Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1932

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1932 were Mary for girls (494 babies) and Robert for boys (830). Social Security records list 20,026 babies born in Connecticut in 1932 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1932

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

Girls

Cecile: 15 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Arline: 19 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Maureen: 46 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Antoinette: 34 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Rosemarie: 36 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Carmela: 16 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Elinor: 15 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Claire: 58 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Angela: 20 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Helene: 15 babies, 3.5× the national rate

Boys

Pasquale: 16 babies, 12.8× the national rate
Salvatore: 53 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Dominic: 18 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Mario: 18 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Nicholas: 46 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Peter: 123 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Anthony: 157 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Irving: 19 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Angelo: 22 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Vincent: 71 babies, 3.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1932

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Mary	494	–	1
2	Barbara	471	–	3
3	Joan	457	–	5
4	Dorothy	273	–	4
5	Patricia	247	↑3	6
6	Jean	221	↓1	15
7	Margaret	205	↑3	7
8	Elizabeth	204	↓2	17
9	Nancy	191	–	13
10	Helen	161	↓3	8
11	Shirley	160	–	9
12	Dolores	151	↑4	18
13	Marie	149	↑2	31
14	Ruth	148	↑3	11
15	Marilyn	145	↑16	16
16	Ann	144	↓4	34
17	Betty	137	↓3	2
18	Lorraine	131	↓5	55
19	Eleanor	126	↑5	45
20	Rose	124	↓1	33
21	Beverly	122	↑20	28
22	Doris	118	↑4	10
23	Gloria	117	↑4	25
24	Janet	113	↑4	35
25	Theresa	112	↓2	60
26	Lois	105	↑8	20
27	Anna	103	↓7	24
28	Alice	102	↑5	21
29	Frances	102	↓11	19
30	Irene	101	↓9	43
31	Joyce	101	↓9	12
32	Carol	97	↑8	32
33	Catherine	96	↑4	39
34	Marion	96	↓2	73
35	Virginia	94	↓10	14
36	Jane	87	–	49
37	June	87	↑8	44
38	Evelyn	83	↓9	23
39	Lillian	81	↓1	48
40	Rita	81	↓10	53
41	Josephine	80	↓6	57
42	Florence	74	↑5	47
43	Phyllis	74	↓4	30
44	Anne	67	–	81
45	Marjorie	65	↑5	37
46	Elaine	63	↑2	68
47	Carolyn	61	new	46
48	Lucille	61	↑1	63
49	Louise	60	↓7	36
50	Audrey	58	new	61

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Robert	830	–	1
2	John	757	–	3
3	Richard	491	↑1	5
4	William	491	↓1	4
5	Joseph	433	–	9
6	James	389	↑1	2
7	Donald	355	↓1	7
8	Edward	316	–	11
9	George	300	–	8
10	Charles	235	↑1	6
11	Thomas	232	↓1	10
12	Frank	212	–	15
13	Raymond	192	–	19
14	Anthony	157	–	45
15	Ronald	145	↑13	16
16	David	127	↑2	12
17	Louis	126	↑4	39
18	Paul	124	↓1	13
19	Peter	123	↑7	62
20	Walter	120	↓5	21
21	Arthur	112	↓5	25
22	Henry	112	–	23
23	Michael	107	↓3	54
24	Francis	106	↓5	43
25	Kenneth	100	↓2	14
26	Albert	92	↓1	26
27	Norman	79	↑9	37
28	Eugene	78	↓1	22
29	Lawrence	78	↑1	35
30	Harold	77	↓6	18
31	Vincent	71	↑1	93
32	Daniel	66	↑2	42
33	Ralph	66	↑5	27
34	Alfred	65	↓5	49
35	Frederick	60	↑4	73
36	Roger	59	↓1	50
37	Stanley	59	↑3	52
38	Philip	58	↓1	70
39	Fred	57	↓8	33
40	Ernest	56	↑3	47
41	Gerald	56	new	24
42	Andrew	55	↑3	69
43	Salvatore	53	new	>100
44	Theodore	53	↓3	67
45	Carl	51	↑3	28
46	Harry	49	↓13	32
47	Nicholas	46	↓3	>100
48	Jack	45	↑2	17
49	Leonard	44	new	48
50	Howard	41	↓4	36

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