Name Legacy

Baby names in Delaware, 1910s

1910–1919 · 22,969 recorded births

Mary was the most common name given in Delaware across the 1910s, with 1,141 births in the decade. The state recorded 22,969 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Delaware in the 1910s

Names given far more often here than nationally in these years. The multiplier is conservative — it is the low end of the plausible range, so a name carried by a handful of births does not outrank one carried by hundreds.

NameBirthsvs national
Elwood43
Preston35
Sara122
Hilda87
Elizabeth527
Francis209
Catherine280
Roland44

Top 25 in the 1910s

RankNameBirths
#1Mary1,141
#2John985
#3William956
#4James699
#5Helen662
#6Margaret610
#7Dorothy563
#8Charles541
#9Elizabeth527
#10Joseph521
#11George462
#12Anna413
#13Robert387
#14Ruth368
#15Mildred361
#16Edward318
#17Catherine280
#18Frances264
#19Thomas248
#20Harry242
#21Alice240
#22Florence227
#23Marie220
#24Francis209
#25Frank206

Other decades in Delaware

All Delaware names, 2025

Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. State records begin in 1910. Names given to fewer than five babies in a state in a year are withheld at source. namelegacy.org