Popular baby names in Montana, 1930

The most popular baby names in Montana in 1930 were Mary for girls (208 babies) and Robert for boys (300). Social Security records list 7,619 babies born in Montana in 1930 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Montana in 1930

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

Girls

Ramona: 18 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Darlene: 19 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Donna: 72 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Violet: 22 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Ellen: 23 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Beverly: 57 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Leona: 17 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Shirley: 117 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Eileen: 18 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Joyce: 72 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Jim: 21 babies, 4× the national rate
Dean: 19 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Gordon: 31 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Bill: 37 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Duane: 17 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Lloyd: 26 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Wallace: 15 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Alvin: 21 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Don: 24 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Leo: 24 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Montana, 1930

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Mary	208	↑1	1
2	Betty	190	↓1	2
3	Dorothy	122	↑1	3
4	Helen	120	↓1	4
5	Shirley	117	–	11
6	Patricia	104	–	7
7	Barbara	82	↑4	6
8	Margaret	73	↓1	5
9	Donna	72	↓1	37
10	Joyce	72	↑7	18
11	Ruth	64	↓2	10
12	Lois	59	–	17
13	Beverly	57	↑3	34
14	Dolores	57	↑1	13
15	Jean	57	↑3	14
16	Alice	56	↑3	20
17	Doris	54	↓4	9
18	Joan	53	↑9	8
19	Virginia	51	↓9	12
20	Phyllis	44	↑4	28
21	Evelyn	43	↓1	19
22	Frances	41	↓1	16
23	Marjorie	37	↓9	32
24	Marilyn	33	↑13	22
25	Irene	31	↑6	33
26	Edna	30	↑15	51
27	Lorraine	30	↓4	46
28	Norma	30	↑16	25
29	Audrey	29	new	63
30	Rose	28	↑8	29
31	June	27	↓3	47
32	Marie	27	↓2	26
33	Anna	24	↓8	23
34	Carol	24	↓2	54
35	Florence	24	new	38
36	Lillian	24	↑6	44
37	Rita	24	new	42
38	Ellen	23	new	100
39	Elizabeth	22	↓6	15
40	Esther	22	↓6	77
41	Hazel	22	↑7	71
42	Violet	22	↓2	>100
43	Clara	21	new	64
44	Louise	21	↓9	31
45	Marian	21	↓16	80
46	Ann	20	new	41
47	Gloria	20	–	30
48	Joanne	20	new	81
49	Maxine	20	new	93
50	Mildred	20	↓11	21

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Robert	300	–	1
2	William	222	↑1	4
3	James	203	↑2	2
4	John	193	↓2	3
5	Donald	179	↓1	7
6	Richard	132	–	5
7	Charles	112	–	6
8	George	103	↑1	8
9	Jack	75	↓1	14
10	Kenneth	72	↑6	17
11	Edward	61	↑4	10
12	Thomas	61	–	11
13	Joseph	60	↑1	9
14	Raymond	60	↓4	16
15	Eugene	53	↑6	21
16	Harold	51	↓5	18
17	Frank	48	↓4	13
18	David	47	↓1	15
19	Albert	38	↓1	24
20	Gerald	38	↑13	30
21	Bill	37	↑4	59
22	Fred	36	↑14	32
23	Paul	36	↓1	12
24	Ronald	36	↑14	37
25	Arthur	35	↓5	23
26	Howard	35	↑18	31
27	Harry	34	↓4	28
28	Walter	34	↓9	19
29	Earl	33	↑1	38
30	Gordon	31	↑17	77
31	Clarence	30	↑11	39
32	Leonard	30	↑13	45
33	Norman	29	↑8	40
34	Lawrence	27	↓2	36
35	Lloyd	26	↑13	69
36	Henry	25	↓12	22
37	Ralph	25	↓9	25
38	Don	24	new	68
39	Leo	24	new	63
40	Roy	23	↓9	33
41	Wayne	23	new	65
42	Carl	22	↓13	26
43	Marvin	22	↓6	48
44	Alvin	21	new	79
45	Gene	21	↓2	70
46	Jim	21	new	>100
47	Herbert	20	↓20	35
48	Jerry	20	new	51
49	Ray	20	–	57
50	Dean	19	new	>100

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