Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1921

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1921 were Mary for girls (1,010 babies) and John for boys (1,045). Social Security records list 26,629 babies born in Connecticut in 1921 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1921

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: 19 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Concetta: 27 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Carmella: 30 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Antoinette: 71 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Arline: 35 babies, 5× the national rate
Stephanie: 17 babies, 5× the national rate
Carmela: 29 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Sophie: 91 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Claire: 55 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Angelina: 48 babies, 4× the national rate

Boys

Sebastian: 22 babies, 14.6× the national rate
Pasquale: 25 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Patsy: 34 babies, 9× the national rate
Alphonse: 23 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Mario: 35 babies, 6× the national rate
Rocco: 24 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Salvatore: 63 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Nicholas: 97 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Dominic: 34 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Dominick: 32 babies, 4.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1921

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	1,010	–	1
2	Helen	640	–	3
3	Dorothy	443	–	2
4	Margaret	336	–	4
5	Anna	305	–	11
6	Ruth	302	–	5
7	Elizabeth	280	–	10
8	Frances	250	–	9
9	Rose	244	–	20
10	Josephine	239	–	28
11	Evelyn	204	↑3	12
12	Florence	195	–	17
13	Alice	192	↑3	15
14	Eleanor	192	↓3	29
15	Marion	190	–	43
16	Doris	188	↓3	13
17	Virginia	187	↑1	6
18	Mildred	186	↓1	7
19	Lillian	183	↑3	19
20	Irene	179	↓1	18
21	Shirley	175	↑9	44
22	Barbara	173	↓2	40
23	Catherine	160	–	23
24	Jean	158	↑1	25
25	Marjorie	154	↑6	16
26	Marie	145	↓5	14
27	Louise	125	↑1	22
28	Rita	125	↑1	48
29	Grace	124	↑8	35
30	Ann	122	↓6	53
31	Anne	118	↑1	70
32	Beatrice	116	↑8	41
33	Gertrude	111	↓6	46
34	Julia	106	↓8	58
35	Jane	99	↓1	47
36	Jennie	98	↓3	99
37	Edith	97	↓1	33
38	Sophie	91	↓3	>100
39	Theresa	90	↑3	>100
40	Betty	89	↑10	8
41	Pauline	89	↑4	37
42	Ethel	85	↑2	32
43	Phyllis	81	new	60
44	Katherine	77	↑2	49
45	Lucy	77	↓4	93
46	Genevieve	75	new	90
47	Stella	74	–	86
48	Gladys	73	↓10	24
49	Antoinette	71	new	>100
50	Agnes	69	↓11	56

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	John	1,045	–	1
2	Joseph	732	–	7
3	William	657	–	3
4	Robert	598	–	2
5	Edward	529	–	8
6	George	442	–	6
7	James	385	↑1	4
8	Frank	384	↓1	9
9	Charles	315	–	5
10	Walter	261	–	15
11	Anthony	235	–	40
12	Thomas	234	↑1	11
13	Richard	222	↑1	10
14	Raymond	220	↓2	16
15	Albert	203	↑2	20
16	Henry	203	↑2	17
17	Louis	202	↑4	29
18	Michael	197	↑1	47
19	Francis	182	↓4	35
20	Arthur	174	↓4	19
21	Stanley	173	↓1	41
22	Donald	163	↑3	13
23	Harold	153	↓1	12
24	Peter	142	–	57
25	Paul	131	↑1	14
26	Vincent	128	↑5	70
27	Harry	126	↓4	21
28	Ralph	114	↓1	23
29	David	104	–	25
30	Alfred	98	–	43
31	Nicholas	97	↑13	>100
32	Andrew	96	↓4	51
33	Theodore	96	↑1	65
34	Ernest	94	↑4	38
35	Daniel	90	↑2	49
36	Frederick	90	↓3	61
37	Stephen	89	↑2	97
38	Howard	87	↓6	27
39	Kenneth	87	↓4	22
40	Fred	83	↓4	33
41	Lawrence	76	↑2	37
42	Herbert	69	new	42
43	Samuel	69	new	44
44	Warren	69	↑3	24
45	Eugene	66	↓5	26
46	Salvatore	63	↓5	>100
47	Philip	62	↓2	72
48	Russell	59	↑1	52
49	Norman	57	↑1	46
50	Angelo	56	new	>100

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