Popular baby names in Maine, 1915

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1915 were Mary for girls (237 babies) and John for boys (231). Social Security records list 10,609 babies born in Maine in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1915

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: 20 babies, 38.5× the national rate
Germaine: 15 babies, 18.8× the national rate
Cecile: 41 babies, 15× the national rate
Althea: 18 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Arline: 17 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Avis: 17 babies, 8× the national rate
Arlene: 36 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Jeannette: 33 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Phyllis: 75 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Barbara: 81 babies, 5.1× the national rate

Boys

Lucien: 16 babies, 22.3× the national rate
Linwood: 16 babies, 20.7× the national rate
Armand: 19 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Gerard: 19 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Roland: 65 babies, 10× the national rate
Carroll: 22 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Roger: 36 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Maurice: 43 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Alton: 17 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Wilfred: 18 babies, 5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	237	–	1
2	Dorothy	185	–	3
3	Ruth	164	–	5
4	Helen	141	–	2
5	Margaret	140	–	4
6	Evelyn	109	↑3	10
7	Alice	108	↑5	13
8	Virginia	99	↑11	12
9	Doris	93	↑1	34
10	Elizabeth	90	↓4	8
11	Frances	88	↑4	9
12	Florence	83	↓4	14
13	Lillian	82	↑1	15
14	Barbara	81	↑7	83
15	Mildred	81	↓8	6
16	Phyllis	75	↑2	100
17	Irene	74	↓6	17
18	Marion	74	↓5	50
19	Eleanor	72	↓3	28
20	Beatrice	68	↑3	37
21	Louise	66	↑4	18
22	Marie	63	↑4	11
23	Pauline	62	↑4	32
24	Thelma	60	↓2	30
25	Hazel	55	↓1	26
26	Eva	54	new	55
27	Marjorie	53	↓7	39
28	Gladys	52	↑4	21
29	Marguerite	52	↑14	85
30	Bertha	50	↓2	46
31	Edith	50	↑2	31
32	Edna	49	↓1	20
33	Gertrude	49	↓16	35
34	Madeline	47	↑1	>100
35	Rose	47	↑3	16
36	Anna	45	↓7	7
37	Grace	45	↑4	27
38	Cecile	41	↓1	>100
39	Ethel	41	↑1	23
40	Lucille	40	new	29
41	Olive	39	new	>100
42	Arlene	36	↓6	>100
43	Kathleen	36	new	>100
44	Catherine	33	↓2	19
45	Jeannette	33	–	>100
46	Katherine	32	↓12	49
47	Annie	30	new	36
48	Laura	30	↓4	61
49	Ruby	30	new	24
50	Blanche	29	↓20	87

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	John	231	–	1
2	George	187	↑2	6
3	William	171	–	2
4	Charles	152	↑1	7
5	Robert	148	↓3	4
6	James	122	↑2	3
7	Joseph	121	↓1	5
8	Donald	118	↓1	20
9	Arthur	101	↑2	18
10	Harold	95	–	12
11	Edward	94	↓2	8
12	Paul	80	↑7	13
13	Ralph	80	↑5	21
14	Albert	75	↑6	17
15	Frank	75	↓1	9
16	Richard	74	↓1	15
17	Raymond	73	↓1	16
18	Kenneth	71	↓5	28
19	Lawrence	65	↓7	37
20	Roland	65	↑2	>100
21	Philip	59	↑6	69
22	Henry	58	↑2	14
23	Stanley	58	↑5	34
24	Norman	53	↑8	50
25	Ernest	51	↑4	35
26	Thomas	51	↑10	10
27	Leo	48	↓1	47
28	Walter	48	↓11	11
29	Harry	46	↑2	19
30	Maurice	43	↓9	>100
31	Alfred	41	↑10	42
32	Francis	41	↓2	29
33	Herbert	40	↓10	40
34	Clarence	39	↓1	24
35	Frederick	39	–	52
36	Louis	39	↓11	23
37	Roger	36	↑9	>100
38	Carl	35	↑1	22
39	Bernard	34	↑4	48
40	Everett	34	new	89
41	Fred	34	↓7	26
42	Earl	33	↓4	33
43	Gordon	33	new	90
44	Gerald	31	–	78
45	Leon	31	new	82
46	Lloyd	31	new	62
47	Lewis	30	↓10	70
48	Arnold	29	new	91
49	Leonard	27	new	44
50	Eugene	26	new	41

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