Popular baby names in Colorado, 1931

The most popular baby names in Colorado in 1931 were Mary for girls (511 babies) and Robert for boys (587). Social Security records list 16,577 babies born in Colorado in 1931 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Colorado in 1931

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

Girls

Darlene: 61 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Dixie: 18 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Jennie: 32 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Priscilla: 18 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Viola: 41 babies, 3× the national rate
Stella: 32 babies, 3× the national rate
Pat: 21 babies, 3× the national rate
Dora: 30 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Lola: 26 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Maria: 46 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Boys

Tony: 33 babies, 5× the national rate
Mike: 26 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Rudy: 16 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Bob: 79 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Jose: 46 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Pete: 19 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Manuel: 33 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Joe: 156 babies, 3× the national rate
Ivan: 16 babies, 3× the national rate
Keith: 33 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Colorado, 1931

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Mary	511	–	1
2	Betty	408	–	2
3	Dorothy	244	–	3
4	Shirley	242	–	9
5	Barbara	235	–	4
6	Patricia	160	↑3	8
7	Helen	155	↓1	6
8	Virginia	142	–	12
9	Margaret	137	↓2	7
10	Donna	127	↑5	32
11	Ruth	118	↓1	11
12	Alice	109	↑6	21
13	Norma	107	↓1	22
14	Beverly	100	↑8	31
15	Joan	98	↑2	5
16	Dolores	95	↓3	14
17	Doris	91	↓1	10
18	Lois	83	↓4	20
19	Phyllis	82	↑4	29
20	Joyce	76	↑13	15
21	Frances	75	↓10	18
22	Marjorie	72	↓2	34
23	Rose	70	↓2	30
24	Gloria	69	↑4	23
25	Jean	68	↓1	13
26	Marilyn	66	↓1	19
27	Evelyn	65	↓8	24
28	Darlene	61	new	>100
29	Josephine	61	↑3	51
30	Elizabeth	57	↓3	16
31	Marie	57	↑6	27
32	Nancy	57	new	17
33	Wilma	56	↓3	69
34	Anna	53	↑2	25
35	Pauline	50	↓1	56
36	Martha	49	↓7	28
37	Carol	47	↑7	46
38	Joanne	47	new	68
39	Eleanor	46	↑2	40
40	Geraldine	46	↓14	38
41	Joann	46	new	90
42	Lorraine	46	↑1	49
43	Maria	46	↓5	>100
44	Bonnie	45	↑6	73
45	Irene	45	↓14	37
46	Louise	44	↓1	33
47	Florence	41	new	43
48	June	41	↓6	44
49	Viola	41	–	>100
50	Wanda	41	new	54

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Robert	587	–	1
2	John	355	–	3
3	Donald	337	↑1	7
4	James	308	↑1	2
5	William	298	↓2	4
6	Richard	295	–	5
7	Charles	236	–	6
8	George	177	–	8
9	Jack	165	–	15
10	Joe	156	–	29
11	David	125	↑6	13
12	Frank	121	↑2	16
13	Harold	116	↓1	18
14	Kenneth	116	↓3	14
15	Raymond	109	–	17
16	Paul	107	–	12
17	Edward	96	↓4	11
18	Thomas	93	–	10
19	Bob	79	↑10	78
20	Joseph	77	–	9
21	Gerald	71	↑10	26
22	Ralph	71	↑2	25
23	Albert	67	↓4	24
24	Billy	66	↑17	19
25	Walter	65	↓2	20
26	Bill	64	–	57
27	Fred	64	↓5	33
28	Carl	63	↓3	28
29	Arthur	61	↓8	23
30	Henry	61	↑4	22
31	Ernest	59	↓1	47
32	Marvin	59	↑15	45
33	Ronald	59	↑7	27
34	Don	58	↓6	59
35	Dale	57	–	62
36	Wayne	57	new	58
37	Norman	56	↑12	36
38	Eugene	53	↓11	21
39	Roy	53	↓7	35
40	Lawrence	52	↑3	38
41	Louis	51	↑3	37
42	Earl	50	–	40
43	Leonard	47	↑7	48
44	Leroy	47	new	52
45	Jose	46	↓9	>100
46	Ray	46	↓1	60
47	Harry	45	↓9	30
48	Gene	43	new	64
49	Gilbert	43	↓10	92
50	Jerry	43	↓4	43

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