Popular baby names in Colorado, 1921

The most popular baby names in Colorado in 1921 were Mary for girls (627 babies) and Robert for boys (582). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 18,126 babies born in Colorado in 1921 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Colorado in 1921

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

Girls

Lupe: 15 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Carmen: 27 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Lydia: 32 babies, 4× the national rate
Della: 32 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Ila: 17 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Maria: 54 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Cleo: 20 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Bettie: 16 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Jacqueline: 15 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Esther: 112 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Boys

Jose: 56 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Francisco: 15 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Pete: 27 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Tony: 40 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Manuel: 43 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Mike: 29 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Joe: 155 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Dale: 45 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Antonio: 17 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Keith: 22 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Colorado, 1921

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	627	–	1
2	Dorothy	380	–	2
3	Helen	312	–	3
4	Margaret	269	–	4
5	Betty	262	↑1	8
6	Ruth	220	↓1	5
7	Frances	161	↑1	9
8	Marjorie	155	↑5	16
9	Virginia	153	↓2	6
10	Mildred	139	↓1	7
11	Elizabeth	128	–	10
12	Alice	123	↑2	15
13	Evelyn	122	↓3	12
14	Lois	118	↑6	38
15	Esther	112	↑1	42
16	Shirley	100	↑18	44
17	Rose	99	–	20
18	Josephine	98	↑5	28
19	Marie	98	↑2	14
20	Doris	97	↓8	13
21	Florence	88	↓3	17
22	Barbara	85	–	40
23	Irene	85	↓4	18
24	Anna	82	↓9	11
25	Hazel	79	↑4	34
26	Lucille	79	↑11	31
27	Edna	74	↑11	27
28	Martha	70	↑7	21
29	Thelma	68	↓1	30
30	Jean	64	↑9	25
31	Eleanor	63	↑5	29
32	Gladys	62	↑1	24
33	Emma	61	↑12	52
34	Pauline	61	↓8	37
35	Edith	59	↓11	33
36	Elsie	59	↓5	55
37	Lillian	58	↓5	19
38	Maxine	57	↑9	77
39	Bernice	56	↑3	39
40	Grace	55	↓15	35
41	Maria	54	new	>100
42	Norma	54	new	51
43	Ruby	54	↓16	26
44	June	51	↓3	50
45	Eva	48	↓1	63
46	Phyllis	48	new	60
47	Vivian	47	new	68
48	Charlotte	46	new	79
49	Violet	46	new	81
50	Wilma	46	↓10	72

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Robert	582	–	2
2	John	466	–	1
3	William	438	–	3
4	James	299	–	4
5	Charles	281	–	5
6	George	231	–	6
7	Donald	185	↑5	13
8	Harold	183	↓1	12
9	Frank	172	↓1	9
10	Richard	168	–	10
11	Joe	155	–	36
12	Jack	150	↑1	18
13	Edward	144	↓4	8
14	Joseph	140	–	7
15	Raymond	127	–	16
16	Paul	124	↑1	14
17	Albert	118	↓1	20
18	Arthur	110	↑8	19
19	Kenneth	106	↑5	22
20	Ralph	106	↑1	23
21	Walter	97	↓1	15
22	Thomas	95	↓3	11
23	Fred	87	↓5	33
24	Harry	87	↓2	21
25	Henry	87	↓2	17
26	Warren	82	↑19	24
27	Eugene	72	↑11	26
28	Clarence	69	↓1	28
29	Roy	67	↑2	32
30	David	65	↓5	25
31	Louis	64	↑5	29
32	Carl	63	↓2	30
33	Ernest	63	↓5	38
34	Howard	63	↓5	27
35	Earl	58	↓2	31
36	Jose	56	new	>100
37	Elmer	54	–	48
38	Leonard	51	↓6	39
39	Lawrence	48	↓5	37
40	Melvin	47	new	53
41	Lloyd	46	↑6	58
42	Alfred	45	new	43
43	Dale	45	new	93
44	Floyd	44	↓9	63
45	Francis	43	new	35
46	Manuel	43	new	>100
47	Gerald	40	↑3	60
48	Russell	40	new	52
49	Tony	40	new	>100
50	Lee	38	↓7	86

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