Popular baby names in Oregon, 1912

The most popular baby names in Oregon in 1912 were Helen for girls (133 babies) and Robert for boys (114). Helen ranked #2 nationally for girls. Robert ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 4,281 babies born in Oregon in 1912 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Oregon in 1912

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

Girls

Alta: 15 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Maxine: 26 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Wilma: 29 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Barbara: 26 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Vivian: 20 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Jean: 26 babies, 3× the national rate
Lois: 27 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Bernice: 31 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Marjorie: 30 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Velma: 15 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Boys

Claude: 19 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Glenn: 17 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Donald: 46 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Kenneth: 37 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Lloyd: 18 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Jack: 39 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Chester: 16 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Clifford: 15 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Richard: 43 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Earl: 26 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Oregon, 1912

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	Helen	133	↑1	2
2	Mary	129	↑1	1
3	Margaret	95	↑2	4
4	Dorothy	94	↓3	3
5	Ruth	74	↓1	5
6	Mildred	62	–	6
7	Frances	50	↑7	9
8	Alice	47	↑2	11
9	Elizabeth	46	↓2	8
10	Edna	44	↑6	16
11	Hazel	35	–	25
12	Irene	35	↑15	22
13	Virginia	34	↑16	20
14	Florence	33	↑4	12
15	Thelma	32	↓3	26
16	Bernice	31	↑14	51
17	Evelyn	31	↓9	13
18	Gladys	30	↓5	19
19	Marjorie	30	↓10	56
20	Rose	29	new	15
21	Wilma	29	↑20	99
22	Lois	27	↑16	63
23	Barbara	26	new	>100
24	Jean	26	new	64
25	Maxine	26	new	>100
26	Louise	25	↓6	17
27	Edith	24	↑9	31
28	Ethel	24	↓13	18
29	Elsie	22	↑5	42
30	Esther	22	↓13	33
31	Marie	22	↓10	10
32	Eva	21	↑3	49
33	Grace	21	↓9	24
34	Clara	20	new	34
35	Vivian	20	new	84
36	Gertrude	19	new	30
37	Kathryn	19	new	71
38	Lillian	19	↓7	14
39	Martha	18	↓7	29
40	Eleanor	17	new	39
41	Katherine	17	new	53
42	Lucille	17	↓14	32
43	Mabel	17	↑4	46
44	Ruby	17	↓21	23
45	Vera	17	↓5	68
46	Catherine	16	↓20	21
47	Doris	16	↓28	48
48	Ida	16	new	45
49	Alta	15	new	>100
50	Anna	15	↓25	7

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	Robert	114	↑3	4
2	John	113	↓1	1
3	William	106	–	2
4	James	88	↓2	3
5	George	79	–	6
6	Harold	50	↑1	13
7	Donald	46	↑2	27
8	Charles	44	↓2	7
9	Richard	43	↑13	19
10	Jack	39	↓2	28
11	Kenneth	37	↑4	33
12	Frank	36	↓1	9
13	Harry	33	↑7	16
14	Walter	32	↓1	11
15	Joseph	31	↑2	5
16	Clarence	30	↑32	21
17	Earl	26	↑10	34
18	Ernest	26	↑32	32
19	Henry	26	↓5	12
20	Ralph	26	↓2	23
21	Thomas	25	↓2	10
22	Edward	24	↓12	8
23	Arthur	23	↑14	15
24	David	23	↑7	29
25	Raymond	23	↓9	18
26	Fred	22	↑3	26
27	Carl	21	↓3	24
28	Albert	19	↑16	17
29	Claude	19	new	89
30	Howard	19	↓9	25
31	Paul	19	↓19	14
32	Herbert	18	new	39
33	Lloyd	18	new	70
34	Roy	18	↓4	31
35	Alfred	17	↑10	40
36	Francis	17	new	35
37	Glenn	17	new	84
38	Louis	17	↓13	20
39	Chester	16	new	55
40	Eugene	16	↓8	41
41	Lawrence	16	↓8	38
42	Clifford	15	new	62
43	Ronald	14	new	>100
44	Stanley	14	↓4	43
45	Elmer	13	↓17	47
46	Ray	13	↓12	77
47	Andrew	12	new	44
48	Virgil	12	new	>100
49	Joe	11	new	36
50	Leonard	11	new	45

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