Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1936

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1936 were Barbara for girls (513 babies) and Robert for boys (897). Barbara ranked #3 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 18,957 babies born in Connecticut in 1936 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1936

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

Girls

Betsy: 20 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Cynthia: 40 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Claire: 41 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Veronica: 16 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Arline: 23 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Lorraine: 113 babies, 4× the national rate
Maureen: 46 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Jeannette: 30 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Gail: 67 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Sheila: 37 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Boys

Salvatore: 41 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Dominic: 15 babies, 6× the national rate
Nicholas: 42 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Edmund: 21 babies, 4× the national rate
Anthony: 143 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Peter: 124 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Francis: 104 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Michael: 146 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Frederick: 68 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Andrew: 55 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1936

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Barbara	513	–	3
2	Mary	422	–	1
3	Joan	383	–	7
4	Patricia	372	–	5
5	Carol	229	↑3	10
6	Shirley	221	↓1	2
7	Nancy	208	–	8
8	Dorothy	202	↓2	6
9	Margaret	168	↑1	9
10	Elizabeth	150	↑2	18
11	Jean	148	↓2	20
12	Beverly	142	↑3	17
13	Ann	137	↓2	28
14	Marilyn	121	↑8	13
15	Marie	116	↑5	33
16	Joyce	113	↑5	12
17	Lorraine	113	–	76
18	Janet	112	↓5	21
19	Judith	109	↓5	43
20	Helen	102	↓1	11
21	Dolores	98	↓3	30
22	Elaine	91	↑4	50
23	Frances	88	↑1	19
24	Eleanor	85	↓8	47
25	Phyllis	84	↑3	25
26	Alice	81	↑6	27
27	Ruth	80	↑4	16
28	Sandra	80	↑11	38
29	Lois	79	↓6	26
30	Gloria	78	↑3	32
31	Virginia	77	↓4	14
32	Betty	76	↓7	4
33	Rose	75	↓4	37
34	Jane	69	↑4	42
35	Gail	67	new	>100
36	Marion	67	↓2	93
37	Theresa	66	–	88
38	Carolyn	65	↑11	23
39	Irene	64	↓9	57
40	Marjorie	63	↑4	49
41	Roberta	63	new	64
42	Louise	62	new	46
43	Anne	60	↓7	89
44	Doris	59	↓4	15
45	Jacqueline	58	↑5	66
46	Evelyn	57	↓3	34
47	Janice	57	new	31
48	Anna	56	↓13	36
49	Florence	53	↓8	80
50	Geraldine	53	new	41

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Robert	897	–	1
2	John	719	–	3
3	Richard	601	–	5
4	William	503	–	4
5	Joseph	395	–	11
6	James	381	–	2
7	Donald	311	–	7
8	Thomas	273	↑3	8
9	Edward	268	↓1	13
10	David	236	↑4	10
11	Charles	234	↓1	6
12	George	226	↓3	9
13	Ronald	220	↑2	12
14	Frank	177	↓2	16
15	Paul	158	↑2	15
16	Raymond	155	↓3	17
17	Michael	146	↑2	33
18	Anthony	143	↓2	48
19	Peter	124	↑3	56
20	Arthur	118	↓2	30
21	Walter	107	↓1	26
22	Francis	104	↑1	50
23	Louis	83	↓2	44
24	Ralph	79	↑5	31
25	Roger	76	↑6	35
26	Kenneth	74	↓1	14
27	Albert	73	↓3	34
28	Fred	70	↑10	36
29	Henry	70	↓1	28
30	Frederick	68	↓3	70
31	Gerald	68	↑1	19
32	Daniel	65	↓6	41
33	Eugene	64	↓3	29
34	Alfred	60	↑5	60
35	Harold	60	↑1	21
36	Philip	60	↓3	63
37	Norman	58	↓3	43
38	Lawrence	56	↑4	37
39	Andrew	55	↑4	83
40	Stanley	55	↑1	58
41	Howard	54	↑3	40
42	Carl	53	↓2	27
43	Harry	50	↑5	39
44	Bruce	44	new	73
45	Ernest	42	↑2	55
46	Nicholas	42	new	>100
47	Stephen	42	↓10	99
48	Vincent	42	↓13	>100
49	Salvatore	41	new	>100
50	Russell	39	↓1	69

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