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Baby names in Utah, 1910s

1910–1919 · 59,682 recorded births

Mary was the most common name given in Utah across the 1910s, with 1,378 births in the decade. The state recorded 59,682 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Utah 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
Afton282107×
Rulon5086×
Parley5783×
Hyrum5280×
Lavar1577×
Delone650×
Fawn2541×
Reed13836×

Top 25 in the 1910s

RankNameBirths
#1Mary1,378
#2John1,338
#3Ruth1,186
#4Helen1,178
#5William1,173
#6Dorothy913
#7Robert896
#8James852
#9Margaret832
#10George829
#11Virginia683
#12Joseph575
#13Charles542
#14Jack532
#15Frank530
#16Harold489
#17Mildred478
#18Richard465
#19Alice454
#20Florence431
#21June418
#22Marjorie416
#23Ralph381
#23Thelma381
#25Norma369

Other decades in Utah

All Utah 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