Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1912

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1912 were Mary for girls (471 babies) and John for boys (430). Social Security records list 10,670 babies born in Connecticut in 1912 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1912

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: 27 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Angelina: 19 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Sophie: 41 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Adeline: 20 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Theresa: 44 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Marion: 82 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Dorothea: 16 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Sally: 22 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Winifred: 18 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Josephine: 103 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Boys

Pasquale: 15 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Dominic: 15 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Salvatore: 23 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Stephen: 54 babies, 5× the national rate
Angelo: 21 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Anthony: 105 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Peter: 71 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Stanley: 81 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Frederick: 60 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Patrick: 16 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1912

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	Mary	471	–	1
2	Helen	285	–	2
3	Margaret	188	↑1	4
4	Anna	185	↓1	7
5	Dorothy	178	–	3
6	Elizabeth	136	↑1	8
7	Rose	129	↓1	15
8	Ruth	126	–	5
9	Mildred	119	–	6
10	Alice	113	–	11
11	Frances	109	↑3	9
12	Lillian	105	↑3	14
13	Florence	104	↓1	12
14	Josephine	103	↓1	28
15	Marion	82	↑1	55
16	Catherine	72	↓5	21
17	Julia	72	–	44
18	Irene	70	↑9	22
19	Eleanor	66	↑4	39
20	Gertrude	64	–	30
21	Grace	64	↑3	24
22	Marie	64	↑7	10
23	Louise	63	↑2	17
24	Doris	60	↑8	48
25	Evelyn	60	↑1	13
26	Ann	58	↑5	47
27	Ethel	56	↓9	18
28	Edith	54	↓9	31
29	Katherine	53	↓1	53
30	Anne	51	↓8	58
31	Marjorie	48	↑5	56
32	Elsie	46	↑8	42
33	Bertha	45	↑1	36
34	Theresa	44	↑5	97
35	Edna	43	↓5	16
36	Esther	41	↓3	33
37	Jennie	41	–	81
38	Sophie	41	↑10	>100
39	Stella	41	↑10	73
40	Beatrice	38	↑6	37
41	Betty	38	new	66
42	Virginia	38	↑3	20
43	Agnes	35	↓22	40
44	Nellie	34	new	59
45	Pauline	34	↓1	38
46	Hazel	33	new	25
47	Jean	33	↓6	64
48	Jane	32	new	89
49	Genevieve	31	new	92
50	Ida	31	↓15	45

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	John	430	–	1
2	Joseph	344	–	5
3	William	274	–	2
4	George	188	–	6
5	Edward	173	–	8
6	Frank	164	–	9
7	James	162	–	3
8	Charles	129	–	7
9	Robert	108	↑3	4
10	Arthur	106	↑12	15
11	Anthony	105	↓2	37
12	Walter	96	↑1	11
13	Henry	87	↑1	12
14	Louis	85	↑1	20
15	Raymond	84	↑4	18
16	Albert	83	↓5	17
17	Francis	83	–	35
18	Thomas	83	↓8	10
19	Stanley	81	↓3	43
20	Michael	75	–	42
21	Peter	71	↑4	48
22	Harry	70	↑1	16
23	Harold	67	↓5	13
24	Frederick	60	↑2	51
25	Paul	60	↓1	14
26	Andrew	54	↓5	44
27	Stephen	54	↑1	88
28	Richard	53	↓1	19
29	Samuel	50	↑8	30
30	Alfred	46	↑3	40
31	David	43	–	29
32	Ernest	43	–	32
33	Ralph	41	↓4	23
34	Vincent	41	↓4	72
35	Donald	40	↑12	27
36	Kenneth	36	↑3	33
37	Fred	32	↑4	26
38	Howard	29	–	25
39	Philip	29	↓4	69
40	Eugene	28	new	41
41	Alexander	27	new	97
42	Daniel	27	↑3	53
43	Carl	26	↓3	24
44	Herbert	26	new	39
45	Benjamin	25	↓11	67
46	Milton	25	new	64
47	Morris	25	new	82
48	Theodore	25	new	52
49	Bernard	24	↓7	60
50	Lawrence	24	new	38

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