Popular baby names in Pennsylvania, 1930

The most popular baby names in Pennsylvania in 1930 were Mary for girls (5,187 babies) and John for boys (6,064). John ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 163,270 babies born in Pennsylvania in 1930 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Pennsylvania in 1930

Names given at least 15 times in Pennsylvania that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Philomena: 48 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Carmella: 88 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Regina: 181 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Veronica: 129 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Clare: 44 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Angeline: 100 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Dolores: 2,270 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Anna: 1,542 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Miriam: 176 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Cecelia: 89 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Regis: 50 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Clair: 136 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Carmen: 73 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Marlin: 77 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Steve: 174 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Michael: 637 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Nick: 110 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Dominic: 67 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Stephen: 217 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Francis: 799 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Pennsylvania, 1930

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Mary	5,187	–	1
2	Dorothy	2,725	–	3
3	Betty	2,606	–	2
4	Dolores	2,270	↑2	13
5	Helen	2,227	↓1	4
6	Margaret	2,160	↓1	5
7	Anna	1,542	–	23
8	Doris	1,535	↑1	9
9	Joan	1,533	↑7	8
10	Jean	1,481	–	14
11	Ruth	1,477	↓3	10
12	Shirley	1,455	–	11
13	Elizabeth	1,357	↓2	15
14	Patricia	1,218	–	7
15	Nancy	1,074	↑5	24
16	Lois	999	↓1	17
17	Marie	985	↓4	26
18	Catherine	937	↓1	35
19	Barbara	915	↑4	6
20	Rose	902	↓2	29
21	Eleanor	877	↓2	39
22	Virginia	833	–	12
23	Alice	819	↑4	20
24	Frances	794	–	16
25	Florence	753	–	38
26	Evelyn	745	↑3	19
27	Theresa	744	↑1	50
28	Rita	712	↑6	42
29	Irene	706	↓8	33
30	Mildred	696	↓4	21
31	Phyllis	687	↓1	28
32	Janet	637	↑18	53
33	Gloria	628	↓2	30
34	Jane	624	↓1	55
35	Ann	614	↑1	41
36	Josephine	581	↓1	49
37	Norma	516	↑2	25
38	Geraldine	514	↑3	43
39	Louise	514	↓1	31
40	Martha	509	↓8	27
41	Grace	502	↓4	62
42	Lillian	486	–	44
43	Joyce	477	↑6	18
44	June	458	↓4	47
45	Marilyn	447	new	22
46	Marion	439	↓2	60
47	Pauline	432	↓1	52
48	Marian	424	↓3	80
49	Marjorie	410	↓6	32
50	Edith	384	new	61

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	John	6,064	–	3
2	Robert	5,296	–	1
3	William	4,757	–	4
4	James	3,831	–	2
5	Joseph	3,281	–	9
6	Richard	3,098	↑1	5
7	Charles	2,869	↓1	6
8	Donald	2,511	↑1	7
9	George	2,246	↓1	8
10	Edward	2,027	–	10
11	Thomas	1,812	–	11
12	Paul	1,495	–	12
13	Frank	1,263	–	13
14	Raymond	1,097	↑1	16
15	Harry	1,065	↓1	28
16	David	1,032	–	15
17	Walter	917	–	19
18	Albert	890	–	24
19	Harold	839	↑3	18
20	Kenneth	836	↑5	17
21	Jack	814	–	14
22	Francis	799	↓3	42
23	Anthony	723	–	44
24	Eugene	716	↓4	21
25	Carl	682	↑2	26
26	Michael	637	↓2	54
27	Ralph	610	↓1	25
28	Arthur	550	↑1	23
29	Louis	522	↓1	34
30	Henry	484	–	22
31	Howard	483	↑7	31
32	Samuel	483	↑7	55
33	Daniel	479	↑1	47
34	Gerald	478	↑6	30
35	Leonard	466	↓2	45
36	Bernard	461	↓1	52
37	Ronald	455	↑12	37
38	Stanley	454	↓2	49
39	Earl	449	↓8	38
40	Andrew	445	↓3	62
41	Norman	394	↑3	40
42	Fred	390	↑1	32
43	Lawrence	385	↓2	36
44	Herbert	366	↓12	35
45	Alfred	362	↓3	46
46	Clarence	355	↓1	39
47	Theodore	344	–	67
48	Glenn	335	new	71
49	Vincent	333	new	84
50	Peter	323	↓4	56

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