new	46
46	Russell	385	↓2	52
47	Steve	379	new	>100
48	Ernest	375	–	38
49	Alfred	367	↓6	43
50	Leo	360	new	50

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