Popular baby names in Oregon, 1936

The most popular baby names in Oregon in 1936 were Mary for girls (210 babies) and Robert for boys (379). Social Security records list 11,442 babies born in Oregon in 1936 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Oregon in 1936

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

Girls

Sharon: 106 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Colleen: 25 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Darlene: 78 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Karen: 43 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Gayle: 17 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Claudia: 18 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Donna: 136 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Sandra: 81 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Beverly: 125 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Diane: 30 babies, 2.7× the national rate

Boys

Dick: 35 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Darrell: 31 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Delbert: 22 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Jim: 53 babies, 4× the national rate
Bob: 55 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Rodney: 23 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Gary: 115 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Keith: 29 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Terry: 25 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Dale: 59 babies, 3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Oregon, 1936

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Mary	210	↑2	1
2	Shirley	207	↓1	2
3	Barbara	190	↓1	3
4	Patricia	173	↑1	5
5	Donna	136	↓1	22
6	Nancy	129	↑2	8
7	Carol	126	–	10
8	Beverly	125	↑1	17
9	Betty	112	↓3	4
10	Joan	106	↑2	7
11	Sharon	106	↑2	60
12	Marilyn	91	↑3	13
13	Dorothy	86	↓2	6
14	Sandra	81	↑21	38
15	Janet	80	↓5	21
16	Darlene	78	–	83
17	Joyce	78	↑3	12
18	Margaret	77	↑3	9
19	Virginia	66	↑6	14
20	Jean	64	↑4	20
21	Janice	61	↑2	31
22	Phyllis	59	↓5	25
23	Marlene	58	↓5	39
24	Lois	56	↑3	26
25	Joanne	55	↓6	48
26	Frances	53	↑17	19
27	Helen	51	↓13	11
28	Alice	47	↓6	27
29	Sally	47	↑5	59
30	Carolyn	46	↓4	23
31	Ruth	46	↑8	16
32	Dolores	43	↓1	30
33	Judith	43	↑14	43
34	Karen	43	new	>100
35	Carole	40	new	73
36	Doris	40	↓8	15
37	Gloria	40	↑1	32
38	Bonnie	39	↑6	65
39	Evelyn	38	↓7	34
40	Norma	38	↓4	29
41	Ann	37	↑9	28
42	Arlene	36	↓12	54
43	Kathleen	35	new	67
44	Marjorie	35	↓11	49
45	Geraldine	32	↓16	41
46	Charlotte	31	↓5	61
47	Diane	30	↓1	>100
48	Susan	30	new	>100
49	Roberta	29	↓9	64
50	Delores	28	↓13	58

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Robert	379	–	1
2	Richard	302	–	5
3	James	270	–	2
4	Donald	236	↑1	7
5	John	229	↓1	3
6	William	209	–	4
7	Ronald	161	↑1	12
8	David	145	↓1	10
9	Charles	144	–	6
10	Larry	118	↑4	25
11	Gary	115	–	38
12	George	103	–	9
13	Jack	102	↓3	20
14	Jerry	99	↑1	18
15	Gerald	88	↑1	19
16	Kenneth	87	↓3	14
17	Raymond	73	↑6	17
18	Thomas	73	↓1	8
19	Edward	71	↑1	13
20	Paul	71	↓2	15
21	Norman	67	↑7	43
22	Don	62	↑5	51
23	Dale	59	↑2	59
24	Wayne	57	↑2	45
25	Bob	55	↑4	77
26	Jim	53	↓5	85
27	Walter	53	↑7	26
28	Harold	51	↑3	21
29	Roger	51	↑8	35
30	Frank	48	↓11	16
31	Bill	47	↓1	61
32	Fred	47	↑1	36
33	Michael	46	new	33
34	Marvin	41	new	49
35	Ralph	41	↑7	31
36	Eugene	40	↓4	29
37	Gordon	38	↑3	75
38	Lawrence	38	↑5	37
39	Dick	35	↓17	>100
40	Arthur	33	↓2	30
41	Carl	33	↓6	27
42	Douglas	33	↑5	78
43	Darrell	31	new	>100
44	Harry	31	↑4	39
45	Vernon	31	new	93
46	Bruce	29	↓22	73
47	Joseph	29	↓3	11
48	Keith	29	new	>100
49	Daniel	28	new	41
50	Dennis	28	↓11	74

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