State roster
Top names in Nevada
The names most likely to appear on 1930 Nevada birth certificates, ranked by SSA state records. The SSA recorded 633 Nevada births in 1930 across 62 distinct names.
Distinctively Nevada
Names that rank far higher here than they do nationally — the ones that say Nevada more than they say America.
- #26Colleenoutside the national top 200
- #22Lola#162 nationally
- #19Leslie#139 nationally
- #17Douglas#89 nationally
- #18Gordon#77 nationally
- #30Laura#89 nationally
- #25Herman#78 nationally
- #16Don#68 nationally
- #14Leo#63 nationally
- #17Marion#60 nationally
- #29Vernon#72 nationally
- #32Peggy#67 nationally
Girls
- #1Betty32US #2
- #2Mary25US #1
- #3Dorothy15US #3
- #4Barbara14US #6
- #5Beverly12US #34
- #6Lois12US #17
- #7Alice11US #20
- #8Margaret11US #5
- #9Joan10US #8
- #10Dolores9US #13
- #11Doris9US #9
- #12Gloria9US #30
- #13Helen9US #4
- #14Marilyn9US #22
- #15Thelma9US #45
- #16Shirley8US #11
- #17Marion7US #60
- #18Patricia7US #7
- #19Evelyn6US #19
- #20Geraldine6US #43
- #21Josephine6US #49
- #22Lola6US #162
- #23Marie6US #26
- #24Mildred6US #21
- #25Ruth6US #10
- #26Colleen5
- #27Edith5US #61
- #28Frances5US #16
- #29June5US #47
- #30Laura5US #89
- #31Norma5US #25
- #32Peggy5US #67
- #33Phyllis5US #28
Boys
- #1Robert45US #1
- #2Donald27US #7
- #3James21US #2
- #4William21US #4
- #5George20US #8
- #6Richard20US #5
- #7John17US #3
- #8Jack16US #14
- #9Charles15US #6
- #10David13US #15
- #11Frank13US #13
- #12Joseph9US #9
- #13Kenneth7US #17
- #14Leo7US #63
- #15Albert6US #24
- #16Don6US #68
- #17Douglas6US #89
- #18Gordon6US #77
- #19Leslie6US #139
- #20Ronald6US #37
- #21Walter6US #19
- #22Edward5US #10
- #23Harold5US #18
- #24Henry5US #22
- #25Herman5US #78
- #26Joe5US #27
- #27Lawrence5US #36
- #28Norman5US #40
- #29Vernon5US #72
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State-level SSA records cover 1910–2024 — a shorter window than the national archive, which runs back to 1880. See 1929 rankings.