Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1939

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1939 were Barbara for girls (530 babies) and Robert for boys (879). Barbara ranked #2 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 20,298 babies born in Connecticut in 1939 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1939

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

Girls

Faith: 16 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Valerie: 24 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Maryann: 46 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Natalie: 15 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Lorraine: 88 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Cynthia: 49 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Maureen: 52 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Claire: 29 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Betsy: 15 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Priscilla: 44 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Boys

Salvatore: 38 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Angelo: 22 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Edmund: 20 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Peter: 182 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Anthony: 148 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Brian: 26 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Francis: 112 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Vincent: 54 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Alan: 61 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Nicholas: 27 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1939

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1938	US rank
1	Barbara	530	–	2
2	Patricia	489	–	3
3	Mary	419	–	1
4	Judith	342	↑2	8
5	Carol	340	↓1	6
6	Joan	337	↓1	11
7	Nancy	239	–	7
8	Margaret	172	↑3	10
9	Elizabeth	171	↑1	18
10	Sandra	167	↑2	13
11	Dorothy	150	↓3	9
12	Ann	145	↓3	33
13	Joyce	139	↑1	12
14	Beverly	131	↓1	25
15	Jean	126	↑1	32
16	Janet	111	↑4	17
17	Linda	109	new	15
18	Marie	106	↑3	37
19	Marilyn	103	↓1	19
20	Elaine	100	↓3	45
21	Susan	100	↑14	44
22	Frances	99	↑1	26
23	Shirley	95	↓8	5
24	Betty	94	–	4
25	Gail	90	↓6	73
26	Virginia	89	↑1	21
27	Lorraine	88	↓2	95
28	Eleanor	87	↓6	63
29	Judy	87	new	28
30	Helen	86	↓2	16
31	Carolyn	80	↓5	14
32	Phyllis	74	↓3	30
33	Ruth	73	–	22
34	Anne	69	↓3	85
35	Alice	68	↑4	31
36	Arlene	68	↑9	69
37	Diane	66	↑10	51
38	Janice	64	↓6	24
39	Kathleen	64	↑2	48
40	Donna	61	new	20
41	Jane	60	↓4	46
42	Dolores	59	↓8	58
43	Geraldine	59	new	41
44	Rose	59	↓8	42
45	Sally	59	new	52
46	Irene	58	↓6	74
47	Louise	58	new	59
48	Marion	55	↓5	>100
49	Joanne	53	↑1	53
50	Maureen	52	↓12	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1938	US rank
1	Robert	879	–	1
2	John	760	–	3
3	Richard	663	–	5
4	William	540	–	4
5	James	417	–	2
6	Joseph	394	–	12
7	Thomas	300	↑2	9
8	David	296	↓1	7
9	Edward	279	↑1	15
10	Donald	268	↓2	8
11	Charles	241	↑1	6
12	George	240	↓1	11
13	Ronald	213	–	10
14	Michael	190	–	18
15	Frank	189	↑3	20
16	Peter	182	↑3	46
17	Raymond	175	↓1	22
18	Anthony	148	↓3	48
19	Paul	139	↓2	17
20	Kenneth	113	–	13
21	Francis	112	–	53
22	Walter	99	↑1	25
23	Arthur	95	↓1	32
24	Gerald	94	↑5	19
25	Albert	90	↓1	41
26	Roger	88	↑1	28
27	Louis	84	↓1	49
28	Ralph	78	↑6	35
29	Daniel	75	↓4	38
30	Henry	73	↑1	31
31	Lawrence	70	↓3	36
32	Harold	66	↑8	23
33	Bruce	65	↑14	64
34	Stephen	64	↑1	65
35	Frederick	62	↓2	71
36	Alan	61	new	85
37	Eugene	58	↑5	37
38	Fred	56	↑1	40
39	Norman	55	↑2	44
40	Stanley	55	↑6	57
41	Andrew	54	↓3	84
42	Philip	54	↓10	66
43	Vincent	54	↓7	>100
44	Alfred	53	↓14	70
45	Wayne	51	new	39
46	Howard	48	↓2	47
47	Leonard	48	↑2	54
48	Dennis	47	new	34
49	Carl	46	↓12	30
50	Gary	44	new	21

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