Popular baby names in Wyoming, 1939

The most popular baby names in Wyoming in 1939 were Mary for girls (95 babies) and Robert for boys (120). Social Security records list 3,430 babies born in Wyoming in 1939 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Wyoming in 1939

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

Girls

Sharon: 64 babies, 5× the national rate
Karen: 32 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Kay: 18 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Bonnie: 18 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Judy: 37 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Darlene: 15 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Norma: 25 babies, 3× the national rate
Donna: 37 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Wanda: 16 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Beverly: 27 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Jim: 18 babies, 4× the national rate
Bill: 17 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Jack: 35 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Marvin: 17 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Gary: 43 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Larry: 59 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Melvin: 15 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Dennis: 22 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Wyoming, 1939

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1938	US rank
1	Mary	95	–	1
2	Sharon	64	↑5	23
3	Barbara	61	↓1	2
4	Patricia	55	↑2	3
5	Nancy	45	↑3	7
6	Shirley	43	↓3	5
7	Donna	37	↓2	20
8	Judy	37	↑24	28
9	Carol	36	↑1	6
10	Betty	35	↓6	4
11	Karen	32	↑26	39
12	Sandra	30	↑2	13
13	Beverly	27	↓2	25
14	Margaret	25	↑3	10
15	Norma	25	↑4	38
16	Judith	23	↑12	8
17	Alice	22	↑6	31
18	Dorothy	22	↓3	9
19	Helen	22	↓3	16
20	Carolyn	20	↑15	14
21	Frances	20	↓1	26
22	Janice	20	↑2	24
23	Linda	20	new	15
24	Janet	19	↑7	17
25	Phyllis	19	–	30
26	Bonnie	18	↑1	61
27	Kay	18	↓5	76
28	Marilyn	18	↓19	19
29	Virginia	18	↓8	21
30	Peggy	17	↑4	34
31	Joan	16	↓19	11
32	Wanda	16	new	50
33	Darlene	15	new	75
34	Jean	15	new	32
35	Joyce	15	↓17	12
36	Irene	14	new	74
37	Lois	14	↓4	35
38	Connie	11	↑3	>100
39	Kathleen	11	new	48
40	Marjorie	11	↑5	60
41	Roberta	11	↑5	71
42	Anita	10	new	97
43	Ann	10	new	33
44	Audrey	10	new	98
45	Elizabeth	10	↓5	18
46	Georgia	10	new	>100
47	Gloria	10	new	36
48	Joann	10	new	57
49	Rose	10	new	42
50	Ruth	10	↓37	22

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1938	US rank
1	Robert	120	–	1
2	John	119	–	3
3	James	90	–	2
4	William	70	↑1	4
5	Richard	68	↓1	5
6	Charles	62	–	6
7	Larry	59	–	14
8	Donald	54	–	8
9	Jerry	44	↑2	16
10	David	43	–	7
11	Gary	43	↑2	21
12	Ronald	42	–	10
13	Jack	35	↑1	26
14	Kenneth	33	↑4	13
15	George	30	↑6	11
16	Edward	28	↑7	15
17	Harold	28	↑7	23
18	Thomas	26	↓9	9
19	Frank	23	↑1	20
20	Dennis	22	↑15	34
21	Joe	22	↑20	27
22	Paul	22	–	17
23	Gerald	20	↓8	19
24	Raymond	20	↓8	22
25	Jim	18	↑12	75
26	Bill	17	↑1	67
27	Marvin	17	↑2	52
28	Roger	16	↓3	28
29	Carl	15	↓3	30
30	Melvin	15	new	51
31	Bob	14	↓3	89
32	Dale	14	new	59
33	Don	14	↓14	56
34	Earl	13	↓4	50
35	Fred	13	↓4	40
36	Michael	13	↓3	18
37	Wayne	13	↑3	39
38	Bruce	12	new	64
39	Dean	12	↑8	>100
40	Eugene	12	new	37
41	Gordon	12	↑8	82
42	Harry	12	new	45
43	Keith	12	↑7	>100
44	Leonard	12	↓1	54
45	Ralph	12	↓11	35
46	Roy	12	↓8	42
47	Tom	12	new	97
48	Billy	11	↓2	24
49	Clifford	11	new	88
50	Howard	11	new	47

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