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Baby names in Wyoming, 1930s

1930–1939 · 30,936 recorded births

Robert was the most common name given in Wyoming across the 1930s, with 1,201 births in the decade. The state recorded 30,936 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Wyoming 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
Wyoma711×
Keith108
Dick71
Bob145
Sharon181
Donna412
Glen85
Jim116

Top 25 in the 1930s

RankNameBirths
#1Robert1,201
#2Mary1,012
#3John896
#4James882
#5William702
#6Richard638
#7Betty631
#8Donald623
#9Barbara557
#10Charles548
#11Shirley545
#12Patricia418
#13Donna412
#14Dorothy374
#15George368
#16Jack366
#17Ronald306
#18Helen299
#19Larry297
#20David294
#21Kenneth293
#22Carol291
#23Thomas285
#24Jerry277
#25Margaret272

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