Popular baby names in Utah, 1934

The most popular baby names in Utah in 1934 were Mary for girls (158 babies) and Robert for boys (218). Social Security records list 9,149 babies born in Utah in 1934 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Utah in 1934

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

Girls

Karma: 15 babies, 197.5× the national rate
Larae: 20 babies, 118.5× the national rate
Carma: 23 babies, 74.7× the national rate
Shirlene: 17 babies, 73.2× the national rate
Colleen: 56 babies, 18.6× the national rate
Renee: 20 babies, 15.2× the national rate
Beth: 21 babies, 14.5× the national rate
Karen: 25 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Claudia: 21 babies, 10× the national rate
Gayle: 16 babies, 8× the national rate

Boys

Val: 21 babies, 72.6× the national rate
Reed: 20 babies, 50.1× the national rate
Blaine: 27 babies, 40× the national rate
Dee: 20 babies, 39.2× the national rate
Kay: 20 babies, 27.4× the national rate
Kent: 29 babies, 25.4× the national rate
Grant: 28 babies, 22.5× the national rate
Lynn: 51 babies, 19.7× the national rate
Merrill: 19 babies, 17.3× the national rate
Boyd: 28 babies, 15.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Utah, 1934

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1933	US rank
1	Mary	158	–	1
2	Carol	155	↑1	14
3	Barbara	138	↓1	3
4	Shirley	121	↑3	4
5	Joyce	106	↓1	12
6	Joan	101	↑5	7
7	Marilyn	95	↓2	17
8	Donna	91	↓2	23
9	Betty	78	–	2
10	Patricia	76	↓2	6
11	Dorothy	69	↑4	5
12	Helen	63	↓2	9
13	Lois	63	↑3	20
14	Gloria	61	↑24	30
15	Ruth	61	↓2	13
16	Carolyn	60	↑11	33
17	Nancy	60	↑9	10
18	Bonnie	59	↓6	58
19	Janet	59	↓1	21
20	Colleen	56	↑5	>100
21	Janice	53	↑2	68
22	Elaine	52	↓5	54
23	Joann	51	↑5	50
24	Beverly	48	↓10	22
25	Norma	48	↓3	24
26	Arlene	45	↑11	53
27	Darlene	42	↓7	90
28	Connie	41	↓4	>100
29	Carole	40	new	89
30	Jean	38	↓1	16
31	Geraldine	37	↑8	43
32	Joanne	37	↑1	45
33	Margaret	37	↓14	8
34	Doris	34	↑1	11
35	Ann	32	↓1	32
36	Marlene	32	↓15	57
37	Marjorie	31	↑4	41
38	Virginia	31	↓8	15
39	Diane	29	↑7	>100
40	Sandra	29	new	93
41	Phyllis	28	new	28
42	Sharon	28	↓10	>100
43	Myrna	27	new	>100
44	Sally	27	new	62
45	Dixie	26	new	>100
46	Louise	26	↓10	40
47	Frances	25	↑2	19
48	Karen	25	↓4	>100
49	Ellen	24	new	95
50	Jo	24	new	75

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1933	US rank
1	Robert	218	–	1
2	Richard	177	–	5
3	John	151	–	3
4	Ronald	140	–	11
5	James	136	↑1	2
6	William	133	↓1	4
7	Gary	100	↑5	60
8	David	93	↑2	12
9	George	87	–	8
10	Donald	83	↓3	6
11	Jack	71	↓3	17
12	Don	68	↑4	50
13	Larry	68	↑10	43
14	Charles	66	↑11	7
15	Paul	66	–	14
16	Jerry	60	↓2	25
17	Gerald	54	↓6	22
18	Kenneth	54	↓5	15
19	Ralph	54	↑1	31
20	Ray	54	↑8	63
21	Lynn	51	↑8	>100
22	Joseph	50	↓4	10
23	Thomas	48	↓6	9
24	Harold	47	↑10	18
25	Jay	47	↑2	>100
26	Melvin	46	↑18	55
27	Keith	45	↓8	>100
28	Dale	43	↑2	62
29	Frank	41	↓7	16
30	Glen	41	↓4	>100
31	Darrell	40	↑19	>100
32	Douglas	39	↓11	72
33	Raymond	39	↑9	19
34	Wayne	38	↑2	48
35	Max	36	↓3	>100
36	Howard	35	new	37
37	Gordon	33	↓13	71
38	Bruce	32	new	78
39	Carl	30	new	28
40	Leon	30	new	87
41	Marvin	30	↑8	44
42	Dean	29	↓7	>100
43	Kent	29	new	>100
44	Arthur	28	new	29
45	Bill	28	new	59
46	Boyd	28	↓9	>100
47	Grant	28	new	>100
48	Roger	28	new	39
49	Blaine	27	↓9	>100
50	Duane	27	new	>100

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