Name Legacy

Baby names in Idaho, 1910s

1910–1919 · 48,288 recorded births

Mary was the most common name given in Idaho across the 1910s, with 1,282 births in the decade. The state recorded 48,288 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Idaho in the 1910s

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
Rulon2237×
Afton7933×
Hyrum1214×
Verla6113×
Beth8710×
Lorin2210×
Gwen34
Verl23

Top 25 in the 1910s

RankNameBirths
#1Mary1,282
#2John1,181
#3Robert1,107
#4Helen979
#4William979
#6Dorothy879
#7Ruth818
#8James814
#9Margaret723
#10George701
#11Charles624
#12Harold491
#13Donald455
#14Mildred438
#15Virginia392
#16Frank385
#17Alice380
#18Edna379
#19Jack369
#20Richard362
#21Lois338
#22Evelyn335
#22Joseph335
#24Florence329
#25Kenneth319

Other decades in Idaho

All Idaho 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