Popular baby names in Oregon, 1917

The most popular baby names in Oregon in 1917 were Mary for girls (249 babies) and Robert for boys (295). Robert ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 9,421 babies born in Oregon in 1917 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Oregon in 1917

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

Girls

Iris: 16 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Patricia: 32 babies, 4.9× the national rate
June: 71 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Maxine: 46 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Roberta: 23 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Faye: 15 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Jeanne: 19 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Barbara: 53 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Bonnie: 16 babies, 3× the national rate
Ellen: 37 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Boys

Delbert: 21 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Leland: 17 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Lyle: 20 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Archie: 19 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Ivan: 15 babies, 4× the national rate
Glenn: 35 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Gordon: 33 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Virgil: 24 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Donald: 126 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Wayne: 22 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Oregon, 1917

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Mary	249	↑2	1
2	Helen	195	↓1	2
3	Dorothy	190	↓1	3
4	Margaret	146	–	4
5	Ruth	109	–	5
6	Frances	101	↑2	9
7	Virginia	97	–	10
8	Evelyn	95	↑3	11
9	Mildred	83	↓3	6
10	Marjorie	77	↓1	36
11	June	71	↑8	73
12	Doris	66	↑2	25
13	Lois	66	↑8	43
14	Elizabeth	65	↓4	8
15	Alice	64	–	13
16	Marie	64	↓4	12
17	Jean	62	↓1	40
18	Betty	60	↑9	34
19	Florence	58	↓2	14
20	Hazel	54	↓7	31
21	Barbara	53	↑7	67
22	Esther	52	↑4	38
23	Gladys	49	↑13	23
24	Irene	47	↓1	17
25	Maxine	46	↓5	93
26	Edna	44	↓4	20
27	Thelma	42	↓9	32
28	Edith	40	↑1	28
29	Grace	40	↑8	30
30	Lillian	40	↑3	15
31	Eleanor	39	↓1	26
32	Louise	38	↓8	19
33	Ellen	37	new	90
34	Elsie	35	↑12	50
35	Gertrude	32	↓3	37
36	Josephine	32	new	21
37	Martha	32	↑11	22
38	Patricia	32	new	>100
39	Anna	31	↓14	7
40	Ethel	31	↑7	24
41	Eva	31	↓2	54
42	Katherine	31	new	49
43	Velma	30	new	99
44	Bernice	29	↑1	42
45	Jane	29	new	55
46	Marian	29	↓12	74
47	Rose	29	↓3	16
48	Catherine	28	↓6	18
49	Ruby	27	↓6	27
50	Vivian	27	new	79

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Robert	295	–	4
2	John	243	↑1	1
3	William	218	↓1	2
4	James	163	↑1	3
5	George	157	↓1	6
6	Charles	139	–	7
7	Donald	126	↑1	20
8	Harold	93	↓1	12
9	Frank	79	–	9
10	Walter	79	↑4	11
11	Jack	78	↑2	22
12	Edward	74	–	8
13	Kenneth	72	↓2	27
14	Richard	63	↓4	14
15	Arthur	59	↑2	17
16	Harry	59	↑4	19
17	Thomas	59	↓1	10
18	Albert	56	↑5	18
19	Henry	55	↑11	15
20	Ernest	53	↑11	37
21	Ralph	53	–	21
22	Howard	52	↑2	26
23	Joseph	52	↓4	5
24	Roy	50	↓2	33
25	David	48	↑4	28
26	Paul	48	↓11	13
27	Fred	47	↓2	29
28	Raymond	43	↓10	16
29	Lloyd	42	↑7	53
30	Carl	38	↓4	24
31	Earl	37	↓4	32
32	Herbert	37	↑14	40
33	Leonard	37	↓1	41
34	Clarence	35	↓6	25
35	Glenn	35	↑15	86
36	Chester	34	↑11	56
37	Elmer	34	↑4	45
38	Lawrence	34	↓3	36
39	Francis	33	↑3	30
40	Gordon	33	↑3	84
41	Clifford	32	↑7	59
42	Louis	31	new	23
43	Norman	29	↓9	46
44	Ray	28	new	74
45	Stanley	28	–	34
46	Floyd	27	↓7	62
47	Gerald	27	new	69
48	Vernon	27	new	71
49	Alfred	25	↓11	43
50	Virgil	24	new	>100

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