Top Baby Names in Nevada, 1930s — Most Popular Boys & Girls Names

The most popular baby names in Nevada from 1930 to 1939, ranked by total births during the decade.

What the Data Says About the 1930s in Nevada

During the 1930s (1930–1939), the Social Security Administration recorded 6,735 births across the top 50 boy and top 50 girl names in Nevada. The decade's leading boy name was Robert with 367 births, while Mary was the top girl name with 252 births. The top 50 boys in this decade collectively accounted for 3,868 births versus 2,867 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 1930s sits within a specific cultural window of U.S. naming history. Pre-1950 decades like the 1930s 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 1930s. 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 367
2 John 310
3 James 277
4 Richard 242
5 William 226
6 Donald 179
7 George 162
8 Charles 151
9 David 134
10 Jack 132
11 Frank 103
12 Ronald 99
13 Edward 85
14 Kenneth 84
15 Thomas 83
16 Gary 68
17 Paul 65
18 Joseph 62
19 Don 57
20 Larry 56
21 Gordon 54
22 Jerry 54
23 Fred 54
24 Bill 48
25 Harold 47
26 Raymond 47
27 Roy 46
28 Michael 45
29 Joe 44
30 Ralph 40
31 Wayne 37
32 Gerald 35
33 Lawrence 35
34 Albert 31
35 Walter 31
36 Douglas 30
37 Roger 28
38 Norman 28
39 Bob 21
40 Dennis 19
41 Ray 19
42 Daniel 19
43 Jim 17
44 Lee 16
45 Harry 16
46 Henry 16
47 Tom 14
48 Ted 12
49 Stanley 12
50 Gene 11

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

Rank Name Births
1 Mary 252
2 Barbara 213
3 Betty 178
4 Patricia 172
5 Shirley 146
6 Joan 98
7 Margaret 94
8 Dorothy 89
9 Carol 85
10 Marilyn 79
11 Donna 74
12 Nancy 73
13 Beverly 69
14 Helen 66
15 Joyce 63
16 Alice 53
17 Sharon 52
18 Gloria 50
19 Lois 50
20 Ruth 50
21 Carolyn 49
22 Virginia 49
23 Norma 48
24 Dolores 46
25 Sandra 41
26 Frances 40
27 Phyllis 39
28 Doris 39
29 Evelyn 38
30 Janet 35
31 Bonnie 33
32 Jean 33
33 Karen 32
34 Geraldine 29
35 Irene 27
36 Darlene 26
37 Janice 26
38 Judith 22
39 Elizabeth 21
40 Linda 19
41 Joann 18
42 Joanne 18
43 Ann 18
44 Marie 18
45 Rose 18
46 Deanna 17
47 Judy 17
48 Jacqueline 16
49 June 15
50 Thelma 14

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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.