Popular baby names in Oklahoma, 1927

The most popular baby names in Oklahoma in 1927 were Mary for girls (1,502 babies) and James for boys (1,181). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 47,826 babies born in Oklahoma in 1927 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Oklahoma in 1927

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

Girls

Lawanda: 24 babies, 15.2× the national rate
Oleta: 46 babies, 14× the national rate
Neoma: 16 babies, 10× the national rate
Dovie: 28 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Wynona: 18 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Billye: 28 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Cleta: 16 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Ima: 40 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Dorotha: 29 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Dortha: 33 babies, 7.2× the national rate

Boys

Haskell: 17 babies, 11× the national rate
Jackie: 70 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Bobby: 318 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Buster: 23 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Troy: 70 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Billy: 780 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Doyle: 67 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Loyd: 70 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Frankie: 22 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Olen: 17 babies, 5.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Oklahoma, 1927

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Mary	1,502	–	1
2	Betty	1,373	–	3
3	Dorothy	678	–	2
4	Wanda	559	↑1	66
5	Helen	431	↓1	4
6	Virginia	368	↑1	8
7	Norma	365	↑5	26
8	Mildred	344	↓2	11
9	Ruby	340	↓1	30
10	Ruth	335	↓1	6
11	Billie	323	↑3	>100
12	Margaret	308	↓2	5
13	Juanita	300	↓2	55
14	Lois	284	↓1	19
15	Doris	268	–	7
16	Wilma	247	↑4	68
17	Frances	222	↓1	12
18	Anna	212	–	16
19	Evelyn	209	↑3	15
20	Barbara	200	↑18	10
21	Patricia	197	↑14	18
22	Thelma	195	↓5	38
23	Bonnie	179	↑3	100
24	Peggy	178	↑15	96
25	Martha	176	↓1	24
26	Joyce	175	↑11	35
27	Pauline	163	↓8	42
28	Alice	159	↓1	17
29	Imogene	156	↑1	>100
30	Margie	155	↑2	>100
31	Hazel	154	↓8	53
32	Edna	153	↓11	40
33	Marjorie	146	↓4	25
34	Velma	144	↓3	>100
35	Emma	142	↑10	64
36	Marie	142	↓3	20
37	Geraldine	140	↓3	58
38	Louise	140	↑3	27
39	Maxine	137	↓11	87
40	Opal	130	↓15	>100
41	Geneva	128	↓5	>100
42	Georgia	128	new	>100
43	Gladys	128	↓1	37
44	Jean	125	↑4	14
45	Lucille	116	↑1	45
46	Vera	113	↓3	89
47	Eva	112	new	79
48	Elizabeth	110	↓4	13
49	Lorene	108	–	>100
50	Irene	106	↓3	21

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	James	1,181	–	3
2	Robert	954	↑1	1
3	William	853	↓1	4
4	John	808	–	2
5	Billy	780	↑1	31
6	Charles	671	↓1	5
7	Jack	533	–	16
8	George	423	↑1	7
9	Donald	384	↑1	8
10	Kenneth	380	↓2	18
11	Harold	340	↑1	14
12	Bobby	318	↑7	91
13	Richard	289	↓2	6
14	Joe	279	–	30
15	Paul	278	↑1	13
16	Roy	276	↓1	34
17	Raymond	267	↓4	15
18	Thomas	252	↓1	11
19	Bill	223	↑1	69
20	Eugene	218	↓2	20
21	Carl	216	–	26
22	Earl	189	↑3	33
23	Clarence	186	↑3	32
24	Edward	180	↓1	10
25	Frank	179	↓1	12
26	Ralph	176	↑6	24
27	Walter	169	↓5	17
28	Gene	163	↑20	72
29	Floyd	161	↓1	53
30	Henry	150	↓1	19
31	David	148	↓4	21
32	Leroy	146	↑2	51
33	Bob	144	new	100
34	Albert	140	↓3	23
35	Arthur	137	↑8	22
36	Marvin	136	new	47
37	Melvin	136	↓4	48
38	Joseph	135	↓3	9
39	Jimmie	132	↓1	>100
40	Cecil	131	↑2	92
41	Elmer	131	↑9	61
42	Vernon	131	↓3	71
43	Howard	128	↓13	28
44	Ray	123	↓4	60
45	Fred	122	–	35
46	Wayne	122	–	67
47	Calvin	117	↓11	73
48	Gerald	117	↓7	38
49	Billie	116	new	>100
50	Leonard	112	new	40

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