Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1937

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1937 were Barbara for girls (523 babies) and Robert for boys (932). Barbara ranked #2 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 19,346 babies born in Connecticut in 1937 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1937

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

Girls

Antoinette: 33 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Maureen: 66 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Maryann: 42 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Gail: 88 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Lorraine: 88 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Theresa: 80 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Sheila: 46 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Claire: 27 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Arline: 15 babies, 3× the national rate
Genevieve: 18 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Boys

Salvatore: 28 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Peter: 148 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Anthony: 161 babies, 4× the national rate
Alexander: 23 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Matthew: 20 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Brian: 17 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Vincent: 56 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Nicholas: 27 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Francis: 93 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Michael: 174 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1937

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1936	US rank
1	Barbara	523	–	2
2	Mary	438	–	1
3	Patricia	422	↑1	3
4	Joan	355	↓1	9
5	Carol	260	–	6
6	Nancy	229	↑1	7
7	Elizabeth	198	↑3	17
8	Shirley	177	↓2	4
9	Beverly	162	↑3	14
10	Margaret	154	↓1	10
11	Dorothy	152	↓3	8
12	Ann	149	↑1	30
13	Judith	134	↑6	34
14	Jean	130	↓3	23
15	Joyce	124	↑1	11
16	Janet	118	↑2	18
17	Marie	115	↓2	35
18	Frances	112	↑5	19
19	Helen	110	↑1	12
20	Elaine	105	↑2	45
21	Sandra	99	↑7	26
22	Betty	97	↑10	5
23	Marilyn	93	↓9	13
24	Dolores	90	↓3	37
25	Gloria	90	↑5	32
26	Virginia	90	↑5	16
27	Eleanor	88	↓3	53
28	Gail	88	↑7	99
29	Lorraine	88	↓12	83
30	Phyllis	85	↓5	27
31	Alice	84	↓5	28
32	Jane	80	↑2	42
33	Theresa	80	↑4	95
34	Rose	76	↓1	38
35	Ruth	75	↓8	15
36	Janice	73	↑11	25
37	Kathleen	66	new	61
38	Maureen	66	new	>100
39	Carolyn	65	↓1	20
40	Anne	63	↑3	92
41	Lois	63	↓12	29
42	Irene	62	↓3	62
43	Catherine	60	new	47
44	Diane	60	new	76
45	Josephine	58	new	82
46	Louise	56	↓4	48
47	Doris	54	↓3	22
48	Marjorie	53	↓8	57
49	Arlene	51	new	60
50	Roberta	51	↓9	66

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1936	US rank
1	Robert	932	–	1
2	John	728	–	3
3	Richard	584	–	5
4	William	515	–	4
5	Joseph	381	–	12
6	James	380	–	2
7	Edward	304	↑2	13
8	Donald	283	↓1	7
9	David	279	↑1	8
10	Thomas	252	↓2	9
11	Charles	244	–	6
12	George	206	–	10
13	Raymond	193	↑3	19
14	Michael	174	↑3	27
15	Ronald	174	↓2	11
16	Frank	165	↓2	18
17	Paul	163	↓2	15
18	Anthony	161	–	47
19	Peter	148	–	52
20	Arthur	114	–	31
21	Kenneth	102	↑5	14
22	Walter	99	↓1	26
23	Francis	93	↓1	55
24	Louis	91	↓1	46
25	Ralph	78	↓1	34
26	Gerald	77	↑5	20
27	Albert	76	–	37
28	Lawrence	75	↑10	38
29	Daniel	73	↑3	39
30	Roger	70	↓5	36
31	Henry	68	↓2	30
32	Frederick	65	↓2	68
33	Harold	65	↑2	21
34	Philip	64	↑2	62
35	Eugene	61	↓2	33
36	Howard	58	↑5	42
37	Alfred	57	↓3	60
38	Vincent	56	↑10	>100
39	Carl	55	↑3	28
40	Norman	54	↓3	43
41	Fred	52	↓13	35
42	Stephen	50	↑5	92
43	Leonard	49	new	58
44	Ernest	48	↑1	53
45	Bruce	47	↓1	70
46	Harry	47	↓3	41
47	Russell	47	↑3	67
48	Stanley	44	↓8	57
49	Martin	43	new	87
50	Andrew	42	↓11	79

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