Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1919

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1919 were Mary for girls (969 babies) and John for boys (1,005). Social Security records list 25,518 babies born in Connecticut in 1919 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1919

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: 33 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Philomena: 21 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Stephanie: 21 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Antoinette: 67 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Carmela: 27 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Sophie: 106 babies, 4× the national rate
Angelina: 45 babies, 4× the national rate
Tessie: 17 babies, 4× the national rate
Carmella: 20 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Arline: 23 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Boys

Sebastian: 15 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Pasquale: 17 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Salvatore: 66 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Alphonse: 22 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Dominic: 35 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Patsy: 19 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Nicholas: 82 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Carmen: 16 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Mario: 21 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Armand: 15 babies, 4.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1919

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Mary	969	–	1
2	Helen	727	–	2
3	Dorothy	434	↑1	3
4	Margaret	378	↑1	4
5	Anna	361	↓2	10
6	Elizabeth	287	↑1	8
7	Ruth	281	↓1	5
8	Rose	264	–	19
9	Josephine	249	–	26
10	Frances	236	–	9
11	Florence	214	↑1	14
12	Eleanor	197	↑4	30
13	Alice	182	↑4	13
14	Marion	181	↑4	44
15	Mildred	175	↓1	6
16	Doris	168	↑4	18
17	Lillian	164	↓4	17
18	Virginia	162	↑4	7
19	Irene	158	↑5	16
20	Evelyn	156	↓9	11
21	Ann	154	↓2	49
22	Catherine	151	↑1	23
23	Marie	142	↓8	12
24	Louise	134	↑12	20
25	Jennie	126	↑1	93
26	Rita	124	↑8	54
27	Jean	123	↑3	37
28	Julia	122	↑1	48
29	Marjorie	122	↑2	33
30	Anne	119	↓9	63
31	Gertrude	119	↑1	39
32	Grace	117	↑1	34
33	Barbara	114	↓6	60
34	Sophie	106	↓9	>100
35	Edith	103	↓7	29
36	Stella	97	↑2	70
37	Esther	91	↑6	38
38	Pauline	91	↑2	36
39	Shirley	90	↑7	89
40	Beatrice	89	↑1	41
41	Agnes	88	↓6	50
42	Jane	87	↑6	53
43	Lucy	87	↓4	91
44	Theresa	87	–	>100
45	Ethel	86	↓8	28
46	Gladys	85	↓1	21
47	Katherine	82	↓5	51
48	Edna	81	new	22
49	Genevieve	80	↑1	88
50	Bertha	74	↓1	52

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	John	1,005	–	1
2	Joseph	706	–	7
3	William	589	–	2
4	Robert	492	↑1	4
5	Edward	474	↓1	8
6	George	396	–	6
7	Frank	376	–	9
8	James	339	↑1	3
9	Charles	308	↓1	5
10	Walter	255	–	11
11	Anthony	215	↑1	41
12	Michael	202	↑2	46
13	Thomas	202	–	10
14	Albert	201	↑4	18
15	Richard	199	↑4	12
16	Henry	195	–	16
17	Louis	191	↑4	28
18	Stanley	188	↓7	37
19	Raymond	184	↓2	14
20	Harold	168	↑4	13
21	Arthur	167	↓6	19
22	Francis	166	↓2	34
23	Peter	146	↓1	57
24	Donald	138	↑1	17
25	Paul	135	↓2	15
26	Harry	115	–	20
27	Ralph	106	↑4	22
28	Andrew	105	↑2	47
29	Alfred	95	↓2	42
30	Ernest	94	↓2	36
31	David	92	↑5	27
32	Howard	89	–	24
33	Theodore	88	↑10	54
34	Vincent	83	↓5	72
35	Nicholas	82	↑3	>100
36	Kenneth	78	↓2	26
37	Frederick	74	↓4	64
38	Leonard	71	↓3	39
39	Fred	68	↑3	30
40	Herbert	68	new	40
41	Salvatore	66	↑9	>100
42	Stephen	66	↑2	97
43	Lawrence	65	↑2	38
44	Victor	64	↑2	68
45	Russell	62	↑3	50
46	Edwin	59	new	52
47	Chester	56	new	53
48	Alexander	55	↓7	>100
49	Daniel	54	↓2	51
50	Philip	54	↓13	71

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