Popular baby names in Maine, 1919

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1919 were Mary for girls (281 babies) and John for boys (236). Social Security records list 11,271 babies born in Maine in 1919 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1919

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: 24 babies, 39.5× the national rate
Germaine: 17 babies, 27.5× the national rate
Cecile: 48 babies, 19× the national rate
Priscilla: 35 babies, 11.9× the national rate
Jeannette: 50 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Avis: 15 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Arline: 21 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Arlene: 53 babies, 7× the national rate
Yvonne: 18 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Rena: 16 babies, 5.9× the national rate

Boys

Linwood: 23 babies, 26.7× the national rate
Lucien: 18 babies, 25.8× the national rate
Lionel: 25 babies, 18.3× the national rate
Reginald: 18 babies, 13.6× the national rate
Armand: 18 babies, 12.8× the national rate
Gerard: 28 babies, 12.6× the national rate
Carroll: 23 babies, 8× the national rate
Roland: 54 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Roger: 45 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Wilfred: 24 babies, 6.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1919

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Mary	281	–	1
2	Dorothy	185	–	3
3	Ruth	157	–	5
4	Helen	147	–	2
5	Margaret	136	–	4
6	Alice	111	↑7	13
7	Evelyn	102	↑11	11
8	Elizabeth	97	↓2	8
9	Barbara	94	↑7	60
10	Virginia	94	↓1	7
11	Pauline	90	↑9	36
12	Frances	88	↓4	9
13	Doris	86	↑1	18
14	Phyllis	85	↓3	84
15	Marie	78	↓5	12
16	Marjorie	77	↑5	33
17	Florence	75	↓5	14
18	Irene	75	↑5	16
19	Lillian	72	↑5	17
20	Marion	72	↓3	44
21	Rita	70	↓2	54
22	Mildred	68	↓7	6
23	Beatrice	65	↑2	41
24	Eleanor	65	↓17	30
25	Arlene	53	↑4	>100
26	Edith	51	↑1	29
27	Gertrude	51	↑1	39
28	Gladys	51	↑2	21
29	Hazel	51	↓3	32
30	Jeannette	50	↑12	>100
31	Muriel	50	↑4	>100
32	Cecile	48	new	>100
33	Ethel	46	↑6	28
34	Louise	46	↓12	20
35	Madeline	43	↑3	>100
36	Thelma	43	–	31
37	Anna	42	↓5	10
38	Catherine	41	new	23
39	Rose	41	↑5	19
40	Charlotte	40	↑1	79
41	Esther	40	↓4	38
42	Lucille	39	↑1	27
43	Marguerite	39	↓12	96
44	Bertha	38	↓11	52
45	Katherine	38	new	51
46	Shirley	38	new	89
47	Eva	36	↓7	55
48	Geraldine	36	↓14	68
49	Grace	35	↓3	34
50	Maxine	35	new	85

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	John	236	–	1
2	Robert	223	–	4
3	George	164	–	6
4	William	153	–	2
5	Joseph	142	–	7
6	James	140	↑1	3
7	Charles	138	↓1	5
8	Raymond	115	↑6	14
9	Harold	113	↑2	13
10	Arthur	106	↑2	19
11	Donald	105	↓2	17
12	Richard	100	↓4	12
13	Edward	95	↑3	8
14	Albert	92	↓1	18
15	Ralph	82	–	22
16	Kenneth	81	↑3	26
17	Paul	76	↓7	15
18	Walter	72	–	11
19	Frank	70	↓2	9
20	Lawrence	69	↑2	38
21	Henry	64	↑4	16
22	Ernest	61	↑12	36
23	Roland	54	↓2	>100
24	Alfred	53	↑9	42
25	Francis	52	↓2	34
26	Norman	52	↑1	48
27	Louis	51	↑10	28
28	Gerald	48	↑10	70
29	Philip	48	↓9	71
30	Clarence	47	–	25
31	Herbert	47	–	40
32	Leo	46	↓8	49
33	Roger	45	↑2	>100
34	Harry	44	↓5	20
35	Thomas	42	↓9	10
36	Stanley	39	↓8	37
37	Bernard	38	↑12	45
38	Frederick	38	↑1	64
39	Maurice	38	↓3	>100
40	David	36	↑7	27
41	Howard	36	↑7	24
42	Eugene	35	new	33
43	Everett	35	new	93
44	Fred	35	↓12	30
45	Clifford	34	new	60
46	Carl	33	↓6	29
47	Theodore	31	new	54
48	Clayton	29	new	>100
49	Gerard	28	new	>100
50	Leon	28	↓8	80

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