Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1927

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1927 were Mary for girls (668 babies) and John for boys (902). John ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 23,890 babies born in Connecticut in 1927 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1927

Names given at least 15 times in Connecticut that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Carmella: 30 babies, 6× the national rate
Antoinette: 58 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Gilda: 18 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Yolanda: 20 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Sophie: 45 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Concetta: 18 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Arline: 21 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Carmela: 20 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Theresa: 192 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Jennie: 68 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Boys

Pasquale: 18 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Patsy: 27 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Salvatore: 77 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Carmine: 15 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Rocco: 22 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Mario: 27 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Dominic: 23 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Nicholas: 61 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Angelo: 41 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Anthony: 209 babies, 4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1927

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Mary	668	–	1
2	Dorothy	426	–	2
3	Helen	368	–	4
4	Barbara	331	↑1	10
5	Shirley	280	↓1	9
6	Jean	278	↑2	14
7	Margaret	254	–	5
8	Elizabeth	239	↑1	13
9	Anna	219	↑1	16
10	Ruth	219	↓4	6
11	Marie	193	↑5	20
12	Theresa	192	↑6	52
13	Rose	187	↓2	23
14	Doris	179	↓2	7
15	Frances	173	↓2	12
16	Irene	172	↓1	21
17	Florence	169	↑3	28
18	Virginia	166	↓1	8
19	Eleanor	165	↓5	33
20	Marion	159	↑6	51
21	Evelyn	156	↑9	15
22	Josephine	156	↓3	39
23	Gloria	153	↓2	22
24	Alice	147	↓2	17
25	Betty	136	↓2	3
26	Lillian	135	↓2	32
27	Lorraine	126	↑7	44
28	Patricia	121	↑10	18
29	Jane	110	–	60
30	Lois	110	↑1	19
31	Mildred	109	↓4	11
32	Ann	107	↓4	59
33	Rita	105	↓8	54
34	Catherine	104	↓1	31
35	Joan	97	↑7	41
36	Phyllis	93	↓1	29
37	Nancy	86	↑2	56
38	Anne	85	↓1	92
39	Louise	85	↓3	27
40	Marjorie	83	↓8	25
41	Beverly	80	new	57
42	Grace	72	↓2	50
43	June	70	↑1	43
44	Lucille	70	↑4	45
45	Marilyn	69	new	46
46	Norma	69	new	26
47	Jennie	68	↓6	>100
48	Pauline	68	new	42
49	Dolores	64	new	34
50	Jeanne	62	–	85

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	John	902	–	2
2	Robert	774	–	1
3	William	654	–	4
4	Joseph	614	–	9
5	Edward	490	–	10
6	George	405	–	7
7	Richard	350	↑1	6
8	James	344	↓1	3
9	Charles	332	↑1	5
10	Donald	300	↑3	8
11	Raymond	266	↑3	15
12	Frank	251	↓3	12
13	Thomas	243	↓2	11
14	Anthony	209	↓2	43
15	Francis	174	↑2	36
16	Louis	171	↑6	29
17	Arthur	167	↑1	22
18	Albert	166	↑1	23
19	Harold	156	↑2	14
20	Henry	156	↓4	19
21	Walter	154	↓6	17
22	Paul	145	↑1	13
23	Michael	138	↓3	52
24	Kenneth	116	↑10	18
25	David	115	–	21
26	Stanley	114	↓2	44
27	Vincent	107	↑3	77
28	Alfred	103	↓1	45
29	Peter	102	↓3	59
30	Eugene	91	↑1	20
31	Ralph	90	↓3	24
32	Frederick	83	↓3	64
33	Andrew	80	↓1	56
34	Ernest	80	↓1	41
35	Howard	79	↑5	28
36	Lawrence	77	↑2	37
37	Salvatore	77	↑5	>100
38	Norman	76	↑1	39
39	Harry	74	↓4	25
40	Leonard	72	↑1	40
41	Daniel	70	↓5	46
42	Theodore	70	↑1	62
43	Fred	64	↑1	35
44	Nicholas	61	↓7	>100
45	Bernard	60	–	50
46	Carl	59	↑3	26
47	Stephen	56	new	>100
48	Herbert	54	–	42
49	Earl	53	new	33
50	Roger	51	–	84

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