Popular baby names in Oregon, 1922

The most popular baby names in Oregon in 1922 were Mary for girls (271 babies) and Robert for boys (488). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 11,583 babies born in Oregon in 1922 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Oregon in 1922

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

Girls

May: 20 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Patricia: 82 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Beverly: 26 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Maxine: 60 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Barbara: 106 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Bonnie: 30 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Bette: 24 babies, 3.3× the national rate
June: 83 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Donna: 21 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Carol: 23 babies, 3.1× the national rate

Boys

Loren: 16 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Ivan: 18 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Delbert: 23 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Gene: 25 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Ronald: 22 babies, 4× the national rate
Lyle: 19 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Don: 20 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Gordon: 41 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Wayne: 41 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Wilbur: 26 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Oregon, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	271	–	1
2	Dorothy	255	–	2
3	Betty	245	↑1	6
4	Margaret	185	↑1	4
5	Helen	176	↓2	3
6	Virginia	171	↑1	7
7	Ruth	118	↑1	5
8	Jean	116	↑4	20
9	Barbara	106	↑4	40
10	Doris	106	–	11
11	Marjorie	106	↓5	16
12	Evelyn	98	↓3	13
13	June	83	↑8	45
14	Patricia	82	↑4	69
15	Alice	80	↓1	15
16	Florence	78	↑6	18
17	Frances	74	↓6	10
18	Lois	73	↓3	35
19	Mildred	73	↓3	8
20	Elizabeth	71	↓1	9
21	Shirley	65	↑4	39
22	Maxine	60	↓5	82
23	Phyllis	57	↑1	53
24	Irene	56	↓4	17
25	Marie	56	↓2	14
26	Eleanor	47	↑5	28
27	Edna	45	↑1	29
28	Lucille	44	↓2	33
29	Wilma	44	↑21	77
30	Geraldine	42	↑9	58
31	Norma	40	↓2	46
32	Louise	39	↑13	22
33	Bernice	37	↑9	41
34	Ellen	37	new	95
35	Lillian	37	↓8	19
36	Anna	36	↑11	12
37	Edith	35	↓7	34
38	Gloria	35	new	61
39	Grace	34	↓5	38
40	Jeanne	34	↓5	97
41	Esther	33	↓9	44
42	Gladys	32	↓2	25
43	Wanda	32	new	92
44	Lorraine	31	new	56
45	Thelma	31	↓1	31
46	Vivian	31	new	74
47	Audrey	30	new	89
48	Bonnie	30	new	>100
49	Hazel	30	↓11	37
50	Juanita	30	new	57

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Robert	488	–	2
2	John	290	↑1	1
3	William	270	↓1	3
4	James	228	–	4
5	Donald	200	–	12
6	Richard	170	↑1	9
7	George	151	↓1	6
8	Charles	146	–	5
9	Jack	144	–	18
10	Kenneth	106	–	21
11	Harold	91	–	13
12	Frank	79	–	10
13	Edward	73	–	8
14	David	72	↑9	24
15	Raymond	72	↑3	16
16	Walter	71	↓1	15
17	Joseph	63	–	7
18	Paul	63	↑4	14
19	Albert	58	↑6	20
20	Eugene	58	–	25
21	Ralph	57	↓5	23
22	Thomas	56	↓8	11
23	Lawrence	51	↑16	36
24	Henry	49	↑8	17
25	Roy	48	↓1	32
26	Arthur	47	↑7	19
27	Howard	47	–	26
28	Norman	46	↑3	44
29	Carl	41	↓8	30
30	Gordon	41	↑6	76
31	Wayne	41	↑6	78
32	Stanley	40	↑9	41
33	Warren	40	↑11	45
34	Earl	39	↓4	31
35	Francis	38	↑7	34
36	Melvin	38	↓8	50
37	Harry	37	↓18	22
38	Vernon	37	↑7	68
39	Ernest	35	↓1	37
40	Fred	35	↓14	33
41	Glenn	35	↑9	79
42	Leonard	34	new	38
43	Alfred	33	new	42
44	Clarence	32	↓15	29
45	Edwin	32	new	52
46	Marvin	32	new	56
47	Ray	31	↓7	65
48	Dale	30	new	89
49	Elmer	30	↓14	54
50	Lloyd	30	↓7	59

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