Popular baby names in Wyoming, 1931

The most popular baby names in Wyoming in 1931 were Mary for girls (96 babies) and Robert for boys (135). Social Security records list 3,049 babies born in Wyoming in 1931 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Wyoming in 1931

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

Girls

Bonnie: 21 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Donna: 35 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Carol: 24 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Edith: 15 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Lois: 29 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Phyllis: 21 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Patricia: 47 babies, 2× the national rate
Shirley: 41 babies, 2× the national rate

Boys

Glen: 15 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Jimmy: 15 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Dale: 20 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Bob: 15 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Don: 20 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Bill: 17 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Roy: 21 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Jerry: 17 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Joe: 23 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Jack: 35 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Wyoming, 1931

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Mary	96	–	1
2	Betty	92	–	2
3	Barbara	60	↑4	4
4	Patricia	47	↑2	8
5	Dorothy	41	↓1	3
6	Shirley	41	↓1	9
7	Donna	35	↑1	32
8	Ruth	35	↑3	11
9	Helen	31	↓6	6
10	Lois	29	↑5	20
11	Margaret	28	↓2	7
12	Carol	24	↑29	46
13	Jean	23	↑11	13
14	Joan	23	↑4	5
15	Norma	22	↓2	22
16	Bonnie	21	↑6	73
17	Doris	21	↓5	10
18	Phyllis	21	↑3	29
19	Alice	20	↓5	21
20	Joyce	20	↑17	15
21	Virginia	19	↓11	12
22	Beverly	18	↓5	31
23	Dolores	18	↑19	14
24	Louise	16	↑4	33
25	Marilyn	16	–	19
26	Edith	15	↑18	65
27	Nancy	15	↓7	17
28	Elsie	14	new	86
29	Marjorie	14	↓10	34
30	Peggy	14	new	42
31	Patsy	13	new	83
32	Wilma	13	new	69
33	Eva	12	–	94
34	Frances	12	↓11	18
35	Jacqueline	12	↓5	78
36	Janet	12	new	45
37	Sally	12	new	97
38	Ann	11	new	35
39	Charlotte	11	new	75
40	Elizabeth	11	↓11	16
41	Evelyn	11	↓25	24
42	Hazel	11	new	74
43	June	11	↓12	44
44	Irene	10	↓8	37
45	Josephine	10	new	51
46	Leona	10	new	>100
47	Delores	9	new	58
48	Esther	9	new	79
49	Geraldine	9	↓2	38
50	Jeanette	9	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Robert	135	–	1
2	James	97	↑1	2
3	William	86	↑1	4
4	John	78	↓2	3
5	Donald	70	–	7
6	Richard	58	–	5
7	Charles	53	–	6
8	George	37	–	8
9	Jack	35	–	15
10	Edward	33	↑6	11
11	David	23	↑2	13
12	Joe	23	↑27	29
13	Kenneth	23	↓2	14
14	Paul	23	↑27	12
15	Roy	21	new	35
16	Dale	20	↑1	62
17	Don	20	↑5	59
18	Frank	20	↓4	16
19	Harold	19	↓9	18
20	Raymond	19	↓8	17
21	Carl	18	–	28
22	Bill	17	↑13	57
23	Jerry	17	↑11	43
24	Joseph	17	↑7	9
25	Arthur	16	new	23
26	Bob	15	↓7	78
27	Fred	15	↑6	33
28	Gerald	15	new	26
29	Glen	15	↑8	>100
30	Jimmy	15	new	89
31	Thomas	15	↓16	10
32	Walter	15	↓9	20
33	Albert	14	↓9	24
34	Ronald	14	↑9	27
35	Wayne	14	new	58
36	Ernest	13	↑11	47
37	Ralph	13	↓8	25
38	Clarence	11	↓18	39
39	Earl	11	↓14	40
40	Harry	11	↓14	30
41	Henry	11	new	22
42	Louis	11	new	37
43	Melvin	11	↓11	51
44	Eugene	10	new	21
45	Keith	10	↓18	>100
46	Norman	10	new	36
47	Ray	10	new	60
48	Billy	9	↓30	19
49	Dick	9	new	>100
50	Francis	9	↓10	42

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