Popular baby names in Colorado, 1927

The most popular baby names in Colorado in 1927 were Mary for girls (512 babies) and Robert for boys (538). Social Security records list 16,653 babies born in Colorado in 1927 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Colorado in 1927

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, 4.8× the national rate
Fern: 22 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Charlene: 19 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Maria: 48 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Lola: 28 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Viola: 49 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Carmen: 17 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Maxine: 50 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Lucy: 41 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Stella: 35 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Pete: 28 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Tony: 38 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Jose: 55 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Juan: 23 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Bob: 59 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Manuel: 48 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Phillip: 27 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Bill: 72 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Larry: 21 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Mike: 19 babies, 3.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Colorado, 1927

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Mary	512	–	1
2	Betty	460	–	3
3	Dorothy	296	–	2
4	Helen	217	–	4
5	Shirley	208	↑1	9
6	Margaret	186	↓1	5
7	Ruth	159	–	6
8	Barbara	154	–	10
9	Virginia	140	–	8
10	Evelyn	108	↑9	15
11	Doris	104	–	7
12	Frances	101	–	12
13	Patricia	101	↑4	18
14	Marjorie	98	↓1	25
15	Alice	96	↓1	17
16	Lois	93	↓6	19
17	Rose	85	↓2	23
18	Norma	84	↑13	26
19	Marie	81	↑7	20
20	Josephine	78	↑7	39
21	Jean	76	↓1	14
22	Mildred	72	↓6	11
23	Phyllis	71	↓2	29
24	Irene	67	↓1	21
25	Eleanor	64	↑4	33
26	Anna	63	↓4	16
27	Elizabeth	62	↓2	13
28	Wilma	59	↑7	68
29	Ruby	57	new	30
30	Gloria	56	↑2	22
31	Lucille	56	↑10	45
32	Martha	56	↑2	24
33	Beverly	55	new	57
34	Esther	55	↓16	65
35	Dolores	52	↑4	34
36	Edith	52	↑11	48
37	Lillian	51	↓13	32
38	Edna	50	↓1	40
39	Maxine	50	↑3	87
40	Elsie	49	↑5	72
41	Joyce	49	new	35
42	Julia	49	new	76
43	Viola	49	↓7	>100
44	Florence	48	↓6	28
45	Maria	48	↓12	>100
46	Pauline	47	↓18	42
47	Joan	45	new	41
48	Charlotte	44	↓4	75
49	Donna	44	new	70
50	Louise	42	↓10	27

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Robert	538	–	1
2	John	431	–	2
3	William	359	–	4
4	James	294	–	3
5	Donald	275	↑1	8
6	Charles	238	↓1	5
7	Richard	213	↑1	6
8	George	202	↓1	7
9	Harold	154	↑2	14
10	Joe	148	–	30
11	Jack	125	↓2	16
12	Joseph	119	↑5	9
13	Frank	113	–	12
14	Edward	110	↓2	10
15	Paul	104	–	13
16	Raymond	87	–	15
17	Kenneth	83	↓3	18
18	Albert	81	–	23
19	Arthur	80	↑1	22
20	David	77	↑3	21
21	Thomas	77	↓2	11
22	Eugene	75	↑3	20
23	Harry	74	↓2	25
24	Walter	74	↑5	17
25	Ralph	73	↓3	24
26	Bill	72	↑4	69
27	Fred	66	↓3	35
28	Henry	63	–	19
29	Bob	59	↑7	100
30	Howard	59	↑3	28
31	Roy	58	↓4	34
32	Gerald	57	↑3	38
33	Lawrence	57	↑8	37
34	Carl	56	–	26
35	Ernest	55	↓3	41
36	Jose	55	↓5	>100
37	Louis	53	↓11	29
38	Wayne	51	↑10	67
39	Elmer	50	↑8	61
40	Manuel	48	new	>100
41	Leo	46	↑9	55
42	Dale	43	↓5	81
43	Floyd	43	new	53
44	Lloyd	42	new	58
45	Melvin	42	↓6	48
46	Norman	42	new	39
47	Clarence	40	new	32
48	Lee	40	new	86
49	Don	39	new	90
50	Gene	39	new	72

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