Baby names in Ohio in the 1920s

In Ohio in the 1920s the most given names were Robert (41,981 boys) and Mary (40,531 girls), of 1,068,493 births recorded.

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Babies SSA recorded in Ohio each year, the 1920s shaded

Births under names given to 5 or more babies of one sex in the state that year.

Ohio, 1920-1929: SSA state baby-name file, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s state data.

The top names in Ohio, 1920s

Girls, 1920-1929
#	Name	Births
1	Mary	40,531
2	Betty	25,586
3	Dorothy	20,662
4	Helen	18,282
5	Ruth	16,194
6	Margaret	13,721
7	Virginia	10,816
8	Jean	7,829
9	Doris	7,349
10	Mildred	7,109
11	Evelyn	6,885
12	Marjorie	6,854
13	Elizabeth	6,503
14	Anna	6,426
15	Martha	6,418
16	Alice	5,740
17	Patricia	5,668
18	Frances	5,485
19	Lois	5,428
20	Norma	4,992

Boys, 1920-1929
#	Name	Births
1	Robert	41,981
2	John	29,071
3	William	28,839
4	James	23,415
5	Richard	19,770
6	Charles	18,312
7	Donald	15,720
8	George	13,119
9	Paul	11,525
10	Joseph	10,931
11	Edward	10,525
12	Harold	8,658
13	Thomas	8,149
14	Jack	7,949
15	Frank	7,642
16	Raymond	7,100
17	Ralph	6,396
18	Kenneth	5,968
19	Carl	5,961
20	Walter	5,888

Births summed over 1920-1929, per sex.

The names most over-represented in Ohio in the 1920s

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

Coletta · 7.0×Ladonna · 4.8×Garnet · 4.5×Clarabelle · 3.6×Janis · 2.9×Treva · 2.9×

Boys

Pearl · 3.9×Milan · 3.3×Urban · 2.5×Steve · 2.5×Emerson · 2.4×Dwight · 2.3×

Ratios: observed over predicted births, 1920-1929.

More about names in Ohio

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