Popular baby names in Wyoming, 1920

The most popular baby names in Wyoming in 1920 were Mary for girls (112 babies) and Robert for boys (115). Robert ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 3,205 babies born in Wyoming in 1920 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Wyoming in 1920

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

Girls

Maxine: 18 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Vivian: 20 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Phyllis: 17 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Marjorie: 28 babies, 2.4× the national rate
June: 15 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Betty: 41 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Alice: 34 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Hazel: 21 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Frances: 44 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Boys

Glenn: 20 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Jack: 36 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Elmer: 15 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Ernest: 17 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Wyoming, 1920

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Mary	112	–	1
2	Helen	79	–	3
3	Dorothy	71	↑1	2
4	Margaret	61	↓1	4
5	Ruth	56	–	5
6	Frances	44	↑3	9
7	Betty	41	–	11
8	Virginia	36	↑2	7
9	Alice	34	↑3	15
10	Marjorie	28	↑5	24
11	Elizabeth	25	↑6	8
12	Doris	24	↑8	14
13	Evelyn	22	↓5	12
14	Gladys	22	↑8	22
15	Hazel	21	↓1	34
16	Marie	21	new	13
17	Edna	20	↑1	27
18	Jean	20	↑21	33
19	Vivian	20	new	64
20	Anna	18	↓7	10
21	Maxine	18	↓10	81
22	Edith	17	↑9	32
23	Florence	17	↓2	16
24	Grace	17	↑20	37
25	Lois	17	↓6	38
26	Mildred	17	↓20	6
27	Phyllis	17	new	72
28	Esther	15	↑5	39
29	Irene	15	↓6	17
30	June	15	↓5	53
31	Eleanor	14	new	25
32	Geraldine	14	new	60
33	Barbara	13	↓6	47
34	Bernice	13	new	40
35	Charlotte	13	new	79
36	Ellen	13	new	92
37	Laura	13	↓5	63
38	Louise	13	↓10	19
39	Nellie	13	new	76
40	Audrey	12	new	>100
41	Catherine	12	new	21
42	Clara	12	–	44
43	Emma	12	new	46
44	Lillian	12	↓3	18
45	Marion	12	new	43
46	Rose	12	↓17	20
47	Elaine	11	new	>100
48	Ethel	11	↓10	30
49	Katherine	11	↓9	45
50	Lorraine	11	new	70

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Robert	115	↑1	3
2	John	110	↓1	1
3	William	101	–	2
4	James	69	–	4
5	Charles	61	↑1	5
6	George	53	↓1	6
7	Frank	37	↑2	9
8	Jack	36	↓1	20
9	Donald	35	↑1	16
10	Richard	34	↑2	10
11	Harold	32	–	12
12	Joseph	30	↑1	7
13	Raymond	30	↑10	15
14	Edward	24	↓6	8
15	Thomas	24	↑1	11
16	Walter	24	↑3	13
17	Kenneth	23	↓2	23
18	Paul	23	↓4	14
19	Glenn	20	↑5	80
20	Ralph	20	–	22
21	Harry	19	↑4	21
22	Henry	19	↑10	17
23	Carl	18	↑7	27
24	Ernest	17	↑7	37
25	David	16	↓7	25
26	Francis	16	↑9	34
27	Fred	16	↑9	33
28	Warren	16	new	39
29	Earl	15	↓3	31
30	Elmer	15	↑11	45
31	Floyd	14	new	61
32	Joe	14	↑1	35
33	Albert	13	↓16	19
34	Eugene	13	↓12	30
35	Howard	13	↑14	24
36	Lee	13	new	82
37	Vernon	13	new	65
38	Arthur	12	↓11	18
39	Clarence	12	↓5	26
40	Clyde	12	–	68
41	Lawrence	12	↑9	36
42	Roy	12	↓21	32
43	Wayne	12	new	86
44	Gordon	11	new	85
45	Leo	11	new	48
46	Lloyd	11	↓9	58
47	Melvin	11	new	54
48	Theodore	11	new	63
49	Victor	11	new	81
50	Leslie	10	new	>100

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