Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1916

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1916 were Mary for girls (1,078 babies) and John for boys (993). Social Security records list 24,582 babies born in Connecticut in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1916

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

Girls

Philomena: 25 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Concetta: 24 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Antoinette: 70 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Carmela: 27 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Natalie: 25 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Sophie: 113 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Yolanda: 15 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Carmella: 19 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Constance: 37 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Stephanie: 18 babies, 3.6× the national rate

Boys

Pasquale: 33 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Patsy: 23 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Rocco: 26 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Dominic: 39 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Salvatore: 49 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Stephen: 105 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Nicholas: 79 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Michael: 230 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Anthony: 240 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Burton: 17 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1916

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	1,078	–	1
2	Helen	698	–	2
3	Anna	421	–	7
4	Margaret	363	–	4
5	Dorothy	343	–	3
6	Rose	318	↑1	15
7	Elizabeth	295	↑1	8
8	Ruth	286	↓2	5
9	Josephine	250	–	21
10	Frances	238	↑3	9
11	Lillian	199	↑4	16
12	Florence	198	↓2	14
13	Marion	172	↑9	47
14	Ann	170	↑10	40
15	Catherine	169	↑6	20
16	Eleanor	162	↓2	27
17	Alice	157	↓6	13
18	Mildred	157	↓6	6
19	Evelyn	150	↓3	11
20	Marie	143	↓2	12
21	Anne	142	↑4	53
22	Doris	135	↓2	32
23	Jennie	126	–	79
24	Louise	126	↑4	18
25	Virginia	126	↑14	10
26	Irene	125	↓9	17
27	Grace	120	↑6	26
28	Sophie	113	↑7	>100
29	Edith	110	↑3	28
30	Julia	109	↓11	46
31	Gertrude	108	↓5	35
32	Stella	105	↓5	63
33	Ethel	95	↑5	25
34	Beatrice	94	↓4	38
35	Elsie	92	↑7	48
36	Jean	92	↓5	45
37	Lucy	91	↑6	84
38	Katherine	89	↑3	51
39	Marjorie	89	↓10	37
40	Pauline	88	↓4	33
41	Rita	88	↓4	67
42	Barbara	85	↑2	74
43	Esther	83	↓9	34
44	Edna	81	↑6	19
45	Jane	79	new	62
46	Gladys	77	↓1	22
47	Bertha	73	↑1	49
48	Theresa	71	↓2	98
49	Antoinette	70	new	>100
50	Olga	69	↓1	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	John	993	–	1
2	Joseph	737	–	5
3	William	556	–	2
4	Edward	416	–	8
5	Frank	387	–	9
6	George	365	–	7
7	Robert	342	↑2	4
8	James	336	–	3
9	Charles	323	↓2	6
10	Anthony	240	–	37
11	Michael	230	↑2	44
12	Walter	218	↓1	11
13	Stanley	212	↑2	34
14	Henry	207	↑4	14
15	Louis	200	↓1	22
16	Thomas	189	↓4	10
17	Francis	180	↑4	31
18	Raymond	173	↓1	16
19	Albert	170	↓3	17
20	Arthur	148	↓1	18
21	Richard	145	↑5	15
22	Peter	144	↓2	50
23	Harry	124	↑1	19
24	Paul	121	↓1	12
25	Andrew	112	↑3	46
26	Stephen	105	↑14	87
27	Frederick	99	↓2	52
28	Ralph	99	↑11	21
29	Vincent	97	↑1	67
30	Harold	95	↓8	13
31	Donald	94	↓2	20
32	Alfred	93	↓5	43
33	Ernest	93	↓2	36
34	Daniel	82	↑12	55
35	Carl	79	↓3	23
36	Nicholas	79	↓1	>100
37	Fred	78	↑8	29
38	David	76	–	28
39	Kenneth	74	↓5	27
40	Howard	72	↓7	25
41	Samuel	68	↓4	41
42	Philip	64	↑2	70
43	Russell	64	↓2	51
44	Bernard	53	new	49
45	Norman	51	↑4	48
46	Benjamin	50	new	79
47	Theodore	50	–	65
48	Alexander	49	↑2	99
49	Eugene	49	new	39
50	Herbert	49	new	40

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