Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1911

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1911 were Mary for girls (382 babies) and John for boys (244). Social Security records list 6,909 babies born in Connecticut in 1911 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1911

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

Girls

Antoinette: 17 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Angelina: 15 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Celia: 17 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Adeline: 16 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Cecelia: 16 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Sophie: 24 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Marion: 57 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Olga: 16 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Theresa: 30 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Barbara: 23 babies, 3.1× the national rate

Boys

Salvatore: 20 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Stephen: 29 babies, 5× the national rate
Nicholas: 15 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Stanley: 48 babies, 4× the national rate
Vincent: 24 babies, 4× the national rate
Anthony: 59 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Peter: 31 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Frederick: 30 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Francis: 47 babies, 3× the national rate
Michael: 42 babies, 3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1911

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	Mary	382	–	1
2	Helen	223	–	2
3	Anna	146	–	6
4	Margaret	138	–	3
5	Dorothy	126	–	4
6	Rose	120	↑2	14
7	Elizabeth	113	–	7
8	Ruth	101	↓2	5
9	Mildred	79	↑3	8
10	Alice	77	↓1	11
11	Catherine	72	↑4	20
12	Florence	72	↓2	12
13	Josephine	72	↓2	29
14	Frances	65	–	10
15	Lillian	65	↓2	13
16	Marion	57	↑3	58
17	Julia	51	↓1	44
18	Ethel	48	↑2	15
19	Edith	47	↑22	31
20	Gertrude	46	↑3	30
21	Agnes	44	↑13	39
22	Anne	43	↓5	64
23	Eleanor	43	↑13	49
24	Grace	43	↓2	23
25	Louise	43	↑2	19
26	Evelyn	42	↓5	16
27	Irene	41	↑6	21
28	Katherine	41	↑4	55
29	Marie	41	↓11	9
30	Edna	39	↑5	17
31	Ann	35	↓7	53
32	Doris	35	↑6	56
33	Esther	35	↓3	34
34	Bertha	34	↓3	36
35	Ida	31	↑13	45
36	Marjorie	31	↑9	59
37	Jennie	30	↑2	85
38	Lucy	30	↑8	77
39	Theresa	30	↑1	100
40	Elsie	29	↑7	41
41	Jean	29	↑1	74
42	Emma	27	↓16	35
43	Gladys	27	↓15	18
44	Pauline	25	–	38
45	Virginia	25	new	26
46	Beatrice	24	↓21	37
47	Laura	24	new	57
48	Sophie	24	↓19	>100
49	Stella	24	new	72
50	Viola	24	new	47

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	John	244	–	1
2	Joseph	184	–	6
3	William	153	–	2
4	George	123	↑3	4
5	Edward	111	–	9
6	Frank	94	–	8
7	James	85	↑1	3
8	Charles	67	↓4	7
9	Anthony	59	–	35
10	Thomas	58	↑1	10
11	Albert	57	↑7	15
12	Robert	57	↑3	5
13	Walter	56	↓3	12
14	Henry	53	↑9	11
15	Louis	49	↑2	21
16	Stanley	48	–	44
17	Francis	47	↓5	33
18	Harold	47	↓4	16
19	Raymond	46	–	19
20	Michael	42	↓7	38
21	Andrew	38	↓1	42
22	Arthur	37	↑6	18
23	Harry	35	↓1	13
24	Paul	34	–	17
25	Peter	31	↓4	50
26	Frederick	30	↑7	52
27	Richard	30	↓2	20
28	Stephen	29	↑6	84
29	Ralph	25	↓2	24
30	Vincent	24	↑18	80
31	David	23	↓2	27
32	Ernest	23	–	32
33	Alfred	22	↓3	39
34	Benjamin	22	↑7	64
35	Philip	21	new	69
36	Salvatore	20	↑11	>100
37	Samuel	19	↓6	30
38	Howard	18	↓1	28
39	Kenneth	18	↓13	40
40	Carl	17	new	26
41	Fred	17	↓5	22
42	Bernard	16	–	54
43	Clarence	15	new	23
44	Clifford	15	new	62
45	Daniel	15	↓7	53
46	Nicholas	15	new	>100
47	Donald	14	↑3	36
48	Edmund	14	↓13	>100
49	Herman	14	↓5	49
50	Leo	14	new	51

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