Popular baby names in Wyoming, 1938

The most popular baby names in Wyoming in 1938 were Mary for girls (105 babies) and Robert for boys (146). Social Security records list 3,393 babies born in Wyoming in 1938 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Wyoming in 1938

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

Girls

Deanna: 16 babies, 5× the national rate
Kay: 20 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Sharon: 43 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Bonnie: 18 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Donna: 44 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Rosalie: 17 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Sally: 19 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Marilyn: 36 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Beverly: 33 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Norma: 22 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Boys

Bob: 16 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Don: 24 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Bill: 16 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Larry: 54 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Gary: 39 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Jack: 34 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Marvin: 16 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Earl: 15 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Jerry: 42 babies, 2.1× the national rate
Raymond: 33 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Wyoming, 1938

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1937	US rank
1	Mary	105	–	1
2	Barbara	66	–	2
3	Shirley	52	↑1	5
4	Betty	45	↑1	4
5	Donna	44	↑2	20
6	Patricia	43	↓3	3
7	Sharon	43	↑2	30
8	Nancy	38	↑7	7
9	Marilyn	36	↑9	19
10	Carol	34	↓4	6
11	Beverly	33	↓1	18
12	Joan	31	↑5	10
13	Ruth	27	↓5	21
14	Sandra	26	new	14
15	Dorothy	25	↓4	8
16	Helen	24	↓4	13
17	Margaret	24	↓3	9
18	Joyce	22	↑14	11
19	Norma	22	↑17	34
20	Frances	21	↑23	23
21	Virginia	21	↓1	22
22	Kay	20	↑11	81
23	Alice	19	↓7	29
24	Janice	19	↑11	24
25	Phyllis	19	↑9	28
26	Sally	19	↓7	54
27	Bonnie	18	–	65
28	Judith	18	↓3	12
29	Rosalie	17	new	66
30	Deanna	16	new	>100
31	Janet	16	–	16
32	Judy	16	new	41
33	Lois	16	↓20	33
34	Peggy	16	↓11	35
35	Carolyn	15	↑3	15
36	Evelyn	15	new	38
37	Karen	14	↓11	50
38	Martha	14	new	26
39	Anna	13	new	40
40	Elizabeth	13	↑2	17
41	Connie	12	↓13	>100
42	Doris	12	↓12	25
43	Jeanette	12	new	91
44	Jo	12	new	78
45	Marjorie	12	↓23	53
46	Roberta	12	↓9	73
47	Edith	11	new	>100
48	Elaine	11	↓1	42
49	Eleanor	11	new	60
50	Joanne	11	new	57

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1937	US rank
1	Robert	146	–	1
2	John	91	↑1	3
3	James	83	↓1	2
4	Richard	66	↑1	5
5	William	63	↓1	4
6	Charles	60	↑1	6
7	Larry	54	↑3	16
8	Donald	50	↓2	7
9	Thomas	47	↑5	9
10	David	42	↑2	8
11	Jerry	42	↓3	17
12	Ronald	41	↓1	10
13	Gary	39	↑3	22
14	Jack	34	↑1	25
15	Gerald	33	↑7	19
16	Raymond	33	↑3	20
17	Joseph	25	↑7	12
18	Kenneth	25	↓5	14
19	Don	24	↑23	52
20	Frank	23	↑15	18
21	George	23	↓12	11
22	Paul	21	↓5	15
23	Edward	19	↓5	13
24	Harold	19	↑4	23
25	Roger	19	↑14	31
26	Carl	17	↑1	29
27	Bill	16	↓7	67
28	Bob	16	↓2	94
29	Marvin	16	new	53
30	Earl	15	↑2	50
31	Fred	15	↓10	38
32	Arthur	14	↓7	32
33	Michael	14	new	21
34	Ralph	14	↓3	35
35	Dennis	13	↑6	49
36	Gene	13	new	65
37	Jim	13	↓8	81
38	Roy	13	↑2	41
39	Stanley	13	new	59
40	Wayne	13	↑5	40
41	Joe	12	↓18	28
42	Lawrence	12	↓12	36
43	Leonard	12	new	57
44	Allen	11	new	73
45	Ray	11	new	72
46	Billy	10	new	24
47	Dean	10	new	>100
48	Duane	10	–	>100
49	Gordon	10	new	78
50	Keith	10	↓7	>100

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