Popular baby names in Idaho, 1937

The most popular baby names in Idaho in 1937 were Mary for girls (158 babies) and Robert for boys (212). Social Security records list 8,026 babies born in Idaho in 1937 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Idaho in 1937

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

Girls

Colleen: 22 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Karen: 50 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Sharon: 90 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Deanna: 30 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Myrna: 29 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Connie: 29 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Patty: 17 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Pat: 22 babies, 4× the national rate
Donna: 111 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Darlene: 39 babies, 3.3× the national rate

Boys

Boyd: 15 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Lynn: 20 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Dean: 30 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Lyle: 20 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Jay: 24 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Delbert: 17 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Bob: 43 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Gary: 116 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Keith: 22 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Max: 18 babies, 4.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Idaho, 1937

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1936	US rank
1	Mary	158	↑1	1
2	Barbara	124	↑1	2
3	Betty	116	↑5	5
4	Carol	112	–	6
5	Donna	111	–	21
6	Shirley	105	↓5	4
7	Patricia	93	↓1	3
8	Sharon	90	↓1	41
9	Beverly	71	–	14
10	Joyce	70	↑3	11
11	Dorothy	64	↑3	8
12	Marilyn	61	↓1	13
13	Helen	52	↓1	12
14	Joan	52	↓4	9
15	Janet	50	↑3	18
16	Karen	50	↓1	>100
17	Margaret	47	↑3	10
18	Nancy	45	↓1	7
19	Carolyn	43	↑2	20
20	Lois	43	↓1	29
21	Phyllis	42	↑7	27
22	Evelyn	40	↑14	36
23	Darlene	39	↑3	72
24	Janice	39	↓1	25
25	Sandra	39	↑8	26
26	Norma	37	↓10	33
27	Jean	36	↓2	23
28	Kay	35	↑12	79
29	Ann	33	↑17	30
30	Bonnie	33	–	64
31	Ruth	33	↑4	15
32	Alice	30	↓3	28
33	Deanna	30	new	>100
34	Marlene	30	↓3	40
35	Virginia	30	↓13	16
36	Connie	29	↓2	>100
37	Myrna	29	–	>100
38	Arlene	28	↓14	60
39	Doris	26	↑11	22
40	Diane	25	new	76
41	Peggy	25	↑4	31
42	Carole	23	↓1	56
43	Colleen	22	↑5	>100
44	Lorraine	22	new	83
45	Pat	22	new	>100
46	Anita	21	new	93
47	Delores	21	new	68
48	Jo	21	new	73
49	Sally	21	new	59
50	Jeanette	20	new	90

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1936	US rank
1	Robert	212	–	1
2	Richard	155	↑3	5
3	Larry	150	↑4	16
4	James	147	↓1	2
5	John	137	↓3	3
6	Gary	116	↑2	29
7	Donald	109	↓3	7
8	Ronald	109	↑3	11
9	William	107	↓3	4
10	Jerry	101	↑5	17
11	David	91	↓2	8
12	Charles	74	↓2	6
13	Kenneth	73	↓1	14
14	George	64	↓1	10
15	Jack	59	↓1	23
16	Gerald	57	↑1	20
17	Dale	52	↓1	59
18	Don	47	↑1	51
19	Thomas	45	↑4	9
20	Bob	43	↑5	81
21	Frank	40	↑20	18
22	Paul	40	↓1	15
23	Harold	39	↑3	21
24	Raymond	39	↓2	19
25	Bill	37	↑2	64
26	Jim	35	↓6	82
27	Dennis	34	↑7	63
28	Fred	34	↑21	35
29	Wayne	34	↓11	44
30	Edward	33	↑8	13
31	Roger	32	↓7	36
32	Carl	31	↓3	28
33	Lawrence	31	new	38
34	Michael	31	new	27
35	Dean	30	↑5	>100
36	Leroy	29	new	56
37	Lee	28	new	78
38	Ralph	28	↓5	34
39	Joseph	27	↑6	12
40	Melvin	27	↓3	50
41	Howard	26	new	42
42	Norman	26	↓14	43
43	Gordon	25	↓1	75
44	Marvin	25	↓9	49
45	Eugene	24	new	33
46	Gene	24	↓10	61
47	Jay	24	↓15	>100
48	Vernon	24	new	96
49	Bruce	23	new	70
50	Walter	23	new	26

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