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Baby names in Michigan, 1910s

1910–1919 · 415,958 recorded births

Mary was the most common name given in Michigan across the 1910s, with 11,217 births in the decade. The state recorded 415,958 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Michigan 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
Casmere2815×
Reino112
Lempi50
Gerrit86
Toivo97
Waino54
Edsel61
Ilah74

Top 25 in the 1910s

RankNameBirths
#1Mary11,217
#2John10,455
#3Helen10,066
#4Robert8,551
#5Dorothy8,318
#6William7,982
#7Margaret6,899
#8Ruth5,853
#9Edward5,309
#10George5,294
#11Joseph4,931
#12Charles4,705
#13James4,592
#14Virginia4,203
#15Donald3,840
#16Frank3,694
#17Harold3,618
#18Mildred3,490
#19Irene3,473
#20Elizabeth3,447
#21Frances3,404
#22Evelyn3,337
#23Walter3,300
#24Marie3,208
#25Florence3,129

Other decades in Michigan

All Michigan 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