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Baby names in Maryland, 1910s

1910–1919 · 174,783 recorded births

Mary was the most common name given in Maryland across the 1910s, with 7,815 births in the decade. The state recorded 174,783 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Maryland 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
Levin2314×
Alverta87
Sylvan48
Carlyn13
Carroll264
Ellwood32
Hilda733
Gorman13

Top 25 in the 1910s

RankNameBirths
#1Mary7,815
#2William6,178
#3John5,612
#4Charles4,667
#5James4,371
#6Margaret4,216
#7Dorothy3,777
#8Helen3,579
#9Joseph3,164
#10George3,144
#11Robert2,643
#12Ruth2,567
#13Anna2,566
#14Elizabeth2,549
#15Mildred2,192
#16Edward2,163
#17Catherine2,149
#18Evelyn1,908
#19Marie1,827
#20Virginia1,584
#21Thomas1,570
#22Frances1,497
#23Harry1,487
#24Lillian1,454
#25Frank1,257

Other decades in Maryland

All Maryland 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