Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1935

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1935 were Barbara for girls (494 babies) and Robert for boys (822). Barbara ranked #3 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 18,996 babies born in Connecticut in 1935 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1935

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

Girls

Carmela: 15 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Claire: 54 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Cynthia: 41 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Maureen: 50 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Arline: 18 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Veronica: 17 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Maryann: 29 babies, 4× the national rate
Lorraine: 117 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Judith: 124 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Jeannette: 29 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Boys

Salvatore: 38 babies, 7× the national rate
Nicholas: 38 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Angelo: 19 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Anthony: 147 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Stephen: 60 babies, 4× the national rate
Vincent: 62 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Peter: 109 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Frederick: 80 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Matthew: 18 babies, 3× the national rate
Francis: 102 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1935

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Barbara	494	↑1	3
2	Mary	428	↓1	1
3	Joan	397	–	7
4	Patricia	379	–	5
5	Shirley	335	↑3	2
6	Dorothy	214	↓1	6
7	Nancy	197	–	9
8	Carol	183	↑3	11
9	Jean	172	↓3	18
10	Margaret	164	↑3	8
11	Ann	160	↓2	30
12	Elizabeth	155	↓2	17
13	Janet	135	↑1	22
14	Judith	124	↑21	54
15	Beverly	120	–	20
16	Eleanor	119	↑4	48
17	Lorraine	117	↑2	68
18	Dolores	114	↑5	26
19	Helen	114	↓3	10
20	Marie	114	↓8	33
21	Joyce	111	↑7	12
22	Marilyn	106	–	14
23	Lois	104	↑1	21
24	Frances	97	↓3	19
25	Betty	93	↓8	4
26	Elaine	85	↑8	51
27	Virginia	80	↑4	16
28	Phyllis	78	↓3	27
29	Rose	78	–	37
30	Irene	77	↑3	52
31	Ruth	76	↓13	15
32	Alice	75	–	25
33	Gloria	74	↓7	32
34	Marion	74	↑4	88
35	Anna	70	↑5	34
36	Anne	69	new	84
37	Theresa	69	↓1	86
38	Jane	68	↓8	43
39	Sandra	68	new	50
40	Doris	67	↓13	13
41	Florence	65	↓4	74
42	Catherine	63	↑4	42
43	Evelyn	60	↓1	31
44	Marjorie	60	↑5	46
45	Lucille	57	↑2	85
46	Josephine	56	↑2	75
47	Audrey	55	new	64
48	Claire	54	new	>100
49	Carolyn	53	new	28
50	Jacqueline	53	–	79

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Robert	822	–	1
2	John	718	–	3
3	Richard	560	–	5
4	William	462	–	4
5	Joseph	392	–	10
6	James	357	↑1	2
7	Donald	341	↓1	7
8	Edward	291	–	13
9	George	250	–	8
10	Charles	215	↑1	6
11	Thomas	207	↓1	9
12	Frank	176	↑2	16
13	Raymond	175	–	17
14	David	174	↑1	11
15	Ronald	167	↓3	12
16	Anthony	147	↑1	52
17	Paul	139	↓1	14
18	Arthur	122	↑1	29
19	Michael	119	↓1	41
20	Walter	118	↑6	23
21	Louis	115	↑3	42
22	Peter	109	↓2	59
23	Francis	102	↓2	53
24	Albert	90	↓2	31
25	Kenneth	85	–	15
26	Daniel	82	↑14	43
27	Frederick	80	↑4	73
28	Henry	80	↓5	27
29	Ralph	73	↓1	32
30	Eugene	68	↓1	26
31	Roger	67	↑3	36
32	Gerald	66	↑6	21
33	Philip	64	↑2	65
34	Norman	62	↓4	38
35	Vincent	62	↑6	>100
36	Harold	61	↓9	20
37	Stephen	60	new	>100
38	Fred	57	↓2	34
39	Alfred	55	↑3	63
40	Carl	55	↓1	28
41	Stanley	55	↑5	56
42	Lawrence	54	↓9	35
43	Andrew	51	↑4	85
44	Howard	50	↑1	39
45	Leonard	50	↓13	54
46	Theodore	49	new	79
47	Ernest	47	↓10	55
48	Harry	41	↓4	37
49	Russell	40	new	68
50	Douglas	39	new	75

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