Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1938

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1938 were Barbara for girls (544 babies) and Robert for boys (946). Barbara ranked #2 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 20,304 babies born in Connecticut in 1938 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1938

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

Girls

Marylou: 16 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Maryann: 59 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Maureen: 70 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Claire: 46 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Valerie: 23 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Gail: 117 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Lorraine: 95 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Cynthia: 43 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Marion: 63 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Theresa: 80 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Boys

Pasquale: 16 babies, 14.8× the national rate
Dominic: 15 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Salvatore: 30 babies, 6× the national rate
Nicholas: 47 babies, 5× the national rate
Anthony: 184 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Peter: 166 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Vincent: 63 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Edmund: 16 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Alexander: 20 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Gerard: 16 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1938

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1937	US rank
1	Barbara	544	–	2
2	Patricia	421	↑1	3
3	Mary	390	↓1	1
4	Carol	315	↑1	6
5	Joan	308	↓1	10
6	Judith	235	↑7	12
7	Nancy	223	↓1	7
8	Dorothy	171	↑3	8
9	Ann	166	↑3	32
10	Elizabeth	166	↓3	17
11	Margaret	165	↓1	9
12	Sandra	159	↑9	14
13	Beverly	142	↓4	18
14	Joyce	139	↑1	11
15	Shirley	132	↓7	5
16	Jean	126	↓2	27
17	Elaine	122	↑3	42
18	Marilyn	121	↑5	19
19	Gail	117	↑9	77
20	Janet	111	↓4	16
21	Marie	111	↓4	37
22	Eleanor	108	↑5	60
23	Frances	108	↓5	23
24	Betty	107	↓2	4
25	Lorraine	95	↑4	93
26	Carolyn	85	↑13	15
27	Virginia	83	↓1	22
28	Helen	82	↓9	13
29	Phyllis	82	↑1	28
30	Theresa	80	↑3	92
31	Anne	79	↑9	84
32	Janice	79	↑4	24
33	Ruth	77	↑2	21
34	Dolores	76	↓10	43
35	Susan	74	new	71
36	Rose	72	↓2	39
37	Jane	71	↓5	44
38	Maureen	70	–	>100
39	Alice	68	↓8	29
40	Irene	67	↑2	72
41	Kathleen	64	↓4	58
42	Lois	63	↓1	33
43	Marion	63	new	>100
44	Gloria	62	↓19	36
45	Arlene	61	↑4	63
46	Catherine	61	↓3	48
47	Diane	61	↓3	64
48	Jacqueline	61	new	69
49	Rosalie	61	new	66
50	Joanne	60	new	57

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1937	US rank
1	Robert	946	–	1
2	John	761	–	3
3	Richard	584	–	5
4	William	524	–	4
5	James	430	↑1	2
6	Joseph	401	↓1	12
7	David	308	↑2	8
8	Donald	279	–	7
9	Thomas	269	↑1	9
10	Edward	265	↓3	13
11	George	254	↑1	11
12	Charles	236	↓1	6
13	Ronald	213	↑2	10
14	Michael	209	–	21
15	Anthony	184	↑3	46
16	Raymond	170	↓3	20
17	Paul	169	–	15
18	Frank	167	↓2	18
19	Peter	166	–	48
20	Kenneth	115	↑1	14
21	Francis	110	↑2	51
22	Arthur	103	↓2	32
23	Walter	92	↓1	26
24	Albert	90	↑3	37
25	Daniel	90	↑4	39
26	Louis	89	↓2	47
27	Roger	84	↑3	31
28	Lawrence	80	–	36
29	Gerald	76	↓3	19
30	Alfred	72	↑7	69
31	Henry	71	–	30
32	Philip	69	↑2	64
33	Frederick	68	↓1	71
34	Ralph	68	↓9	35
35	Stephen	63	↑7	74
36	Vincent	63	↑2	>100
37	Carl	62	↑2	29
38	Andrew	59	↑12	82
39	Fred	59	↑2	38
40	Harold	57	↓7	23
41	Norman	57	↓1	43
42	Eugene	54	↓7	33
43	Ernest	53	↑1	55
44	Howard	52	↓8	42
45	Martin	52	↑4	87
46	Stanley	52	↑2	59
47	Bruce	51	↓2	66
48	Theodore	50	new	84
49	Leonard	49	↓6	57
50	Nicholas	47	new	>100

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