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Baby names in Wyoming in the 1940s

In Wyoming in the 1940s the most given names were Robert (1,385 boys) and Linda (1,090 girls), of 43,506 births recorded.

Babies SSA recorded in Wyoming each year, the 1940s shaded
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Wyoming births by year and sex1k2k3k4k5k19101930195019701990201020251940-1949BoysGirls
Wyoming births by year and sex1k2k3k4k5k19101930195019701990201020251940-1949BoysGirls
Wyoming births by year and sex1k2k3k4k5k19101950199020251940-1949BoysGirls

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

Wyoming, 1940-1949: SSA state baby-name file, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s state data.

The top names in Wyoming, 1940s

Girls, 1940-1949
#NameBirths
1Linda1,090
2Mary1,080
3Sharon669
4Patricia627
5Barbara602
6Carol580
7Sandra493
8Judy492
9Karen488
10Nancy473
11Susan401
12Donna398
13Judith365
14Betty316
15Kathleen313
16Shirley299
17Margaret282
18Carolyn274
19Janet269
20Bonnie263
Boys, 1940-1949
#NameBirths
1Robert1,385
2John1,342
3James1,230
4Richard968
5William912
6David798
7Gary651
8Larry639
9Charles590
10Donald566
11Ronald560
12Michael554
13Thomas472
14Jerry443
15Dennis437
16Kenneth428
17George378
18Jack274
19Edward271
20Paul271

Births summed over 1940-1949, per sex.

The names most over-represented in Wyoming in the 1940s

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, 1940-1949.

More about names in Wyoming

  1. The 1940s 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 1950sThe next decade in the state.
  4. The top names of 1940The 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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