Popular baby names in Oregon, 1940

The most popular baby names in Oregon in 1940 were Patricia for girls (260 babies) and Robert for boys (439). Patricia ranked #3 nationally for girls. Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 15,038 babies born in Oregon in 1940 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Oregon in 1940

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

Girls

Sherry: 22 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Darlene: 77 babies, 4× the national rate
Colleen: 15 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Pat: 41 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Sharon: 219 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Deanna: 35 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Julie: 20 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Gayle: 19 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Patty: 19 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Donna: 148 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Boys

Dick: 39 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Mike: 51 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Loren: 18 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Dave: 23 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Jim: 78 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Bob: 60 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Keith: 39 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Neil: 25 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Duane: 30 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Dean: 27 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Oregon, 1940

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1939	US rank
1	Patricia	260	↑4	3
2	Mary	250	–	1
3	Judith	231	↑5	4
4	Barbara	223	↓3	2
5	Sharon	219	↓2	17
6	Linda	211	↑4	8
7	Carol	202	↓3	6
8	Judy	179	↑1	16
9	Nancy	154	↓2	7
10	Sandra	151	↑2	10
11	Donna	148	↓5	23
12	Betty	123	↓1	5
13	Janice	110	↑3	22
14	Shirley	105	↓1	9
15	Carolyn	103	↑8	15
16	Marilyn	99	↓2	25
17	Joyce	98	↑2	13
18	Karen	98	↑4	34
19	Beverly	97	↑5	27
20	Susan	96	↑10	36
21	Janet	91	↓6	19
22	Joan	91	↓2	14
23	Jean	86	↑3	29
24	Margaret	83	↓7	11
25	Dorothy	80	↓4	12
26	Darlene	77	↓8	79
27	Bonnie	71	↑9	39
28	Phyllis	71	↑3	33
29	Virginia	63	↓2	21
30	Kathleen	61	↓1	40
31	Helen	58	↑4	18
32	Joanne	55	↓7	54
33	Sally	54	↓5	61
34	Gloria	52	new	30
35	Roberta	50	new	71
36	Lois	49	↑2	38
37	Diane	48	↓4	45
38	Ruth	47	↑7	24
39	Marlene	43	↑9	80
40	Ann	42	new	35
41	Marjorie	41	↑2	64
42	Pat	41	new	>100
43	Alice	39	↓11	32
44	Deanna	35	↓5	>100
45	Carole	33	↑1	49
46	Martha	33	new	26
47	Doris	32	new	31
48	Connie	31	new	88
49	Frances	30	↓15	28
50	Norma	30	↓13	43

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1939	US rank
1	Robert	439	–	2
2	Richard	375	↑2	5
3	James	372	↓1	1
4	John	327	↓1	3
5	William	278	↑1	4
6	David	268	↓1	7
7	Gary	228	–	19
8	Larry	213	–	13
9	Ronald	183	↑1	10
10	Donald	181	↓1	9
11	Michael	169	↑3	18
12	Jerry	161	–	14
13	Charles	158	↓2	6
14	Thomas	129	↑1	8
15	Dennis	124	↑2	24
16	Kenneth	119	↓3	15
17	Gerald	94	↑1	21
18	Roger	85	↑4	26
19	George	82	↓3	11
20	Jack	81	↓1	29
21	Jim	78	↑4	78
22	Wayne	74	↑8	39
23	Edward	72	↓3	16
24	Bill	70	↑5	67
25	Douglas	70	↑9	56
26	Raymond	62	↓5	22
27	Paul	61	↓4	17
28	Bob	60	–	99
29	Fred	60	↑14	40
30	Frank	59	↑3	20
31	Terry	58	↑10	73
32	Don	56	↓1	62
33	Mike	51	new	>100
34	Stephen	51	new	49
35	Carl	50	↓3	32
36	Bruce	48	new	55
37	Gordon	48	new	91
38	Harold	47	↓12	23
39	Norman	45	↓4	48
40	Dale	44	↓16	57
41	Lawrence	44	↓14	36
42	Walter	41	↓6	25
43	Ralph	40	↓5	37
44	Arthur	39	↓5	33
45	Dick	39	new	>100
46	Keith	39	↓1	>100
47	Melvin	39	↓10	53
48	Roy	39	↓4	42
49	Patrick	37	↓1	74
50	Tom	35	new	92

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