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Baby names in Ohio, 1920s

1920–1929 · 1,069,008 recorded births

Robert was the most common name given in Ohio across the 1920s, with 42,179 births in the decade. The state recorded 1,069,008 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Ohio in the 1920s

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
Coletta170
Gizella67
Ladonna154
Garnet375
Clarabelle104
Milan153
Ilo41
Joanne1,170

Top 25 in the 1920s

RankNameBirths
#1Robert42,179
#2Mary40,638
#3John29,237
#4William28,967
#5Betty25,632
#6James23,561
#7Dorothy20,719
#8Richard19,859
#9Charles18,420
#10Helen18,306
#11Ruth16,212
#12Donald15,780
#13Margaret13,726
#14George13,202
#15Paul11,568
#16Joseph10,995
#17Virginia10,822
#18Edward10,554
#19Harold8,682
#20Thomas8,178
#21Jack7,966
#22Jean7,939
#23Frank7,678
#24Doris7,349
#25Mildred7,114

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