Popular baby names in Washington, 1927

The most popular baby names in Washington in 1927 were Betty for girls (483 babies) and Robert for boys (690). Betty ranked #3 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 18,769 babies born in Washington in 1927 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Washington in 1927

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

Girls

Pat: 22 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Dona: 15 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Joanne: 44 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Colleen: 39 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Nadine: 28 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Donna: 114 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Yvonne: 27 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Beverly: 126 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Bette: 31 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Patricia: 253 babies, 3.1× the national rate

Boys

Dick: 52 babies, 8× the national rate
Bob: 88 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Don: 94 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Loren: 24 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Gordon: 95 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Jim: 45 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Laurence: 20 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Bill: 96 babies, 4× the national rate
Keith: 36 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Douglas: 52 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Washington, 1927

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Betty	483	–	3
2	Mary	462	–	1
3	Dorothy	334	–	2
4	Barbara	299	↑4	10
5	Shirley	282	↓1	9
6	Patricia	253	↓1	18
7	Helen	205	–	4
8	Lois	173	↑4	19
9	Margaret	172	↓3	5
10	Virginia	163	↓1	8
11	Ruth	160	↑3	6
12	Jean	154	↓1	14
13	Doris	149	↓3	7
14	Beverly	126	↑6	57
15	Phyllis	119	↓2	29
16	Evelyn	118	↑3	15
17	Donna	114	↑6	70
18	Gloria	109	↓1	22
19	Marjorie	107	↓1	25
20	Frances	105	↓5	12
21	Alice	101	↓5	17
22	Dolores	98	↑8	34
23	Lorraine	91	↑14	44
24	Marilyn	88	↑2	46
25	Joyce	84	↓1	35
26	Norma	74	↓4	26
27	Irene	72	↑6	21
28	Marie	70	↓1	20
29	Maxine	70	↑3	87
30	June	68	↓9	43
31	Mildred	68	↑3	11
32	Geraldine	65	↑18	58
33	Joan	63	↑9	41
34	Carol	62	↑5	>100
35	Bonnie	59	new	100
36	Elizabeth	58	↓5	13
37	Marian	58	↓12	74
38	Rose	56	↑5	23
39	Florence	55	↓11	28
40	Louise	55	↓2	27
41	Anna	52	–	16
42	Lillian	52	↓7	32
43	Jeanne	50	↓3	85
44	Kathleen	50	new	83
45	Lucille	50	new	45
46	Charlotte	48	new	75
47	Nancy	47	new	56
48	Violet	46	new	>100
49	Eleanor	45	↓20	33
50	Pauline	45	new	42

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Robert	690	–	1
2	Donald	442	↑2	8
3	John	413	↓1	2
4	William	383	↓1	4
5	James	348	↑1	3
6	Richard	348	↓1	6
7	Jack	245	↑1	16
8	George	235	↓1	7
9	Charles	226	–	5
10	Kenneth	153	–	18
11	Thomas	135	↑5	11
12	Frank	125	↑3	12
13	David	124	↓1	21
14	Harold	120	↓3	14
15	Edward	108	↓1	10
16	Walter	105	↑3	17
17	Ralph	98	↑3	24
18	Bill	96	↑11	69
19	Arthur	95	↓2	22
20	Gordon	95	↑6	74
21	Don	94	↑12	90
22	Paul	93	↑1	13
23	Raymond	90	↓10	15
24	Bob	88	↑3	100
25	Eugene	86	↓7	20
26	Joseph	85	↑6	9
27	Gerald	80	↓6	38
28	Harry	79	↓3	25
29	Norman	76	↑1	39
30	Howard	75	↓8	28
31	Albert	74	↓3	23
32	Roy	73	↓1	34
33	Ronald	70	↑13	63
34	Fred	68	↓10	35
35	Carl	64	↑2	26
36	Lloyd	63	↑7	58
37	Lawrence	62	↓2	37
38	Wayne	62	↑11	67
39	Gene	61	↑3	72
40	Stanley	59	↓4	44
41	Dale	57	new	81
42	Earl	55	↓8	33
43	Melvin	54	↑7	48
44	Henry	53	↓6	19
45	Dick	52	new	>100
46	Douglas	52	new	>100
47	Ernest	48	–	41
48	Ray	47	↓9	60
49	Jim	45	↓5	>100
50	Daniel	44	new	46

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