Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1915

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1915 were Mary for girls (989 babies) and John for boys (907). Social Security records list 21,806 babies born in Connecticut in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1915

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: 17 babies, 13.2× the national rate
Concetta: 31 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Philomena: 20 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Carmela: 25 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Carmella: 21 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Tessie: 16 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Stephanie: 17 babies, 4× the national rate
Natalie: 20 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Antoinette: 47 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Arline: 15 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Boys

Sebastian: 15 babies, 11.2× the national rate
Pasquale: 28 babies, 9× the national rate
Salvatore: 73 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Dominic: 40 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Patsy: 15 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Alphonse: 18 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Rocco: 17 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Nicholas: 76 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Angelo: 37 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Dominick: 24 babies, 3.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	989	–	1
2	Helen	619	–	2
3	Anna	417	–	7
4	Margaret	345	–	4
5	Dorothy	305	–	3
6	Ruth	286	↑1	5
7	Rose	282	↓1	16
8	Elizabeth	253	–	8
9	Josephine	195	–	22
10	Florence	194	↑1	14
11	Alice	182	↑1	13
12	Mildred	178	↑1	6
13	Frances	175	↓3	9
14	Eleanor	174	↑5	28
15	Lillian	164	↓1	15
16	Evelyn	144	–	10
17	Irene	129	↑3	17
18	Marie	126	↑3	11
19	Julia	125	↑5	44
20	Doris	124	↑2	34
21	Catherine	123	↓4	19
22	Marion	122	↓7	50
23	Jennie	121	↑5	73
24	Ann	119	↓1	43
25	Anne	116	↓7	52
26	Gertrude	115	↑5	35
27	Stella	108	↑3	64
28	Louise	105	↑4	18
29	Marjorie	100	↑6	39
30	Beatrice	99	↑9	37
31	Jean	94	↑15	48
32	Edith	92	↓6	31
33	Grace	92	↑1	27
34	Esther	89	↑6	33
35	Sophie	89	↓8	97
36	Pauline	87	↑8	32
37	Rita	83	new	71
38	Ethel	80	↓5	23
39	Virginia	80	↑3	12
40	Agnes	78	↓15	45
41	Katherine	77	↓12	49
42	Elsie	76	↑6	41
43	Lucy	76	↓5	79
44	Barbara	74	↓7	83
45	Gladys	68	new	21
46	Theresa	66	↓10	93
47	Nellie	64	↑3	63
48	Bertha	63	new	46
49	Olga	63	new	>100
50	Edna	60	↓7	20

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	John	907	–	1
2	Joseph	639	–	5
3	William	497	–	2
4	Edward	358	–	8
5	Frank	344	–	9
6	George	325	–	6
7	Charles	295	↑1	7
8	James	295	↓1	3
9	Robert	256	–	4
10	Anthony	209	↑2	36
11	Walter	202	↓1	11
12	Thomas	185	↑2	10
13	Michael	177	↓2	43
14	Louis	160	↑1	23
15	Stanley	155	↓2	34
16	Albert	154	–	17
17	Raymond	154	↑2	16
18	Henry	153	↓1	14
19	Arthur	144	↓1	18
20	Peter	134	↑2	49
21	Francis	131	↓1	29
22	Harold	130	↑1	12
23	Paul	113	↓2	13
24	Harry	107	↑3	19
25	Frederick	101	↑1	52
26	Richard	101	↓2	15
27	Alfred	100	↓2	42
28	Andrew	95	–	46
29	Donald	84	↑9	20
30	Vincent	82	↑3	65
31	Ernest	81	↑12	35
32	Carl	80	↑4	22
33	Howard	80	↓3	25
34	Kenneth	78	↓3	28
35	Nicholas	76	–	>100
36	Salvatore	73	↑6	>100
37	Samuel	72	↑2	39
38	David	71	↑3	31
39	Ralph	70	↓7	21
40	Stephen	64	↓11	86
41	Russell	59	↑3	51
42	Lawrence	57	↑6	37
43	Leonard	56	new	44
44	Philip	55	↑3	69
45	Fred	54	↓11	26
46	Daniel	53	↓1	55
47	Theodore	52	↓10	64
48	Victor	48	new	74
49	Norman	47	new	50
50	Alexander	46	↓10	>100

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