Popular baby names in Montana, 1925

The most popular baby names in Montana in 1925 were Mary for girls (213 babies) and Robert for boys (305). Social Security records list 7,857 babies born in Montana in 1925 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Montana in 1925

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: 27 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Patricia: 70 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Myrtle: 25 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Mabel: 19 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Peggy: 19 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Eileen: 23 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Viola: 25 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Violet: 23 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Ellen: 20 babies, 2.3× the national rate
June: 46 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Lloyd: 34 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Bill: 24 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Wayne: 23 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Wallace: 18 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Dale: 19 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Leo: 29 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Arnold: 15 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Montana, 1925

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Mary	213	–	1
2	Betty	208	–	3
3	Helen	156	–	4
4	Dorothy	154	–	2
5	Margaret	132	–	5
6	Ruth	109	–	6
7	Alice	70	↑3	15
8	Patricia	70	↑6	28
9	Virginia	56	↑3	7
10	Lois	55	↑3	18
11	Doris	54	↓4	8
12	Jean	54	↓3	14
13	Marjorie	53	↓5	21
14	Shirley	52	↑4	17
15	Evelyn	51	–	12
16	Frances	51	↓5	11
17	June	46	↑15	39
18	Barbara	44	↑13	22
19	Irene	42	↓3	19
20	Elizabeth	40	–	10
21	Lillian	39	↓4	25
22	Mildred	38	↑6	9
23	Florence	37	↓1	24
24	Anna	34	↑10	13
25	Edith	34	↑18	42
26	Marie	34	↓7	16
27	Joyce	31	↓1	59
28	Norma	31	↑19	34
29	Phyllis	30	↓4	40
30	Esther	29	↓6	56
31	Gladys	29	↓10	33
32	Josephine	29	new	36
33	Lorraine	29	↓3	51
34	Lucille	29	↓7	41
35	Edna	28	new	37
36	Eleanor	28	↑12	31
37	Donna	27	new	>100
38	Catherine	26	↓2	29
39	Martha	26	↓16	23
40	Rose	26	↓7	26
41	Charlotte	25	new	77
42	Clara	25	↓7	55
43	Hazel	25	↓6	45
44	Louise	25	↑5	27
45	Marian	25	↑1	67
46	Myrtle	25	new	95
47	Pauline	25	new	38
48	Thelma	25	↓10	35
49	Viola	25	↓8	84
50	Agnes	24	↓8	69

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Robert	305	–	1
2	John	270	–	2
3	William	225	–	3
4	James	209	–	4
5	George	141	↑1	6
6	Donald	128	↓1	10
7	Charles	122	–	5
8	Richard	91	↑1	8
9	Thomas	76	↑4	11
10	Edward	72	↑5	9
11	Frank	69	–	12
12	Joseph	68	↑5	7
13	Raymond	67	↑1	15
14	Jack	66	↓6	17
15	Harold	62	↓5	14
16	Arthur	55	↑2	20
17	Walter	54	↓1	16
18	Albert	50	↑2	21
19	Paul	48	↑3	13
20	Kenneth	47	↓8	19
21	Eugene	45	↑7	24
22	Harry	44	↓3	23
23	Howard	40	↑3	26
24	Lawrence	35	↑25	36
25	David	34	↓4	22
26	Lloyd	34	↑11	62
27	Fred	31	↓2	33
28	Francis	29	↑19	35
29	Leo	29	↑4	54
30	Ralph	29	↓3	25
31	Roy	29	↑3	32
32	Norman	28	↑9	41
33	Henry	27	↓10	18
34	Leonard	26	new	38
35	Carl	25	↓11	28
36	Melvin	25	↑2	50
37	Bill	24	↑5	84
38	Calvin	24	↓9	47
39	Clarence	24	↓9	30
40	Earl	24	↓8	31
41	Louis	24	new	29
42	Clifford	23	↓3	59
43	Elmer	23	new	61
44	Wayne	23	new	74
45	Bernard	22	new	48
46	Floyd	22	new	58
47	Edwin	20	new	57
48	Peter	20	new	60
49	Vernon	20	new	67
50	Alfred	19	new	43

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