Popular baby names in Colorado, 1924

The most popular baby names in Colorado in 1924 were Mary for girls (551 babies) and Robert for boys (619). Social Security records list 18,020 babies born in Colorado in 1924 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Colorado in 1924

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: 17 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Carmen: 21 babies, 3× the national rate
Annabelle: 15 babies, 3× the national rate
Maria: 45 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Peggy: 41 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Lila: 21 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Isabel: 18 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Sally: 22 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Della: 19 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Dora: 35 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Boys

Pete: 31 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Tony: 41 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Bob: 37 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Jose: 43 babies, 4× the national rate
Juan: 22 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Joe: 160 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Gilbert: 48 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Loren: 15 babies, 3× the national rate
Manuel: 36 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Tom: 24 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Colorado, 1924

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Mary	551	–	1
2	Betty	425	↑1	4
3	Dorothy	356	↓1	2
4	Helen	284	–	3
5	Margaret	213	–	5
6	Virginia	199	↑1	7
7	Ruth	181	↓1	6
8	Shirley	161	↑5	19
9	Frances	148	–	10
10	Evelyn	127	↑6	12
11	Elizabeth	115	–	11
12	Alice	111	↓4	15
13	Mildred	110	↓1	8
14	Lois	107	↑4	22
15	Barbara	105	↑2	28
16	Rose	101	↑6	25
17	Marjorie	100	↓7	17
18	Josephine	94	↓4	34
19	Doris	92	↓4	9
20	Jean	91	↑11	16
21	Anna	90	↑7	13
22	Patricia	82	↑7	35
23	Marie	80	↓4	14
24	Esther	79	↓4	51
25	Norma	75	↑11	40
26	Lillian	73	↑21	23
27	Irene	70	↓1	18
28	Florence	67	↓1	20
29	Thelma	65	↑16	33
30	Eleanor	64	↓9	29
31	Louise	64	↑9	24
32	Pauline	64	↓2	38
33	Phyllis	63	↑1	44
34	Wilma	61	↑3	67
35	Edith	60	↓12	36
36	Martha	59	↓3	21
37	Maxine	58	↓2	77
38	Ruby	58	↑10	26
39	June	53	–	45
40	Edna	52	↓15	31
41	Gladys	52	↑9	30
42	Juanita	50	↓10	48
43	Elsie	49	↓2	61
44	Catherine	48	↓1	27
45	Katherine	46	new	59
46	Lucille	46	↓22	37
47	Bernice	45	new	47
48	Maria	45	↓4	>100
49	Emma	43	↓3	57
50	Ethel	43	↓12	39

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Robert	619	–	1
2	John	424	–	2
3	William	379	–	3
4	James	303	–	4
5	Charles	266	–	5
6	George	246	–	6
7	Donald	202	–	10
8	Richard	174	–	8
9	Frank	169	↑1	12
10	Harold	161	↓1	13
11	Joe	160	–	35
12	Joseph	159	–	7
13	Jack	150	–	17
14	Edward	149	↑1	9
15	Paul	117	↑1	14
16	Kenneth	115	↑1	19
17	Albert	103	↓3	21
18	Raymond	101	↑1	15
19	Fred	96	↑7	32
20	Walter	92	–	16
21	David	91	↑3	24
22	Thomas	91	↓4	11
23	Harry	86	↓1	22
24	Arthur	82	↓3	20
25	Louis	80	↑6	28
26	Ralph	77	↓3	23
27	Henry	74	↑2	18
28	Howard	71	↑6	26
29	Clarence	67	↑4	29
30	Roy	67	↓3	31
31	Ernest	63	↓3	37
32	Earl	61	↑3	33
33	Eugene	61	↓8	25
34	Lawrence	60	↓2	36
35	Carl	58	↓5	27
36	Norman	54	new	42
37	Gerald	53	new	49
38	Ray	52	↑10	60
39	Marvin	49	new	50
40	Gilbert	48	new	100
41	Floyd	45	new	66
42	Leo	44	–	51
43	Dale	43	↓5	84
44	Edwin	43	new	55
45	Jose	43	↓6	>100
46	Leonard	43	↓1	38
47	Alfred	41	↓7	43
48	Calvin	41	new	44
49	Tony	41	↓3	>100
50	Lloyd	40	↓13	61

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