Popular baby names in Montana, 1922

The most popular baby names in Montana in 1922 were Mary for girls (281 babies) and Robert for boys (345). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 8,972 babies born in Montana in 1922 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Montana in 1922

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

Girls

Donna: 17 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Bette: 18 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Bonnie: 19 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Phyllis: 51 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Violet: 33 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Esther: 52 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Joyce: 19 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Lois: 64 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Marian: 35 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Maxine: 30 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Lyle: 16 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Dean: 15 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Leslie: 20 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Wallace: 25 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Glen: 15 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Lester: 31 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Lloyd: 34 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Vernon: 28 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Donald: 128 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Jack: 91 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Montana, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	281	–	1
2	Dorothy	178	–	2
3	Helen	169	–	3
4	Margaret	141	–	4
5	Betty	134	–	6
6	Ruth	118	–	5
7	Alice	88	↑2	15
8	Marjorie	81	↑2	16
9	Virginia	73	↓2	7
10	Doris	72	↓2	11
11	Evelyn	72	–	13
12	Frances	69	↑5	10
13	Florence	67	↑2	18
14	Irene	66	↑12	17
15	Elizabeth	64	↓3	9
16	Lois	64	↑9	35
17	Marie	61	↓1	14
18	Mildred	60	↓4	8
19	Esther	52	↑4	44
20	Phyllis	51	↑15	53
21	Lucille	50	↑13	33
22	Jean	49	↓9	20
23	Eleanor	48	new	28
24	Anna	47	↓4	12
25	Hazel	45	↓6	37
26	Lillian	45	↑7	19
27	Elsie	38	↑5	59
28	Agnes	37	↑10	62
29	Catherine	35	↑17	24
30	Ethel	35	↑1	32
31	Marian	35	↓1	67
32	Edith	34	↑7	34
33	Grace	34	↓11	38
34	Ann	33	new	49
35	Barbara	33	↓8	40
36	Gladys	33	↓18	25
37	Violet	33	new	86
38	Patricia	32	↑6	69
39	Shirley	32	new	39
40	Louise	31	↑3	22
41	June	30	↓12	45
42	Maxine	30	↑6	82
43	Thelma	30	↓6	31
44	Eileen	26	new	96
45	Eva	26	↑4	64
46	Rose	26	↓22	23
47	Vivian	26	new	74
48	Bernice	25	↓3	41
49	Lorraine	25	↓9	56
50	Pauline	25	new	36

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Robert	345	–	2
2	John	293	–	1
3	William	274	–	3
4	James	173	–	4
5	George	135	–	6
6	Donald	128	–	12
7	Charles	114	–	5
8	Richard	100	–	9
9	Jack	91	–	18
10	Harold	85	↑7	13
11	Edward	76	↓1	8
12	Kenneth	74	↑3	21
13	Frank	69	↓2	10
14	Joseph	66	↓1	7
15	Arthur	65	↑1	19
16	Raymond	65	↓4	16
17	Thomas	63	↓3	11
18	Paul	51	↑3	14
19	Harry	50	↑10	22
20	Walter	48	↓1	15
21	Albert	47	↑2	20
22	Eugene	46	↓2	25
23	Fred	45	↑3	33
24	Earl	43	↑9	31
25	Henry	43	↓1	17
26	Howard	43	↑6	26
27	Ralph	42	↓5	23
28	Francis	40	–	34
29	Clarence	37	↑1	29
30	Norman	36	↑19	44
31	David	34	↑4	24
32	Lloyd	34	↑14	59
33	Roy	34	↓8	32
34	Lester	31	new	69
35	Lawrence	28	↓8	36
36	Vernon	28	new	68
37	Leo	27	↓3	51
38	Leonard	27	new	38
39	Elmer	26	↑11	54
40	Warren	26	↓22	45
41	Carl	25	↑4	30
42	Clifford	25	↑5	63
43	Wallace	25	new	87
44	Ernest	24	↓8	37
45	Daniel	23	↑3	47
46	Theodore	23	new	62
47	Bernard	22	new	46
48	Gerald	22	new	58
49	Louis	22	↓12	27
50	Alvin	21	new	73

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