Popular baby names in Wisconsin, 1915

The most popular baby names in Wisconsin in 1915 were Dorothy for girls (844 babies) and John for boys (864). Dorothy ranked #3 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 40,235 babies born in Wisconsin in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Wisconsin in 1915

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

Girls

Hildegard: 21 babies, 12× the national rate
Leone: 54 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Verona: 18 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Erna: 49 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Ione: 44 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Hildegarde: 16 babies, 6× the national rate
Meta: 16 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Lorraine: 149 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Eleanore: 63 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Alvina: 29 babies, 5× the national rate

Boys

Ernst: 18 babies, 16.7× the national rate
Hilbert: 16 babies, 12.7× the national rate
Alois: 23 babies, 11.9× the national rate
Elroy: 23 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Roman: 50 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Norbert: 68 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Merlin: 32 babies, 8× the national rate
Lavern: 21 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Anton: 53 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Erwin: 52 babies, 5.5× the national rate

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

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Dorothy	844	↑2	3
2	Mary	759	–	1
3	Helen	758	↓2	2
4	Ruth	656	↑1	5
5	Margaret	626	↓1	4
6	Evelyn	487	–	10
7	Alice	385	–	13
8	Marie	383	–	11
9	Florence	377	↑1	14
10	Irene	358	↑2	17
11	Mildred	358	↓2	6
12	Lucille	344	↓1	29
13	Esther	315	–	33
14	Bernice	268	↑2	42
15	Elizabeth	265	–	8
16	Frances	249	↑1	9
17	Gertrude	238	↑1	35
18	Eleanor	231	↑2	28
19	Gladys	218	↓5	21
20	Marion	214	↑5	50
21	Doris	205	↑11	34
22	Rose	203	↓3	16
23	Anna	197	↓1	7
24	Virginia	189	↑9	12
25	Lillian	188	↓4	15
26	Agnes	179	↑1	45
27	Edna	175	↑3	20
28	Josephine	169	↑7	22
29	Catherine	165	↓3	19
30	Grace	165	↑4	27
31	Hazel	159	↑7	26
32	Leona	159	↓3	74
33	Myrtle	159	↑3	58
34	Viola	159	↓10	59
35	Clara	151	↑8	38
36	Lorraine	149	↓13	>100
37	Ann	148	↓9	43
38	Beatrice	140	↑6	37
39	Violet	137	new	82
40	Genevieve	135	↓3	76
41	Ethel	132	↓10	23
42	Elsie	131	↑5	41
43	Mabel	130	↑2	62
44	Edith	125	new	31
45	Marian	124	new	86
46	Martha	115	↓4	25
47	Adeline	114	↓1	>100
48	Harriet	114	new	>100
49	Sylvia	114	↓8	67
50	Louise	112	↓10	18

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	John	864	–	1
2	Robert	664	–	4
3	William	582	–	2
4	Edward	519	–	8
5	George	489	↑1	6
6	Harold	489	↑1	12
7	Joseph	473	↓2	5
8	Raymond	433	–	16
9	James	353	↑4	3
10	Walter	342	↑2	11
11	Frank	334	↓2	9
12	Charles	317	↓1	7
13	Arthur	304	↑1	18
14	Clarence	302	↓4	24
15	Donald	293	–	20
16	Henry	268	–	14
17	Carl	233	↑4	22
18	Elmer	217	↓1	45
19	Ralph	211	↑9	21
20	Kenneth	210	↓2	28
21	Harry	201	↑5	19
22	Paul	201	↑3	13
23	Richard	200	↓3	15
24	Lester	177	↑5	57
25	Earl	175	↓3	33
26	Francis	170	↑8	29
27	Howard	170	↓4	25
28	Norman	170	↓1	50
29	Stanley	170	↑3	34
30	Leonard	165	↑1	44
31	Louis	164	↑5	23
32	Leo	163	↓2	47
33	Lawrence	160	↓14	37
34	Albert	158	↓10	17
35	Eugene	154	↑3	41
36	Bernard	149	↑5	48
37	Herbert	147	↓2	40
38	Edwin	145	↓5	53
39	Roy	138	↑9	32
40	Thomas	138	↓1	10
41	Alfred	137	↓4	42
42	Fred	131	–	26
43	Gordon	131	↓3	90
44	Arnold	130	–	91
45	Russell	122	new	51
46	Willard	122	new	58
47	Alvin	116	↓4	81
48	Clifford	104	new	61
49	Milton	104	new	73
50	Chester	101	new	54

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