Popular baby names in Kentucky, 1930

The most popular baby names in Kentucky in 1930 were Mary for girls (2,001 babies) and James for boys (2,029). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 52,946 babies born in Kentucky in 1930 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Kentucky in 1930

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

Girls

Lyda: 15 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Oma: 38 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Alpha: 15 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Mayme: 16 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Zola: 17 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Magdalene: 22 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Nannie: 51 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Emogene: 33 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Maudie: 24 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Jewell: 63 babies, 4.8× the national rate

Boys

Estill: 19 babies, 37× the national rate
Hobert: 33 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Denver: 31 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Shelby: 25 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Omer: 23 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Clay: 19 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Kelly: 16 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Arlie: 16 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Woodrow: 24 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Buford: 26 babies, 4.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Kentucky, 1930

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Mary	2,001	–	1
2	Betty	1,258	–	2
3	Dorothy	781	–	3
4	Helen	518	–	4
5	Anna	500	–	23
6	Margaret	422	–	5
7	Doris	412	↑5	9
8	Martha	400	↑1	27
9	Virginia	387	↓2	12
10	Ruth	385	↓2	10
11	Ruby	345	↓1	36
12	Mildred	310	↓1	21
13	Elizabeth	284	↑1	15
14	Juanita	284	↓1	57
15	Thelma	280	–	45
16	Wanda	268	↑2	56
17	Norma	266	↑11	25
18	Frances	262	↓2	16
19	Wilma	244	↑1	68
20	Jean	232	↑2	14
21	Barbara	217	↑11	6
22	Edna	217	↓3	51
23	Joyce	217	↑11	18
24	Evelyn	209	↓7	19
25	Edith	204	–	61
26	Hazel	202	↓2	71
27	Pauline	202	↓4	52
28	Lois	201	↓7	17
29	Nancy	198	↑2	24
30	Gladys	192	↓4	48
31	Geneva	186	↓4	>100
32	Patricia	184	↑11	7
33	Louise	174	–	31
34	Alice	168	↑1	20
35	Marie	166	↓5	26
36	Billie	165	↑10	79
37	Irene	160	↓1	33
38	Emma	159	↓9	73
39	Lillian	158	↑6	44
40	Shirley	155	↑2	11
41	Alma	147	↑3	>100
42	Ethel	147	↓4	65
43	Opal	141	new	>100
44	Eva	136	↓4	86
45	Joan	132	↑5	8
46	Lucille	127	↓7	59
47	Christine	124	↓6	>100
48	Dolores	124	–	13
49	Clara	123	↓12	64
50	Georgia	123	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	James	2,029	–	2
2	William	1,417	–	4
3	Robert	1,166	↑1	1
4	Charles	1,145	↓1	6
5	John	1,001	–	3
6	George	478	–	8
7	Billy	451	↑2	20
8	Donald	426	–	7
9	Paul	395	↓2	12
10	Thomas	390	↑1	11
11	Joseph	356	↓1	9
12	Kenneth	344	↑3	17
13	Harold	335	↓1	18
14	Edward	312	↓1	10
15	Jack	302	↓1	14
16	Eugene	300	↑1	21
17	Bobby	291	↑13	41
18	Richard	288	–	5
19	Roy	272	↑3	33
20	Raymond	267	↑1	16
21	Joe	260	↑2	27
22	Carl	253	↓3	26
23	Earl	253	↓3	38
24	David	230	–	15
25	Henry	224	↑1	22
26	Walter	198	↓1	19
27	Frank	197	↑2	13
28	Ralph	189	↓1	25
29	Clarence	176	↑2	39
30	Fred	173	↑3	32
31	Albert	165	↑1	24
32	Herbert	160	↓16	35
33	Ray	155	↓5	57
34	Arthur	147	↑4	23
35	Howard	147	↑1	31
36	Ernest	145	↑4	43
37	Bill	133	↑9	59
38	Willie	129	↓1	29
39	Cecil	119	↑4	99
40	Harry	119	↓6	28
41	Marvin	119	↓2	48
42	Clyde	117	–	76
43	Elmer	112	↓8	80
44	Gene	110	↑1	70
45	Chester	109	↓4	>100
46	Floyd	109	new	61
47	Lawrence	109	–	36
48	Russell	107	new	60
49	Samuel	104	–	55
50	Herman	102	↓6	78

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