Popular baby names in Utah, 1926

The most popular baby names in Utah in 1926 were Betty for girls (232 babies) and Robert for boys (252). Betty ranked #3 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 9,629 babies born in Utah in 1926 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Utah in 1926

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

Girls

Afton: 28 babies, 160× the national rate
Carma: 16 babies, 77.1× the national rate
Beth: 67 babies, 50× the national rate
Larue: 21 babies, 43.4× the national rate
Lavon: 16 babies, 26.6× the national rate
Maurine: 21 babies, 21.5× the national rate
Colleen: 55 babies, 14.3× the national rate
Glenna: 16 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Donna: 102 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Beverly: 119 babies, 7.7× the national rate

Boys

Kay: 16 babies, 48× the national rate
Reed: 29 babies, 46.6× the national rate
Garth: 15 babies, 46.2× the national rate
Blaine: 28 babies, 44.3× the national rate
Hal: 24 babies, 30.2× the national rate
Lamar: 25 babies, 26.1× the national rate
Grant: 37 babies, 25.7× the national rate
Boyd: 39 babies, 20.9× the national rate
Keith: 89 babies, 18.4× the national rate
Lynn: 23 babies, 14.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Utah, 1926

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Betty	232	–	3
2	Mary	202	–	1
3	Shirley	149	↑1	14
4	Barbara	121	↑1	16
5	Beverly	119	↑6	74
6	Dorothy	115	↑2	2
7	Ruth	111	↓1	6
8	Donna	102	↓1	90
9	Helen	97	↓6	4
10	Lois	92	↓1	19
11	Norma	82	↓1	29
12	Jean	76	↑2	12
13	Joyce	68	↑6	44
14	Beth	67	↑6	>100
15	Carol	63	↑7	>100
16	Elaine	63	↓3	68
17	Gloria	63	↓2	20
18	Colleen	55	↑20	>100
19	June	54	↓1	40
20	Margaret	54	↓8	5
21	Phyllis	54	↑12	33
22	Virginia	50	↓6	8
23	Marjorie	48	↓6	22
24	Evelyn	45	↑1	13
25	Doris	43	↓1	7
26	Alice	41	↓5	17
27	Bonnie	41	↓1	>100
28	Geraldine	41	new	54
29	Patricia	38	↓1	23
30	Marilyn	37	↑7	65
31	Marie	36	–	18
32	Lucille	35	↓5	43
33	Wanda	34	↓1	66
34	Florence	33	↑1	26
35	Anna	31	↑10	15
36	Thelma	31	↓2	36
37	Irene	30	↑13	21
38	Mildred	29	↑10	9
39	Afton	28	↓9	>100
40	Emma	28	↑2	59
41	Joan	27	new	51
42	Marian	27	↓1	70
43	Ruby	27	↓4	30
44	Faye	25	new	>100
45	Jeanne	25	new	88
46	Grace	24	↓6	46
47	Maxine	24	↓24	85
48	Wilma	24	new	67
49	Darlene	23	↓13	>100
50	Eva	23	new	79

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Robert	252	–	1
2	John	156	↑1	2
3	William	147	↓1	4
4	Richard	135	–	7
5	James	129	–	3
6	Donald	121	↑1	9
7	Jack	105	↓1	16
8	George	98	↑2	6
9	Kenneth	97	↓1	18
10	Don	95	↑3	96
11	Keith	89	↑1	>100
12	Joseph	79	↑2	8
13	Charles	77	↓4	5
14	Ralph	71	↓3	24
15	David	58	↑5	22
16	Paul	54	↓1	13
17	Max	52	↑10	>100
18	Wayne	52	↑4	68
19	Dean	50	↑5	>100
20	Ray	49	↓2	57
21	Eugene	48	↑22	23
22	Harold	48	↓5	14
23	Dale	45	↑14	84
24	Earl	44	↑1	32
25	Thomas	43	↑4	11
26	Norman	41	↑14	39
27	Ronald	40	new	88
28	Boyd	39	↑19	>100
29	Calvin	39	↓10	65
30	Carl	39	–	26
31	Douglas	39	↑3	>100
32	Howard	39	↓4	27
33	Jay	39	↓10	>100
34	Frank	38	↓18	12
35	Fred	37	–	31
36	Grant	37	↑3	>100
37	Stanley	36	↑13	43
38	Floyd	35	new	53
39	Glen	35	↓18	>100
40	Arthur	34	↑2	20
41	Russell	34	new	52
42	Clyde	32	↑6	67
43	Roy	31	↓2	34
44	Leo	30	new	54
45	Melvin	30	↓19	47
46	Raymond	29	↓13	15
47	Reed	29	new	>100
48	Bill	28	new	74
49	Blaine	28	new	>100
50	Edward	28	↓18	10

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