Popular baby names in Colorado, 1941

The most popular baby names in Colorado in 1941 were Mary for girls (474 babies) and Robert for boys (503). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 18,862 babies born in Colorado in 1941 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Colorado in 1941

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

Girls

Carla: 16 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Cecilia: 20 babies, 4× the national rate
Teresa: 20 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Carmen: 24 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Marcella: 16 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Patty: 26 babies, 3× the national rate
Leona: 22 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Dixie: 22 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Viola: 19 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Kathy: 19 babies, 2.7× the national rate

Boys

Rudy: 18 babies, 5× the national rate
Manuel: 36 babies, 4× the national rate
Tony: 35 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Loren: 16 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Gilbert: 48 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Max: 26 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Delbert: 21 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Jim: 54 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Jose: 23 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Dick: 17 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Colorado, 1941

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1940	US rank
1	Mary	474	–	1
2	Barbara	321	↑1	2
3	Patricia	296	↓1	3
4	Sharon	231	↑4	15
5	Carol	221	↓1	4
6	Judith	195	–	6
7	Judy	170	↑5	16
8	Nancy	170	↑5	8
9	Betty	160	↓4	7
10	Donna	159	↓1	20
11	Sandra	145	↓1	9
12	Shirley	142	↓5	10
13	Linda	138	↑2	5
14	Karen	131	↑13	19
15	Margaret	130	↓4	12
16	Virginia	121	↓2	23
17	Carolyn	118	↑2	11
18	Helen	115	↑8	24
19	Beverly	113	↑1	29
20	Dorothy	108	↓4	14
21	Janice	100	↓3	22
22	Joyce	94	↓5	13
23	Gloria	90	↑1	26
24	Janet	88	↓3	18
25	Joan	80	–	17
26	Bonnie	79	↑2	33
27	Elizabeth	72	↑6	21
28	Norma	69	↑2	47
29	Alice	66	↑2	34
30	Frances	66	↓1	31
31	Marilyn	66	↓8	30
32	Peggy	66	↑13	39
33	Ruth	66	↓1	28
34	Charlotte	63	↑1	55
35	Phyllis	62	↓13	35
36	Jean	59	new	32
37	Kathleen	59	↑9	36
38	Lois	57	↓2	43
39	Marie	56	new	42
40	Rose	55	↓3	49
41	Loretta	54	new	81
42	Susan	54	↓4	27
43	Dolores	50	↓4	57
44	Irene	49	new	74
45	Evelyn	48	new	50
46	Martha	48	↓12	25
47	Geraldine	47	↓5	45
48	Sally	46	↑1	61
49	Connie	44	new	79
50	Marjorie	44	new	71

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1940	US rank
1	Robert	503	–	2
2	James	468	↑1	1
3	John	456	↓1	3
4	Richard	364	–	5
5	William	325	–	4
6	Larry	292	–	11
7	David	279	–	7
8	Charles	255	↑1	6
9	Ronald	240	↑1	9
10	Donald	236	↓2	10
11	Gary	205	–	19
12	George	165	–	13
13	Jerry	157	–	14
14	Thomas	153	–	8
15	Kenneth	150	–	15
16	Joseph	133	↑5	12
17	Joe	125	↓1	30
18	Paul	125	–	18
19	Frank	116	↑3	21
20	Gerald	115	↑4	20
21	Raymond	108	↑2	22
22	Edward	99	↓5	17
23	Michael	99	↓4	16
24	Dennis	98	↑1	23
25	Jack	95	↓5	32
26	Roger	86	↑6	25
27	Harold	81	–	24
28	Arthur	77	↓2	33
29	Lawrence	71	↑6	34
30	Ralph	71	↓1	38
31	Fred	69	↓1	43
32	Daniel	67	↑2	31
33	Leroy	59	↓5	67
34	Albert	57	↓1	40
35	Carl	55	↓4	29
36	Bill	54	↑8	68
37	Jim	54	↑3	80
38	Don	52	↑8	66
39	Anthony	50	new	46
40	Henry	50	↓1	28
41	Gilbert	48	↑7	>100
42	Wayne	47	↓1	37
43	Harry	46	↑6	48
44	Louis	46	↓2	50
45	Eugene	45	↓8	42
46	Stephen	44	new	41
47	Dale	42	↓2	59
48	Norman	42	↓10	49
49	Roy	40	↓6	39
50	Ernest	39	↓14	61

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