Popular baby names in Colorado, 1911

The most popular baby names in Colorado in 1911 were Mary for girls (169 babies) and John for boys (109). Social Security records list 3,650 babies born in Colorado in 1911 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Colorado in 1911

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

Girls

Fern: 16 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Maria: 16 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Genevieve: 15 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Velma: 15 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Rose: 48 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Esther: 32 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Josephine: 34 babies, 2× the national rate
Edith: 32 babies, 2× the national rate

Boys

Joe: 29 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Carl: 27 babies, 3× the national rate
Jack: 24 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Ralph: 24 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Donald: 18 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Fred: 21 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Colorado, 1911

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	Mary	169	–	1
2	Helen	109	–	2
3	Dorothy	90	–	4
4	Margaret	87	↑1	3
5	Ruth	73	↓1	5
6	Mildred	52	↑4	8
7	Frances	51	↓1	10
8	Rose	48	↑3	14
9	Anna	40	–	6
10	Evelyn	38	↑4	16
11	Marie	37	↑5	9
12	Elizabeth	36	↓4	7
13	Josephine	34	↑12	29
14	Edith	32	↑6	31
15	Esther	32	↑7	34
16	Gladys	32	↑2	18
17	Hazel	32	↑2	25
18	Virginia	32	↓3	26
19	Florence	31	↓7	12
20	Alice	30	↓13	11
21	Ethel	26	↑8	15
22	Grace	26	↑2	23
23	Thelma	26	↓10	27
24	Edna	25	↓7	17
25	Martha	25	↑15	28
26	Louise	24	↑6	19
27	Lucille	23	↑7	32
28	Lillian	22	↓1	13
29	Mabel	22	↑8	43
30	Pauline	22	–	38
31	Ruby	21	↑10	22
32	Irene	20	↑7	21
33	Ann	19	↓5	53
34	Bernice	19	↑11	51
35	Bertha	19	↑13	36
36	Catherine	19	↑6	20
37	Doris	19	new	56
38	Elsie	19	↓17	41
39	Emma	19	↓8	35
40	Gertrude	19	new	30
41	Nellie	18	↑9	54
42	Marjorie	17	↓6	59
43	Agnes	16	new	39
44	Alma	16	new	62
45	Betty	16	new	69
46	Fern	16	new	>100
47	Maria	16	↓12	>100
48	Eva	15	↓15	46
49	Genevieve	15	–	93
50	Jessie	15	new	66

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	John	109	–	1
2	Robert	64	↑3	5
3	William	64	↑1	2
4	Charles	57	↓1	7
5	James	56	↓3	3
6	George	55	–	4
7	Frank	44	–	8
8	Joseph	41	↑1	6
9	Joe	29	↓1	29
10	Edward	28	↑1	9
11	Harold	28	↑5	16
12	Carl	27	↑7	26
13	Thomas	27	↑8	10
14	Jack	24	↓1	25
15	Ralph	24	↑15	24
16	Richard	23	↓4	20
17	Harry	22	↑10	13
18	Fred	21	↓8	22
19	Henry	20	↑1	11
20	Arthur	19	↑12	18
21	Paul	19	↓6	17
22	Albert	18	↓8	15
23	Donald	18	↑10	36
24	Walter	15	↓2	12
25	Leonard	14	↑25	46
26	Raymond	14	↓8	19
27	Anthony	13	↑4	35
28	Clarence	13	↓5	23
29	Roy	13	new	31
30	David	12	↓4	27
31	Jose	12	↓7	>100
32	Louis	12	↓3	21
33	Alfred	11	new	39
34	Floyd	11	new	57
35	Howard	11	↓18	28
36	Ernest	10	↑8	32
37	Leo	10	new	51
38	Sam	10	new	47
39	Earl	9	↑3	34
40	Kenneth	9	↓3	40
41	Manuel	9	new	>100
42	Theodore	9	new	56
43	Clyde	8	new	61
44	Edgar	8	new	83
45	Gerald	8	new	88
46	Lawrence	8	↑3	37
47	Lloyd	8	↓19	74
48	Norman	8	new	63
49	Victor	8	new	81
50	Adolph	7	new	>100

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