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Baby names in Indiana, 1910s

1910–1919 · 323,355 recorded births

Mary was the most common name given in Indiana across the 1910s, with 15,586 births in the decade. The state recorded 323,355 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Indiana 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
Donnabelle23
Madonna111
Devon22
Waneta90
Valada6
Dorotha180
Crystal151
Herschel198

Top 25 in the 1910s

RankNameBirths
#1Mary15,586
#2Robert8,972
#3John8,248
#4Helen7,935
#5William7,083
#6Charles6,417
#7Dorothy6,306
#8James5,941
#9Ruth5,327
#10Margaret4,993
#11Mildred4,243
#12George3,980
#13Paul3,423
#14Virginia3,219
#15Harold3,118
#16Joseph3,089
#17Martha3,034
#18Frances2,682
#19Richard2,677
#20Elizabeth2,544
#21Evelyn2,459
#22Anna2,443
#23Edward2,316
#24Thelma2,236
#25Donald2,211

Other decades in Indiana

All Indiana 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