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Baby names in Kansas, 1930s

1930–1939 · 265,931 recorded births

Robert was the most common name given in Kansas across the 1930s, with 7,845 births in the decade. The state recorded 265,931 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Kansas in the 1930s

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
Jong510×
Ok510×
Yong510×
Twila225
Galen173
Sun5
Claron10
Eldon435

Top 25 in the 1930s

RankNameBirths
#1Robert7,845
#2Mary7,563
#3Donald5,818
#4James5,555
#5John5,312
#6Betty4,627
#7Richard4,501
#8Shirley4,302
#9Charles4,245
#10William4,032
#11Barbara3,947
#12Patricia3,294
#13Donna2,867
#14Larry2,677
#15Kenneth2,537
#16Dorothy2,472
#17Carol2,082
#18Jerry2,077
#19Marilyn2,073
#20Ronald2,058
#21Norma2,033
#22Gary1,992
#23Jack1,989
#24Harold1,937
#25George1,921

Other decades in Kansas

All Kansas 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