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

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

What the Data Says About the 1920s in Wyoming

During the 1920s (1920–1929), the Social Security Administration recorded 24,728 births across the top 50 boy and top 50 girl names in Wyoming. The decade's leading boy name was Robert with 1,301 births, while Mary was the top girl name with 1,246 births. The top 50 boys in this decade collectively accounted for 13,124 births versus 11,604 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 Wyoming; 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 Wyoming during this window reflects how regional preferences interact with broader national trends.

Decade totals are computed by summing SSA state-year records for Wyoming 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 Wyoming 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 1,301
2 John 1,074
3 William 996
4 James 815
5 Charles 645
6 Donald 573
7 George 555
8 Jack 444
9 Richard 431
10 Frank 337
11 Kenneth 307
12 Harold 295
13 Edward 289
14 Joseph 267
15 Thomas 260
16 Raymond 231
17 Paul 217
18 Harry 193
19 Walter 191
20 David 172
21 Ralph 168
22 Joe 168
23 Arthur 168
24 Eugene 159
25 Fred 154
26 Albert 149
27 Earl 142
28 Clarence 142
29 Carl 138
30 Roy 138
31 Henry 128
32 Dale 120
33 Wayne 120
34 Lawrence 109
35 Howard 109
36 Gerald 107
37 Ernest 106
38 Floyd 102
39 Lloyd 100
40 Francis 98
41 Bill 96
42 Leonard 96
43 Louis 96
44 Melvin 94
45 Warren 93
46 Glenn 90
47 Stanley 89
48 Keith 87
49 Don 84
50 Glen 81

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

Rank Name Births
1 Mary 1,246
2 Betty 917
3 Dorothy 665
4 Helen 646
5 Margaret 497
6 Ruth 416
7 Shirley 307
8 Marjorie 288
9 Virginia 281
10 Barbara 272
11 Lois 267
12 Alice 266
13 Evelyn 259
14 Frances 259
15 Jean 248
16 Doris 243
17 Patricia 224
18 Elizabeth 197
19 Norma 190
20 Mildred 189
21 Anna 189
22 Phyllis 181
23 Edith 154
24 June 148
25 Edna 143
26 Marie 141
27 Florence 141
28 Esther 137
29 Maxine 136
30 Irene 133
31 Rose 133
32 Lillian 131
33 Wilma 130
34 Donna 119
35 Louise 117
36 Lucille 115
37 Josephine 115
38 Elsie 113
39 Clara 111
40 Ethel 110
41 Martha 109
42 Catherine 108
43 Hazel 107
44 Thelma 106
45 Eva 104
46 Marian 103
47 Ellen 102
48 Grace 100
49 Ruby 98
50 Kathryn 93

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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.