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Baby names in Colorado, 1920s

1920–1929 · 172,803 recorded births

Mary was the most common name given in Colorado across the 1920s, with 5,648 births in the decade. The state recorded 172,803 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Colorado in the 1920s

Names given far more often here than nationally in these years. The multiplier is conservative — it is the low end of the plausible range, so a name carried by a handful of births does not outrank one carried by hundreds.

NameBirthsvs national
Eloy6413×
Pete288
Lupe172
Jose502
Tony367
Jake114
Alfonso105
Luis98

Top 25 in the 1920s

RankNameBirths
#1Mary5,648
#2Robert5,623
#3John4,458
#4William3,755
#5Betty3,752
#6Dorothy3,318
#7James2,972
#8Helen2,565
#9Charles2,541
#10Donald2,240
#11George2,175
#12Margaret2,119
#13Richard1,918
#14Ruth1,825
#15Shirley1,614
#16Virginia1,597
#17Harold1,545
#18Joe1,541
#19Frank1,514
#20Jack1,508
#21Edward1,367
#22Frances1,316
#23Barbara1,248
#24Joseph1,208
#25Kenneth1,127

Other decades in Colorado

All Colorado names, 2025

Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. State records begin in 1910. Names given to fewer than five babies in a state in a year are withheld at source. namelegacy.org