Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1917

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1917 were Mary for girls (1,138 babies) and John for boys (1,076). Social Security records list 27,080 babies born in Connecticut in 1917 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1917

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

Girls

Concetta: 27 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Carmella: 28 babies, 5× the national rate
Yolanda: 19 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Sophie: 129 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Carmela: 24 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Stephanie: 20 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Jennie: 150 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Antoinette: 55 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Veronica: 48 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Natalie: 21 babies, 3.3× the national rate

Boys

Sebastian: 19 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Pasquale: 24 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Salvatore: 70 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Dominic: 41 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Patsy: 20 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Rocco: 25 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Mario: 27 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Alphonse: 23 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Nicholas: 87 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Dominick: 29 babies, 4.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1917

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Mary	1,138	–	1
2	Helen	792	–	2
3	Anna	408	–	7
4	Dorothy	395	↑1	3
5	Margaret	361	↓1	4
6	Elizabeth	347	↑1	8
7	Ruth	324	↑1	5
8	Rose	316	↓2	16
9	Josephine	260	–	21
10	Frances	252	–	9
11	Florence	219	↑1	14
12	Alice	212	↑5	13
13	Lillian	211	↓2	15
14	Eleanor	191	↑2	26
15	Marion	188	↓2	45
16	Catherine	187	↓1	18
17	Mildred	180	↑1	6
18	Evelyn	176	↑1	11
19	Anne	165	↑2	53
20	Doris	150	↑2	25
21	Jennie	150	↑2	81
22	Marie	147	↓2	12
23	Irene	144	↑3	17
24	Virginia	142	↑1	10
25	Julia	139	↑5	47
26	Rita	137	↑15	63
27	Gertrude	135	↑4	37
28	Louise	134	↓4	19
29	Edith	132	–	28
30	Marjorie	132	↑9	36
31	Sophie	129	↓3	100
32	Beatrice	127	↑2	39
33	Ann	125	↓19	44
34	Stella	123	↓2	62
35	Barbara	122	↑7	67
36	Grace	119	↓9	30
37	Jean	114	↓1	40
38	Katherine	109	–	49
39	Theresa	101	↑9	97
40	Ethel	99	↓7	24
41	Agnes	93	new	48
42	Pauline	90	↓2	33
43	Lucy	86	↓6	88
44	Bernice	82	new	42
45	Lena	81	new	85
46	Edna	80	↓2	20
47	Elsie	79	↓12	50
48	Charlotte	78	new	76
49	Genevieve	77	new	77
50	Gladys	77	↓4	23

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	John	1,076	–	1
2	Joseph	788	–	5
3	William	651	–	2
4	Edward	471	–	8
5	George	445	↑1	6
6	Robert	401	↑1	4
7	Frank	392	↓2	9
8	Charles	345	↑1	7
9	James	322	↓1	3
10	Walter	286	↑2	11
11	Anthony	252	↓1	38
12	Michael	231	↓1	44
13	Stanley	230	–	34
14	Louis	202	↑1	23
15	Henry	199	↓1	15
16	Thomas	196	–	10
17	Francis	181	–	30
18	Paul	177	↑6	13
19	Peter	176	↑3	50
20	Raymond	170	↓2	16
21	Albert	162	↓2	18
22	Arthur	153	↓2	17
23	Harold	153	↑7	12
24	Richard	131	↓3	14
25	Harry	122	↓2	19
26	Donald	108	↑5	20
27	Frederick	100	–	51
28	Stephen	98	↓2	89
29	Ernest	97	↑4	37
30	Alexander	90	↑18	97
31	David	90	↑7	28
32	Vincent	90	↓3	65
33	Andrew	89	↓8	48
34	Alfred	87	↓2	43
35	Nicholas	87	↑1	>100
36	Ralph	87	↓8	21
37	Russell	80	↑6	52
38	Theodore	80	↑9	63
39	Lawrence	79	new	36
40	Daniel	78	↓6	54
41	Howard	77	↓1	26
42	Kenneth	71	↓3	27
43	Leonard	70	new	41
44	Philip	70	↓2	66
45	Salvatore	70	new	>100
46	Samuel	67	↓5	42
47	Carl	59	↓12	24
48	Fred	58	↓11	29
49	Bernard	57	↓5	49
50	Herbert	56	–	40

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