Popular baby names in Wyoming, 1947

The most popular baby names in Wyoming in 1947 were Linda for girls (204 babies) and Robert for boys (164). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 5,338 babies born in Wyoming in 1947 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Wyoming in 1947

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

Girls

Connie: 39 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Kathy: 20 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Judy: 72 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Marsha: 15 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Bonnie: 32 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Peggy: 28 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Katherine: 15 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Tony: 15 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Dan: 16 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Jim: 21 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Phillip: 21 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Tom: 15 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Tommy: 16 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Dennis: 78 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Wyoming, 1947

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1946	US rank
1	Linda	204	↑1	1
2	Mary	127	↓1	2
3	Carol	73	↑3	6
4	Judy	72	↑3	14
5	Patricia	71	↓2	3
6	Barbara	70	↑3	4
7	Sandra	70	↓3	5
8	Susan	67	↑2	8
9	Sharon	59	↓4	9
10	Nancy	57	↑1	7
11	Donna	54	↑2	10
12	Karen	48	↓4	13
13	Kathleen	44	↑6	11
14	Margaret	42	↑7	16
15	Connie	39	↑3	43
16	Bonnie	32	↑8	35
17	Judith	32	↓3	12
18	Janice	31	↓3	22
19	Cheryl	30	↓7	24
20	Joyce	30	↑8	20
21	Shirley	30	↑2	19
22	Janet	29	↑4	23
23	Marilyn	28	↓6	29
24	Peggy	28	↑25	42
25	Betty	25	↓9	17
26	Beverly	24	↑1	31
27	Virginia	24	new	34
28	Diana	21	↑11	48
29	Dorothy	21	↑11	26
30	Kathy	20	new	64
31	Ann	19	↑14	41
32	Gloria	19	↑15	27
33	Ruth	19	↓3	44
34	Diane	18	↓9	18
35	Alice	17	↓4	47
36	Helen	17	↓16	38
37	Kathryn	17	↑1	55
38	Carolyn	16	↓16	15
39	Jean	16	↓10	40
40	Jo	16	new	51
41	Elizabeth	15	new	25
42	Katherine	15	new	76
43	Marsha	15	new	88
44	Martha	15	new	32
45	Sherry	15	↓3	67
46	Lois	14	↑2	63
47	Pamela	14	↓14	28
48	Penny	14	new	>100
49	Vicki	14	↑1	>100
50	Jane	13	↓15	36

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1946	US rank
1	Robert	164	↑1	2
2	John	163	↑1	3
3	James	152	↓2	1
4	Richard	125	–	5
5	William	122	↑1	4
6	David	118	↓1	6
7	Michael	84	↑1	7
8	Dennis	78	↑6	17
9	Larry	75	–	10
10	Gary	71	↓3	12
11	Ronald	70	–	11
12	Donald	65	↑3	13
13	Charles	56	↓3	9
14	Thomas	47	↓2	8
15	Kenneth	45	↑1	15
16	Jerry	44	↓3	20
17	George	43	–	16
18	Edward	36	↑2	19
19	Terry	34	↓1	26
20	Paul	33	↓1	18
21	Steven	30	↑10	24
22	Frank	28	↑6	23
23	Stephen	26	↑14	21
24	Daniel	25	↑1	22
25	Joseph	25	↓1	14
26	Wayne	24	↑9	30
27	Gerald	23	↑14	28
28	Jack	23	↓2	37
29	Joe	23	↓2	43
30	Raymond	23	↓1	27
31	Jim	21	↓10	77
32	Phillip	21	new	74
33	Alan	19	↑5	45
34	Harold	19	↑12	35
35	Roger	18	↓13	25
36	Dale	17	↓4	63
37	Danny	17	↑2	39
38	Douglas	17	↓15	31
39	Lawrence	17	↓3	32
40	Mike	17	↓7	65
41	Bruce	16	↑4	29
42	Carl	16	new	40
43	Dan	16	new	>100
44	Fred	16	new	56
45	Jimmy	16	new	44
46	Ralph	16	new	50
47	Roy	16	–	48
48	Timothy	16	↓4	52
49	Tommy	16	new	79
50	Leonard	15	↓7	71

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