Popular baby names in Washington, 1936

The most popular baby names in Washington in 1936 were Mary for girls (351 babies) and Robert for boys (634). Social Security records list 19,567 babies born in Washington in 1936 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Washington in 1936

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

Girls

Claudia: 42 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Sharon: 156 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Colleen: 37 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Karen: 71 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Dixie: 44 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Darlene: 108 babies, 4× the national rate
Sherry: 19 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Donna: 262 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Arlene: 110 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Joy: 41 babies, 3.1× the national rate

Boys

Dick: 51 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Gary: 210 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Jim: 79 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Bob: 77 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Merle: 18 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Darrell: 37 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Leland: 18 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Duane: 51 babies, 3× the national rate
Jon: 24 babies, 3× the national rate
Don: 110 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Washington, 1936

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Mary	351	↑2	1
2	Barbara	340	–	3
3	Shirley	307	↓2	2
4	Patricia	300	–	5
5	Carol	267	↑1	10
6	Donna	262	↓1	22
7	Marilyn	225	↑1	13
8	Nancy	208	↑2	8
9	Betty	189	↓2	4
10	Joan	184	↓1	7
11	Beverly	158	↑1	17
12	Sharon	156	↑4	60
13	Janet	151	↓2	21
14	Margaret	138	↑5	9
15	Joyce	129	↑2	12
16	Dorothy	125	↓2	6
17	Janice	124	↑5	31
18	Marlene	124	↓3	39
19	Arlene	110	↑1	54
20	Joanne	109	↓7	48
21	Darlene	108	↓3	83
22	Carolyn	95	↑5	23
23	Virginia	95	↓2	14
24	Sandra	91	↑5	38
25	Helen	89	↑3	11
26	Jean	89	↓1	20
27	Sally	86	↓3	59
28	Dolores	83	↑2	30
29	Lois	76	↓3	26
30	Joann	71	↑5	55
31	Karen	71	↑15	>100
32	Ruth	71	↑10	16
33	Judith	64	↑11	43
34	Marjorie	63	↓2	49
35	Phyllis	63	↓12	25
36	Frances	62	↓3	19
37	Doris	61	↓6	15
38	Roberta	59	↑3	64
39	Norma	58	↓5	29
40	Gloria	57	↓3	32
41	Alice	56	↓5	27
42	Evelyn	55	↓3	34
43	Kay	55	new	98
44	Bonnie	54	new	65
45	Elizabeth	54	↓7	18
46	Sylvia	52	↑2	53
47	Charlotte	50	↓4	61
48	Delores	50	↓8	58
49	Elaine	50	new	50
50	Geraldine	50	new	41

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Robert	634	–	1
2	James	464	↑2	2
3	John	455	–	3
4	Richard	444	↓2	5
5	Donald	368	–	7
6	William	351	–	4
7	Ronald	270	–	12
8	David	268	–	10
9	Charles	222	↑1	6
10	Gary	210	↓1	38
11	Larry	206	↑3	25
12	Jack	173	↑1	20
13	Jerry	170	↑3	18
14	Kenneth	170	↓2	14
15	George	169	↓4	9
16	Gerald	164	↓1	19
17	Thomas	142	–	8
18	Michael	118	↑6	33
19	Don	110	↓1	51
20	Frank	110	↑5	16
21	Edward	104	↓1	13
22	Paul	101	↓3	15
23	Raymond	99	↓2	17
24	Harold	82	↓1	21
25	Bill	80	↑1	61
26	Jim	79	↑3	85
27	Bob	77	↑9	77
28	Joseph	75	↑2	11
29	Fred	71	↑4	36
30	Walter	71	↑11	26
31	Ralph	68	↑19	31
32	Norman	67	↑7	43
33	Roger	65	↓6	35
34	Dale	64	–	59
35	Gordon	64	↓13	75
36	Lawrence	61	↑13	37
37	Dennis	60	↑1	74
38	Wayne	59	↑6	45
39	Douglas	57	↑3	78
40	Melvin	56	↑3	53
41	Roy	56	↓1	42
42	Marvin	55	↓14	49
43	Ray	54	↑5	65
44	Clifford	53	new	90
45	Howard	53	–	40
46	Arthur	52	↓15	30
47	Carl	52	↓15	27
48	Bruce	51	↓1	73
49	Dick	51	new	>100
50	Duane	51	new	>100

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