Popular baby names in Colorado, 1934

The most popular baby names in Colorado in 1934 were Mary for girls (510 babies) and Robert for boys (559). Social Security records list 15,984 babies born in Colorado in 1934 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Colorado in 1934

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

Girls

Isabel: 15 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Claudia: 15 babies, 4× the national rate
Jennie: 28 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Ramona: 25 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Stella: 28 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Viola: 36 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Carmen: 21 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Darlene: 53 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Dixie: 17 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Lila: 17 babies, 2.7× the national rate

Boys

Pete: 33 babies, 7× the national rate
Rudy: 20 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Tony: 29 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Manuel: 40 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Dick: 36 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Mike: 19 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Leland: 18 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Gilbert: 47 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Bob: 65 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Delbert: 23 babies, 3.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Colorado, 1934

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1933	US rank
1	Mary	510	–	1
2	Betty	309	–	2
3	Barbara	283	–	3
4	Shirley	255	–	4
5	Dorothy	206	↑1	5
6	Patricia	178	↓1	6
7	Donna	140	↑1	23
8	Joan	132	↑2	7
9	Margaret	132	↓2	8
10	Helen	109	↓1	9
11	Virginia	109	–	15
12	Nancy	106	↑3	10
13	Carol	99	↑1	14
14	Beverly	98	↓1	22
15	Ruth	95	↑2	13
16	Norma	91	↑5	24
17	Frances	89	↑5	19
18	Phyllis	84	↑1	28
19	Joyce	83	↑5	12
20	Alice	80	↓8	25
21	Jean	78	↑11	16
22	Doris	74	↓6	11
23	Evelyn	70	↑7	29
24	Dolores	69	↓1	26
25	Marilyn	65	↓5	17
26	Rose	63	↑5	37
27	Joann	60	↑1	50
28	Lois	60	↓10	20
29	Bonnie	57	–	58
30	Joanne	57	↑14	45
31	Gloria	55	↓6	30
32	Janet	55	↑2	21
33	Marjorie	55	↓6	41
34	Darlene	53	↓1	90
35	Peggy	51	↑4	36
36	Martha	49	↓1	27
37	Elizabeth	48	↓11	18
38	Irene	48	↑4	49
39	Sally	48	↑10	62
40	Anna	45	↓4	31
41	Wilma	45	new	73
42	Esther	43	↑5	91
43	Delores	42	new	51
44	Wanda	42	new	47
45	Josephine	41	↑5	60
46	Sylvia	41	new	70
47	Carolyn	39	↓6	33
48	Eleanor	39	↓11	44
49	Janice	39	new	68
50	Lillian	39	new	52

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1933	US rank
1	Robert	559	–	1
2	James	337	↑2	2
3	John	333	↓1	3
4	Richard	320	↓1	5
5	Donald	316	–	6
6	William	297	↑1	4
7	Charles	196	↓1	7
8	Joe	137	↑1	26
9	George	128	↓1	8
10	David	123	↑3	12
11	Jack	123	↓1	17
12	Frank	117	↓1	16
13	Kenneth	115	↑1	15
14	Paul	114	↑2	14
15	Ronald	113	↓3	11
16	Thomas	105	↑6	9
17	Raymond	99	↓2	19
18	Edward	92	↓1	13
19	Don	87	↑13	50
20	Harold	87	↓2	18
21	Jerry	82	↑2	25
22	Bill	79	↑2	59
23	Arthur	74	↑4	29
24	Joseph	70	↓5	10
25	Fred	69	↓5	33
26	Gerald	68	↓1	22
27	Larry	68	↑18	43
28	Albert	66	↓2	32
29	Bob	65	↑1	75
30	Norman	55	new	38
31	Harry	54	↑5	36
32	Dale	53	↑15	62
33	Lawrence	52	↑2	34
34	Roy	52	new	35
35	Ralph	51	↓14	31
36	Billy	50	↓8	20
37	Louis	48	↑4	40
38	Gilbert	47	↑6	>100
39	Carl	46	↓2	28
40	Walter	46	↓11	21
41	Henry	45	↑1	27
42	Leonard	45	↑7	53
43	Ray	44	–	63
44	Wayne	44	new	48
45	Ernest	43	↓12	51
46	Melvin	43	–	55
47	Stanley	42	new	58
48	Eugene	41	↓14	24
49	Manuel	40	new	>100
50	Vernon	40	new	89

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