Popular baby names in Wyoming, 1940

The most popular baby names in Wyoming in 1940 were Mary for girls (94 babies) and Robert for boys (107). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 3,519 babies born in Wyoming in 1940 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Wyoming in 1940

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: 15 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Roberta: 19 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Kay: 17 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Anita: 15 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Sharon: 57 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Delores: 15 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Karen: 36 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Darlene: 15 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Donna: 35 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Norma: 17 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Tom: 17 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Jim: 19 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Jack: 33 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Bill: 15 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Gary: 56 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Stanley: 15 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Larry: 61 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Joe: 24 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Wyoming, 1940

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1939	US rank
1	Mary	94	–	1
2	Patricia	59	↑2	3
3	Sharon	57	↓1	17
4	Barbara	51	↓1	2
5	Carol	50	↑4	6
6	Shirley	45	–	9
7	Nancy	42	↓2	7
8	Judith	38	↑8	4
9	Karen	36	↑2	34
10	Donna	35	↓3	23
11	Judy	35	↓3	16
12	Betty	32	↓2	5
13	Linda	32	↑10	8
14	Joyce	30	↑21	13
15	Sandra	27	↓3	10
16	Marilyn	25	↑12	25
17	Margaret	24	↓3	11
18	Beverly	23	↓5	27
19	Dorothy	22	↓1	12
20	Janice	22	↑2	22
21	Ruth	22	↑29	24
22	Carolyn	19	↓2	15
23	Helen	19	↓4	18
24	Roberta	19	↑17	71
25	Bonnie	18	↑1	39
26	Jean	18	↑8	29
27	Joan	18	↑4	14
28	Alice	17	↓11	32
29	Kay	17	↓2	77
30	Lois	17	↑7	38
31	Norma	17	↓16	43
32	Virginia	17	↓3	21
33	Anita	15	↑9	87
34	Darlene	15	↓1	79
35	Deanna	15	new	>100
36	Delores	15	new	83
37	Peggy	15	↓7	37
38	Susan	15	new	36
39	Frances	14	↓18	28
40	Kathleen	14	↓1	40
41	Wanda	14	↓9	52
42	Janet	13	↓18	19
43	Charlotte	12	new	55
44	Sally	12	new	61
45	Diana	11	new	>100
46	Elaine	11	new	50
47	Georgia	11	↓1	>100
48	Jo	11	new	72
49	Pat	11	new	>100
50	Rose	11	↓1	44

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1939	US rank
1	Robert	107	–	2
2	John	100	–	3
3	James	95	–	1
4	Richard	80	↑1	5
5	William	65	↓1	4
6	Larry	61	↑1	13
7	Charles	60	↓1	6
8	Gary	56	↑3	19
9	Jerry	48	–	14
10	David	46	–	7
11	Donald	45	↓3	9
12	Ronald	45	–	10
13	Jack	33	–	29
14	Thomas	31	↑4	8
15	Kenneth	29	↓1	15
16	Edward	28	–	16
17	George	26	↓2	11
18	Dennis	24	↑2	24
19	Joe	24	↑2	28
20	Michael	22	↑16	18
21	Roger	22	↑7	26
22	Frank	21	↓3	20
23	Gerald	21	–	21
24	Paul	21	↓2	17
25	Joseph	20	new	12
26	Jim	19	↓1	78
27	Fred	17	↑8	40
28	Tom	17	↑19	92
29	Raymond	16	↓5	22
30	Wayne	16	↑7	39
31	Bill	15	↓5	67
32	Lawrence	15	new	36
33	Ralph	15	↑12	37
34	Roy	15	↑12	42
35	Stanley	15	new	59
36	Carl	14	↓7	32
37	Don	14	↓4	62
38	Douglas	14	new	56
39	Terry	14	new	73
40	Walter	13	new	25
41	Arthur	12	new	33
42	Darrell	12	new	>100
43	Gordon	12	↓2	91
44	Melvin	12	↓14	53
45	Ray	12	new	77
46	Allen	11	new	71
47	Dale	11	↓15	57
48	Harry	11	↓6	47
49	Ronnie	11	new	>100
50	Edwin	10	new	96

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