Popular baby names in Colorado, 1920

The most popular baby names in Colorado in 1920 were Mary for girls (576 babies) and Robert for boys (479). Robert ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 17,085 babies born in Colorado in 1920 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Colorado in 1920

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

Girls

Margery: 17 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Jacqueline: 17 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Della: 29 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Lydia: 28 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Amy: 15 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Gwendolyn: 17 babies, 3× the national rate
Bettie: 16 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Carmen: 16 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Maria: 35 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Fern: 23 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Boys

Pete: 36 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Ruben: 18 babies, 7× the national rate
Juan: 20 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Jose: 34 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Joe: 140 babies, 3× the national rate
Glen: 32 babies, 3× the national rate
Dean: 18 babies, 3× the national rate
Ivan: 18 babies, 3× the national rate
Manuel: 33 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Tom: 26 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Colorado, 1920

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Mary	576	–	1
2	Dorothy	377	–	2
3	Helen	336	–	3
4	Margaret	237	–	4
5	Ruth	218	–	5
6	Betty	211	↑1	11
7	Virginia	192	↑1	7
8	Frances	169	↓2	9
9	Mildred	135	–	6
10	Evelyn	114	↑4	12
11	Elizabeth	111	↓1	8
12	Doris	110	↑14	14
13	Marjorie	107	↑3	24
14	Alice	104	↓3	15
15	Anna	100	↑6	10
16	Esther	98	↓3	39
17	Rose	98	↓2	20
18	Florence	87	↓1	16
19	Irene	86	↑3	17
20	Lois	84	↓1	38
21	Marie	83	↓9	13
22	Barbara	78	↑8	47
23	Josephine	78	↓5	28
24	Edith	77	↓4	32
25	Grace	75	↑14	37
26	Pauline	74	↑15	36
27	Ruby	73	↑5	26
28	Thelma	73	↑8	31
29	Hazel	71	↑4	34
30	Louise	71	↑10	19
31	Elsie	70	↑7	51
32	Lillian	70	↓1	18
33	Gladys	69	↓6	22
34	Shirley	68	new	56
35	Martha	66	↓7	23
36	Eleanor	65	↓11	25
37	Lucille	62	↓14	29
38	Edna	61	↓14	27
39	Jean	58	↓5	33
40	Wilma	58	↓3	78
41	June	56	↑1	53
42	Bernice	55	new	40
43	Clara	55	↓14	44
44	Eva	54	↑6	58
45	Emma	53	↑3	46
46	Ethel	52	↑3	30
47	Maxine	52	↓12	81
48	Juanita	50	new	61
49	Ann	48	↓3	49
50	Catherine	47	↓3	21

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Robert	479	↑1	3
2	John	469	↓1	1
3	William	405	–	2
4	James	298	–	4
5	Charles	242	↑1	5
6	George	202	↓1	6
7	Harold	171	↑2	12
8	Frank	156	↓1	9
9	Edward	145	↓1	8
10	Richard	143	–	10
11	Joe	140	↑2	35
12	Donald	138	–	16
13	Jack	137	↑1	20
14	Joseph	137	↓3	7
15	Raymond	134	↑1	15
16	Albert	111	↑2	19
17	Paul	104	↑6	14
18	Fred	94	↑8	33
19	Thomas	94	↑1	11
20	Walter	91	↓1	13
21	Ralph	88	↑4	22
22	Harry	86	↓7	21
23	Henry	84	↑1	17
24	Kenneth	84	↓7	23
25	David	83	↑3	25
26	Arthur	80	↓5	18
27	Clarence	77	↑6	26
28	Ernest	67	↑2	37
29	Howard	63	↑3	24
30	Carl	62	↓8	27
31	Roy	62	↓4	32
32	Leonard	60	↑4	38
33	Earl	54	↓4	31
34	Lawrence	54	↑6	36
35	Floyd	52	↑3	61
36	Louis	52	↓1	28
37	Elmer	51	↓3	45
38	Eugene	46	↓7	30
39	Victor	46	↑7	81
40	Daniel	45	new	52
41	Glenn	43	new	80
42	Clyde	42	new	68
43	Lee	42	↑6	82
44	Ray	41	new	67
45	Warren	41	new	39
46	Herbert	40	↓7	41
47	Lloyd	40	↓2	58
48	Vernon	39	new	65
49	Herman	37	new	66
50	Gerald	36	new	64

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