Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1929

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1929 were Mary for girls (625 babies) and John for boys (889). John ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 22,568 babies born in Connecticut in 1929 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1929

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

Girls

Sophie: 32 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Concetta: 16 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Carmela: 25 babies, 5× the national rate
Antoinette: 46 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Carmella: 20 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Arline: 21 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Cynthia: 18 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Angelina: 28 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Claire: 60 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Priscilla: 29 babies, 3.5× the national rate

Boys

Sebastian: 18 babies, 17.5× the national rate
Pasquale: 17 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Dominic: 30 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Rene: 15 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Salvatore: 66 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Vito: 16 babies, 6× the national rate
Rocco: 17 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Armand: 16 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Dominick: 25 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Nicholas: 57 babies, 4.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1929

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	Mary	625	–	1
2	Barbara	382	↑1	7
3	Dorothy	369	↓1	3
4	Jean	283	↑2	12
5	Helen	271	↓1	4
6	Elizabeth	221	↑2	15
7	Shirley	220	↓2	9
8	Margaret	214	↓1	5
9	Doris	185	↑3	6
10	Marie	183	↑1	22
11	Eleanor	181	↑4	38
12	Lorraine	180	↑1	42
13	Ruth	179	↓4	8
14	Irene	175	↑2	29
15	Dolores	169	↑20	14
16	Joan	166	↑11	13
17	Anna	165	↑1	20
18	Patricia	163	↑1	10
19	Betty	147	↑4	2
20	Frances	147	↓10	16
21	Theresa	144	↓7	49
22	Florence	141	↓2	35
23	Rose	128	↓6	26
24	Ann	126	↑5	46
25	Marion	126	↓4	53
26	Gloria	124	↓2	28
27	Rita	124	↑7	52
28	Josephine	121	↓3	45
29	Lois	115	↑4	17
30	Evelyn	111	↓4	19
31	Nancy	111	↓1	32
32	Alice	107	↓10	21
33	Catherine	107	↓2	34
34	Virginia	100	↓6	11
35	Louise	99	↑4	31
36	Jane	97	↓4	62
37	Lillian	95	↓1	40
38	Phyllis	95	–	24
39	Beverly	94	↑7	39
40	Marilyn	83	↑9	33
41	Marjorie	82	↓1	30
42	Mildred	80	↓5	18
43	Anne	78	↓2	91
44	Carol	68	new	63
45	Joyce	68	new	23
46	Janet	67	new	82
47	June	67	↓4	48
48	Audrey	66	new	58
49	Jeanne	65	new	92
50	Elaine	62	new	67

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	John	889	–	3
2	Robert	822	–	1
3	William	579	–	4
4	Joseph	529	–	9
5	Richard	427	↑1	6
6	James	386	↑2	2
7	Edward	374	↓2	10
8	George	340	↓1	8
9	Donald	317	↑1	7
10	Charles	276	↑1	5
11	Raymond	254	↓2	15
12	Frank	253	–	12
13	Thomas	220	–	11
14	Anthony	183	–	44
15	Francis	177	–	39
16	Walter	160	–	19
17	Arthur	156	↑4	22
18	Michael	144	↑2	54
19	Albert	143	↓1	24
20	Paul	140	↑3	13
21	David	139	↑4	17
22	Louis	133	↓3	32
23	Henry	124	↓6	21
24	Alfred	110	↓2	41
25	Peter	110	↑6	55
26	Kenneth	105	↑1	18
27	Harold	103	↓3	16
28	Ralph	101	↑4	26
29	Harry	100	↓1	27
30	Andrew	92	↑10	59
31	Eugene	89	↓5	20
32	Ernest	78	↑6	43
33	Norman	78	↑6	40
34	Stanley	77	↓1	48
35	Frederick	76	↓6	67
36	Daniel	74	↓1	47
37	Fred	74	new	34
38	Lawrence	73	↓8	38
39	Theodore	71	↑3	65
40	Herbert	70	↑1	25
41	Vincent	70	↓4	82
42	Leonard	67	↑8	42
43	Salvatore	66	↑2	>100
44	Roger	61	↑2	64
45	Howard	58	↓9	31
46	Philip	58	↓2	76
47	Nicholas	57	↓4	>100
48	Carl	54	↓14	28
49	Bernard	52	↓1	52
50	Russell	50	↓1	56

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