Popular baby names in Wyoming, 1932

The most popular baby names in Wyoming in 1932 were Mary for girls (100 babies) and Robert for boys (115). Social Security records list 2,845 babies born in Wyoming in 1932 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Wyoming in 1932

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

Girls

Donna: 42 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Beverly: 31 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Carol: 22 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Shirley: 46 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Norma: 26 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Frances: 28 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Marjorie: 17 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Boys

Bob: 18 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Don: 23 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Larry: 15 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Bill: 15 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Jerry: 20 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Carl: 23 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Jack: 35 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Fred: 17 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Kenneth: 35 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Joe: 19 babies, 2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Wyoming, 1932

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Mary	100	–	1
2	Betty	67	–	2
3	Barbara	48	–	3
4	Shirley	46	↑2	9
5	Dorothy	44	–	4
6	Donna	42	↑1	29
7	Margaret	35	↑4	7
8	Beverly	31	↑14	28
9	Helen	31	–	8
10	Patricia	31	↓6	6
11	Doris	30	↑6	10
12	Frances	28	↑22	19
13	Ruth	28	↓5	11
14	Joyce	27	↑6	12
15	Joan	26	↓1	5
16	Norma	26	↓1	22
17	Carol	22	↓5	32
18	Lois	21	↓8	20
19	Marilyn	19	↑6	16
20	Nancy	19	↑7	13
21	Marjorie	17	↑8	37
22	Virginia	17	↓1	14
23	Elizabeth	16	↑17	17
24	Phyllis	15	↓6	30
25	Jean	14	↓12	15
26	Patsy	14	↑5	77
27	Delores	13	↑20	56
28	Esther	13	↑20	82
29	Josephine	13	↑16	57
30	Evelyn	12	↑11	23
31	Grace	12	new	72
32	Jacqueline	12	↑3	85
33	Janice	12	new	94
34	Alice	11	↓15	21
35	Hazel	11	↑7	75
36	Lorraine	11	new	55
37	Mildred	11	new	26
38	Roberta	11	new	>100
39	Anna	10	new	24
40	Bonnie	10	↓24	64
41	Clara	10	new	70
42	Dolores	10	↓19	18
43	Jennie	10	new	>100
44	Peggy	10	↓14	40
45	Vera	10	new	>100
46	Gladys	9	new	54
47	Jo	9	new	>100
48	Joanne	9	new	62
49	Louise	9	↓25	36
50	Ann	8	↓12	34

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Robert	115	–	1
2	John	85	↑2	3
3	James	83	↓1	2
4	Richard	71	↑2	5
5	William	62	↓2	4
6	Donald	58	↓1	7
7	Charles	47	–	6
8	Jack	35	↑1	17
9	Kenneth	35	↑4	14
10	George	30	↓2	8
11	Paul	25	↑3	13
12	Thomas	25	↑19	10
13	Carl	23	↑8	28
14	Don	23	↑3	55
15	David	22	↓4	12
16	Raymond	22	↑4	19
17	Edward	21	↓7	11
18	Jerry	20	↑5	34
19	Joe	19	↓7	29
20	Ronald	19	↑14	16
21	Bob	18	↑5	79
22	Walter	18	↑10	21
23	Frank	17	↓5	15
24	Fred	17	↑3	33
25	Gerald	17	↑3	24
26	Bill	15	↓4	58
27	Larry	15	new	65
28	Joseph	14	↓4	9
29	Wayne	14	↑6	57
30	Harold	13	↓11	18
31	Ralph	13	↑6	27
32	Roy	13	↓17	38
33	Billy	12	↑15	20
34	Leonard	12	new	48
35	Albert	11	↓2	26
36	Clarence	11	↑2	40
37	Dale	11	↓21	61
38	Lawrence	11	new	35
39	Marvin	11	new	46
40	Melvin	11	↑3	51
41	Arthur	10	↓16	25
42	Douglas	10	new	85
43	Gene	10	new	64
44	Harry	10	↓4	32
45	Keith	10	–	>100
46	Stanley	10	new	52
47	Dean	9	new	>100
48	Gilbert	9	new	97
49	Henry	9	↓8	23
50	Norman	9	↓4	37

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