Popular baby names in Montana, 1919

The most popular baby names in Montana in 1919 were Mary for girls (287 babies) and John for boys (327). Social Security records list 10,264 babies born in Montana in 1919 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Montana in 1919

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

Girls

Montana: 15 babies, 184.2× the national rate
Joyce: 25 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Donna: 15 babies, 4× the national rate
Lydia: 16 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Marian: 43 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Patricia: 29 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Audrey: 28 babies, 2.8× the national rate
June: 49 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Phyllis: 35 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Ellen: 32 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Dean: 16 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Bruce: 16 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Donald: 135 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Bill: 16 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Lloyd: 42 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Vernon: 38 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Gordon: 26 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Arnold: 23 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Glenn: 26 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Douglas: 16 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Montana, 1919

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Mary	287	–	1
2	Helen	237	–	2
3	Dorothy	216	–	3
4	Margaret	182	–	4
5	Ruth	145	–	5
6	Alice	103	↑2	13
7	Frances	96	–	9
8	Betty	88	↑5	15
9	Mildred	87	–	6
10	Virginia	86	↑2	7
11	Elizabeth	78	↑9	8
12	Evelyn	78	↓6	11
13	Hazel	71	↑6	32
14	Jean	67	↑1	37
15	Gladys	66	↑1	21
16	Florence	64	↓6	14
17	Marjorie	63	↓6	33
18	Lucille	62	↑9	27
19	Marie	62	↓5	12
20	Esther	61	↑9	38
21	Irene	59	↓4	16
22	Lois	59	↑4	40
23	Doris	54	↓5	18
24	Edna	52	↓3	22
25	Grace	52	↑9	34
26	Anna	49	↓3	10
27	June	49	↑11	64
28	Rose	49	↓3	19
29	Edith	48	↓1	29
30	Martha	47	–	25
31	Agnes	44	↑8	50
32	Ethel	44	↑8	28
33	Elsie	43	↓11	47
34	Marian	43	↑10	82
35	Lillian	42	↓11	17
36	Eleanor	40	↓5	30
37	Lorraine	40	↑4	62
38	Josephine	39	new	26
39	Bertha	38	new	52
40	Catherine	37	↓7	23
41	Marion	37	new	44
42	Ruby	37	↓10	24
43	Louise	35	↓6	20
44	Phyllis	35	new	84
45	Gertrude	34	new	39
46	Violet	34	new	74
47	Clara	32	↓4	43
48	Ellen	32	↓3	92
49	Katherine	32	↓13	51
50	Pearl	32	↓4	56

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	John	327	–	1
2	Robert	245	–	4
3	William	231	–	2
4	James	205	–	3
5	George	186	–	6
6	Charles	165	–	5
7	Donald	135	↑2	17
8	Harold	93	↓1	13
9	Richard	88	↑2	12
10	Thomas	85	↑2	10
11	Edward	82	↑3	8
12	Frank	82	↓2	9
13	Jack	82	↑2	21
14	Raymond	82	↑2	14
15	Joseph	74	↓7	7
16	Walter	72	↑1	11
17	Kenneth	67	↑1	26
18	Paul	66	↑7	15
19	Albert	62	↑2	18
20	Howard	58	↑3	24
21	Arthur	57	↓8	19
22	Henry	57	↓2	16
23	Earl	48	↑6	31
24	Ralph	48	↓2	22
25	Clarence	47	↓1	25
26	Leonard	46	↑6	39
27	David	42	↑9	27
28	Lloyd	42	↑7	58
29	Carl	41	↓1	29
30	Francis	40	↑3	34
31	Roy	39	↓4	32
32	Vernon	38	new	65
33	Harry	36	↓14	20
34	Lawrence	36	↓8	38
35	Eugene	35	↑2	33
36	Fred	35	↓2	30
37	Joe	32	↑9	35
38	Ernest	30	↓8	36
39	Herbert	29	↑9	40
40	Norman	29	new	48
41	Leo	28	new	49
42	Clifford	27	↑2	60
43	Clyde	27	new	67
44	Glenn	26	↓1	84
45	Gordon	26	new	86
46	Louis	26	↓8	28
47	Gerald	25	new	70
48	Alvin	24	new	76
49	Arnold	23	–	94
50	Harvey	23	new	85

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