Popular baby names in North Dakota, 1944

The most popular baby names in North Dakota in 1944 were Mary for girls (256 babies) and James for boys (315). Social Security records list 11,138 babies born in North Dakota in 1944 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in North Dakota in 1944

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: 29 babies, 31.2× the national rate
Luella: 15 babies, 20.3× the national rate
Lavonne: 19 babies, 16.6× the national rate
Myrna: 17 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Marlene: 49 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Bonita: 18 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Leona: 16 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Darlene: 59 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Karen: 198 babies, 3× the national rate
Kay: 38 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Boys

Duane: 81 babies, 12.4× the national rate
Myron: 27 babies, 11.9× the national rate
Leland: 19 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Loren: 17 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Lyle: 21 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Jerome: 44 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Dwight: 30 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Rodney: 34 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Dean: 27 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Arnold: 25 babies, 4.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in North Dakota, 1944

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1943	US rank
1	Mary	256	↑1	1
2	Carol	212	↑1	5
3	Linda	200	↑2	3
4	Karen	198	–	16
5	Sharon	191	↓4	8
6	Sandra	129	↑3	6
7	Patricia	121	↑7	4
8	Judith	120	↓1	9
9	Judy	110	↑2	12
10	Janice	108	↓4	28
11	Diane	102	↓3	24
12	Shirley	96	↑1	15
13	Betty	93	↑2	10
14	Barbara	89	↓4	2
15	Kathleen	83	↑2	20
16	Marilyn	75	↑10	27
17	Cheryl	67	↑31	36
18	Donna	63	↓6	17
19	Joyce	60	↑1	18
20	Bonnie	59	↓4	34
21	Darlene	59	↓3	76
22	Nancy	59	↑3	7
23	Susan	57	↑9	13
24	Janet	55	↓1	21
25	Joan	54	↓3	22
26	Margaret	51	↓7	14
27	Carolyn	50	↑1	11
28	Marlene	49	↑2	>100
29	Lois	46	↑6	47
30	Dorothy	44	↓3	19
31	Phyllis	44	–	40
32	Beverly	43	↓11	35
33	Connie	41	↑4	51
34	Gloria	41	↑9	25
35	Jean	41	↓11	37
36	Virginia	41	↓7	26
37	Elaine	40	↓4	46
38	Kay	38	new	88
39	Alice	36	new	38
40	Joanne	35	↑4	55
41	Elizabeth	34	↑1	23
42	Charlotte	33	new	50
43	Joann	33	↓5	65
44	Doris	32	↑2	42
45	Dianne	31	↓11	90
46	Eileen	31	new	73
47	Ruth	31	↓7	32
48	Jane	29	↑1	41
49	Marlys	29	↓13	>100
50	Rita	29	new	54

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1943	US rank
1	James	315	–	1
2	Robert	267	–	2
3	Gary	246	↑5	15
4	David	220	–	6
5	Richard	212	↓2	5
6	John	197	↓1	3
7	Dennis	173	↑2	20
8	Ronald	166	↓2	10
9	Larry	161	↓2	12
10	Donald	147	–	11
11	Kenneth	139	↑1	16
12	Thomas	110	↑3	8
13	Gerald	108	–	24
14	William	101	↓3	4
15	Roger	99	↓1	23
16	Charles	83	↑6	7
17	Duane	81	↓1	>100
18	Michael	78	↑2	9
19	Jerry	66	↓1	19
20	Wayne	63	↑1	37
21	Paul	58	↓2	17
22	Raymond	55	↑2	22
23	Douglas	52	–	34
24	Marvin	50	↑1	75
25	Eugene	48	↑1	48
26	Dale	46	↓9	61
27	Bruce	45	↑9	51
28	Harold	45	↑5	27
29	Edward	44	↑8	18
30	Jerome	44	↓3	>100
31	Joseph	44	↓1	13
32	Daniel	43	↑6	25
33	Leroy	43	↑1	78
34	George	41	↓5	14
35	Curtis	38	↓3	97
36	Gordon	36	↑6	>100
37	Keith	35	↑3	>100
38	Rodney	34	↓3	>100
39	Gene	33	new	95
40	Terry	33	new	43
41	Arthur	32	new	29
42	Dwight	30	↓3	>100
43	Dean	27	new	>100
44	Myron	27	new	>100
45	Allen	26	↓17	77
46	Clarence	26	new	74
47	Darrell	26	↑3	>100
48	Lawrence	26	↓7	32
49	Russell	26	new	63
50	Timothy	26	new	92

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