Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1922

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1922 were Mary for girls (836 babies) and John for boys (962). Social Security records list 24,831 babies born in Connecticut in 1922 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1922

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: 21 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Concetta: 30 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Carmella: 27 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Angelina: 46 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Carmela: 26 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Sophie: 70 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Antoinette: 51 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Victoria: 46 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Helene: 25 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Veronica: 39 babies, 3.6× the national rate

Boys

Lucian: 16 babies, 11.8× the national rate
Sebastian: 15 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Pasquale: 24 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Salvatore: 74 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Patsy: 21 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Alphonse: 18 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Carmen: 17 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Nicholas: 69 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Anthony: 218 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Edmund: 44 babies, 3.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	836	–	1
2	Helen	576	–	3
3	Dorothy	412	–	2
4	Margaret	360	–	4
5	Ruth	299	↑1	5
6	Anna	267	↓1	12
7	Elizabeth	265	–	9
8	Rose	256	↑1	23
9	Frances	224	↓1	10
10	Doris	205	↑6	11
11	Josephine	205	↓1	27
12	Shirley	196	↑9	39
13	Florence	185	↓1	18
14	Virginia	176	↑3	7
15	Marion	174	–	42
16	Mildred	172	↑2	8
17	Irene	171	↑3	17
18	Barbara	170	↑4	40
19	Evelyn	170	↓8	13
20	Lillian	165	↓1	19
21	Alice	164	↓8	15
22	Eleanor	164	↓8	28
23	Marie	164	↑3	14
24	Jean	161	–	20
25	Ann	139	↑5	49
26	Anne	128	↑5	66
27	Marjorie	124	↓2	16
28	Rita	121	–	52
29	Catherine	120	↓6	24
30	Louise	117	↓3	22
31	Grace	110	↓2	38
32	Betty	100	↑8	6
33	Edith	100	↑4	34
34	Jane	93	↑1	55
35	Jennie	91	↑1	>100
36	Pauline	90	↑5	36
37	Gloria	88	new	61
38	Lucy	87	↑7	93
39	Beatrice	86	↓7	43
40	Julia	85	↓6	60
41	Theresa	83	↓2	>100
42	Gertrude	81	↓9	48
43	Katherine	78	↑1	54
44	Phyllis	76	↓1	53
45	Genevieve	72	↑1	98
46	Bernice	71	new	41
47	Gladys	70	↑1	25
48	Sophie	70	↓10	>100
49	Stella	70	↓2	88
50	Ethel	67	↓8	32

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	John	962	–	1
2	Joseph	718	–	7
3	William	647	–	3
4	Robert	602	–	2
5	Edward	523	–	8
6	George	444	–	6
7	James	371	–	4
8	Frank	340	–	10
9	Charles	330	–	5
10	Anthony	218	↑1	39
11	Walter	216	↓1	15
12	Raymond	210	↑2	16
13	Thomas	203	↓1	11
14	Richard	195	↓1	9
15	Henry	191	↑1	17
16	Albert	188	↓1	20
17	Louis	178	–	27
18	Arthur	163	↑2	19
19	Francis	152	–	34
20	Donald	150	↑2	12
21	Michael	148	↓3	48
22	Stanley	139	↓1	41
23	Paul	135	↑2	14
24	Harold	131	↓1	13
25	Peter	125	↓1	57
26	Frederick	114	↑10	60
27	Alfred	110	↑3	42
28	Harry	110	↓1	22
29	Ralph	108	↓1	23
30	Theodore	92	↑3	62
31	Vincent	92	↓5	71
32	Lawrence	90	↑9	36
33	Howard	86	↑5	26
34	Ernest	79	–	37
35	David	76	↓6	24
36	Kenneth	74	↑3	21
37	Salvatore	74	↑9	>100
38	Andrew	73	↓6	53
39	Daniel	73	↓4	47
40	Stephen	73	↓3	>100
41	Nicholas	69	↓10	>100
42	Fred	66	↓2	33
43	Leonard	64	new	38
44	Eugene	63	↑1	25
45	Carl	62	new	30
46	Edwin	60	new	52
47	Herbert	60	↓5	40
48	Philip	60	↓1	70
49	Russell	59	↓1	49
50	Bernard	58	new	46

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