Popular baby names in Colorado, 1915

The most popular baby names in Colorado in 1915 were Mary for girls (387 babies) and John for boys (361). Social Security records list 11,735 babies born in Colorado in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Colorado in 1915

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

Girls

Lydia: 24 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Shirley: 22 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Faye: 15 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Della: 20 babies, 3× the national rate
Freda: 15 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Maxine: 33 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Flora: 20 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Juanita: 34 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Lola: 20 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Fern: 17 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Pete: 20 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Jose: 23 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Antonio: 15 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Tony: 27 babies, 4× the national rate
Mike: 25 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Wayne: 28 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Alex: 19 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Glen: 20 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Joe: 76 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Manuel: 15 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Colorado, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	387	–	1
2	Helen	237	–	2
3	Dorothy	226	–	3
4	Margaret	197	–	4
5	Ruth	175	–	5
6	Frances	127	–	9
7	Alice	109	↑11	13
8	Evelyn	101	↑5	10
9	Virginia	100	↑2	12
10	Rose	98	↓1	16
11	Anna	94	↑1	7
12	Elizabeth	89	↓4	8
13	Mildred	89	↓6	6
14	Josephine	82	↑3	22
15	Marie	76	↓5	11
16	Esther	74	↓1	33
17	Florence	73	↓1	14
18	Edith	63	↓4	31
19	Marjorie	60	↑5	39
20	Lois	59	↑2	47
21	Grace	58	–	27
22	Hazel	58	↓3	26
23	Lucille	57	↓3	29
24	Elsie	56	↑4	41
25	Gladys	56	↑10	21
26	Edna	53	↑7	20
27	Eleanor	53	↑22	28
28	Louise	53	↓5	18
29	Betty	52	new	53
30	Thelma	52	↑1	30
31	Martha	51	↑1	25
32	Pauline	47	↑4	32
33	Irene	46	↑13	17
34	Emma	45	↓4	40
35	Ethel	45	↓9	23
36	Doris	43	↑3	34
37	Gertrude	43	new	35
38	Catherine	42	↓13	19
39	Clara	42	↓10	38
40	Bertha	40	↓13	46
41	Ann	39	↓4	43
42	Katherine	39	↓1	49
43	Jane	38	↑1	69
44	Jean	38	↑1	48
45	Jennie	37	new	73
46	Mabel	37	↑1	62
47	Nellie	37	new	63
48	Agnes	36	new	45
49	Eva	36	↓9	55
50	Wilma	35	new	80

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	John	361	–	1
2	William	280	–	2
3	Robert	261	–	4
4	George	217	–	6
5	James	217	↑1	3
6	Charles	172	↓1	7
7	Frank	132	–	9
8	Joseph	104	–	5
9	Harold	95	↑2	12
10	Albert	94	↑10	17
11	Edward	93	↓2	8
12	Richard	88	↑5	15
13	Donald	76	↑3	20
14	Fred	76	↑4	26
15	Joe	76	↓5	38
16	Raymond	76	↑7	16
17	Harry	75	↓2	19
18	Jack	74	↑11	27
19	Paul	74	↓7	13
20	Ralph	73	↑6	21
21	Thomas	70	–	10
22	Henry	67	↓8	14
23	Carl	66	↑2	22
24	Walter	66	↓2	11
25	Arthur	65	↓12	18
26	Kenneth	63	↓7	28
27	Clarence	53	↑8	24
28	Howard	49	↓4	25
29	David	45	↑3	31
30	Ernest	45	↑16	35
31	Elmer	43	↑13	45
32	Louis	43	↓5	23
33	Roy	43	↓3	32
34	Earl	38	↓3	33
35	Alfred	34	↓1	42
36	Lloyd	34	↑5	62
37	Leonard	33	↓1	44
38	Sam	33	new	68
39	Eugene	31	↓11	41
40	Lawrence	31	↓7	37
41	Victor	31	new	74
42	Herbert	29	new	40
43	Wayne	28	new	97
44	Francis	27	↓4	29
45	Ray	27	–	67
46	Tony	27	new	>100
47	Floyd	26	↓8	59
48	Philip	26	new	69
49	Stanley	26	new	34
50	Gerald	25	↓8	78

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