Popular baby names in Pennsylvania, 1925

The most popular baby names in Pennsylvania in 1925 were Mary for girls (6,563 babies) and John for boys (6,936). John ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 183,062 babies born in Pennsylvania in 1925 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Pennsylvania in 1925

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: 52 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Philomena: 74 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Regina: 269 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Carmella: 113 babies, 3× the national rate
Veronica: 166 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Sophia: 58 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Clare: 52 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Teresa: 184 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Angeline: 162 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Althea: 50 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Boys

Regis: 50 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Clair: 126 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Carmen: 85 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Steve: 280 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Michael: 903 babies, 3× the national rate
Stephen: 352 babies, 3× the national rate
Dominic: 123 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Elwood: 122 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Andy: 54 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Marlin: 51 babies, 2.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Pennsylvania, 1925

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Mary	6,563	–	1
2	Dorothy	3,774	↑1	2
3	Helen	3,757	↓1	4
4	Betty	3,440	–	3
5	Margaret	3,060	–	5
6	Anna	2,306	–	13
7	Ruth	2,209	–	6
8	Elizabeth	2,000	–	10
9	Jean	1,635	–	14
10	Doris	1,411	↑1	8
11	Marie	1,293	↓1	16
12	Eleanor	1,230	–	31
13	Mildred	1,173	↑1	9
14	Catherine	1,151	↓1	29
15	Frances	1,121	–	11
16	Virginia	1,113	–	7
17	Irene	1,108	↑1	19
18	Florence	1,107	↓1	24
19	Rose	1,094	↑1	26
20	Evelyn	1,017	↓1	12
21	Alice	983	–	15
22	Josephine	853	–	36
23	Lois	812	↑1	18
24	Gloria	780	↑20	20
25	Jane	736	↑3	53
26	Lillian	714	↑3	25
27	Martha	699	↓4	23
28	Pauline	698	↑3	38
29	Rita	697	↓4	48
30	Grace	691	↓3	44
31	Shirley	682	↑10	17
32	Ann	671	↓6	52
33	June	624	↑3	39
34	Louise	595	↓4	27
35	Marjorie	582	↓2	21
36	Ethel	563	↓4	43
37	Marion	547	–	47
38	Dolores	544	↑10	64
39	Kathryn	541	↓5	88
40	Edith	537	↓5	42
41	Thelma	534	↓1	35
42	Agnes	519	↓3	69
43	Phyllis	501	↑6	40
44	Gladys	500	↓1	33
45	Marian	497	–	67
46	Anne	490	↓4	85
47	Esther	489	↓9	56
48	Patricia	487	new	28
49	Nancy	472	new	60
50	Edna	468	↓3	37

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	John	6,936	–	2
2	William	5,366	–	3
3	Robert	5,321	–	1
4	Joseph	4,230	–	7
5	James	3,699	–	4
6	Charles	2,904	–	5
7	George	2,841	–	6
8	Edward	2,433	–	9
9	Richard	2,106	–	8
10	Paul	1,830	↑2	13
11	Thomas	1,783	–	11
12	Frank	1,714	↓2	12
13	Donald	1,546	–	10
14	Harry	1,318	–	23
15	Walter	1,226	–	16
16	Albert	1,129	–	21
17	Raymond	1,074	–	15
18	Harold	990	–	14
19	Francis	957	↑1	35
20	Michael	903	↓1	55
21	Anthony	872	–	39
22	David	838	–	22
23	Henry	750	–	18
24	Kenneth	716	–	19
25	Jack	712	↑1	17
26	Ralph	697	↓1	25
27	Carl	686	↑2	28
28	Arthur	677	↑3	20
29	Eugene	659	↑1	24
30	Stanley	633	↓3	40
31	Louis	630	↓3	29
32	Samuel	596	–	46
33	Andrew	581	↑1	56
34	Howard	576	↓1	26
35	Earl	545	–	31
36	Daniel	516	↑3	44
37	Bernard	502	↑1	48
38	Leonard	496	↓1	38
39	Peter	455	↓3	60
40	Fred	427	↑3	33
41	Norman	422	–	41
42	Clarence	401	↓2	30
43	Russell	394	↑2	53
44	Vincent	394	↓2	71
45	Lawrence	385	↑1	36
46	Alfred	381	↓2	43
47	Theodore	381	↑2	63
48	Gerald	362	new	45
49	Stephen	352	↓1	>100
50	Ernest	339	↓3	37

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