Popular baby names in Oregon, 1921

The most popular baby names in Oregon in 1921 were Mary for girls (326 babies) and Robert for boys (496). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 12,172 babies born in Oregon in 1921 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Oregon in 1921

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

Girls

Donna: 25 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Lila: 20 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Iris: 15 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Maxine: 76 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Patricia: 71 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Beverly: 23 babies, 4× the national rate
Bette: 25 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Jeanne: 40 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Joan: 28 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Barbara: 91 babies, 3× the national rate

Boys

Eldon: 16 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Ted: 15 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Delbert: 23 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Leland: 19 babies, 4× the national rate
Glen: 31 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Gene: 18 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Lyle: 20 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Clinton: 17 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Wesley: 24 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Ronald: 18 babies, 3.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Oregon, 1921

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	326	↑1	1
2	Dorothy	266	↓1	2
3	Helen	206	–	3
4	Betty	196	↑1	8
5	Margaret	165	↓1	4
6	Marjorie	160	↑2	16
7	Virginia	134	–	6
8	Ruth	126	↓2	5
9	Evelyn	113	↑4	12
10	Doris	107	↑1	13
11	Frances	102	↓2	9
12	Jean	102	↓2	25
13	Barbara	91	↑6	40
14	Alice	85	↑3	15
15	Lois	82	↓1	38
16	Mildred	77	↓4	7
17	Maxine	76	↓2	77
18	Patricia	71	↑4	84
19	Elizabeth	68	↓3	10
20	Irene	68	↑12	18
21	June	65	↓3	50
22	Florence	62	↓2	17
23	Marie	56	↓2	14
24	Phyllis	56	↑6	60
25	Shirley	55	↑2	44
26	Lucille	51	↑3	31
27	Lillian	50	↑12	19
28	Edna	48	↑15	27
29	Norma	48	↓1	51
30	Edith	47	↑4	33
31	Eleanor	45	↓7	29
32	Esther	44	↓7	42
33	Ethel	44	↑13	32
34	Grace	44	↑16	35
35	Jeanne	40	↑6	>100
36	Marian	40	↑6	69
37	Violet	40	new	81
38	Hazel	39	↓15	34
39	Geraldine	38	↓4	62
40	Gladys	38	↓14	24
41	Jane	37	new	47
42	Bernice	36	new	39
43	Martha	36	new	21
44	Thelma	36	↓13	30
45	Louise	35	↓9	22
46	Pauline	35	new	37
47	Anna	34	↓10	11
48	Ruby	34	↓3	26
49	Agnes	33	new	56
50	Wilma	33	new	72

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Robert	496	–	2
2	William	317	–	3
3	John	280	–	1
4	James	226	–	4
5	Donald	196	↑2	13
6	George	155	↓1	6
7	Richard	148	↑1	10
8	Charles	143	↓2	5
9	Jack	135	–	18
10	Kenneth	126	↑1	22
11	Harold	102	↓1	12
12	Frank	91	↑2	9
13	Edward	87	↑2	8
14	Thomas	82	↑5	11
15	Walter	78	↓2	15
16	Ralph	70	↑2	23
17	Joseph	69	↑7	7
18	Raymond	65	↓6	16
19	Harry	64	↓2	21
20	Eugene	63	↑16	26
21	Carl	61	↑1	30
22	Paul	59	↑3	14
23	David	58	↓2	25
24	Roy	56	↓1	32
25	Albert	51	↑7	20
26	Fred	48	↑3	33
27	Howard	48	↓7	27
28	Melvin	48	↑3	53
29	Clarence	47	↓1	28
30	Earl	47	↓4	31
31	Norman	47	↑3	46
32	Henry	44	↓5	17
33	Arthur	43	↓17	19
34	Clifford	43	new	62
35	Elmer	42	↑9	48
36	Gordon	42	↑4	84
37	Wayne	40	↑9	81
38	Ernest	38	new	38
39	Lawrence	38	↑9	37
40	Ray	36	↑5	67
41	Stanley	36	↑8	41
42	Francis	35	↓9	35
43	Lloyd	35	↓8	58
44	Warren	35	↓6	24
45	Vernon	34	↓8	68
46	Herbert	33	↓7	42
47	Louis	33	new	29
48	Theodore	32	new	65
49	Glen	31	new	>100
50	Glenn	31	↓9	80

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