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Baby names in Oregon, 1920s

1920–1929 · 115,857 recorded births

Robert was the most common name given in Oregon across the 1920s, with 4,750 births in the decade. The state recorded 115,857 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Oregon in the 1920s

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
Lavelle4211×
Arleta18
Darrell123
Bob290
Eldon134
Don346
Donna500
Vern57

Top 25 in the 1920s

RankNameBirths
#1Robert4,750
#2William2,757
#3Mary2,747
#4Betty2,743
#5John2,619
#6Donald2,330
#7James2,273
#8Dorothy2,267
#9Richard1,938
#10Helen1,539
#11George1,481
#12Charles1,453
#13Margaret1,405
#14Barbara1,362
#15Jack1,357
#16Patricia1,342
#17Virginia1,292
#18Kenneth1,097
#19Ruth1,026
#20Shirley1,015
#21Marjorie997
#22Jean987
#23Doris974
#24Harold954
#25Lois881

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