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Baby names in Wyoming, 1920s

1920–1929 · 32,468 recorded births

Robert was the most common name given in Wyoming across the 1920s, with 1,301 births in the decade. The state recorded 32,468 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Wyoming 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
Wyoma52151×
Keith87
Dean68
Dale120
Glen81
Beth22
Bob70
Don84

Top 25 in the 1920s

RankNameBirths
#1Robert1,301
#2Mary1,246
#3John1,074
#4William996
#5Betty917
#6James815
#7Dorothy665
#8Helen646
#9Charles645
#10Donald573
#11George555
#12Margaret497
#13Jack444
#14Richard431
#15Ruth416
#16Frank337
#17Kenneth307
#17Shirley307
#19Harold295
#20Edward289
#21Marjorie288
#22Virginia281
#23Barbara272
#24Joseph267
#24Lois267

Other decades in Wyoming

All Wyoming 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