Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1914

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1914 were Mary for girls (851 babies) and John for boys (684). Social Security records list 18,181 babies born in Connecticut in 1914 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1914

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

Girls

Carmel: 15 babies, 12.6× the national rate
Hedwig: 15 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Philomena: 16 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Carmela: 26 babies, 6× the national rate
Antoinette: 47 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Sophie: 85 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Concetta: 15 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Adeline: 35 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Teresa: 21 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Natalie: 16 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Boys

Pasquale: 24 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Salvatore: 49 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Dominic: 27 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Dominick: 25 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Michael: 179 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Nicholas: 59 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Stephen: 71 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Anthony: 174 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Angelo: 30 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Stanley: 164 babies, 3.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1914

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	Mary	851	–	1
2	Helen	489	–	2
3	Anna	320	–	6
4	Margaret	301	–	4
5	Dorothy	265	–	3
6	Rose	241	–	15
7	Ruth	224	↑1	5
8	Elizabeth	208	↓1	8
9	Josephine	178	↑6	23
10	Frances	171	↓1	9
11	Florence	153	↑1	13
12	Alice	145	↑1	12
13	Mildred	145	↓2	7
14	Lillian	130	↑3	16
15	Marion	123	↓5	50
16	Evelyn	118	↑15	11
17	Catherine	117	↓3	18
18	Anne	114	↓2	53
19	Eleanor	111	↑3	28
20	Irene	108	–	22
21	Marie	101	↓3	10
22	Doris	98	↑7	36
23	Ann	91	–	40
24	Julia	87	–	42
25	Agnes	85	↑10	44
26	Edith	85	↓1	31
27	Sophie	85	↑14	100
28	Jennie	84	↓7	77
29	Katherine	84	↑5	48
30	Stella	83	↑13	65
31	Gertrude	80	↓4	32
32	Louise	80	↓13	17
33	Ethel	77	↓7	21
34	Grace	76	↓6	25
35	Marjorie	74	↑3	45
36	Theresa	69	↓4	93
37	Barbara	67	new	82
38	Lucy	65	↑7	73
39	Beatrice	63	↓3	38
40	Esther	63	↓3	35
41	Genevieve	63	↑7	76
42	Virginia	63	↑4	14
43	Edna	61	↓4	19
44	Pauline	59	↓14	34
45	Sylvia	58	new	70
46	Jean	57	↓13	54
47	Emma	55	new	39
48	Elsie	52	↓6	46
49	Lena	52	new	75
50	Nellie	52	–	61

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	John	684	–	1
2	Joseph	575	–	5
3	William	430	–	2
4	Edward	327	↑1	8
5	Frank	297	↑1	9
6	George	297	↓2	6
7	James	250	–	3
8	Charles	237	–	7
9	Robert	218	–	4
10	Walter	187	↑4	10
11	Michael	179	↑2	40
12	Anthony	174	↓2	37
13	Stanley	164	↑2	39
14	Thomas	156	↓2	11
15	Louis	151	↓4	20
16	Albert	146	↑3	15
17	Henry	139	–	12
18	Arthur	125	↓2	18
19	Raymond	108	↓1	16
20	Francis	107	↑2	31
21	Paul	107	–	13
22	Peter	107	↑2	48
23	Harold	96	↓3	14
24	Richard	92	↑5	17
25	Alfred	81	↑1	41
26	Frederick	78	↓3	52
27	Harry	78	↑5	19
28	Andrew	76	↑2	44
29	Stephen	71	↓2	80
30	Howard	64	↑3	26
31	Kenneth	61	↑13	30
32	Ralph	61	↓7	21
33	Vincent	61	↑1	61
34	Fred	60	↑1	28
35	Nicholas	59	↑11	>100
36	Carl	58	–	24
37	Theodore	58	new	64
38	Donald	55	↓1	23
39	Samuel	53	↓11	36
40	Alexander	52	↑7	98
41	David	50	↓1	29
42	Salvatore	49	new	>100
43	Ernest	48	↓2	38
44	Russell	46	new	49
45	Daniel	45	↓14	55
46	Herbert	45	↓7	42
47	Philip	45	↓9	68
48	Lawrence	43	↑2	35
49	Leo	40	new	47
50	Eugene	39	↓1	43

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