Popular baby names in Washington, 1915

The most popular baby names in Washington in 1915 were Mary for girls (368 babies) and Robert for boys (436). Robert ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 15,156 babies born in Washington in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Washington in 1915

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

Girls

June: 80 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Patricia: 32 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Jeanne: 28 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Donna: 16 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Iris: 18 babies, 4× the national rate
Billie: 15 babies, 4× the national rate
Maxine: 59 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Phyllis: 54 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Joyce: 15 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Winifred: 28 babies, 2.7× the national rate

Boys

Don: 26 babies, 4× the national rate
Bruce: 23 babies, 4× the national rate
Delbert: 18 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Donald: 179 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Jack: 142 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Lyle: 18 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Ronald: 18 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Gordon: 34 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Glen: 22 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Kenneth: 108 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Washington, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	368	–	1
2	Helen	332	–	2
3	Margaret	310	↑1	4
4	Dorothy	304	↓1	3
5	Ruth	202	–	5
6	Frances	156	–	9
7	Virginia	132	↑2	12
8	Mildred	127	↑2	6
9	Evelyn	126	↓2	10
10	Florence	120	↑2	14
11	Alice	116	↓3	13
12	Elizabeth	113	↓1	8
13	Doris	109	–	34
14	Marjorie	105	↑4	39
15	Marie	101	↓1	11
16	Edna	99	↑12	20
17	Hazel	89	–	26
18	Elsie	84	↑15	41
19	Lillian	81	↑23	15
20	June	80	↑23	96
21	Gladys	79	↓2	21
22	Lois	78	↑2	47
23	Louise	78	↑2	18
24	Jean	77	↑3	48
25	Esther	74	↓10	33
26	Betty	73	↓5	53
27	Irene	72	↓7	17
28	Rose	70	↑13	16
29	Anna	66	new	7
30	Eleanor	65	↓14	28
31	Edith	63	↑7	31
32	Martha	63	↑16	25
33	Grace	61	↓10	27
34	Thelma	61	↓5	30
35	Maxine	59	↑1	98
36	Lucille	56	↓2	29
37	Ethel	55	↓15	23
38	Vivian	55	↑7	78
39	Bernice	54	↓13	42
40	Phyllis	54	new	100
41	Katherine	52	↓4	49
42	Ruby	52	new	24
43	Gertrude	51	↓8	35
44	Marguerite	48	new	85
45	Catherine	46	↓13	19
46	Josephine	46	↓16	22
47	Mabel	45	↑2	62
48	Barbara	43	↓1	83
49	Myrtle	43	new	58
50	Marian	42	↓4	86

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Robert	436	↑1	4
2	John	386	↓1	1
3	William	360	–	2
4	James	255	–	3
5	George	251	–	6
6	Donald	179	↑2	20
7	Charles	175	↓1	7
8	Harold	158	↓1	12
9	Richard	147	↑1	15
10	Edward	142	↑4	8
11	Jack	142	↓2	27
12	Frank	135	↓1	9
13	Arthur	122	↑2	18
14	Joseph	110	↓1	5
15	Kenneth	108	↑4	28
16	Albert	105	↑1	17
17	Walter	102	↓5	11
18	Howard	98	↓2	25
19	Harry	93	↓1	19
20	Ralph	88	↑7	21
21	Roy	88	↑4	32
22	Lawrence	86	↑9	37
23	Carl	85	↑1	22
24	Thomas	84	↓2	10
25	Fred	76	↑1	26
26	Paul	76	↓3	13
27	Henry	73	↓7	14
28	David	67	↑5	31
29	Raymond	66	↓8	16
30	Earl	65	↓1	33
31	Clarence	63	↓3	24
32	Francis	58	↑12	29
33	Ernest	56	↑3	35
34	Elmer	50	↓4	45
35	Eugene	50	↑2	41
36	Lloyd	47	↑13	62
37	Melvin	46	↑1	60
38	Stanley	45	↓4	34
39	Leonard	44	↑3	44
40	Clifford	42	new	61
41	Joe	42	↓9	38
42	Norman	42	↓2	50
43	Alfred	41	↓4	42
44	Louis	41	new	23
45	Chester	40	new	54
46	Edwin	40	↓11	53
47	Herbert	38	–	40
48	Gerald	37	new	78
49	Vernon	36	new	80
50	Floyd	35	↓7	59

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