Popular baby names in Maine, 1914

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1914 were Mary for girls (182 babies) and John for boys (178). Social Security records list 8,621 babies born in Maine in 1914 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1914

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

Girls

Yvette: 17 babies, 49.9× the national rate
Germaine: 22 babies, 29.4× the national rate
Cecile: 38 babies, 17.5× the national rate
Madelyn: 15 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Arlene: 38 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Avis: 18 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Priscilla: 16 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Arline: 15 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Phyllis: 59 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Jeannette: 28 babies, 6.5× the national rate

Boys

Lionel: 15 babies, 15× the national rate
Armand: 17 babies, 13.9× the national rate
Roland: 46 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Carroll: 15 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Maurice: 48 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Roger: 24 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Philip: 41 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Lawrence: 71 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Gerald: 25 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Kenneth: 69 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1914

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	Mary	182	–	1
2	Dorothy	178	–	3
3	Ruth	133	↑1	5
4	Helen	116	↓1	2
5	Margaret	113	–	4
6	Elizabeth	107	–	8
7	Mildred	85	↑8	7
8	Florence	79	↑5	13
9	Evelyn	77	↓1	11
10	Doris	75	↓1	36
11	Irene	75	–	22
12	Alice	74	↓5	12
13	Marion	74	↑1	50
14	Lillian	70	↑2	16
15	Frances	67	↓5	9
16	Eleanor	63	↓4	28
17	Gertrude	63	↑4	32
18	Phyllis	59	–	>100
19	Virginia	59	–	14
20	Marjorie	57	↑10	45
21	Barbara	54	↑1	82
22	Thelma	52	↑1	26
23	Beatrice	50	↓3	38
24	Hazel	50	↑7	29
25	Louise	50	↓8	17
26	Marie	50	↑2	10
27	Pauline	49	↑8	34
28	Bertha	44	↑12	41
29	Anna	43	↑8	6
30	Blanche	43	new	80
31	Edna	42	↓6	19
32	Gladys	42	↓5	20
33	Edith	40	↓9	31
34	Katherine	39	new	48
35	Madeline	39	↑3	>100
36	Arlene	38	↑14	>100
37	Cecile	38	↑10	>100
38	Rose	38	new	15
39	Esther	35	↓3	35
40	Ethel	35	↑1	21
41	Grace	34	↓2	25
42	Catherine	32	↓13	18
43	Marguerite	32	↓10	84
44	Laura	31	↑4	59
45	Jeannette	28	new	>100
46	Muriel	27	↓2	>100
47	Pearl	26	new	56
48	Ida	25	new	49
49	Mabel	25	↓15	58
50	Martha	25	new	27

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	John	178	–	1
2	Robert	153	↑3	4
3	William	131	↑1	2
4	George	130	↓2	6
5	Charles	119	↑2	7
6	Joseph	107	↓3	5
7	Donald	79	↑2	23
8	James	76	↓2	3
9	Edward	74	↑1	8
10	Harold	74	↑1	14
11	Arthur	72	↓3	18
12	Lawrence	71	↑5	35
13	Kenneth	69	↑5	30
14	Frank	67	–	9
15	Richard	63	–	17
16	Raymond	58	↓3	16
17	Walter	55	↓5	10
18	Ralph	53	↑3	21
19	Paul	52	↑1	13
20	Albert	51	↓4	15
21	Maurice	48	↑23	94
22	Roland	46	↑12	>100
23	Herbert	44	↑13	42
24	Henry	43	–	12
25	Louis	42	↑8	20
26	Leo	41	↓4	47
27	Philip	41	↓8	68
28	Stanley	40	↓3	39
29	Ernest	37	↑1	38
30	Francis	36	↓4	31
31	Harry	35	↑1	19
32	Norman	35	↑13	54
33	Clarence	34	↓4	22
34	Fred	34	new	28
35	Frederick	33	↓8	52
36	Thomas	33	↓13	11
37	Lewis	30	–	72
38	Earl	29	↑11	33
39	Carl	28	↓8	24
40	Howard	28	↑10	26
41	Alfred	27	↓13	41
42	Chester	26	↓2	56
43	Bernard	25	new	50
44	Gerald	25	↓1	81
45	Edwin	24	new	53
46	Roger	24	new	>100
47	Russell	24	new	49
48	Clifford	23	new	62
49	Elmer	21	new	46
50	David	20	↓9	29

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