Name Legacy

Baby names in Nevada, 1930s

1930–1939 · 7,234 recorded births

Robert was the most common name given in Nevada across the 1930s, with 367 births in the decade. The state recorded 7,234 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Nevada 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
Gordon54
Deanna17
Karen32
Sharon52
Gary68
Don57
Jack132
Bill48

Top 25 in the 1930s

RankNameBirths
#1Robert367
#2John310
#3James277
#4Mary252
#5Richard242
#6William226
#7Barbara213
#8Donald179
#9Betty178
#10Patricia172
#11George162
#12Charles151
#13Shirley146
#14David134
#15Jack132
#16Frank103
#17Ronald99
#18Joan98
#19Margaret94
#20Dorothy89
#21Carol85
#21Edward85
#23Kenneth84
#24Thomas83
#25Marilyn79

Other decades in Nevada

All Nevada 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