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Baby names in Ohio, 1910s

1910–1919 · 661,642 recorded births

Mary was the most common name given in Ohio across the 1910s, with 28,566 births in the decade. The state recorded 661,642 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Ohio 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
Yaro1912×
Coletta133
Ladonna48
Gizella57
Treva166
Garnet379
Cloyce41
Glenna292

Top 25 in the 1910s

RankNameBirths
#1Mary28,566
#2John18,630
#3Robert18,335
#4Helen17,388
#5William14,858
#6Dorothy13,098
#7Ruth12,787
#8Margaret11,386
#9Charles11,060
#10James10,230
#11George8,587
#12Joseph8,317
#13Mildred7,421
#14Virginia6,879
#15Paul6,846
#16Edward6,362
#17Elizabeth6,207
#18Frank6,041
#19Richard6,007
#20Anna5,869
#21Betty5,322
#22Harold5,320
#23Evelyn5,068
#24Donald4,961
#25Frances4,801

Other decades in Ohio

All Ohio 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