Top Baby Names in Nevada, 1920s — Most Popular Boys & Girls Names

The most popular baby names in Nevada from 1920 to 1929, ranked by total births during the decade.

What the Data Says About the 1920s in Nevada

During the 1920s (1920–1929), the Social Security Administration recorded 5,440 births across the top 50 boy and top 50 girl names in Nevada. The decade's leading boy name was Robert with 374 births, while Mary was the top girl name with 299 births. The top 50 boys in this decade collectively accounted for 3,035 births versus 2,405 for the top 50 girls — a common SSA pattern in which the boy-name pool is more concentrated among fewer high-frequency choices. These totals represent only names appearing five or more times per year in Nevada; rarer names fall below the SSA's privacy-disclosure threshold and are excluded.

The 1920s sits within a specific cultural window of U.S. naming history. Pre-1950 decades like the 1920s were characterized by strong traditional and biblical naming conventions, with a small cluster of dominant names (John, William, Mary, Elizabeth) capturing a disproportionate share of births. Robert and Mary leading Nevada during this window reflects how regional preferences interact with broader national trends.

Decade totals are computed by summing SSA state-year records for Nevada across all ten years of the 1920s. Because the SSA suppresses any name with fewer than five annual occurrences in a state, the true number of unique names given in Nevada during this decade is larger than what this page lists. The dataset also treats every spelling as a separate name — for example, Kayla and Kaylah are tracked independently — so combined-spelling totals would shift the rankings somewhat. This page is provided for informational and research purposes and does not constitute naming, legal, or genealogical advice.

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Boy Top 50 Boy Names

Rank Name Births
1 Robert 374
2 John 297
3 William 271
4 James 191
5 George 157
6 Donald 145
7 Charles 118
8 Richard 115
9 Frank 114
10 Jack 96
11 Joseph 91
12 Edward 86
13 Harold 82
14 Harry 73
15 Raymond 65
16 Joe 60
17 Kenneth 55
18 Thomas 52
19 David 50
20 Walter 45
21 Albert 44
22 Carl 39
23 Arthur 39
24 Roy 38
25 Ralph 35
26 Henry 24
27 Louis 21
28 Stanley 19
29 Paul 19
30 Earl 19
31 Ernest 18
32 Gordon 17
33 Ray 17
34 Bob 12
35 Clarence 12
36 Tony 11
37 Norman 11
38 Herbert 11
39 Gerald 10
40 Pete 10
41 Manuel 10
42 Eugene 10
43 Howard 8
44 Vernon 7
45 Jerry 7
46 Max 6
47 Bill 6
48 Lloyd 6
49 Calvin 6
50 Warren 6

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

Rank Name Births
1 Mary 299
2 Betty 170
3 Dorothy 158
4 Helen 142
5 Margaret 121
6 Ruth 89
7 Barbara 80
8 Virginia 78
9 Frances 70
10 Norma 63
11 Marjorie 62
12 Shirley 61
13 Lois 60
14 Patricia 54
15 Jean 53
16 Evelyn 47
17 Doris 46
18 June 45
19 Mildred 45
20 Marie 43
21 Alice 43
22 Beverly 40
23 Louise 40
24 Elizabeth 39
25 Josephine 34
26 Irene 32
27 Edith 29
28 Lillian 26
29 Eleanor 24
30 Dolores 23
31 Florence 23
32 Gloria 18
33 Marian 18
34 Donna 17
35 Ethel 17
36 Wilma 16
37 Geraldine 16
38 Eva 16
39 Grace 15
40 Anna 15
41 Audrey 13
42 Phyllis 13
43 Thelma 12
44 Wanda 12
45 Pauline 12
46 Clara 12
47 Gladys 11
48 Lucille 11
49 Edna 11
50 Rose 11

Nearby Rankings

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Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files, 1910–2024 (ssa.gov).

Source: SSA Baby Names Methodology — names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year are included (ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html).

Read our methodology — how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official U.S. government datasets. See our methodology for details.