Popular baby names in Oregon, 1920

The most popular baby names in Oregon in 1920 were Dorothy for girls (274 babies) and Robert for boys (442). Dorothy ranked #2 nationally for girls. Robert ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 11,593 babies born in Oregon in 1920 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Oregon in 1920

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

Girls

Patricia: 61 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Maxine: 82 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Bonnie: 25 babies, 3.3× the national rate
June: 75 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Jeanne: 35 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Barbara: 72 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Carol: 16 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Marjorie: 116 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Jean: 104 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Genevieve: 44 babies, 2.7× the national rate

Boys

Alan: 16 babies, 7× the national rate
Eldon: 15 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Bob: 20 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Merle: 18 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Delbert: 21 babies, 4× the national rate
Ivan: 16 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Dale: 33 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Ronald: 16 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Leland: 15 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Lyle: 18 babies, 3.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Oregon, 1920

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Dorothy	274	↑1	2
2	Mary	271	↓1	1
3	Helen	211	–	3
4	Margaret	194	–	4
5	Betty	152	↑4	11
6	Ruth	121	↓1	5
7	Virginia	118	↓1	7
8	Marjorie	116	–	24
9	Frances	112	↓2	9
10	Jean	104	↑4	33
11	Doris	99	↓1	14
12	Mildred	96	↑3	6
13	Evelyn	88	↓1	12
14	Lois	82	↑2	38
15	Maxine	82	↑5	81
16	Elizabeth	78	↑1	8
17	Alice	75	↓6	15
18	June	75	↓5	53
19	Barbara	72	↑2	47
20	Florence	63	↓2	16
21	Marie	61	↑9	13
22	Patricia	61	↓3	>100
23	Hazel	60	↑2	34
24	Eleanor	57	↑8	25
25	Esther	54	↑4	39
26	Gladys	52	↓3	22
27	Shirley	52	↑4	56
28	Norma	50	↑16	69
29	Lucille	48	↓5	29
30	Phyllis	48	↑9	72
31	Thelma	47	↓3	31
32	Irene	46	↓5	17
33	Genevieve	44	↑7	86
34	Edith	42	↓8	32
35	Geraldine	42	↑6	60
36	Louise	41	↑1	19
37	Anna	39	↓4	10
38	Juanita	36	↑11	61
39	Lillian	36	↓5	18
40	Rose	36	new	20
41	Jeanne	35	new	>100
42	Marian	34	↓4	73
43	Edna	33	↓21	27
44	Laura	33	new	63
45	Ruby	33	↑1	26
46	Ethel	32	new	30
47	Kathryn	32	new	67
48	Pearl	32	new	62
49	Charlotte	31	new	79
50	Grace	31	↓14	37

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Robert	442	–	3
2	William	302	–	2
3	John	265	–	1
4	James	218	–	4
5	George	166	–	6
6	Charles	161	–	5
7	Donald	158	–	16
8	Richard	131	–	10
9	Jack	124	–	20
10	Harold	104	–	12
11	Kenneth	96	↑1	23
12	Raymond	85	↑2	15
13	Walter	84	–	13
14	Frank	80	↓3	9
15	Edward	76	↑2	8
16	Arthur	70	↑3	18
17	Harry	69	↑3	21
18	Ralph	67	–	22
19	Thomas	64	↓3	11
20	Howard	61	↑4	24
21	David	59	↑2	25
22	Carl	53	↑7	27
23	Roy	53	↓1	32
24	Joseph	51	↓9	7
25	Paul	50	↓4	14
26	Earl	46	↑6	31
27	Henry	46	↓1	17
28	Clarence	45	↑13	26
29	Fred	45	↓4	33
30	Leonard	45	↑3	38
31	Melvin	45	↓4	54
32	Albert	41	↓4	19
33	Francis	41	↑10	34
34	Norman	41	↑6	47
35	Lloyd	40	↓4	58
36	Eugene	39	↓1	30
37	Vernon	39	↓7	65
38	Warren	39	new	39
39	Herbert	38	↓1	41
40	Gordon	37	↑7	85
41	Glenn	36	↑9	80
42	Lester	35	↑6	69
43	Dale	33	new	>100
44	Elmer	33	↑5	45
45	Ray	30	↓1	67
46	Wayne	30	new	86
47	Wallace	29	new	93
48	Lawrence	28	↓9	36
49	Stanley	28	↓13	40
50	Chester	27	↓4	55

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