Popular baby names in Maine, 1913

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1913 were Mary for girls (140 babies) and John for boys (146). Social Security records list 5,841 babies born in Maine in 1913 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1913

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

Girls

Yvonne: 16 babies, 14.1× the national rate
Cecile: 20 babies, 13.7× the national rate
Avis: 16 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Arlene: 19 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Phyllis: 39 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Jeannette: 16 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Muriel: 22 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Barbara: 35 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Madeline: 25 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Shirley: 15 babies, 4.2× the national rate

Boys

Wilfred: 19 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Merle: 15 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Clayton: 15 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Roland: 21 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Philip: 37 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Gordon: 19 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Maurice: 17 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Donald: 58 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Edgar: 17 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Leo: 31 babies, 3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1913

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	Mary	140	–	1
2	Dorothy	125	–	3
3	Helen	106	–	2
4	Ruth	99	–	5
5	Margaret	79	–	4
6	Elizabeth	75	↑5	8
7	Alice	66	↑1	11
8	Evelyn	64	↓1	12
9	Doris	56	↓3	44
10	Frances	56	–	9
11	Irene	56	↑1	21
12	Eleanor	51	↑6	34
13	Florence	49	↓4	13
14	Marion	49	↑2	51
15	Mildred	49	↓1	6
16	Lillian	43	↓1	16
17	Louise	42	–	17
18	Phyllis	39	↑4	>100
19	Virginia	37	↑19	15
20	Beatrice	36	↑9	37
21	Gertrude	36	↑2	33
22	Barbara	35	↑20	94
23	Thelma	34	↑2	26
24	Edith	33	↑8	29
25	Edna	33	↑6	18
26	Eva	33	–	50
27	Gladys	32	–	19
28	Marie	31	↓15	10
29	Catherine	30	↑7	22
30	Marjorie	30	↓10	48
31	Hazel	29	↓12	27
32	Charlotte	28	new	87
33	Marguerite	28	–	78
34	Mabel	27	new	56
35	Pauline	27	↓14	35
36	Esther	26	new	32
37	Anna	25	↓3	7
38	Madeline	25	↓10	>100
39	Grace	24	↓15	25
40	Bertha	23	↓10	39
41	Ethel	23	↓6	20
42	Hilda	23	new	>100
43	Elsie	22	↑1	40
44	Muriel	22	↑6	>100
45	Bernice	21	new	45
46	Nellie	21	new	58
47	Cecile	20	new	>100
48	Laura	20	↓2	62
49	Anne	19	new	57
50	Arlene	19	↓3	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	John	146	–	1
2	George	107	–	6
3	Joseph	93	↑4	5
4	William	87	↓1	2
5	Robert	76	–	4
6	James	71	–	3
7	Charles	69	↓3	7
8	Arthur	62	–	17
9	Donald	58	↑1	25
10	Edward	56	↓1	8
11	Harold	53	–	13
12	Walter	51	↑8	11
13	Raymond	50	–	18
14	Frank	49	↑1	9
15	Richard	47	↑4	19
16	Albert	46	↑1	16
17	Lawrence	42	↓1	35
18	Kenneth	39	↓4	33
19	Philip	37	↑17	69
20	Paul	36	↑8	14
21	Ralph	32	↓9	22
22	Leo	31	↑5	48
23	Thomas	31	↓2	10
24	Henry	30	↓2	12
25	Stanley	30	↑14	41
26	Francis	29	↑16	30
27	Frederick	29	↓3	49
28	Alfred	25	↑9	42
29	Clarence	25	↑2	21
30	Ernest	25	↓1	34
31	Carl	24	↑14	23
32	Harry	23	↓7	15
33	Louis	23	↓15	20
34	Roland	21	↓1	>100
35	Gordon	19	↑14	94
36	Herbert	19	↓6	39
37	Lewis	19	↑1	72
38	Wilfred	19	new	>100
39	Roy	18	new	32
40	Chester	17	new	56
41	David	17	↓7	29
42	Edgar	17	new	87
43	Gerald	17	↑1	84
44	Maurice	17	↓21	95
45	Norman	17	↓10	57
46	Vincent	17	new	66
47	Eugene	16	↓7	43
48	Clayton	15	new	>100
49	Earl	15	new	31
50	Howard	15	↓24	26

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