Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1928

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1928 were Mary for girls (643 babies) and John for boys (948). John ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 23,660 babies born in Connecticut in 1928 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1928

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: 20 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Antoinette: 55 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Carmela: 27 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Sophie: 31 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Arline: 22 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Angelina: 33 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Carmella: 15 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Jennie: 58 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Claire: 60 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Therese: 26 babies, 3.3× the national rate

Boys

Sebastian: 19 babies, 13.8× the national rate
Pasquale: 19 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Alphonse: 22 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Carmine: 17 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Salvatore: 62 babies, 6× the national rate
Mario: 30 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Armand: 17 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Carmen: 18 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Lionel: 16 babies, 5× the national rate
Nicholas: 62 babies, 4.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1928

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	Mary	643	–	1
2	Dorothy	396	–	3
3	Barbara	349	↑1	8
4	Helen	308	↓1	4
5	Shirley	277	–	10
6	Jean	271	–	12
7	Margaret	248	–	5
8	Elizabeth	227	–	14
9	Ruth	207	↑1	6
10	Frances	202	↑5	13
11	Marie	201	–	21
12	Doris	191	↑2	7
13	Lorraine	181	↑14	39
14	Theresa	176	↓2	49
15	Eleanor	175	↑4	36
16	Irene	173	–	28
17	Rose	169	↓4	24
18	Anna	163	↓9	16
19	Patricia	155	↑9	11
20	Florence	152	↓3	32
21	Marion	151	↓1	47
22	Alice	143	↑2	19
23	Betty	141	↑2	2
24	Gloria	140	↓1	25
25	Josephine	137	↓3	42
26	Evelyn	136	↓5	17
27	Joan	136	↑8	27
28	Virginia	134	↓10	9
29	Ann	126	↑3	54
30	Nancy	125	↑7	43
31	Catherine	111	↑3	33
32	Jane	110	↓3	62
33	Lois	109	↓3	18
34	Rita	109	↓1	57
35	Dolores	106	↑14	20
36	Lillian	105	↓10	35
37	Mildred	102	↓6	15
38	Phyllis	101	↓2	26
39	Louise	95	–	31
40	Marjorie	93	–	29
41	Anne	86	↓3	93
42	Grace	75	–	52
43	June	73	–	44
44	Lucille	72	–	51
45	Edith	68	new	56
46	Beverly	66	↓5	46
47	Norma	66	↓1	23
48	Beatrice	64	new	70
49	Marilyn	63	↓4	38
50	Claire	60	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	John	948	–	2
2	Robert	831	–	1
3	William	674	–	4
4	Joseph	602	–	9
5	Edward	463	–	10
6	Richard	402	↑1	6
7	George	354	↓1	8
8	James	350	–	3
9	Raymond	285	↑2	16
10	Donald	276	–	7
11	Charles	274	↓2	5
12	Frank	270	–	12
13	Thomas	223	–	11
14	Anthony	221	–	44
15	Francis	184	–	40
16	Walter	173	↑5	18
17	Henry	163	↑3	21
18	Albert	150	–	23
19	Louis	144	↓3	32
20	Michael	143	↑3	53
21	Arthur	142	↓4	22
22	Alfred	136	↑6	33
23	Paul	136	↓1	13
24	Harold	118	↓5	14
25	David	115	–	19
26	Eugene	102	↑4	20
27	Kenneth	97	↓3	17
28	Harry	94	↑11	26
29	Frederick	90	↑3	67
30	Lawrence	86	↑6	38
31	Peter	86	↓2	56
32	Ralph	85	↓1	24
33	Stanley	84	↓7	45
34	Carl	78	↑12	28
35	Daniel	77	↑6	47
36	Howard	73	↓1	31
37	Vincent	72	↓10	82
38	Ernest	69	↓4	43
39	Norman	67	↓1	39
40	Andrew	66	↓7	60
41	Herbert	66	↑7	25
42	Theodore	65	–	66
43	Nicholas	62	↑1	>100
44	Philip	62	new	73
45	Salvatore	62	↓8	>100
46	Roger	60	↑4	71
47	Stephen	60	–	>100
48	Bernard	59	↓3	49
49	Russell	53	new	55
50	Leonard	49	↓10	42

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