Popular baby names in South Dakota, 1929

The most popular baby names in South Dakota in 1929 were Mary for girls (232 babies) and Robert for boys (384). Social Security records list 11,069 babies born in South Dakota in 1929 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Dakota in 1929

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

Girls

Marlys: 23 babies, 28.1× the national rate
Lavonne: 26 babies, 16.1× the national rate
Mavis: 30 babies, 11.5× the national rate
Darlene: 71 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Deloris: 20 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Fern: 19 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Luella: 18 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Adeline: 16 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Donna: 130 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Ramona: 48 babies, 4.9× the national rate

Boys

Darwin: 16 babies, 10.9× the national rate
Lyle: 44 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Laverne: 15 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Duane: 50 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Merle: 28 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Dean: 38 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Darrell: 19 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Lowell: 18 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Dale: 61 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Keith: 28 babies, 4.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Dakota, 1929

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	Mary	232	↑1	1
2	Betty	229	↓1	2
3	Dorothy	173	–	3
4	Shirley	135	↑4	9
5	Donna	130	↑2	47
6	Lois	127	↓1	17
7	Doris	111	↓1	6
8	Joyce	110	↑5	23
9	Phyllis	105	↓5	24
10	Ruth	99	↑1	8
11	Helen	93	↓2	4
12	Beverly	91	↓2	39
13	Patricia	83	↑1	10
14	Margaret	81	↓2	5
15	Alice	80	↑2	21
16	Delores	76	↑4	74
17	Darlene	71	↓2	>100
18	Evelyn	70	↑8	19
19	Marjorie	70	↑3	30
20	Jean	61	↑1	12
21	Irene	55	↑4	29
22	Dolores	54	↑5	14
23	Gladys	53	↑1	44
24	Lorraine	52	↓1	42
25	Arlene	50	↑13	>100
26	Bonnie	50	↑24	86
27	Maxine	50	↑10	85
28	Norma	49	↓12	25
29	Frances	48	↑6	16
30	Ramona	48	–	>100
31	Virginia	46	↓13	11
32	Barbara	44	↑7	7
33	Elaine	44	↑7	67
34	Violet	44	–	>100
35	Carol	42	↓4	63
36	Esther	41	↓3	71
37	Marie	41	new	22
38	Joan	39	new	13
39	Rose	39	↑8	26
40	Marian	38	↑9	75
41	Marilyn	38	↑1	33
42	Anna	35	new	20
43	Bernice	35	↓14	55
44	Lucille	35	↓16	57
45	Florence	34	new	35
46	Geraldine	33	new	43
47	Viola	33	↓11	>100
48	Audrey	32	new	58
49	Mildred	32	↓30	18
50	Mavis	30	↓7	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	Robert	384	–	1
2	Donald	307	–	7
3	Richard	180	↑2	6
4	John	179	↓1	3
5	James	175	↓1	2
6	William	153	–	4
7	Kenneth	118	↑1	18
8	Charles	113	↓1	5
9	Raymond	93	↑2	15
10	Harold	92	↓1	16
11	George	85	↓1	8
12	Marvin	74	↑2	46
13	Paul	70	↑9	13
14	Eugene	67	↓2	20
15	Edward	63	↑8	10
16	Dale	61	↓3	73
17	Thomas	58	↑13	11
18	Wayne	58	↓1	69
19	Melvin	56	↑25	49
20	Walter	55	↓4	19
21	Francis	54	↑4	39
22	Ronald	51	↑15	45
23	Duane	50	↑5	>100
24	Norman	50	↓3	40
25	Arthur	49	↑6	22
26	Alvin	47	↑8	77
27	Herbert	47	↓3	25
28	Howard	47	↓2	31
29	Joseph	47	↑14	9
30	Leroy	46	↓3	51
31	Earl	45	↑5	36
32	Jack	45	↑17	14
33	Lloyd	45	↓15	62
34	Clifford	44	↑13	72
35	Gerald	44	↓20	33
36	Leonard	44	↓7	42
37	Lyle	44	↓17	>100
38	Gene	42	↓6	68
39	Ralph	42	↑6	26
40	Leo	41	↓7	60
41	Roy	41	↑5	35
42	Russell	39	new	56
43	Dean	38	new	>100
44	Clarence	37	↓9	37
45	David	37	↓4	17
46	Vernon	37	new	71
47	Harry	36	new	27
48	Henry	34	↓6	21
49	Fred	33	new	34
50	Albert	32	↓10	24

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