Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1924

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1924 were Mary for girls (760 babies) and John for boys (956). John ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 25,606 babies born in Connecticut in 1924 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1924

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: 27 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Carmella: 33 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Concetta: 25 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Claire: 79 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Antoinette: 66 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Sophie: 64 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Jennie: 104 babies, 4× the national rate
Angelina: 41 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Carmela: 21 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Arline: 24 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Boys

Sebastian: 22 babies, 14.6× the national rate
Aldo: 15 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Pasquale: 20 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Salvatore: 81 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Alphonse: 19 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Patsy: 22 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Angelo: 66 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Rocco: 23 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Dominick: 30 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Vito: 15 babies, 4.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1924

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Mary	760	–	1
2	Helen	529	–	3
3	Dorothy	424	–	2
4	Margaret	338	–	5
5	Shirley	271	↑5	19
6	Ruth	263	↓1	6
7	Frances	249	↑2	10
8	Elizabeth	242	↓2	11
9	Anna	240	↓2	13
10	Eleanor	218	↑7	29
11	Rose	217	↓3	25
12	Marie	202	↑9	14
13	Jean	201	↑11	16
14	Josephine	200	↓1	34
15	Evelyn	198	↑4	12
16	Doris	194	↓5	9
17	Barbara	192	↓5	28
18	Florence	186	↓3	20
19	Virginia	176	↓5	7
20	Irene	175	↓2	18
21	Marion	170	↓5	46
22	Lillian	164	↓2	23
23	Mildred	150	↓1	8
24	Jane	140	↑4	53
25	Ann	138	↑1	55
26	Alice	137	↓3	15
27	Rita	133	↑2	49
28	Gloria	132	↑5	41
29	Catherine	128	↓2	27
30	Marjorie	126	↓5	17
31	Betty	115	–	4
32	Anne	109	–	79
33	Grace	107	↑3	43
34	Phyllis	105	↑8	44
35	Jennie	104	↓1	>100
36	Louise	101	↓6	24
37	Julia	91	↑2	62
38	Theresa	91	new	96
39	Lucy	84	↑5	98
40	Claire	79	new	>100
41	Edith	79	↓3	36
42	Gertrude	79	↓5	60
43	Lois	79	↑7	22
44	Beatrice	71	↓9	50
45	Nancy	71	↓4	69
46	Muriel	70	new	>100
47	Patricia	70	new	35
48	Agnes	69	↓2	63
49	Pauline	69	new	38
50	Edna	67	new	31

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	John	956	–	2
2	William	708	–	3
3	Robert	685	–	1
4	Joseph	616	–	7
5	Edward	548	–	9
6	James	410	↑1	4
7	George	409	↓1	6
8	Frank	322	–	12
9	Charles	298	–	5
10	Richard	283	↑2	8
11	Walter	258	–	16
12	Raymond	225	↑1	15
13	Thomas	217	↑1	11
14	Anthony	215	↓4	39
15	Donald	214	–	10
16	Henry	201	↑3	18
17	Arthur	196	↓1	20
18	Francis	194	↓1	34
19	Louis	170	↓1	28
20	Albert	168	↑3	21
21	Michael	166	↓1	54
22	Paul	158	↓1	14
23	Stanley	138	↑1	40
24	Harold	136	↓2	13
25	Peter	131	–	59
26	Frederick	109	–	62
27	Ralph	99	↑2	23
28	Harry	95	↓1	22
29	Alfred	93	↓1	43
30	David	93	↑2	24
31	Ernest	93	↑7	37
32	Daniel	88	↑8	47
33	Andrew	87	–	56
34	Eugene	87	↑2	25
35	Fred	84	↑10	32
36	Kenneth	81	↓5	19
37	Salvatore	81	↑5	>100
38	Howard	77	↓4	26
39	Theodore	75	↓4	65
40	Norman	73	↑6	42
41	Herbert	72	↑9	41
42	Philip	72	↑2	71
43	Vincent	72	↓13	78
44	Nicholas	68	↓5	>100
45	Angelo	66	new	>100
46	Carl	64	↑3	27
47	Lawrence	63	↓6	36
48	Leonard	62	↓11	38
49	Edwin	61	new	55
50	Russell	61	↓2	52

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