Popular baby names in North Dakota, 1927

The most popular baby names in North Dakota in 1927 were Mary for girls (238 babies) and Robert for boys (321). Social Security records list 12,483 babies born in North Dakota in 1927 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in North Dakota in 1927

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

Girls

Marlys: 23 babies, 27.7× the national rate
Mavis: 24 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Luella: 27 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Adeline: 29 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Delores: 71 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Fern: 24 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Deloris: 16 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Lenora: 17 babies, 5× the national rate
Colleen: 26 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Verna: 36 babies, 4.5× the national rate

Boys

Anton: 24 babies, 26.3× the national rate
Adam: 24 babies, 11.2× the national rate
Duane: 63 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Reuben: 15 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Ervin: 28 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Lyle: 37 babies, 6.4× the national rate
August: 16 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Wilbert: 23 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Myron: 19 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Emil: 16 babies, 4.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in North Dakota, 1927

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Mary	238	↑1	1
2	Betty	210	↑1	3
3	Dorothy	191	↓2	2
4	Helen	128	–	4
5	Ruth	128	↑1	6
6	Margaret	123	↓1	5
7	Lois	119	↑3	19
8	Doris	112	↑4	7
9	Alice	105	↓1	17
10	Irene	100	↓3	21
11	Shirley	95	↑3	9
12	Joyce	90	↑1	35
13	Lorraine	89	↓4	44
14	Donna	75	↑5	70
15	Evelyn	74	–	15
16	Florence	73	↓5	28
17	Delores	71	↑11	>100
18	Beverly	70	↑25	57
19	Esther	69	↓2	65
20	Phyllis	69	↑2	29
21	Elaine	65	↑8	69
22	Jean	65	↓6	14
23	Marjorie	64	↓5	25
24	Mildred	63	↓3	11
25	Patricia	62	↑13	18
26	Rose	60	↓3	23
27	Violet	59	↑8	>100
28	Frances	57	↓8	12
29	June	56	↑8	43
30	Anna	55	↓3	16
31	Agnes	53	↑10	81
32	Virginia	51	↑7	8
33	Dolores	50	↑3	34
34	Eleanor	50	↓4	33
35	Elizabeth	49	↓9	13
36	Carol	48	↑4	>100
37	Marian	48	new	74
38	Edna	47	↓7	40
39	Gloria	47	↑5	22
40	Leona	47	↑8	>100
41	Lucille	47	↑8	45
42	Barbara	46	–	10
43	Norma	45	↓10	26
44	Bernice	44	↓20	49
45	Lillian	44	↓13	32
46	Marie	44	↑4	20
47	Marilyn	43	new	46
48	Gladys	42	↓23	37
49	Viola	42	↓4	>100
50	Pauline	39	new	42

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Robert	321	–	1
2	Donald	276	↑1	8
3	John	245	↓1	2
4	James	183	–	3
5	William	159	–	4
6	Richard	151	↑1	6
7	Kenneth	140	↑4	18
8	George	136	–	7
9	Raymond	126	↓3	15
10	Harold	109	↓1	14
11	Charles	95	↑1	5
12	Walter	89	↑4	17
13	Edward	85	↓3	10
14	Leo	84	↑3	55
15	Eugene	77	↑11	20
16	Arthur	76	↑7	22
17	Leonard	70	↑29	40
18	Clarence	67	↑12	32
19	Gordon	66	↓1	74
20	Joseph	66	↓7	9
21	Thomas	66	↑15	11
22	Gerald	65	↑10	38
23	Elmer	64	↑5	61
24	Duane	63	↑14	>100
25	Marvin	63	↓5	47
26	Norman	62	↓4	39
27	Frank	61	–	12
28	Lloyd	57	↓9	58
29	Albert	55	↓5	23
30	Paul	55	↓9	13
31	Ralph	51	↓6	24
32	Vernon	51	↓18	71
33	Earl	48	–	33
34	Clifford	46	new	65
35	Henry	46	↓6	19
36	Howard	46	↓21	28
37	Melvin	45	new	48
38	Roy	45	↑2	34
39	Alvin	44	↑8	66
40	Jack	44	new	16
41	Leroy	44	new	51
42	Lawrence	43	new	37
43	Harry	42	↓12	25
44	Ernest	41	–	41
45	Stanley	41	–	44
46	Francis	39	↓9	36
47	Arnold	38	↓12	97
48	Peter	38	↓14	59
49	Carl	37	↓1	26
50	Lyle	37	↓11	>100

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