Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1918

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1918 were Mary for girls (1,119 babies) and John for boys (1,092). Social Security records list 27,778 babies born in Connecticut in 1918 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1918

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

Girls

Hedwig: 21 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Concetta: 31 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Philomena: 21 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Sophie: 153 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Antoinette: 72 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Stephanie: 22 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Yolanda: 17 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Angelina: 50 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Veronica: 54 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Carmela: 25 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Boys

Sebastian: 18 babies, 12.2× the national rate
Pasquale: 23 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Patsy: 25 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Dominic: 40 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Armand: 24 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Salvatore: 61 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Alphonse: 23 babies, 5× the national rate
Mario: 22 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Carmen: 17 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Angelo: 52 babies, 4.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1918

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	Mary	1,119	–	1
2	Helen	833	–	2
3	Anna	425	–	10
4	Dorothy	416	–	3
5	Margaret	383	–	4
6	Ruth	316	↑1	5
7	Elizabeth	302	↓1	9
8	Rose	292	–	17
9	Josephine	281	–	24
10	Frances	268	–	8
11	Evelyn	205	↑7	11
12	Florence	204	↓1	14
13	Lillian	196	–	15
14	Mildred	195	↑3	6
15	Marie	185	↑7	12
16	Eleanor	180	↓2	26
17	Alice	177	↓5	13
18	Marion	175	↓3	45
19	Ann	165	↑14	44
20	Doris	165	–	19
21	Anne	160	↓2	54
22	Virginia	158	↑2	7
23	Catherine	157	↓7	20
24	Irene	157	↓1	16
25	Sophie	153	↑6	>100
26	Jennie	138	↓5	91
27	Barbara	136	↑8	60
28	Edith	135	↑1	30
29	Julia	135	↓4	48
30	Jean	133	↑7	37
31	Marjorie	123	↓1	34
32	Gertrude	121	↓5	39
33	Grace	121	↑3	31
34	Rita	119	↓8	58
35	Agnes	117	↑6	47
36	Louise	112	↓8	18
37	Ethel	111	↑3	28
38	Stella	106	↓4	67
39	Lucy	103	↑4	90
40	Pauline	93	↑2	35
41	Beatrice	90	↓9	40
42	Katherine	89	↓4	50
43	Esther	85	new	38
44	Theresa	84	↓5	>100
45	Gladys	82	↑5	22
46	Shirley	81	new	97
47	Elsie	78	–	49
48	Jane	78	new	53
49	Bertha	77	new	51
50	Genevieve	77	↓1	81

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	John	1,092	–	1
2	Joseph	804	–	7
3	William	599	–	2
4	Edward	497	–	8
5	Robert	447	↑1	4
6	George	419	↓1	6
7	Frank	403	–	9
8	Charles	379	–	5
9	James	333	–	3
10	Walter	273	–	11
11	Stanley	265	↑2	36
12	Anthony	256	↓1	39
13	Thomas	240	↑3	10
14	Michael	224	↓2	45
15	Arthur	205	↑7	17
16	Henry	202	↓1	16
17	Raymond	198	↑3	15
18	Albert	181	↑3	19
19	Richard	174	↑5	12
20	Francis	173	↓3	30
21	Louis	167	↓7	24
22	Peter	160	↓3	53
23	Paul	158	↓5	14
24	Harold	157	↓1	13
25	Donald	125	↑1	18
26	Harry	118	↓1	20
27	Alfred	105	↑7	42
28	Ernest	102	↑1	37
29	Vincent	100	↑3	73
30	Andrew	99	↑3	46
31	Ralph	99	↑5	22
32	Howard	96	↑9	26
33	Frederick	93	↓6	59
34	Kenneth	93	↑8	27
35	Leonard	87	↑8	41
36	David	82	↓5	28
37	Philip	82	↑7	71
38	Nicholas	80	↓3	>100
39	Bernard	79	↑10	47
40	Carl	79	↑7	25
41	Alexander	78	↓11	>100
42	Fred	77	↑6	33
43	Theodore	74	↓5	64
44	Stephen	73	↓16	96
45	Lawrence	72	↓6	38
46	Victor	68	new	63
47	Daniel	66	↓7	52
48	Russell	66	↓11	50
49	Samuel	64	↓3	43
50	Salvatore	61	↓5	>100

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