Popular baby names in Kansas, 1923

The most popular baby names in Kansas in 1923 were Mary for girls (982 babies) and Robert for boys (984). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 32,901 babies born in Kansas in 1923 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Kansas in 1923

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

Girls

Lavon: 16 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Twila: 18 babies, 8× the national rate
Velda: 18 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Darlene: 45 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Nadine: 40 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Leota: 16 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Ila: 28 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Charlene: 21 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Willa: 23 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Melva: 15 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Boys

Dean: 94 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Loren: 48 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Dale: 157 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Gail: 15 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Keith: 77 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Ivan: 53 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Merle: 48 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Eldon: 36 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Rex: 36 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Duane: 42 babies, 3.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Kansas, 1923

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	Mary	982	–	1
2	Betty	890	–	5
3	Dorothy	654	–	2
4	Helen	441	–	3
5	Virginia	421	↑1	7
6	Margaret	363	↓1	4
7	Ruth	331	↑1	6
8	Marjorie	317	↓1	16
9	Doris	293	–	11
10	Mildred	243	–	8
11	Frances	227	–	10
12	Evelyn	205	↑1	12
13	Lois	200	↑1	27
14	Wilma	182	↑6	74
15	Maxine	175	↓3	76
16	Norma	172	↑3	41
17	Elizabeth	163	–	9
18	Anna	161	↓2	13
19	Alice	151	↓4	15
20	Esther	145	↑1	47
21	Martha	137	↑2	21
22	Barbara	136	↑13	33
23	Juanita	135	↑7	51
24	Phyllis	131	↑3	45
25	Irene	126	↓7	17
26	Wanda	125	↑8	80
27	Edna	118	↑2	32
28	Lucille	116	↑5	35
29	Jean	115	↓1	19
30	Pauline	112	↓5	37
31	Thelma	110	↓9	31
32	Ruby	109	↓8	25
33	Patricia	103	new	56
34	Marie	101	↑4	14
35	Shirley	100	new	26
36	Vera	100	↓5	82
37	Florence	99	↓1	18
38	Edith	98	↓1	36
39	Hazel	96	↓13	40
40	Ethel	90	↑2	38
41	Bonnie	89	↑8	>100
42	Eleanor	87	↑1	28
43	Louise	87	↓3	22
44	Geraldine	85	↓5	58
45	Velma	85	↑3	>100
46	Gladys	83	↓14	29
47	Clara	81	↑3	49
48	Josephine	81	↓2	30
49	June	79	↓5	42
50	Opal	76	↓9	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	Robert	984	–	2
2	William	657	–	3
3	John	652	–	1
4	James	567	–	4
5	Charles	564	–	5
6	Harold	414	–	13
7	Donald	346	↑1	10
8	George	338	↓1	6
9	Jack	310	↑2	17
10	Richard	290	↓1	9
11	Kenneth	269	↓1	21
12	Paul	255	–	14
13	Raymond	250	–	15
14	Frank	193	↑3	11
15	Ralph	192	↓1	23
16	Edward	185	↓1	8
17	Joseph	180	↓1	7
18	Eugene	168	–	25
19	Carl	165	↑11	28
20	Earl	162	↑7	31
21	Dale	157	↑10	90
22	Clarence	155	↓3	29
23	Walter	151	↓3	16
24	Arthur	145	↑13	19
25	Albert	136	–	20
26	Harry	134	↓2	22
27	Howard	132	↑1	26
28	Lawrence	131	↓6	36
29	Thomas	128	↓6	12
30	Warren	126	↑16	43
31	Marvin	123	↓2	51
32	Roy	119	↓11	32
33	Melvin	117	↓7	48
34	Wayne	107	↓1	75
35	Lloyd	106	↑1	59
36	Joe	105	↑13	35
37	Henry	104	↑3	18
38	Ernest	103	↑10	38
39	Gerald	103	↑5	54
40	Leonard	103	↓2	37
41	Elmer	101	↓2	57
42	Francis	101	↓10	34
43	Fred	99	↓1	33
44	Floyd	97	↓9	64
45	Leo	95	↓2	49
46	David	94	↑4	24
47	Dean	94	new	>100
48	Louis	87	new	27
49	Bill	86	new	98
50	Vernon	85	↓16	67

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