Popular baby names in Wyoming, 1921

The most popular baby names in Wyoming in 1921 were Mary for girls (149 babies) and Robert for boys (135). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 3,515 babies born in Wyoming in 1921 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Wyoming in 1921

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: 21 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Nellie: 17 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Phyllis: 19 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Wilma: 16 babies, 2.8× the national rate
June: 21 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Eva: 17 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Vivian: 16 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Betty: 63 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Marjorie: 40 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Kathryn: 15 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Boys

Floyd: 15 babies, 3× the national rate
Jack: 42 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Kenneth: 34 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Earl: 26 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Donald: 46 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Warren: 25 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Wyoming, 1921

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	149	–	1
2	Dorothy	88	↑1	2
3	Helen	78	↓1	3
4	Margaret	66	–	4
5	Betty	63	↑2	8
6	Ruth	46	↓1	5
7	Marjorie	40	↑3	16
8	Evelyn	38	↑5	12
9	Virginia	38	↓1	6
10	Alice	34	↓1	15
11	Mildred	34	↑15	7
12	Anna	32	↑8	11
13	Frances	29	↓7	9
14	Elizabeth	27	↓3	10
15	Doris	24	↓3	13
16	Lois	24	↑9	38
17	June	21	↑13	50
18	Maxine	21	↑3	77
19	Edith	20	↑3	33
20	Edna	20	↓3	27
21	Lucille	20	new	31
22	Marie	20	↓6	14
23	Jean	19	↓5	25
24	Phyllis	19	↑3	60
25	Eva	17	new	63
26	Florence	17	↓3	17
27	Nellie	17	↑12	80
28	Hazel	16	↓13	34
29	Louise	16	↑9	22
30	Vivian	16	↓11	68
31	Wilma	16	new	72
32	Barbara	15	↑1	40
33	Kathryn	15	new	64
34	Eleanor	14	↓3	29
35	Gladys	14	↓21	24
36	Genevieve	13	new	90
37	Josephine	13	new	28
38	Norma	13	new	51
39	Opal	13	new	>100
40	Ruby	13	new	26
41	Wanda	13	new	>100
42	Catherine	12	↓1	23
43	Ellen	12	↓7	95
44	Esther	12	↓16	42
45	Ethel	12	↑3	32
46	Irene	12	↓17	18
47	Lillian	12	↓3	19
48	Marion	12	↓3	43
49	Rose	12	↓3	20
50	Patricia	11	new	84

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Robert	135	–	2
2	William	104	↑1	3
3	John	97	↓1	1
4	James	96	–	4
5	Charles	61	–	5
6	George	58	–	6
7	Donald	46	↑2	13
8	Frank	42	↓1	9
9	Jack	42	↓1	18
10	Harold	38	↑1	12
11	Edward	37	↑3	8
12	Richard	37	↓2	10
13	Kenneth	34	↑4	22
14	Thomas	29	↑1	11
15	Earl	26	↑14	31
16	Walter	25	–	15
17	Warren	25	↑11	24
18	Ralph	22	↑2	23
19	Carl	21	↑4	30
20	Joseph	21	↓8	7
21	Arthur	18	↑17	19
22	Henry	18	–	17
23	Raymond	18	↓10	16
24	Paul	17	↓6	14
25	Albert	16	↑8	20
26	Clarence	16	↑13	28
27	David	16	↓2	25
28	Harry	16	↓7	21
29	Floyd	15	↑2	63
30	Joe	15	↑2	36
31	Elmer	14	↓1	48
32	Eugene	14	↑2	26
33	Fred	14	↓6	33
34	Howard	14	↑1	27
35	Marvin	14	new	59
36	Melvin	14	↑11	53
37	Roy	14	↑5	32
38	Francis	13	↓12	35
39	Clyde	12	↑1	69
40	Ernest	12	↓16	38
41	Dale	10	new	93
42	Lewis	10	new	71
43	Louis	10	new	29
44	Daniel	9	new	49
45	Everett	9	new	95
46	Gene	9	new	>100
47	Gerald	9	new	60
48	Lawrence	9	↓7	37
49	Philip	9	new	72
50	Ray	9	new	67

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