Popular baby names in Maine, 1916

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1916 were Mary for girls (261 babies) and Robert for boys (180). Robert ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 10,450 babies born in Maine in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1916

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, 46.2× the national rate
Germaine: 22 babies, 29.1× the national rate
Juliette: 16 babies, 21.6× the national rate
Cecile: 35 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Priscilla: 25 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Yvonne: 19 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Arlene: 40 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Phyllis: 79 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Jeannette: 31 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Annette: 21 babies, 5× the national rate

Boys

Linwood: 28 babies, 35.3× the national rate
Lucien: 26 babies, 33.3× the national rate
Romeo: 17 babies, 27.1× the national rate
Lionel: 21 babies, 19.3× the national rate
Armand: 18 babies, 14.1× the national rate
Reginald: 17 babies, 13.2× the national rate
Gerard: 20 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Maynard: 16 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Roland: 53 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Alton: 23 babies, 7.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1916

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	261	–	1
2	Dorothy	190	–	3
3	Ruth	172	–	5
4	Helen	145	–	2
5	Margaret	144	–	4
6	Irene	110	↑11	17
7	Alice	108	–	13
8	Evelyn	104	↓2	11
9	Frances	100	↑2	9
10	Elizabeth	88	–	8
11	Virginia	85	↓3	10
12	Marion	81	↑6	47
13	Eleanor	79	↑6	27
14	Phyllis	79	↑2	95
15	Marie	75	↑7	12
16	Mildred	74	↓1	6
17	Florence	73	↓5	14
18	Pauline	72	↑5	33
19	Doris	67	↓10	32
20	Louise	64	↑1	18
21	Beatrice	63	↓1	38
22	Barbara	62	↓8	74
23	Lillian	59	↓10	16
24	Marjorie	56	↑3	37
25	Hazel	53	–	31
26	Thelma	50	↓2	29
27	Gladys	49	↑1	22
28	Bertha	48	↑2	49
29	Gertrude	47	↑4	35
30	Rose	45	↑5	15
31	Lucille	44	↑9	30
32	Edna	43	–	19
33	Ethel	43	↑6	25
34	Marguerite	43	↓5	78
35	Edith	42	↓4	28
36	Arlene	40	↑6	>100
37	Muriel	39	new	>100
38	Madeline	38	↓4	>100
39	Catherine	37	↑5	20
40	Anna	35	↓4	7
41	Cecile	35	↓3	>100
42	Esther	34	new	34
43	Kathleen	34	–	>100
44	Bernice	33	new	42
45	Josephine	33	new	21
46	Eva	32	↓20	55
47	Hilda	32	new	>100
48	Grace	31	↓11	26
49	Jeannette	31	↓4	>100
50	Laura	31	↓2	64

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Robert	180	↑4	4
2	John	171	↓1	1
3	George	146	↓1	7
4	William	139	↓1	2
5	Joseph	127	↑2	5
6	Donald	125	↑2	20
7	Charles	124	↓3	6
8	James	119	↓2	3
9	Arthur	100	–	18
10	Edward	92	↑1	8
11	Richard	91	↑5	15
12	Harold	88	↓2	13
13	Raymond	75	↑4	16
14	Albert	74	–	17
15	Frank	71	–	9
16	Ralph	70	↓3	21
17	Kenneth	66	↑1	27
18	Lawrence	66	↑1	38
19	Walter	60	↑9	11
20	Paul	59	↓8	12
21	Francis	55	↑11	31
22	Ernest	53	↑3	36
23	Roland	53	↓3	>100
24	Philip	52	↓3	70
25	Henry	51	↓3	14
26	Leo	50	↑1	47
27	Stanley	50	↓4	34
28	Thomas	47	↓2	10
29	Norman	44	↓5	48
30	Alfred	42	↑1	43
31	Carl	42	↑7	23
32	Frederick	42	↑3	52
33	Harry	41	↓4	19
34	Clarence	38	–	24
35	Louis	38	↑1	22
36	Howard	34	new	25
37	David	33	new	28
38	Gerald	33	↑6	76
39	Bernard	32	–	49
40	Earl	32	↑2	32
41	Maurice	31	↓11	100
42	Herbert	30	↓9	40
43	Lewis	30	↑4	71
44	Cecil	29	new	80
45	Leonard	29	↑4	42
46	Roger	29	↓9	>100
47	Eugene	28	↑3	39
48	Linwood	28	new	>100
49	Clifford	27	new	61
50	Fred	27	↓9	29

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