Popular baby names in Colorado, 1914

The most popular baby names in Colorado in 1914 were Mary for girls (338 babies) and John for boys (294). Social Security records list 8,528 babies born in Colorado in 1914 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Colorado in 1914

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

Girls

Mollie: 17 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Della: 18 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Lydia: 16 babies, 3.3× the national rate
June: 21 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Shirley: 15 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Maria: 17 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Phyllis: 20 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Maxine: 19 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Esther: 57 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Leona: 27 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Boys

Pete: 19 babies, 7× the national rate
Jose: 18 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Manuel: 21 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Tony: 17 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Joe: 81 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Wayne: 19 babies, 3× the national rate
Gerald: 24 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Virgil: 15 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Ray: 23 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Lloyd: 25 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Colorado, 1914

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	Mary	338	–	1
2	Helen	173	–	2
3	Dorothy	172	–	3
4	Margaret	124	–	4
5	Ruth	114	–	5
6	Frances	84	–	9
7	Mildred	84	↑1	7
8	Elizabeth	82	↓1	8
9	Rose	74	↑4	15
10	Marie	70	↑2	10
11	Virginia	70	↑4	14
12	Anna	63	↓3	6
13	Evelyn	62	↓2	11
14	Edith	61	↑4	31
15	Esther	57	↓1	35
16	Florence	56	–	13
17	Josephine	55	–	23
18	Alice	49	↓8	12
19	Hazel	45	↑23	29
20	Lucille	45	↑8	30
21	Grace	43	↓2	25
22	Lois	39	↑13	51
23	Louise	39	↓3	17
24	Marjorie	39	↑5	45
25	Catherine	38	–	18
26	Ethel	37	↑1	21
27	Bertha	36	new	41
28	Elsie	36	↑13	46
29	Clara	35	↑2	37
30	Emma	35	↑8	39
31	Thelma	35	↓1	26
32	Martha	34	↓10	27
33	Edna	33	↓9	19
34	Lillian	33	↑3	16
35	Gladys	32	↓14	20
36	Pauline	32	↑3	34
37	Ann	30	↓1	40
38	Ruby	30	↑8	24
39	Doris	28	new	36
40	Eva	27	new	52
41	Katherine	27	new	48
42	Leona	27	new	79
43	Vera	27	new	68
44	Jane	26	new	71
45	Jean	26	new	54
46	Irene	25	↓23	22
47	Mabel	24	new	58
48	Marguerite	24	↓16	84
49	Eleanor	23	↑1	28
50	Marian	23	new	90

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	John	294	–	1
2	William	217	–	2
3	Robert	167	–	4
4	George	159	–	6
5	Charles	142	–	7
6	James	119	–	3
7	Frank	109	↑1	9
8	Joseph	95	↓1	5
9	Edward	83	–	8
10	Joe	81	↑5	34
11	Harold	74	↓1	14
12	Paul	67	–	13
13	Arthur	61	↑8	18
14	Henry	61	↓3	12
15	Harry	60	↓1	19
16	Donald	56	↓3	23
17	Richard	56	↓1	17
18	Fred	55	↑5	28
19	Kenneth	51	↑8	30
20	Albert	50	↓3	15
21	Thomas	48	↑9	11
22	Walter	48	↑3	10
23	Raymond	45	↑1	16
24	Howard	43	↑5	26
25	Carl	42	↓6	24
26	Ralph	42	↓6	21
27	Louis	41	↑9	20
28	Eugene	38	↑4	43
29	Jack	38	↓11	27
30	Roy	37	↓8	32
31	Earl	35	↓5	33
32	David	32	↑2	29
33	Lawrence	31	–	35
34	Alfred	28	↑11	41
35	Clarence	28	↓4	22
36	Leonard	28	↑1	45
37	Leo	27	new	47
38	Russell	27	new	49
39	Floyd	25	↑8	58
40	Francis	25	–	31
41	Lloyd	25	new	66
42	Gerald	24	new	81
43	Clyde	23	new	63
44	Elmer	23	↓6	46
45	Ray	23	new	74
46	Ernest	21	↓18	38
47	Lester	21	new	57
48	Manuel	21	new	>100
49	Andrew	19	↓10	44
50	Chester	19	new	56

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