Popular baby names in Colorado, 1922

The most popular baby names in Colorado in 1922 were Mary for girls (612 babies) and Robert for boys (533). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 17,888 babies born in Colorado in 1922 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Colorado in 1922

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: 16 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Maria: 47 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Maxine: 75 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Jacqueline: 20 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Fern: 23 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Della: 21 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Bette: 26 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Esther: 90 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Carol: 25 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Betty: 329 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Boys

Alfonso: 16 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Jake: 17 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Jose: 51 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Pete: 25 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Reuben: 17 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Ted: 17 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Tony: 30 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Manuel: 37 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Juan: 16 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Joe: 140 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Colorado, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	612	–	1
2	Dorothy	346	–	2
3	Betty	329	↑2	6
4	Helen	313	↓1	3
5	Margaret	266	↓1	4
6	Ruth	195	–	5
7	Virginia	178	↑2	7
8	Frances	135	↓1	10
9	Marjorie	134	↓1	16
10	Mildred	131	–	8
11	Doris	118	↑9	11
12	Rose	112	↑5	23
13	Alice	110	↓1	15
14	Evelyn	110	↓1	13
15	Shirley	103	↑1	39
16	Barbara	101	↑6	40
17	Josephine	97	↑1	27
18	Marie	95	↑1	14
19	Lois	94	↓5	35
20	Elizabeth	92	↓9	9
21	Esther	90	↓6	44
22	Anna	82	↑2	12
23	Jean	76	↑7	20
24	June	75	↑20	45
25	Maxine	75	↑13	82
26	Edith	73	↑9	34
27	Irene	72	↓4	17
28	Eleanor	71	↑3	28
29	Ethel	71	new	32
30	Florence	69	↓9	18
31	Lucille	69	↓5	33
32	Louise	67	new	22
33	Martha	67	↓5	21
34	Thelma	65	↓5	31
35	Elsie	63	↑1	59
36	Lillian	63	↑1	19
37	Juanita	59	new	57
38	Edna	57	↓11	29
39	Gladys	57	↓7	25
40	Phyllis	57	↑6	53
41	Norma	54	↑1	46
42	Clara	53	new	47
43	Patricia	53	new	69
44	Pauline	53	↓10	36
45	Ruby	53	↓2	26
46	Vera	52	new	79
47	Viola	50	new	72
48	Agnes	49	new	62
49	Eva	48	↓4	64
50	Charlotte	47	↓2	76

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Robert	533	–	2
2	John	514	–	1
3	William	414	–	3
4	James	314	–	4
5	Charles	280	–	5
6	George	231	–	6
7	Donald	188	–	12
8	Edward	182	↑5	8
9	Harold	172	↓1	13
10	Frank	165	↓1	10
11	Jack	148	↑1	18
12	Richard	146	↓2	9
13	Joe	140	↓2	35
14	Joseph	121	–	7
15	Kenneth	119	↑4	21
16	Albert	113	↑1	20
17	Paul	111	↓1	14
18	Raymond	106	↓3	16
19	Harry	102	↑5	22
20	Thomas	95	↑2	11
21	Arthur	87	↓3	19
22	Eugene	87	↑5	25
23	Walter	86	↓2	15
24	David	85	↑6	24
25	Ralph	84	↓5	23
26	Fred	79	↓3	33
27	Henry	76	↓2	17
28	Roy	75	↑1	32
29	Clarence	71	↓1	29
30	Howard	70	↑4	26
31	Carl	64	↑1	30
32	Louis	64	↓1	27
33	Leonard	63	↑5	38
34	Ernest	56	↓1	37
35	Elmer	54	↑2	54
36	Alfred	52	↑6	42
37	Earl	52	↓2	31
38	Lloyd	52	↑3	59
39	Jose	51	↓3	>100
40	Gerald	48	↑7	58
41	Lawrence	47	↓2	36
42	Edwin	44	new	52
43	Glenn	44	new	79
44	Vernon	44	new	68
45	Norman	42	new	44
46	Ray	42	new	65
47	Melvin	40	↓7	50
48	Dale	39	↓5	89
49	Leo	39	new	51
50	Floyd	37	↓6	61

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