Popular baby names in Missouri, 1932

The most popular baby names in Missouri in 1932 were Mary for girls (1,972 babies) and Robert for boys (1,763). Social Security records list 55,292 babies born in Missouri in 1932 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Missouri in 1932

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

Girls

Glenda: 37 babies, 5× the national rate
Pansy: 26 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Dixie: 69 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Leta: 15 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Rosalee: 15 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Reva: 23 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Opal: 81 babies, 3× the national rate
Fern: 39 babies, 3× the national rate
Alta: 32 babies, 3× the national rate
Melba: 66 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Boys

Alva: 16 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Bob: 196 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Jackie: 107 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Hershel: 17 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Bobbie: 55 babies, 3× the national rate
Orville: 50 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Wilburn: 17 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Buddy: 34 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Frankie: 22 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Junior: 81 babies, 2.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Missouri, 1932

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Mary	1,972	–	1
2	Betty	1,540	–	2
3	Dorothy	764	–	4
4	Barbara	711	↑2	3
5	Shirley	622	↓1	9
6	Patricia	561	↑3	6
7	Helen	487	↓2	8
8	Norma	482	–	22
9	Joan	444	↑3	5
10	Doris	417	–	10
11	Virginia	406	↓4	14
12	Margaret	358	↓1	7
13	Ruth	337	–	11
14	Lois	309	↑3	20
15	Wanda	300	–	52
16	Anna	274	–	24
17	Joyce	273	↑5	12
18	Martha	265	↑9	27
19	Bonnie	254	↓5	64
20	Marilyn	254	↑3	16
21	Wilma	252	–	65
22	Dolores	232	↓4	18
23	Frances	232	↑2	19
24	Peggy	227	↑4	40
25	Evelyn	221	↓1	23
26	Nancy	221	↑3	13
27	Jean	220	↓7	15
28	Donna	211	↑6	29
29	Mildred	207	↓10	26
30	Marjorie	202	↑2	37
31	Beverly	200	↑5	28
32	Alice	191	↓6	21
33	Elizabeth	188	↑4	17
34	Ruby	184	↓4	38
35	Juanita	182	–	58
36	Phyllis	176	↑4	30
37	Patsy	173	↑4	77
38	Delores	172	↑1	56
39	Rose	167	↓6	33
40	Carol	154	↑5	32
41	Marie	149	↓3	31
42	Gloria	147	↓11	25
43	Geraldine	146	↑1	42
44	June	142	↑2	44
45	Thelma	142	↓2	51
46	Joann	140	↑4	79
47	Rosemary	136	↑2	100
48	Jo	129	new	>100
49	Edna	126	↓7	50
50	Louise	126	↓3	36

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Robert	1,763	–	1
2	James	1,341	–	2
3	Donald	1,245	↑2	7
4	John	1,156	–	3
5	William	1,152	↓2	4
6	Charles	1,067	–	6
7	Richard	775	–	5
8	Billy	534	–	20
9	George	493	–	8
10	Kenneth	492	–	14
11	Harold	437	–	18
12	Jack	399	–	17
13	Paul	382	↑3	13
14	Thomas	370	↑3	10
15	Bobby	328	↓1	30
16	Edward	328	↓3	11
17	David	307	↑2	12
18	Raymond	296	–	19
19	Joseph	293	↓4	9
20	Jerry	290	↑10	34
21	Carl	281	–	28
22	Ronald	256	↑16	16
23	Eugene	239	↓3	22
24	Joe	228	↑3	29
25	Frank	227	↓3	15
26	Bill	226	–	58
27	Walter	220	↓4	21
28	Norman	216	↑4	37
29	Ralph	206	↓5	27
30	Marvin	197	↑7	46
31	Bob	196	↑3	79
32	Roy	194	↓7	38
33	Gerald	192	↑2	24
34	Arthur	177	↓6	25
35	Earl	176	↓2	41
36	Don	169	↑11	55
37	Henry	167	↑6	23
38	Harry	160	↓9	32
39	Lawrence	159	↓3	35
40	Albert	153	↓1	26
41	Clarence	148	↓10	40
42	Dale	148	↑4	61
43	Gene	146	new	64
44	Melvin	139	↓3	51
45	Howard	137	↓5	36
46	Wayne	129	new	57
47	Vernon	128	new	78
48	Floyd	126	new	68
49	Leonard	126	new	48
50	Lloyd	125	↓2	71

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