Popular baby names in Maine, 1918

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1918 were Mary for girls (262 babies) and John for boys (246). Social Security records list 12,056 babies born in Maine in 1918 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1918

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: 32 babies, 47.9× the national rate
Germaine: 17 babies, 28.8× the national rate
Cecile: 33 babies, 12× the national rate
Priscilla: 32 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Avis: 26 babies, 10.9× the national rate
Althea: 16 babies, 9× the national rate
Yvonne: 25 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Hope: 16 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Arlene: 53 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Jeannette: 38 babies, 6.3× the national rate

Boys

Lucien: 15 babies, 22.9× the national rate
Linwood: 17 babies, 22.4× the national rate
Merton: 15 babies, 19.8× the national rate
Armand: 33 babies, 17× the national rate
Lionel: 25 babies, 17× the national rate
Reginald: 18 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Earle: 19 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Gerard: 22 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Roland: 67 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Carroll: 25 babies, 8.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1918

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	Mary	262	–	1
2	Dorothy	222	–	3
3	Ruth	199	↑1	5
4	Helen	161	↓1	2
5	Margaret	147	–	4
6	Elizabeth	120	–	9
7	Eleanor	101	↑8	26
8	Frances	101	↓1	8
9	Virginia	101	↑3	7
10	Marie	100	↑10	12
11	Phyllis	100	↑3	80
12	Florence	97	↑4	14
13	Alice	96	↓3	13
14	Doris	94	↓3	19
15	Mildred	94	↑2	6
16	Barbara	92	↓8	60
17	Marion	89	↑5	45
18	Evelyn	86	↓9	11
19	Rita	84	↑6	58
20	Pauline	81	↓7	35
21	Marjorie	78	↑3	34
22	Louise	73	↑4	18
23	Irene	72	↓5	16
24	Lillian	61	↓5	15
25	Beatrice	58	↑3	40
26	Hazel	56	↑15	33
27	Edith	55	↓4	30
28	Gertrude	54	↓7	39
29	Arlene	53	↑2	>100
30	Gladys	52	↑4	22
31	Marguerite	51	↓2	86
32	Anna	49	↑16	10
33	Bertha	49	↑9	51
34	Geraldine	48	↑16	77
35	Muriel	48	↑12	>100
36	Thelma	47	↓9	32
37	Esther	46	↓5	38
38	Madeline	42	↓8	>100
39	Ethel	41	↑7	28
40	Eva	41	↓7	55
41	Charlotte	38	↑2	78
42	Jeannette	38	↓4	>100
43	Lucille	37	↓8	29
44	Rose	37	↓8	17
45	Edna	36	↓5	23
46	Grace	36	↓7	31
47	Josephine	36	new	24
48	Annie	35	new	36
49	Laura	35	new	64
50	Bernice	34	new	41

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	John	246	↑1	1
2	Robert	210	↓1	4
3	George	188	↑1	6
4	William	180	↓1	2
5	Joseph	158	↑1	7
6	Charles	151	↓1	5
7	James	138	–	3
8	Richard	111	↑4	12
9	Donald	107	–	18
10	Paul	105	↑5	14
11	Harold	104	↓3	13
12	Arthur	101	↓1	17
13	Albert	90	↑4	19
14	Raymond	90	↓1	15
15	Ralph	84	↑1	22
16	Edward	78	↓6	8
17	Frank	76	↑2	9
18	Walter	75	↑5	11
19	Kenneth	71	↓5	27
20	Philip	71	–	71
21	Roland	67	↑1	>100
22	Lawrence	64	↓4	38
23	Francis	63	↑8	30
24	Leo	62	↑2	48
25	Henry	61	–	16
26	Thomas	61	↑10	10
27	Norman	55	↑1	49
28	Stanley	54	↑5	36
29	Harry	53	↑8	20
30	Clarence	51	↑5	23
31	Herbert	50	↓7	40
32	Fred	48	↑8	33
33	Alfred	47	↓6	42
34	Ernest	47	↓13	37
35	Roger	44	↑12	>100
36	Maurice	41	↑10	>100
37	Louis	39	↓3	24
38	Gerald	37	–	72
39	Frederick	36	↓7	59
40	Carl	35	↓11	25
41	Earl	35	↑7	31
42	Leon	34	new	77
43	Lloyd	34	new	51
44	Russell	34	new	50
45	Armand	33	new	>100
46	Gordon	33	new	85
47	David	31	↓5	28
48	Howard	30	↓4	26
49	Bernard	28	new	47
50	Edwin	27	new	55

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