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Baby names in North Dakota in the 1910s

In North Dakota in the 1910s the most given names were John (2,094 boys) and Mary (1,657 girls), of 95,074 births recorded.

Babies SSA recorded in North Dakota each year, the 1910s shaded
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Births under names given to 5 or more babies of one sex in the state that year.

North Dakota, 1910-1919: SSA state baby-name file, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s state data.

The top names in North Dakota, 1910s

Girls, 1910-1919
#NameBirths
1Mary1,657
2Helen1,617
3Margaret1,435
4Dorothy1,311
5Ruth1,273
6Esther1,032
7Evelyn1,024
8Alice982
9Mildred874
10Irene827
11Gladys779
12Anna776
13Florence760
14Frances734
15Elizabeth709
16Edna708
17Lillian704
18Agnes675
19Rose661
20Myrtle625
Boys, 1910-1919
#NameBirths
1John2,094
2William1,341
3Robert1,309
4George1,073
5Harold949
6James910
7Arthur840
8Joseph787
9Raymond786
10Walter757
11Donald752
12Edward732
13Charles649
14Clarence637
15Kenneth627
16Frank613
17Albert609
18Henry584
19Edwin487
20Lloyd482

Births summed over 1910-1919, per sex.

The names most over-represented in North Dakota in the 1910s

Each figure is the name’s births in the state in the decade against the births its national share, year by year, would predict (names with at least 100 births in the state).

Girls

Boys

Ratios: observed over predicted births, 1910-1919.

More about names in North Dakota

  1. The 1910s across the U.S.The most given names of the decade nationally.
  2. North Dakota: 2025 and every year since 1910The state’s top names now and its number ones by year.
  3. North Dakota in the 1920sThe next decade in the state.
  4. The top names of 1910The first year of the decade, nationally.
  5. Every state’s most given namesEach state since 1910.
  6. Look up any nameIts rank, births since 1880 and the people alive with it.

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