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Baby names in Oregon, 1910s

1910–1919 · 68,561 recorded births

Robert was the most common name given in Oregon across the 1910s, with 2,041 births in the decade. The state recorded 68,561 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Oregon 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
Darrell47
Maxine354
Lavelle14
Delmer27
June358
Delbert106
Eldon67
Alta114

Top 25 in the 1910s

RankNameBirths
#1Robert2,041
#2Mary1,722
#3John1,707
#4William1,625
#5Helen1,563
#6Dorothy1,549
#7Margaret1,238
#8James1,173
#9George1,082
#10Ruth1,030
#11Charles940
#12Donald783
#13Harold727
#14Frances722
#15Mildred685
#16Virginia675
#17Richard605
#18Frank602
#19Evelyn599
#20Marjorie597
#21Jack596
#22Alice566
#23Elizabeth541
#24Kenneth538
#25Edward528

Other decades in Oregon

All Oregon 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