Popular baby names in Colorado, 1939

The most popular baby names in Colorado in 1939 were Mary for girls (476 babies) and Robert for boys (557). Social Security records list 18,232 babies born in Colorado in 1939 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Colorado in 1939

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

Girls

Claudia: 24 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Jennie: 18 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Viola: 25 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Carmen: 20 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Alberta: 22 babies, 3× the national rate
Verna: 22 babies, 3× the national rate
Ramona: 21 babies, 3× the national rate
Esther: 49 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Leona: 25 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Lydia: 16 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Boys

Orlando: 16 babies, 15.8× the national rate
Alfonso: 16 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Pete: 22 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Delbert: 34 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Gilbert: 46 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Max: 28 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Dave: 18 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Dick: 23 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Tony: 29 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Manuel: 28 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Colorado, 1939

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1938	US rank
1	Mary	476	–	1
2	Barbara	285	–	2
3	Patricia	280	–	3
4	Shirley	195	–	5
5	Betty	191	–	4
6	Carol	177	↑1	6
7	Donna	165	↓1	20
8	Dorothy	152	↑2	9
9	Judith	147	↑15	8
10	Nancy	143	↓2	7
11	Margaret	142	↓2	10
12	Janice	116	↑1	24
13	Sharon	116	↑4	23
14	Beverly	115	↓2	25
15	Joan	114	↑3	11
16	Joyce	114	↓2	12
17	Virginia	114	↓6	21
18	Helen	108	↑2	16
19	Marilyn	101	↓4	19
20	Judy	92	↑10	28
21	Sandra	90	↓2	13
22	Carolyn	82	↑5	14
23	Frances	79	↓1	26
24	Phyllis	79	↓8	30
25	Janet	78	↑1	17
26	Linda	77	↑20	15
27	Alice	70	↓4	31
28	Norma	70	↓3	38
29	Ruth	70	↓8	22
30	Lois	68	↑4	35
31	Gloria	64	↓2	36
32	Loretta	62	↑7	65
33	Rose	59	↓2	42
34	Darlene	58	↑2	75
35	Bonnie	57	↑5	61
36	Jean	55	new	32
37	Dolores	54	↓9	58
38	Marjorie	53	↑10	60
39	Roberta	53	↓2	71
40	Joann	52	↑1	57
41	Charlotte	49	↑4	66
42	Doris	49	↓9	29
43	Esther	49	new	>100
44	Irene	49	new	74
45	Marie	48	↑2	37
46	Peggy	48	↑3	34
47	Geraldine	47	new	41
48	Elizabeth	46	↓13	18
49	Anna	44	↑1	43
50	Evelyn	44	↓8	40

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1938	US rank
1	Robert	557	–	1
2	James	428	↑1	2
3	John	403	↓1	3
4	Richard	370	–	5
5	William	319	–	4
6	Charles	263	↑1	6
7	Donald	259	↓1	8
8	David	241	↑1	7
9	Ronald	218	↓1	10
10	Larry	217	–	14
11	Thomas	161	↑4	9
12	George	145	↓1	11
13	Jerry	144	↑1	16
14	Kenneth	143	↓2	13
15	Joe	130	↓2	27
16	Gary	122	↑1	21
17	Gerald	119	↑6	19
18	Frank	108	↓2	20
19	Joseph	106	↑2	12
20	Edward	103	↓2	15
21	Raymond	101	↓2	22
22	Jack	96	↓2	26
23	Paul	92	↓1	17
24	Dennis	76	new	34
25	Harold	74	↑3	23
26	Norman	74	↑14	44
27	Lawrence	72	↓1	36
28	Michael	71	↓3	18
29	Arthur	69	↓2	32
30	Fred	67	↓6	40
31	Don	64	↓2	56
32	Roger	62	↑12	28
33	Ralph	60	↑3	35
34	Wayne	60	↑13	39
35	Henry	55	new	31
36	Leroy	55	↓6	61
37	Bill	54	↑8	67
38	Dale	54	new	59
39	Eugene	54	↓4	37
40	Bob	53	↓3	89
41	Daniel	50	↓9	38
42	Jim	50	↓4	75
43	Carl	49	↓12	30
44	Ernest	49	↓5	55
45	Albert	48	↓11	41
46	Walter	47	↓4	25
47	Gilbert	46	new	>100
48	Roy	46	↓15	42
49	Terry	44	new	83
50	Marvin	43	new	52

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