Popular baby names in Montana, 1911

The most popular baby names in Montana in 1911 were Mary for girls (72 babies) and John for boys (56). Social Security records list 1,638 babies born in Montana in 1911 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Montana in 1911

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

Girls

Violet: 19 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Agnes: 19 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Katherine: 15 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Pearl: 15 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Margaret: 59 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Alice: 29 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Hazel: 20 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Dorothy: 51 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Gladys: 23 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Clara: 15 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Boys

Jack: 18 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Frank: 26 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Edward: 24 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Montana, 1911

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	Mary	72	–	1
2	Margaret	59	↑1	3
3	Dorothy	51	↑1	4
4	Helen	33	↓2	2
5	Alice	29	↑3	11
6	Ruth	29	↑3	5
7	Frances	26	↓1	10
8	Elizabeth	25	↓3	7
9	Gladys	23	↓2	18
10	Florence	22	↑13	12
11	Anna	21	↑1	6
12	Edna	21	↑15	17
13	Hazel	20	↑27	25
14	Agnes	19	↓4	39
15	Marie	19	↑1	9
16	Violet	19	new	83
17	Evelyn	18	↓2	16
18	Mildred	18	↓7	8
19	Ethel	17	↓5	15
20	Lillian	17	↑4	13
21	Irene	16	↑20	21
22	Clara	15	↑4	33
23	Edith	15	↓10	31
24	Katherine	15	↑8	55
25	Pearl	15	new	48
26	Ann	14	↑4	53
27	Esther	14	↓8	34
28	Jean	14	new	74
29	Josephine	14	↑6	29
30	Martha	14	new	28
31	Catherine	13	↓14	20
32	Rose	13	↓7	14
33	Myrtle	12	new	50
34	Grace	11	↑5	23
35	Lucille	11	new	32
36	Virginia	11	new	26
37	Vivian	11	new	80
38	Doris	10	↓20	56
39	Elsie	10	↓17	41
40	Jennie	10	↓6	85
41	Laura	10	↑8	57
42	Mabel	10	↓6	43
43	Bertha	9	↓10	36
44	Eva	9	↓24	46
45	Louise	9	new	19
46	Pauline	9	new	38
47	Anne	8	new	64
48	Beulah	8	new	79
49	Gertrude	8	↓18	30
50	Kathryn	8	↓8	73

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	John	56	–	1
2	William	46	–	2
3	James	31	↑1	3
4	Joseph	28	↑5	6
5	Robert	27	↑8	5
6	Frank	26	↑6	8
7	Edward	24	–	9
8	Charles	20	↓2	7
9	George	19	↓6	4
10	Jack	18	↓2	25
11	Henry	15	↑9	11
12	Thomas	13	↑4	10
13	Raymond	12	↑10	19
14	Ernest	11	↑11	32
15	Francis	11	↑14	33
16	Paul	11	new	17
17	Carl	10	↓6	26
18	Roy	10	new	31
19	Donald	9	↑5	36
20	Fred	9	↑6	22
21	Harold	9	↓16	16
22	Harry	9	–	13
23	Albert	8	↓13	15
24	David	7	↓5	27
25	Earl	7	new	34
26	Joe	7	↓5	29
27	Lawrence	7	new	37
28	Leonard	7	new	46
29	Lloyd	7	new	74
30	Russell	7	new	55
31	Walter	7	↓17	12
32	Arthur	6	↓14	18
33	Clarence	6	↓18	23
34	Elmer	6	new	48
35	Howard	6	new	28
36	Andrew	5	new	42
37	Kenneth	5	↓20	40
38	Norman	5	↓11	63
39	Pete	5	new	>100
40	Ray	5	↓6	71

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