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Baby names in Kansas, 1910s

1910–1919 · 204,136 recorded births

Mary was the most common name given in Kansas across the 1910s, with 5,858 births in the decade. The state recorded 204,136 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Kansas 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
Nellora5
Velda104
Loren263
Eldon235
Nadine231
Leota186
Dale597
Thaine10

Top 25 in the 1910s

RankNameBirths
#1Mary5,858
#2John4,402
#3Helen4,055
#4Dorothy3,824
#5William3,699
#6Robert3,370
#7Charles3,093
#8James2,938
#9Margaret2,877
#10Ruth2,849
#11Mildred2,609
#12George2,377
#13Harold2,188
#14Frances1,769
#15Paul1,620
#16Virginia1,595
#17Kenneth1,528
#18Donald1,430
#19Raymond1,410
#20Frank1,396
#21Alice1,376
#22Ralph1,357
#23Evelyn1,355
#24Joseph1,306
#25Anna1,287

Other decades in Kansas

All Kansas 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