Popular baby names in Colorado, 1910

The most popular baby names in Colorado in 1910 were Mary for girls (193 babies) and John for boys (99). Social Security records list 3,609 babies born in Colorado in 1910 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Colorado in 1910

Names given at least 15 times in Colorado that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Maria: 22 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Marguerite: 21 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Genevieve: 16 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Marjorie: 22 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Katherine: 26 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Ann: 25 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Frances: 56 babies, 2× the national rate
Elsie: 27 babies, 2× the national rate
Vera: 17 babies, 2× the national rate

Boys

Joe: 42 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Fred: 33 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Richard: 22 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Jack: 21 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Howard: 18 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Frank: 45 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Colorado, 1910

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	Mary	193	1
2	Helen	112	2
3	Dorothy	87	4
4	Ruth	68	5
5	Margaret	67	3
6	Frances	56	11
7	Alice	46	10
8	Elizabeth	46	7
9	Anna	42	6
10	Mildred	42	8
11	Rose	39	16
12	Florence	36	12
13	Thelma	36	25
14	Evelyn	33	17
15	Virginia	33	29
16	Marie	32	9
17	Edna	31	18
18	Gladys	31	15
19	Hazel	31	24
20	Edith	27	35
21	Elsie	27	44
22	Esther	27	38
23	Clara	26	32
24	Grace	26	23
25	Josephine	26	30
26	Katherine	26	57
27	Lillian	26	14
28	Ann	25	52
29	Ethel	25	13
30	Pauline	25	42
31	Emma	24	34
32	Louise	24	20
33	Eva	22	45
34	Lucille	22	31
35	Maria	22	>100
36	Marjorie	22	68
37	Mabel	21	46
38	Marguerite	21	84
39	Irene	19	21
40	Martha	19	28
41	Ruby	19	27
42	Catherine	18	22
43	Julia	18	49
44	Viola	18	48
45	Bernice	17	58
46	Laura	17	53
47	Vera	17	71
48	Bertha	16	33
49	Genevieve	16	98
50	Nellie	16	51

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	John	99	1
2	James	66	2
3	Charles	51	7
4	William	51	3
5	Robert	49	4
6	George	48	5
7	Frank	45	8
8	Joe	42	25
9	Joseph	38	6
10	Fred	33	22
11	Edward	24	9
12	Richard	22	21
13	Jack	21	23
14	Albert	20	14
15	Paul	20	15
16	Harold	18	18
17	Howard	18	27
18	Raymond	17	19
19	Carl	14	26
20	Henry	14	10
21	Thomas	14	12
22	Walter	14	13
23	Clarence	13	20
24	Jose	13	>100
25	Daniel	12	53
26	David	12	30
27	Harry	12	16
28	Lloyd	12	67
29	Louis	12	24
30	Ralph	12	28
31	Anthony	11	37
32	Arthur	11	17
33	Donald	11	44
34	Ray	9	68
35	Francis	8	36
36	Herbert	8	41
37	Kenneth	8	43
38	Leroy	8	50
39	Pete	8	>100
40	Virgil	8	>100
41	Claude	7	78
42	Earl	7	33
43	Edwin	7	71
44	Ernest	7	31
45	Eugene	7	39
46	Glenn	7	97
47	Herman	7	52
48	Juan	7	>100
49	Lawrence	7	35
50	Leonard	7	46

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