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Baby names in Wyoming in the 1930s

In Wyoming in the 1930s the most given names were Robert (1,201 boys) and Mary (1,012 girls), of 30,936 births recorded.

Babies SSA recorded in Wyoming each year, the 1930s shaded
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Wyoming births by year and sex1k2k3k4k5k19101930195019701990201020251930-1939BoysGirls
Wyoming births by year and sex1k2k3k4k5k19101930195019701990201020251930-1939BoysGirls
Wyoming births by year and sex1k2k3k4k5k19101950199020251930-1939BoysGirls

Births under names given to 5 or more babies of one sex in the state that year.

Wyoming, 1930-1939: SSA state baby-name file, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s state data.

The top names in Wyoming, 1930s

Girls, 1930-1939
#NameBirths
1Mary1,012
2Betty631
3Barbara557
4Shirley545
5Patricia418
6Donna412
7Dorothy374
8Helen299
9Carol291
10Margaret272
11Beverly266
12Nancy264
13Ruth250
14Joan229
15Marilyn217
16Virginia211
17Alice211
18Lois207
19Norma198
20Frances184
Boys, 1930-1939
#NameBirths
1Robert1,201
2John896
3James882
4William702
5Richard638
6Donald623
7Charles548
8George368
9Jack366
10Ronald306
11Larry297
12David294
13Kenneth293
14Thomas285
15Jerry277
16Frank216
17Edward203
18Gary200
19Raymond199
20Gerald195

Births summed over 1930-1939, per sex.

The names most over-represented in Wyoming in the 1930s

Each figure is the name’s births in the state in the decade against the births its national share, year by year, would predict (names with at least 100 births in the state).

Girls

Boys

Ratios: observed over predicted births, 1930-1939.

More about names in Wyoming

  1. The 1930s across the U.S.The most given names of the decade nationally.
  2. Wyoming: 2025 and every year since 1910The state’s top names now and its number ones by year.
  3. Wyoming in the 1940sThe next decade in the state.
  4. The top names of 1930The first year of the decade, nationally.
  5. Every state’s most given namesEach state since 1910.
  6. Look up any nameIts rank, births since 1880 and the people alive with it.

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