Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1920

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1920 were Mary for girls (970 babies) and John for boys (1,037). Social Security records list 26,237 babies born in Connecticut in 1920 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1920

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, 12.9× the national rate
Carmella: 38 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Philomena: 21 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Angelina: 65 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Sophie: 109 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Concetta: 23 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Carmela: 28 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Olga: 79 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Antoinette: 57 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Natalie: 27 babies, 4.3× the national rate

Boys

Sebastian: 17 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Salvatore: 70 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Bruno: 20 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Steven: 28 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Carmen: 19 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Rocco: 24 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Dominick: 35 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Dominic: 33 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Vito: 16 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Mario: 23 babies, 4.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1920

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Mary	970	–	1
2	Helen	706	–	3
3	Dorothy	455	–	2
4	Margaret	354	–	4
5	Anna	307	–	10
6	Ruth	298	↑1	5
7	Elizabeth	294	↓1	8
8	Frances	244	↑2	9
9	Rose	243	↓1	20
10	Josephine	227	↓1	28
11	Eleanor	213	↑1	25
12	Florence	209	↓1	16
13	Doris	205	↑3	14
14	Evelyn	192	↑6	12
15	Marion	186	↓1	43
16	Alice	183	↓3	15
17	Mildred	183	↓2	6
18	Virginia	175	–	7
19	Irene	169	–	17
20	Barbara	164	↑13	47
21	Marie	164	↑2	13
22	Lillian	163	↓5	18
23	Catherine	148	↓1	21
24	Ann	137	↓3	49
25	Jean	137	↑2	33
26	Julia	137	↑2	55
27	Gertrude	126	↑4	42
28	Louise	123	↓4	19
29	Rita	122	↓3	52
30	Shirley	121	↑9	56
31	Marjorie	120	↓2	24
32	Anne	118	↓2	65
33	Jennie	114	↓8	97
34	Jane	112	↑8	48
35	Sophie	109	↓1	>100
36	Edith	106	↓1	32
37	Grace	106	↓5	37
38	Gladys	92	↑8	22
39	Agnes	89	↑2	54
40	Beatrice	87	–	41
41	Lucy	85	↑2	94
42	Theresa	85	↑2	>100
43	Esther	84	↓6	39
44	Ethel	81	↑1	30
45	Pauline	81	↓7	36
46	Katherine	80	↑1	45
47	Stella	80	↓11	82
48	Olga	79	new	>100
49	Elsie	78	new	51
50	Betty	77	new	11

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	John	1,037	–	1
2	Joseph	743	–	7
3	William	626	–	2
4	Robert	543	–	3
5	Edward	521	–	8
6	George	419	–	6
7	Frank	352	–	9
8	James	348	–	4
9	Charles	333	–	5
10	Walter	243	–	13
11	Anthony	227	–	43
12	Raymond	225	↑7	15
13	Thomas	206	–	11
14	Richard	199	↑1	10
15	Francis	194	↑7	34
16	Arthur	192	↑5	18
17	Albert	189	↓3	19
18	Henry	186	↓2	17
19	Michael	183	↓7	50
20	Stanley	167	↓2	40
21	Louis	159	↓4	28
22	Harold	144	↓2	12
23	Harry	134	↑3	21
24	Peter	130	↓1	57
25	Donald	122	↓1	16
26	Paul	122	↓1	14
27	Ralph	105	–	22
28	Andrew	94	–	49
29	David	92	↑2	25
30	Alfred	90	↓1	42
31	Vincent	88	↑3	73
32	Howard	87	–	24
33	Frederick	86	↑4	60
34	Theodore	86	↓1	63
35	Kenneth	84	↑1	23
36	Fred	83	↑3	33
37	Daniel	79	↑12	52
38	Ernest	78	↓8	37
39	Stephen	77	↑3	96
40	Eugene	72	new	30
41	Salvatore	70	–	>100
42	Leonard	68	↓4	38
43	Lawrence	66	–	36
44	Nicholas	62	↓9	>100
45	Philip	62	↑5	71
46	Victor	62	↓2	81
47	Warren	62	new	39
48	Carl	61	new	27
49	Russell	61	↓4	51
50	Norman	58	new	47

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