Popular baby names in Utah, 1931

The most popular baby names in Utah in 1931 were Mary for girls (188 babies) and Robert for boys (215). Social Security records list 9,082 babies born in Utah in 1931 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Utah in 1931

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

Girls

Larae: 19 babies, 113.4× the national rate
Larue: 16 babies, 38.4× the national rate
Maurine: 16 babies, 23.4× the national rate
Colleen: 58 babies, 18.7× the national rate
Beth: 18 babies, 18.5× the national rate
Renee: 19 babies, 14.2× the national rate
Lorna: 17 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Dixie: 21 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Fern: 16 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Bonnie: 87 babies, 6× the national rate

Boys

Val: 15 babies, 58.9× the national rate
Blaine: 30 babies, 52.3× the national rate
Dee: 15 babies, 34.7× the national rate
Grant: 29 babies, 24.4× the national rate
Kent: 15 babies, 18.4× the national rate
Lamar: 18 babies, 18.3× the national rate
Lynn: 34 babies, 17.6× the national rate
Vern: 16 babies, 17.5× the national rate
Boyd: 25 babies, 12.9× the national rate
Jay: 46 babies, 11.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Utah, 1931

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Mary	188	↑1	1
2	Barbara	143	↑3	4
3	Betty	117	↓2	2
4	Joyce	117	↑2	15
5	Marilyn	114	↑3	19
6	Shirley	114	↓3	9
7	Donna	105	↓3	32
8	Carol	97	↑2	46
9	Bonnie	87	↑3	73
10	Beverly	86	↓3	31
11	Dorothy	85	↓2	3
12	Joan	84	↑4	5
13	Helen	78	↑1	6
14	Norma	73	↓1	22
15	Patricia	60	↑3	8
16	Geraldine	59	↑7	38
17	Colleen	58	↑4	>100
18	Lois	54	↓7	20
19	Ruth	54	↓4	11
20	Janice	47	↑15	>100
21	Darlene	45	↑1	>100
22	Jean	44	↓5	13
23	Margaret	44	↓3	7
24	Gloria	43	↑10	23
25	Elaine	42	↓6	72
26	Doris	41	↑3	10
27	Virginia	41	↓3	12
28	Marlene	40	new	95
29	Anna	38	↑2	25
30	Joann	34	↑17	90
31	Maxine	34	↓4	>100
32	Phyllis	33	↓7	29
33	Alice	32	↓3	21
34	Marjorie	31	↓8	34
35	Nancy	29	new	17
36	Dolores	28	↑10	14
37	Janet	28	↑1	45
38	Louise	27	↑11	33
39	Peggy	27	↑3	42
40	Wanda	27	new	54
41	Ann	26	new	35
42	Evelyn	26	↓9	24
43	Carolyn	24	new	60
44	Joanne	24	↓8	68
45	Edna	23	new	52
46	Frances	22	new	18
47	Wilma	22	new	69
48	Dixie	21	new	>100
49	Lucille	21	new	62
50	Marie	21	–	27

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Robert	215	–	1
2	Richard	191	–	5
3	John	172	–	3
4	James	139	–	2
5	William	138	–	4
6	George	108	↑2	8
7	Donald	107	↓1	7
8	Don	96	↑1	59
9	Kenneth	89	↑1	14
10	David	85	↑1	13
11	Jack	83	↓4	15
12	Charles	71	↑2	6
13	Ronald	64	–	27
14	Paul	63	↓2	12
15	Jerry	58	↑14	43
16	Gerald	55	↑5	26
17	Dale	52	↑3	62
18	Thomas	52	↑6	10
19	Ray	47	↓4	60
20	Jay	46	↑8	>100
21	Ralph	46	↓2	25
22	Keith	45	↓4	>100
23	Wayne	45	↑17	58
24	Dean	43	↑2	>100
25	Raymond	43	↑9	17
26	Glen	42	↓10	>100
27	Stanley	42	↑11	49
28	Bill	39	↑3	57
29	Joseph	38	↓7	9
30	Fred	37	↑7	33
31	Norman	37	↑2	36
32	Gary	36	↑16	>100
33	Gordon	36	↓6	76
34	Harold	36	↓11	18
35	Earl	35	↑7	40
36	Lynn	34	↓6	>100
37	Frank	32	↓20	16
38	Duane	31	↑9	>100
39	Blaine	30	↑11	>100
40	Bob	29	new	78
41	Douglas	29	↓9	85
42	Grant	29	↑1	>100
43	Larry	29	new	88
44	Max	29	–	>100
45	Melvin	29	↓9	51
46	Eugene	28	new	21
47	Clarence	27	new	39
48	Lawrence	27	new	38
49	Arthur	26	↓4	23
50	Marvin	26	new	45

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