Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1923

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1923 were Mary for girls (863 babies) and John for boys (1,000). Social Security records list 24,619 babies born in Connecticut in 1923 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1923

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: 26 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Sophie: 80 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Antoinette: 67 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Carmela: 27 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Angelina: 44 babies, 4× the national rate
Claire: 55 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Jennie: 98 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Olga: 50 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Arline: 24 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Veronica: 34 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Boys

Sebastian: 19 babies, 13.4× the national rate
Pasquale: 22 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Salvatore: 65 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Patsy: 19 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Dominic: 32 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Carmen: 16 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Nicholas: 72 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Anthony: 241 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Mario: 23 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Michael: 162 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1923

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	Mary	863	–	1
2	Helen	558	–	3
3	Dorothy	435	–	2
4	Margaret	332	–	4
5	Ruth	283	–	6
6	Elizabeth	247	↑1	9
7	Anna	238	↓1	13
8	Rose	238	–	23
9	Frances	226	–	10
10	Shirley	216	↑2	26
11	Doris	194	↓1	11
12	Barbara	193	↑6	33
13	Josephine	192	↓2	30
14	Virginia	186	–	7
15	Florence	185	↓2	18
16	Marion	177	↓1	44
17	Eleanor	174	↑5	28
18	Irene	174	↓1	17
19	Evelyn	168	–	12
20	Lillian	168	–	20
21	Marie	156	↑2	14
22	Mildred	156	↓6	8
23	Alice	150	↓2	15
24	Jean	144	–	19
25	Marjorie	136	↑2	16
26	Ann	128	↓1	52
27	Catherine	128	↑2	24
28	Jane	126	↑6	55
29	Rita	121	↓1	50
30	Louise	118	–	22
31	Betty	115	↑1	5
32	Anne	113	↓6	71
33	Gloria	113	↑4	48
34	Jennie	98	↑1	>100
35	Beatrice	93	↑4	46
36	Grace	93	↓5	39
37	Gertrude	90	↑5	59
38	Edith	86	↓5	36
39	Julia	81	↑1	62
40	Sophie	80	↑8	>100
41	Nancy	76	new	75
42	Phyllis	75	↑2	45
43	Elsie	74	new	61
44	Lucy	73	↓6	92
45	Ethel	71	↑5	38
46	Agnes	70	new	63
47	Gladys	68	–	29
48	Antoinette	67	new	>100
49	Katherine	67	↓6	60
50	Lois	67	new	27

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	John	1,000	–	1
2	William	641	↑1	3
3	Robert	640	↑1	2
4	Joseph	590	↓2	7
5	Edward	491	–	8
6	George	406	–	6
7	James	354	–	4
8	Frank	346	–	11
9	Charles	305	–	5
10	Anthony	241	–	39
11	Walter	219	–	16
12	Richard	218	↑2	9
13	Raymond	216	↓1	15
14	Thomas	213	↓1	12
15	Donald	181	↑5	10
16	Arthur	179	↑2	19
17	Francis	178	↑2	34
18	Louis	170	↓1	27
19	Henry	168	↓4	18
20	Michael	162	↑1	50
21	Paul	157	↑2	14
22	Harold	152	↑2	13
23	Albert	148	↓7	20
24	Stanley	142	↓2	41
25	Peter	134	–	58
26	Frederick	117	–	60
27	Harry	110	↑1	22
28	Alfred	109	↓1	42
29	Ralph	102	–	23
30	Vincent	93	↑1	72
31	Kenneth	91	↑5	21
32	David	86	↑3	24
33	Andrew	83	↑5	53
34	Howard	78	↓1	26
35	Theodore	74	↓5	62
36	Eugene	73	↑8	25
37	Leonard	73	↑6	37
38	Ernest	72	↓4	38
39	Nicholas	72	↑2	>100
40	Daniel	66	↓1	47
41	Lawrence	65	↓9	36
42	Salvatore	65	↓5	>100
43	Bernard	64	↑7	46
44	Philip	64	↑4	70
45	Fred	63	↓3	33
46	Norman	63	new	44
47	Stephen	63	↓7	>100
48	Russell	62	↑1	52
49	Carl	54	↓4	28
50	Herbert	54	↓3	40

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