Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1941

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1941 were Patricia for girls (621 babies) and Robert for boys (1,066). Patricia ranked #3 nationally for girls. Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 25,208 babies born in Connecticut in 1941 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1941

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

Girls

Noreen: 18 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Arline: 17 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Marylou: 17 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Deborah: 28 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Maryann: 63 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Cynthia: 83 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Maureen: 72 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Valerie: 26 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Muriel: 18 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Faith: 15 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Boys

Salvatore: 32 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Dominic: 15 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Jonathan: 20 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Dominick: 15 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Peter: 287 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Edmund: 26 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Kevin: 18 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Angelo: 17 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Brian: 48 babies, 4× the national rate
Vincent: 73 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1941

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1940	US rank
1	Patricia	621	–	3
2	Barbara	544	–	2
3	Mary	509	–	1
4	Judith	443	–	6
5	Carol	401	–	4
6	Joan	314	–	17
7	Sandra	282	↑1	9
8	Nancy	269	↓1	8
9	Linda	236	↑1	5
10	Margaret	216	↓1	12
11	Susan	209	↑4	27
12	Joyce	193	–	13
13	Elizabeth	187	↓2	21
14	Elaine	150	↑11	44
15	Dorothy	143	↑1	14
16	Ann	136	↓2	37
17	Jean	132	↓4	32
18	Beverly	131	–	29
19	Carolyn	128	↑9	11
20	Marilyn	126	↑2	30
21	Diane	123	↑13	40
22	Janet	118	↓2	18
23	Marie	112	↓6	42
24	Virginia	112	–	23
25	Gail	110	↑2	68
26	Frances	108	↓7	31
27	Kathleen	108	↓1	36
28	Janice	105	↓7	22
29	Shirley	104	↓6	10
30	Karen	101	new	19
31	Donna	100	↑16	20
32	Joanne	95	↓2	54
33	Phyllis	93	↓1	35
34	Judy	92	↑7	16
35	Dolores	86	↑4	57
36	Carole	85	new	48
37	Cynthia	83	↑6	>100
38	Jane	83	↓9	46
39	Lorraine	82	↓2	93
40	Betty	81	↓4	7
41	Geraldine	81	↓8	45
42	Catherine	80	new	51
43	Joann	78	new	58
44	Gloria	77	↑1	26
45	Helen	76	↓14	24
46	Ruth	73	↓11	28
47	Maureen	72	↓5	>100
48	Lois	70	↓10	43
49	Louise	70	new	62
50	Eleanor	66	↓10	78

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1940	US rank
1	Robert	1,066	–	2
2	John	875	–	3
3	Richard	728	–	5
4	William	650	–	4
5	James	505	↑1	1
6	Joseph	436	↓1	12
7	David	424	–	7
8	Thomas	366	–	8
9	Edward	333	–	17
10	Ronald	298	↑4	9
11	George	291	–	13
12	Peter	287	↑4	44
13	Charles	275	–	6
14	Donald	270	↓4	10
15	Paul	267	–	18
16	Michael	259	↓4	16
17	Frank	208	↑1	21
18	Raymond	206	↓1	22
19	Anthony	182	–	46
20	Kenneth	167	–	15
21	Daniel	133	↑11	31
22	Arthur	132	↓1	33
23	Louis	122	↑5	50
24	Gerald	116	↑2	20
25	Stephen	108	↑2	41
26	Albert	105	↑5	40
27	Frederick	104	↓3	69
28	Francis	100	↓6	60
29	Walter	98	↓4	26
30	Henry	95	↑3	28
31	Roger	94	↓8	25
32	Bruce	83	↓3	51
33	Harold	82	↑14	24
34	Lawrence	80	↓4	34
35	Philip	80	–	52
36	Carl	78	–	29
37	Dennis	73	↑3	23
38	Vincent	73	↑6	>100
39	Gary	72	new	19
40	Stanley	72	new	57
41	Fred	70	↑5	43
42	Ralph	70	↓8	38
43	Howard	66	↓4	47
44	Leonard	64	↑4	54
45	Eugene	61	↓3	42
46	Alan	58	↓1	84
47	Douglas	56	new	53
48	Norman	54	↓5	49
49	Andrew	52	↓11	82
50	Alfred	51	new	74

← Connecticut 1940 Connecticut: all years · US 1941 Connecticut 1942 →