Top Baby Names in Delaware, 1910s — Most Popular Boys & Girls Names

The most popular baby names in Delaware from 1910 to 1919, ranked by total births during the decade.

What the Data Says About the 1910s in Delaware

During the 1910s (1910–1919), the Social Security Administration recorded 19,676 births across the top 50 boy and top 50 girl names in Delaware. The decade's leading boy name was John with 985 births, while Mary was the top girl name with 1,141 births. The top 50 boys in this decade collectively accounted for 9,045 births versus 10,631 for the top 50 girls — a common SSA pattern in which the boy-name pool is more concentrated among fewer high-frequency choices. These totals represent only names appearing five or more times per year in Delaware; rarer names fall below the SSA's privacy-disclosure threshold and are excluded.

The 1910s sits within a specific cultural window of U.S. naming history. Pre-1950 decades like the 1910s were characterized by strong traditional and biblical naming conventions, with a small cluster of dominant names (John, William, Mary, Elizabeth) capturing a disproportionate share of births. John and Mary leading Delaware during this window reflects how regional preferences interact with broader national trends.

Decade totals are computed by summing SSA state-year records for Delaware across all ten years of the 1910s. Because the SSA suppresses any name with fewer than five annual occurrences in a state, the true number of unique names given in Delaware during this decade is larger than what this page lists. The dataset also treats every spelling as a separate name — for example, Kayla and Kaylah are tracked independently — so combined-spelling totals would shift the rankings somewhat. This page is provided for informational and research purposes and does not constitute naming, legal, or genealogical advice.

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Boy Top 50 Boy Names

Rank Name Births
1 John 985
2 William 956
3 James 699
4 Charles 541
5 Joseph 521
6 George 462
7 Robert 387
8 Edward 318
9 Thomas 248
10 Harry 242
11 Francis 209
12 Frank 206
13 Paul 202
14 Walter 199
15 Howard 165
16 Albert 150
17 Samuel 142
18 Henry 127
19 Harold 126
20 Ralph 122
21 Clarence 113
22 Richard 112
23 Raymond 108
24 Alfred 107
25 Anthony 105
26 Norman 97
27 Stanley 93
28 David 85
29 Arthur 81
30 Ernest 75
31 Earl 73
32 Louis 72
33 Benjamin 68
34 Frederick 62
35 Herbert 60
36 Harvey 59
37 Elmer 59
38 Willard 54
39 Fred 52
40 Carl 51
41 Lawrence 50
42 Eugene 50
43 Daniel 47
44 Stephen 46
45 Leonard 45
46 Roland 44
47 Leon 44
48 Elwood 43
49 Lewis 42
50 Donald 41

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

Rank Name Births
1 Mary 1,141
2 Helen 662
3 Margaret 610
4 Dorothy 563
5 Elizabeth 527
6 Anna 413
7 Ruth 368
8 Mildred 361
9 Catherine 280
10 Frances 264
11 Alice 240
12 Florence 227
13 Marie 220
14 Virginia 200
15 Ethel 180
16 Grace 175
17 Eleanor 174
18 Edna 169
19 Edith 167
20 Pauline 166
21 Lillian 160
22 Rose 156
23 Elsie 153
24 Evelyn 151
25 Irene 143
26 Louise 137
27 Josephine 136
28 Anne 135
29 Ann 132
30 Gladys 131
31 Sarah 131
32 Beatrice 123
33 Sara 122
34 Hazel 121
35 Martha 113
36 Jean 112
37 Clara 111
38 Pearl 110
39 Doris 107
40 Thelma 106
41 Emma 106
42 Esther 103
43 Gertrude 101
44 Agnes 96
45 Ida 96
46 Blanche 89
47 Hilda 87
48 Mabel 86
49 Marguerite 85
50 Myrtle 85

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Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files, 1910–2024 (ssa.gov).

Source: SSA Baby Names Methodology — names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year are included (ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html).

Read our methodology — how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official U.S. government datasets. See our methodology for details.