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Baby names in Colorado, 1940s

1940–1949 · 238,966 recorded births

Robert was the most common name given in Colorado across the 1940s, with 6,664 births in the decade. The state recorded 238,966 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Colorado in the 1940s

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
Orlando82
Eloy37
Charla40
Pete203
Manuel446
Rudy190
Angie79
Mercy18

Top 25 in the 1940s

RankNameBirths
#1Robert6,664
#2John6,158
#3James5,766
#4Mary5,315
#5Richard4,865
#6Linda4,739
#7David4,254
#8William4,184
#9Patricia3,528
#10Barbara3,284
#11Sharon3,200
#12Michael3,140
#13Larry3,038
#14Carol2,872
#15Ronald2,822
#16Charles2,805
#17Gary2,788
#18Donald2,623
#19Thomas2,397
#20Sandra2,383
#21Nancy2,070
#22Judith2,001
#23Karen1,980
#24Donna1,909
#25Kenneth1,908

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