Popular baby names in South Dakota, 1915

The most popular baby names in South Dakota in 1915 were Mary for girls (177 babies) and John for boys (185). Social Security records list 9,643 babies born in South Dakota in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Dakota in 1915

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

Girls

Ione: 17 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Shirley: 22 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Fern: 21 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Esther: 111 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Lydia: 19 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Viola: 66 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Erma: 23 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Marian: 40 babies, 3× the national rate
Maxine: 33 babies, 3× the national rate
Phyllis: 32 babies, 3× the national rate

Boys

Reuben: 21 babies, 9× the national rate
Lyle: 29 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Otto: 25 babies, 6× the national rate
Merle: 15 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Orville: 27 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Dale: 26 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Arnold: 37 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Alvin: 42 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Leslie: 28 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Virgil: 27 babies, 3.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Dakota, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	177	↑1	1
2	Helen	173	↑1	2
3	Margaret	146	↑1	4
4	Dorothy	142	↓3	3
5	Ruth	136	↑1	5
6	Esther	111	↑2	33
7	Evelyn	106	↑2	10
8	Mildred	102	↓3	6
9	Alice	101	↓2	13
10	Irene	87	↑6	17
11	Hazel	82	↑2	26
12	Florence	79	↓2	14
13	Gladys	77	↓1	21
14	Lucille	75	↑10	29
15	Marie	74	↓4	11
16	Lillian	70	↓2	15
17	Viola	66	↑3	59
18	Edna	64	↑1	20
19	Frances	62	↓2	9
20	Agnes	60	↓5	45
21	Anna	58	↓3	7
22	Doris	55	↑16	34
23	Myrtle	54	↑5	58
24	Elsie	49	↓1	41
25	Marjorie	48	↑14	39
26	Martha	46	↓4	25
27	Elizabeth	45	↑2	8
28	Rose	45	new	16
29	Clara	43	↓2	38
30	Edith	43	–	31
31	Bernice	42	↑2	42
32	Virginia	42	new	12
33	Grace	41	↓7	27
34	Eleanor	40	↑11	28
35	Ethel	40	↑7	23
36	Marian	40	new	86
37	Alma	39	new	70
38	Emma	39	↓3	40
39	Leona	39	↓8	74
40	Lois	37	↓3	47
41	Thelma	36	new	30
42	Violet	35	↑2	82
43	Bertha	33	↓9	46
44	Maxine	33	↑2	98
45	Gertrude	32	↓24	35
46	Josephine	32	new	22
47	Louise	32	↓15	18
48	Pearl	32	↓8	56
49	Phyllis	32	new	100
50	Catherine	30	new	19

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	John	185	–	1
2	Robert	180	↑1	4
3	William	125	↓1	2
4	Donald	114	↑3	20
5	Harold	112	↓1	12
6	George	109	↑2	6
7	James	96	↓1	3
8	Charles	84	↓3	7
9	Arthur	77	↑3	18
10	Edward	75	↑3	8
11	Kenneth	72	↓1	28
12	Raymond	72	↓3	16
13	Clarence	65	↑4	24
14	Albert	63	↑1	17
15	Walter	63	↓4	11
16	Richard	61	↑9	15
17	Joseph	58	↓1	5
18	Elmer	56	↑2	45
19	Frank	53	–	9
20	Francis	52	↑2	29
21	Howard	52	↑2	25
22	Lawrence	51	↑8	37
23	Paul	50	↑6	13
24	Herbert	49	↑8	40
25	Melvin	48	↑2	60
26	Alfred	47	↑18	42
27	Henry	47	↓13	14
28	Leonard	47	↑10	44
29	Harry	45	↓1	19
30	Earl	44	↓12	33
31	Clifford	43	↑17	61
32	Leo	43	↑1	47
33	Alvin	42	↑2	81
34	Lloyd	42	↓13	62
35	Ernest	39	↑2	35
36	Louis	39	↑13	23
37	Ralph	39	↓6	21
38	Arnold	37	↑9	91
39	Bernard	37	↑6	48
40	Floyd	37	–	59
41	Marvin	37	↓17	72
42	Thomas	37	↓3	10
43	Edwin	35	↓17	53
44	Vernon	35	new	80
45	Roy	33	↓3	32
46	Carl	32	↓10	22
47	Eugene	32	↓6	41
48	Lester	31	↓14	57
49	Leroy	30	new	66
50	Lyle	29	new	>100

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