Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1930

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1930 were Mary for girls (625 babies) and John for boys (882). John ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 22,822 babies born in Connecticut in 1930 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1930

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: 22 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Antoinette: 53 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Sophie: 27 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Maureen: 27 babies, 5× the national rate
Carmela: 23 babies, 5× the national rate
Carmella: 18 babies, 5× the national rate
Arline: 15 babies, 4× the national rate
Claire: 63 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Angelina: 31 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Angela: 24 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Boys

Alphonse: 17 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Salvatore: 69 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Normand: 16 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Dominic: 23 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Angelo: 42 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Stephen: 58 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Nicholas: 49 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Irving: 27 babies, 4× the national rate
Edmund: 32 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Anthony: 174 babies, 3.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1930

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Mary	625	–	1
2	Barbara	407	–	6
3	Dorothy	360	–	3
4	Joan	283	↑12	8
5	Jean	250	↓1	14
6	Shirley	250	↑1	11
7	Margaret	240	↑1	5
8	Elizabeth	229	↓2	15
9	Helen	220	↓4	4
10	Patricia	202	↑8	7
11	Nancy	185	↑20	24
12	Marie	183	↓2	26
13	Ruth	170	–	10
14	Dolores	167	↑1	13
15	Ann	165	↑9	41
16	Eleanor	164	↓5	39
17	Doris	157	↓8	9
18	Theresa	156	↑3	50
19	Anna	152	↓2	23
20	Betty	152	↓1	2
21	Frances	149	↓1	16
22	Lorraine	140	↓10	46
23	Irene	137	↓9	33
24	Rose	132	↓1	29
25	Gloria	129	↑1	30
26	Lois	126	↑3	17
27	Josephine	125	↑1	49
28	Evelyn	122	↑2	19
29	Marion	122	↓4	60
30	Rita	121	↓3	42
31	Virginia	121	↑3	12
32	Alice	120	–	20
33	Jane	120	↑3	55
34	Marilyn	117	↑6	22
35	Phyllis	112	↑3	28
36	Janet	109	↑10	53
37	Florence	102	↓15	38
38	Lillian	97	↓1	44
39	Louise	91	↓4	31
40	Joyce	89	↑5	18
41	Beverly	83	↓2	34
42	Catherine	80	↓9	35
43	Mildred	80	↓1	21
44	Anne	79	↓1	83
45	June	78	↑2	47
46	Marjorie	77	↓5	32
47	Elaine	71	↑3	69
48	Jeanne	67	↑1	92
49	Lucille	66	new	59
50	Norma	64	new	25

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	John	882	–	3
2	Robert	847	–	1
3	William	638	–	4
4	Joseph	497	–	9
5	Richard	451	–	5
6	Edward	422	↑1	10
7	James	389	↓1	2
8	Donald	357	↑1	7
9	George	340	↓1	8
10	Charles	287	–	6
11	Thomas	243	↑2	11
12	Frank	234	–	13
13	Raymond	231	↓2	16
14	Paul	182	↑6	12
15	Anthony	174	↓1	44
16	Walter	160	–	19
17	Albert	155	↑2	24
18	David	140	↑3	15
19	Francis	138	↓4	42
20	Henry	137	↑3	22
21	Arthur	132	↓4	23
22	Louis	124	–	34
23	Harold	122	↑4	18
24	Michael	120	↓6	54
25	Peter	118	–	56
26	Ralph	107	↑2	25
27	Eugene	102	↑4	21
28	Kenneth	91	↓2	17
29	Stanley	85	↑5	49
30	Ronald	83	new	37
31	Fred	82	↑6	32
32	Alfred	81	↓8	46
33	Vincent	80	↑8	84
34	Andrew	79	↓4	62
35	Frederick	75	–	74
36	Norman	74	↓3	40
37	Daniel	69	↓1	47
38	Harry	69	↓9	28
39	Salvatore	69	↑4	>100
40	Leonard	68	↑2	45
41	Carl	66	↑7	26
42	Ernest	66	↓10	43
43	Lawrence	66	↓5	36
44	Bernard	61	↑5	52
45	Roger	61	↓1	58
46	Philip	58	–	75
47	Stephen	58	new	>100
48	Gerald	56	new	30
49	Theodore	51	↓10	67
50	Nicholas	49	↓3	>100

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