Popular baby names in Oregon, 1924

The most popular baby names in Oregon in 1924 were Betty for girls (311 babies) and Robert for boys (502). Betty ranked #4 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 12,216 babies born in Oregon in 1924 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Oregon in 1924

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: 169 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Bette: 28 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Barbara: 129 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Maxine: 57 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Bonnie: 33 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Donna: 31 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Carol: 29 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Janet: 31 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Lois: 118 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Beverly: 30 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Boys

Ronald: 38 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Lowell: 19 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Allan: 15 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Lyle: 21 babies, 4× the national rate
Delbert: 20 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Ivan: 16 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Bob: 21 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Dale: 41 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Dean: 19 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Don: 23 babies, 3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Oregon, 1924

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Betty	311	↑1	4
2	Mary	291	↓1	1
3	Dorothy	279	–	2
4	Helen	186	↑2	3
5	Patricia	169	↑4	35
6	Virginia	133	↓1	7
7	Doris	131	↑5	9
8	Barbara	129	–	28
9	Ruth	129	↑4	6
10	Margaret	128	↓6	5
11	Lois	118	↑3	22
12	Marjorie	116	↓5	17
13	Frances	89	↓2	10
14	Jean	88	↓4	16
15	Shirley	79	↑1	19
16	June	77	↑1	45
17	Evelyn	74	↑3	12
18	Phyllis	74	↓3	44
19	Alice	72	↑2	15
20	Elizabeth	65	↓2	11
21	Mildred	58	↑4	8
22	Maxine	57	↑1	77
23	Norma	57	↓4	40
24	Eleanor	51	↑14	29
25	Gloria	51	↑14	41
26	Irene	50	↑1	18
27	Florence	49	↓3	20
28	Esther	46	↑4	51
29	Geraldine	43	↑18	58
30	Martha	41	new	21
31	Anna	39	new	13
32	Marie	39	↓10	14
33	Gladys	37	↓4	30
34	Louise	37	↓3	24
35	Lucille	37	↑14	37
36	Hazel	36	↓2	42
37	Marian	36	↑13	64
38	Edna	35	↓10	31
39	Lorraine	35	↑4	52
40	Wilma	35	new	67
41	Grace	34	new	43
42	Bonnie	33	new	>100
43	Laura	33	new	72
44	Lillian	33	↓4	23
45	Nancy	33	new	69
46	Viola	33	new	82
47	Wanda	33	new	74
48	Ellen	32	new	99
49	Donna	31	new	>100
50	Janet	31	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Robert	502	–	1
2	William	316	–	3
3	John	288	–	2
4	James	264	↑1	4
5	Donald	249	↓1	10
6	Richard	191	↑1	8
7	George	155	↓1	6
8	Charles	147	–	5
9	Jack	141	–	17
10	Kenneth	124	–	19
11	Harold	101	–	13
12	Frank	86	↑3	12
13	Walter	85	↑6	16
14	Raymond	80	↑2	15
15	Edward	78	↓3	9
16	Thomas	69	↓3	11
17	Harry	62	–	22
18	David	58	↓4	24
19	Paul	58	↓1	14
20	Ralph	57	↑5	23
21	Joseph	56	↑1	7
22	Roy	56	↑5	31
23	Albert	53	–	21
24	Carl	51	↑2	27
25	Eugene	50	↑10	25
26	Melvin	50	↑16	48
27	Fred	47	↑2	32
28	Arthur	46	↓8	20
29	Howard	46	↓8	26
30	Norman	45	↓6	42
31	Henry	42	–	18
32	Wayne	42	new	74
33	Dale	41	↑15	84
34	Gordon	41	↓4	75
35	Clifford	40	↑14	64
36	Francis	40	↑2	34
37	Earl	39	↓5	33
38	Lawrence	38	↓1	36
39	Ronald	38	new	>100
40	Gerald	37	↓1	49
41	Glenn	37	↑3	79
42	Lloyd	36	↓1	61
43	Theodore	36	new	65
44	Alfred	34	new	43
45	Clarence	33	↓11	29
46	Calvin	32	new	44
47	Leonard	32	↓7	38
48	Marvin	32	↓1	50
49	Stanley	31	↓4	40
50	Ray	29	–	60

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