Popular baby names in Colorado, 1943

The most popular baby names in Colorado in 1943 were Mary for girls (534 babies) and James for boys (600). Social Security records list 21,532 babies born in Colorado in 1943 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Colorado in 1943

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

Girls

Jennie: 18 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Flora: 16 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Stella: 26 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Sharron: 19 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Viola: 19 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Vicki: 26 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Cecilia: 17 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Myrna: 17 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Cheryl: 53 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Verna: 16 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Boys

Pete: 25 babies, 5× the national rate
Felix: 16 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Manuel: 48 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Rudy: 16 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Leland: 18 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Rex: 16 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Myron: 15 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Max: 20 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Delbert: 17 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Tony: 30 babies, 2.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Colorado, 1943

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1942	US rank
1	Mary	534	–	1
2	Sharon	396	–	8
3	Patricia	329	↑1	3
4	Carol	301	↑1	5
5	Barbara	294	↓2	2
6	Linda	264	–	4
7	Judith	232	–	7
8	Karen	205	↑6	15
9	Nancy	200	↑1	9
10	Sandra	199	↓2	6
11	Donna	187	↑2	17
12	Judy	167	↓3	13
13	Shirley	155	↑2	12
14	Carolyn	153	↓2	11
15	Betty	151	↓4	10
16	Marilyn	123	↑6	27
17	Margaret	122	↓1	14
18	Janice	118	↓1	26
19	Dorothy	115	↑5	19
20	Joyce	114	↓1	16
21	Gloria	108	↑15	30
22	Janet	106	↓2	20
23	Susan	94	↑6	18
24	Helen	93	↑2	28
25	Kathleen	93	↓2	22
26	Virginia	92	↓8	25
27	Joan	88	↓6	21
28	Elizabeth	82	↑11	23
29	Frances	81	↓2	31
30	Beverly	80	↓5	32
31	Ruth	80	↑1	33
32	Bonnie	76	↓4	34
33	Connie	69	↑11	59
34	Phyllis	68	↓3	39
35	Alice	65	↓5	38
36	Dolores	65	new	74
37	Rose	64	↓2	50
38	Charlotte	59	↓4	47
39	Roberta	55	↑9	66
40	Jean	54	new	36
41	Katherine	54	↑8	78
42	Marie	54	↑5	45
43	Cheryl	53	new	>100
44	Lois	53	↓1	43
45	Elaine	52	new	46
46	Louise	52	new	70
47	Martha	52	↓6	29
48	Diana	50	new	62
49	Diane	50	↑1	24
50	Loretta	49	↓12	89

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1942	US rank
1	James	600	↑2	1
2	Robert	583	↓1	2
3	John	523	↓1	3
4	Richard	456	–	5
5	William	372	–	4
6	David	347	–	6
7	Charles	286	↑3	7
8	Ronald	272	↓1	9
9	Larry	255	↓1	12
10	Gary	240	↑2	16
11	Donald	221	↓2	11
12	Michael	199	↑2	10
13	Kenneth	188	↑2	15
14	Thomas	186	↓3	8
15	George	157	↑1	14
16	Jerry	148	↓3	17
17	Dennis	144	↑5	20
18	Paul	129	–	19
19	Joseph	121	–	13
20	Edward	120	↑1	18
21	Frank	119	↓4	21
22	Raymond	117	↑3	22
23	Joe	109	–	35
24	Gerald	108	↓4	23
25	Roger	91	↑5	24
26	Jack	88	↓2	34
27	Daniel	85	↑1	25
28	Harold	83	↑1	27
29	Ralph	77	↑9	40
30	Arthur	73	↑1	30
31	Douglas	71	↓4	28
32	Fred	69	↓6	45
33	Lawrence	67	↑1	32
34	Walter	67	↑2	26
35	Anthony	64	–	44
36	Stephen	62	↑14	29
37	Albert	61	↓5	43
38	Wayne	56	new	41
39	Eugene	54	↓2	47
40	Carl	52	↓7	33
41	Terry	52	new	49
42	Leroy	48	new	74
43	Manuel	48	new	>100
44	Bill	47	↓4	65
45	Henry	47	↓4	31
46	Jim	47	↓3	75
47	Leonard	47	new	55
48	Patrick	47	new	69
49	Stanley	47	↓5	54
50	Howard	46	↓2	48

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