Popular baby names in Wyoming, 1924

The most popular baby names in Wyoming in 1924 were Mary for girls (142 babies) and Robert for boys (148). Social Security records list 3,492 babies born in Wyoming in 1924 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Wyoming in 1924

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

Girls

Nellie: 15 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Norma: 30 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Wilma: 18 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Patricia: 27 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Elsie: 17 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Betty: 109 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Marjorie: 32 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Phyllis: 20 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Esther: 17 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Shirley: 27 babies, 2× the national rate

Boys

Jack: 54 babies, 3× the national rate
Theodore: 15 babies, 3× the national rate
Kenneth: 36 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Donald: 60 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Fred: 20 babies, 2× the national rate
Stanley: 16 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Wyoming, 1924

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Mary	142	–	1
2	Betty	109	–	4
3	Helen	80	–	3
4	Dorothy	70	–	2
5	Margaret	51	–	5
6	Ruth	47	–	6
7	Evelyn	37	↑14	12
8	Marjorie	32	↑1	17
9	Frances	31	↑3	10
10	Norma	30	↑13	40
11	Alice	29	↑3	15
12	Virginia	29	↑1	7
13	Jean	27	↓2	16
14	Patricia	27	↑2	35
15	Shirley	27	↓5	19
16	Anna	24	↑2	13
17	Elizabeth	24	↓2	11
18	Barbara	23	↑7	28
19	Doris	23	↓12	9
20	Lois	21	↓12	22
21	Florence	20	↑13	20
22	Martha	20	new	21
23	Phyllis	20	↑19	44
24	Edna	18	↑20	31
25	Mildred	18	↓8	8
26	Wilma	18	↓4	67
27	Catherine	17	new	27
28	Elsie	17	↑21	61
29	Esther	17	↓9	51
30	Thelma	17	↑17	33
31	Edith	16	↓5	36
32	Lillian	16	–	23
33	Rose	16	↓4	25
34	Nellie	15	new	92
35	June	14	↓8	45
36	Donna	13	new	>100
37	Eleanor	13	↑11	29
38	Ellen	13	new	99
39	Eva	13	↓11	66
40	Josephine	13	↓4	34
41	Gloria	12	new	41
42	Grace	12	new	43
43	Ida	12	↓12	70
44	Marie	12	↓3	14
45	Peggy	12	new	>100
46	Ruby	12	↓3	26
47	Vera	12	new	85
48	Wanda	12	new	74
49	Charlotte	11	new	80
50	Hazel	11	↓15	42

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Robert	148	–	1
2	John	122	–	2
3	William	104	–	3
4	James	94	–	4
5	Charles	76	↑1	5
6	George	61	↓1	6
7	Donald	60	–	10
8	Jack	54	–	17
9	Richard	40	↑5	8
10	Frank	39	↑1	12
11	Kenneth	36	↑4	19
12	Edward	34	↓2	9
13	Harold	34	↓1	13
14	Raymond	24	↓1	15
15	Paul	21	↑5	14
16	Albert	20	↑5	21
17	Fred	20	↑6	32
18	Ralph	20	↑9	23
19	David	19	↓1	24
20	Earl	19	↑20	33
21	Howard	19	↑22	26
22	Joseph	19	↓13	7
23	Walter	19	↑1	16
24	Carl	17	↑11	27
25	Clarence	17	↑5	29
26	Joe	17	↓9	35
27	Arthur	16	↑2	20
28	Stanley	16	↑17	40
29	Calvin	15	new	44
30	Eugene	15	↓8	25
31	Theodore	15	↑15	65
32	Thomas	15	↓16	11
33	Harry	14	↓14	22
34	Melvin	14	new	48
35	Roy	14	↑13	31
36	Ernest	13	–	37
37	Leonard	13	↓4	38
38	Ray	13	–	60
39	Warren	13	–	58
40	Wayne	13	↑7	74
41	Francis	12	↓15	34
42	Louis	12	↓11	28
43	Lawrence	11	↓6	36
44	Lloyd	11	↓16	61
45	Marvin	11	↓13	50
46	Dale	10	↓21	84
47	Edwin	10	↑3	55
48	Floyd	10	↓7	66
49	Glenn	10	new	79
50	Henry	10	↓8	18

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