Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1933

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1933 were Barbara for girls (510 babies) and Robert for boys (835). Barbara ranked #3 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 18,716 babies born in Connecticut in 1933 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1933

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: 16 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Antoinette: 33 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Maureen: 49 babies, 5× the national rate
Faith: 15 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Priscilla: 29 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Maryann: 26 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Cynthia: 26 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Claire: 45 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Lorraine: 121 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Gail: 17 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Boys

Salvatore: 44 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Nicholas: 45 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Angelo: 21 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Anthony: 148 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Burton: 16 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Peter: 113 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Edmund: 20 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Michael: 118 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Stephen: 42 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Frederick: 67 babies, 3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1933

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	Barbara	510	↑1	3
2	Mary	490	↓1	1
3	Joan	452	–	5
4	Patricia	248	↑1	6
5	Dorothy	221	↓1	4
6	Nancy	188	↑3	11
7	Jean	185	↓1	14
8	Elizabeth	175	–	17
9	Ann	166	↑7	34
10	Margaret	165	↓3	7
11	Shirley	154	–	9
12	Janet	138	↑12	25
13	Carol	129	↑19	20
14	Marie	123	↓1	33
15	Helen	121	↓5	8
16	Lorraine	121	↑2	54
17	Ruth	121	↓3	13
18	Eleanor	119	↑1	38
19	Betty	116	↓2	2
20	Frances	112	↑9	18
21	Dolores	111	↓9	21
22	Lois	108	↑4	19
23	Marilyn	108	↓8	16
24	Joyce	107	↑7	12
25	Rose	105	↓5	35
26	Beverly	103	↓5	26
27	Doris	93	↓5	10
28	Theresa	91	↓3	70
29	Irene	86	↑1	46
30	Jane	86	↑6	47
31	Marion	84	↑3	73
32	June	83	↑5	45
33	Virginia	83	↑2	15
34	Anna	80	↓7	29
35	Alice	78	↓7	22
36	Gloria	76	↓13	31
37	Anne	74	↑7	85
38	Evelyn	73	–	30
39	Phyllis	73	↑4	28
40	Josephine	72	↑1	62
41	Marjorie	70	↑4	41
42	Rita	67	↓2	53
43	Lucille	65	↑5	78
44	Florence	64	↓2	49
45	Lillian	64	↓6	51
46	Catherine	60	↓13	44
47	Audrey	58	↑3	59
48	Elaine	57	↓2	61
49	Judith	57	new	>100
50	Constance	56	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	Robert	835	–	1
2	John	702	–	3
3	Richard	543	–	5
4	William	439	–	4
5	Joseph	388	–	9
6	Donald	326	↑1	7
7	James	317	↓1	2
8	Edward	289	–	11
9	Charles	261	↑1	6
10	George	258	↓1	8
11	Thomas	218	–	10
12	Frank	173	–	16
13	Ronald	165	↑2	12
14	Raymond	164	↓1	19
15	Anthony	148	↓1	46
16	Paul	133	↑2	14
17	David	126	↓1	13
18	Walter	126	↑2	21
19	Michael	118	↑4	53
20	Arthur	114	↑1	25
21	Francis	114	↑3	45
22	Peter	113	↓3	60
23	Albert	103	↑3	30
24	Louis	101	↓7	40
25	Kenneth	95	–	15
26	Henry	91	↓4	24
27	Ralph	74	↑6	29
28	Eugene	71	–	23
29	Harold	68	↑1	18
30	Daniel	67	↑2	42
31	Frederick	67	↑4	78
32	Lawrence	63	↓3	38
33	Norman	62	↓6	37
34	Roger	62	↑2	48
35	Alfred	61	↓1	57
36	Andrew	61	↑6	76
37	Harry	59	↑9	35
38	Gerald	56	↑3	22
39	Stanley	54	↓2	55
40	Carl	53	↑5	28
41	Philip	53	↓3	70
42	Vincent	52	↓11	94
43	Fred	50	↓4	34
44	Theodore	50	–	68
45	Leonard	45	↑4	47
46	Nicholas	45	↑1	>100
47	Salvatore	44	↓4	>100
48	Ernest	43	↓8	50
49	Herbert	43	new	49
50	Stephen	42	new	>100

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