Popular baby names in Colorado, 1926

The most popular baby names in Colorado in 1926 were Mary for girls (542 babies) and Robert for boys (576). Social Security records list 16,357 babies born in Colorado in 1926 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Colorado in 1926

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

Girls

Della: 25 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Maria: 54 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Carmen: 22 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Fern: 19 babies, 3× the national rate
Roberta: 37 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Flora: 25 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Viola: 51 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Bette: 24 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Esther: 76 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Lila: 18 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Boys

Tony: 44 babies, 6× the national rate
Felix: 21 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Pete: 24 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Jose: 52 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Dick: 18 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Bob: 46 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Mike: 22 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Jim: 28 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Ben: 24 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Joe: 144 babies, 3.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Colorado, 1926

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Mary	542	–	1
2	Betty	385	–	3
3	Dorothy	325	–	2
4	Helen	203	–	4
5	Margaret	200	–	5
6	Shirley	181	↑1	14
7	Ruth	159	↓1	6
8	Barbara	134	↑2	16
9	Virginia	130	↓1	8
10	Lois	124	↑4	19
11	Doris	117	–	7
12	Frances	110	–	10
13	Marjorie	88	↑2	22
14	Alice	86	↓5	17
15	Rose	85	↑3	25
16	Mildred	83	↑7	9
17	Patricia	83	↓1	23
18	Esther	76	↑6	62
19	Evelyn	75	↓6	13
20	Jean	75	↑5	12
21	Phyllis	72	↓1	33
22	Anna	70	↑11	15
23	Irene	69	↑3	21
24	Lillian	68	↑6	28
25	Elizabeth	67	↓8	11
26	Marie	66	↓7	18
27	Josephine	63	↓6	37
28	Pauline	62	↑4	39
29	Eleanor	58	↑11	32
30	June	58	new	40
31	Norma	56	↓4	29
32	Gloria	54	↑13	20
33	Maria	54	↑1	>100
34	Martha	54	↓12	24
35	Wilma	52	↑7	67
36	Viola	51	↑13	97
37	Edna	48	↓1	38
38	Florence	48	↓10	26
39	Dolores	46	new	49
40	Louise	46	↑3	27
41	Lucille	46	↓6	43
42	Maxine	46	↓4	85
43	Vera	45	new	84
44	Charlotte	44	new	78
45	Elsie	44	↓14	69
46	Hazel	44	–	48
47	Edith	43	↓10	42
48	Emma	43	–	59
49	Eva	43	↑1	79
50	Geraldine	43	new	54

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Robert	576	–	1
2	John	425	–	2
3	William	339	–	4
4	James	301	–	3
5	Charles	254	–	5
6	Donald	228	–	9
7	George	215	–	6
8	Richard	198	–	7
9	Jack	158	↑1	16
10	Joe	144	↑2	33
11	Harold	134	↑2	14
12	Edward	131	↓1	10
13	Frank	131	↓4	12
14	Kenneth	123	–	18
15	Paul	105	↑2	13
16	Raymond	104	↑3	15
17	Joseph	98	↑1	8
18	Albert	97	↓2	21
19	Thomas	93	↓4	11
20	Arthur	92	↑1	20
21	Harry	84	↑5	25
22	Ralph	81	↓2	24
23	David	79	↑4	22
24	Fred	78	↓1	31
25	Eugene	64	↑4	23
26	Louis	59	↑6	30
27	Roy	59	↑1	34
28	Henry	57	↓3	19
29	Walter	57	↓7	17
30	Bill	53	↑11	74
31	Jose	52	↓1	>100
32	Ernest	50	↓8	37
33	Howard	49	↓2	27
34	Carl	48	↓1	26
35	Gerald	48	new	41
36	Bob	46	new	>100
37	Dale	44	↑5	84
38	Tony	44	new	>100
39	Melvin	43	↓5	47
40	Marvin	42	new	50
41	Lawrence	41	↓6	36
42	Daniel	40	new	46
43	Leonard	39	↓4	38
44	Earl	38	↑6	32
45	Gilbert	38	new	>100
46	Stanley	37	–	43
47	Elmer	36	new	61
48	Wayne	36	new	68
49	Glenn	35	↓9	75
50	Leo	35	new	54

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