Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1925

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1925 were Mary for girls (729 babies) and John for boys (1,005). John ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 24,376 babies born in Connecticut in 1925 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1925

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, 7× the national rate
Carmella: 33 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Concetta: 25 babies, 6× the national rate
Sophie: 60 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Antoinette: 62 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Carmela: 30 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Arline: 30 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Yolanda: 22 babies, 4× the national rate
Angelina: 38 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Priscilla: 31 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Boys

Pasquale: 20 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Patsy: 21 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Salvatore: 69 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Alphonse: 18 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Dominic: 29 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Angelo: 47 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Rocco: 16 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Mario: 24 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Vito: 15 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Nicholas: 61 babies, 4.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1925

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Mary	729	–	1
2	Helen	470	–	4
3	Dorothy	420	–	2
4	Margaret	286	–	5
5	Elizabeth	281	↑3	10
6	Ruth	250	–	6
7	Shirley	233	↓2	17
8	Anna	222	↑1	13
9	Barbara	221	↑8	22
10	Eleanor	213	–	31
11	Jean	212	↑2	14
12	Rose	212	↓1	26
13	Doris	200	↑3	8
14	Irene	191	↑6	19
15	Frances	188	↓8	11
16	Gloria	176	↑12	20
17	Marie	176	↓5	16
18	Florence	175	–	24
19	Josephine	172	↓5	36
20	Virginia	163	↓1	7
21	Marion	149	–	47
22	Mildred	145	↑1	9
23	Lillian	144	↓1	25
24	Evelyn	140	↓9	12
25	Alice	139	↑1	15
26	Betty	130	↑5	3
27	Ann	121	↓2	52
28	Rita	121	↓1	48
29	Marjorie	120	↑1	21
30	Jane	116	↓6	53
31	Catherine	114	↓2	29
32	Theresa	101	↑6	80
33	Louise	98	↑3	27
34	Anne	95	↓2	85
35	Phyllis	92	↓1	40
36	Lucille	89	new	41
37	Lorraine	85	new	51
38	Grace	84	↓5	44
39	Lois	81	↑4	18
40	Jennie	77	↓5	>100
41	Pauline	76	↑8	38
42	Joan	75	new	66
43	Patricia	75	↑4	28
44	Nancy	74	↑1	60
45	Edith	70	↓4	42
46	Beatrice	68	↓2	50
47	Genevieve	64	new	>100
48	Muriel	64	↓2	>100
49	Janet	63	new	>100
50	Antoinette	62	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	John	1,005	–	2
2	Robert	729	↑1	1
3	William	720	↓1	3
4	Joseph	556	–	7
5	Edward	497	–	9
6	George	401	↑1	6
7	James	379	↓1	4
8	Charles	322	↑1	5
9	Frank	315	↓1	12
10	Richard	287	–	8
11	Thomas	246	↑2	11
12	Donald	242	↑3	10
13	Walter	237	↓2	16
14	Raymond	230	↓2	15
15	Anthony	226	↓1	39
16	Francis	183	↑2	35
17	Henry	175	↓1	18
18	Albert	170	↑2	21
19	Arthur	166	↓2	20
20	Michael	161	↑1	55
21	Paul	153	↑1	13
22	Louis	147	↓3	29
23	Harold	125	↑1	14
24	Peter	115	↑1	60
25	Eugene	106	↑9	24
26	Stanley	105	↓3	40
27	David	100	↑3	22
28	Kenneth	97	↑8	19
29	Frederick	93	↓3	65
30	Vincent	90	↑13	71
31	Alfred	86	↓2	43
32	Daniel	82	–	44
33	Fred	79	↑2	33
34	Theodore	77	↑5	63
35	Leonard	76	↑13	38
36	Ralph	76	↓9	25
37	Carl	75	↑9	28
38	Harry	75	↓10	23
39	Howard	75	↓1	26
40	Ernest	73	↓9	37
41	Salvatore	69	↓4	>100
42	Herbert	68	↓1	42
43	Norman	68	↓3	41
44	Andrew	62	↓11	56
45	Nicholas	61	↓1	>100
46	Chester	60	new	73
47	Jack	60	new	17
48	Bernard	58	new	48
49	Russell	54	↑1	53
50	Lawrence	53	↓3	36

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