Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1910

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1910 were Mary for girls (304 babies) and John for boys (124). Social Security records list 4,512 babies born in Connecticut in 1910 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1910

Names given at least 15 times in Connecticut that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Sophie: 30 babies, 6× the national rate
Anne: 38 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Barbara: 16 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Theresa: 24 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Loretta: 15 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Rose: 85 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Marion: 36 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Jennie: 25 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Anna: 131 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Josephine: 55 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Boys

Anthony: 42 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Michael: 33 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Stanley: 26 babies, 5× the national rate
Francis: 33 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Peter: 17 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Andrew: 20 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Joseph: 103 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Edward: 63 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Kenneth: 15 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Frank: 62 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1910

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	Mary	304	1
2	Helen	170	2
3	Anna	131	6
4	Margaret	99	3
5	Dorothy	90	4
6	Ruth	90	5
7	Elizabeth	86	7
8	Rose	85	16
9	Alice	66	10
10	Florence	58	12
11	Josephine	55	30
12	Mildred	51	8
13	Lillian	49	14
14	Frances	45	11
15	Catherine	41	22
16	Julia	39	49
17	Anne	38	67
18	Marie	36	9
19	Marion	36	59
20	Ethel	35	13
21	Evelyn	35	17
22	Grace	35	23
23	Gertrude	34	26
24	Ann	33	52
25	Beatrice	33	36
26	Emma	32	34
27	Louise	31	20
28	Gladys	30	15
29	Sophie	30	>100
30	Esther	29	38
31	Bertha	28	33
32	Katherine	28	57
33	Irene	27	21
34	Agnes	26	41
35	Edna	26	18
36	Eleanor	26	55
37	Clara	25	32
38	Doris	25	64
39	Jennie	25	81
40	Theresa	24	96
41	Edith	23	35
42	Jean	23	77
43	Marguerite	21	84
44	Pauline	21	42
45	Marjorie	20	68
46	Lucy	19	75
47	Elsie	18	44
48	Ida	18	47
49	Nellie	17	51
50	Barbara	16	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	John	124	1
2	Joseph	103	6
3	William	78	3
4	Charles	63	7
5	Edward	63	9
6	Frank	62	8
7	George	61	5
8	James	49	2
9	Anthony	42	37
10	Walter	36	13
11	Thomas	34	12
12	Francis	33	36
13	Michael	33	45
14	Harold	27	18
15	Robert	26	4
16	Stanley	26	47
17	Louis	24	24
18	Albert	23	14
19	Raymond	22	19
20	Andrew	20	42
21	Peter	17	56
22	Harry	16	16
23	Henry	16	10
24	Paul	16	15
25	Richard	16	21
26	Kenneth	15	43
27	Ralph	15	28
28	Arthur	14	17
29	David	13	30
30	Alfred	12	38
31	Samuel	12	32
32	Ernest	11	31
33	Frederick	11	69
34	Stephen	11	96
35	Edmund	10	>100
36	Fred	9	22
37	Howard	9	27
38	Daniel	8	53
39	Leonard	8	46
40	Alexander	7	>100
41	Benjamin	7	70
42	Bernard	7	62
43	Herbert	7	41
44	Herman	7	52
45	Morris	7	91
46	Norman	7	63
47	Salvatore	7	>100
48	Vincent	7	99
49	Dominick	6	>100
50	Donald	6	44

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