Popular baby names in Wyoming, 1923

The most popular baby names in Wyoming in 1923 were Mary for girls (127 babies) and Robert for boys (125). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 3,380 babies born in Wyoming in 1923 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Wyoming in 1923

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

Girls

Wilma: 21 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Patricia: 23 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Emma: 21 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Eva: 16 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Lois: 31 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Shirley: 31 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Esther: 21 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Ida: 15 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Clara: 18 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Betty: 88 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Dale: 16 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Lloyd: 15 babies, 3× the national rate
Jack: 46 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Donald: 66 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Joe: 21 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Wyoming, 1923

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	Mary	127	–	1
2	Betty	88	–	5
3	Helen	71	–	3
4	Dorothy	64	–	2
5	Margaret	51	–	4
6	Ruth	46	↑1	6
7	Doris	35	↑6	11
8	Lois	31	↑3	27
9	Marjorie	31	↓3	16
10	Shirley	31	↑6	26
11	Jean	30	↑3	19
12	Frances	29	↑14	10
13	Virginia	28	↓5	7
14	Alice	27	↓2	15
15	Elizabeth	25	↓5	9
16	Patricia	23	↑3	56
17	Mildred	22	↑4	8
18	Anna	21	↑7	13
19	Emma	21	new	53
20	Esther	21	↑15	47
21	Evelyn	21	↓12	12
22	Wilma	21	↑18	74
23	Norma	20	↑16	41
24	Clara	18	new	49
25	Barbara	17	↓10	33
26	Edith	17	↓6	36
27	June	17	↓9	42
28	Eva	16	↑8	66
29	Rose	16	↓7	23
30	Ethel	15	↓13	38
31	Ida	15	new	68
32	Lillian	15	↑6	20
33	Lucille	15	↑10	35
34	Florence	14	↑14	18
35	Hazel	14	↑6	40
36	Josephine	14	↓9	30
37	Maxine	14	↓4	76
38	Irene	13	↓14	17
39	Kathryn	13	↑3	72
40	Laura	13	new	73
41	Marie	13	↓13	14
42	Phyllis	13	↑2	45
43	Ruby	13	new	25
44	Edna	12	↓14	32
45	Geraldine	12	new	58
46	Lorraine	12	new	57
47	Thelma	12	↓24	31
48	Eleanor	11	new	28
49	Elsie	11	↓18	61
50	Harriet	11	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	Robert	125	↑1	2
2	John	117	↓1	1
3	William	104	–	3
4	James	87	–	4
5	George	69	↑2	6
6	Charles	68	↓1	5
7	Donald	66	↓1	10
8	Jack	46	–	17
9	Joseph	41	↑1	7
10	Edward	35	↑2	8
11	Frank	35	–	11
12	Harold	31	↑9	13
13	Raymond	30	↑2	15
14	Richard	30	↓5	9
15	Kenneth	28	↓2	21
16	Thomas	28	↓2	12
17	Joe	21	–	35
18	David	20	↑12	24
19	Harry	20	↓3	22
20	Paul	20	↓2	14
21	Albert	19	↓2	20
22	Eugene	18	↑6	25
23	Fred	18	↑3	33
24	Walter	18	↓1	16
25	Dale	16	↑2	90
26	Francis	16	↑13	34
27	Ralph	16	↓2	23
28	Lloyd	15	new	59
29	Arthur	14	↓9	19
30	Clarence	14	↓6	29
31	Louis	14	↑10	27
32	Marvin	14	new	51
33	Leonard	13	new	37
34	Lewis	13	new	74
35	Carl	12	new	28
36	Ernest	12	new	38
37	Lawrence	12	↑11	36
38	Ray	12	new	61
39	Warren	12	↓3	43
40	Earl	11	↑5	31
41	Floyd	11	new	64
42	Henry	11	↓20	18
43	Howard	11	↑4	26
44	Keith	11	↓12	>100
45	Stanley	11	↓10	41
46	Theodore	11	new	62
47	Wayne	11	↓16	75
48	Roy	10	new	32
49	Russell	10	↓15	52
50	Edwin	9	new	56

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