Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Delaware, 1918

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	178
2	Helen	90
3	Dorothy	86
4	Margaret	76
5	Elizabeth	74
6	Anna	59
6	Ruth	59
8	Mildred	50
9	Frances	48
10	Catherine	40
10	Florence	40
12	Alice	34
12	Virginia	34
14	Eleanor	33
15	Marie	32
16	Edith	31
17	Ethel	28
18	Anne	27
18	Evelyn	27
20	Gladys	25
20	Irene	25
22	Edna	24
22	Pauline	24
24	Ann	23
24	Jean	23
24	Sara	23
24	Sarah	23
28	Hazel	22
29	Louise	21
29	Mabel	21
29	Marguerite	21
29	Rose	21
33	Grace	20
33	Jane	20
35	Beatrice	19
36	Esther	18
37	Hilda	17
37	Josephine	17
37	Pearl	17
37	Rita	17
41	Gertrude	16
41	Kathryn	16
41	Lillian	16
41	Marion	16
41	Thelma	16
46	Agnes	15
46	Betty	15
46	Blanche	15
46	Doris	15
46	Julia	15

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	147
2	William	129
3	James	116
4	Joseph	89
5	Charles	82
6	Robert	72
7	George	64
8	Edward	54
9	Harry	38
10	Thomas	37
11	Paul	36
12	Francis	35
13	Walter	34
14	Frank	31
15	Howard	27
16	Albert	26
17	Harold	22
17	Raymond	22
19	Clarence	21
20	Norman	18
20	Samuel	18
22	David	16
22	Richard	16
24	Stanley	15
25	Alfred	14
25	Henry	14
25	Ralph	14
28	Leonard	13
28	Louis	13
30	Anthony	12
30	Victor	12
32	Alexander	11
32	Lawrence	11
34	Arthur	10
34	Donald	10
34	Earl	10
37	Benjamin	9
37	Ernest	9
37	Frederick	9
37	Herbert	9
37	Roland	9
37	Stephen	9
37	Warren	9
44	Alvin	8
44	Andrew	8
44	Daniel	8
44	Elmer	8
44	Harvey	8
44	Wallace	8
50	Franklin	7