Popular baby names in Maine, 1920

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1920 were Mary for girls (311 babies) and Robert for boys (288). Robert ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 12,651 babies born in Maine in 1920 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1920

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: 26 babies, 37.8× the national rate
Germaine: 19 babies, 23.2× the national rate
Juliette: 19 babies, 18.2× the national rate
Priscilla: 44 babies, 12.2× the national rate
Arline: 28 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Cecile: 23 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Bernadette: 15 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Althea: 15 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Jeannette: 43 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Avis: 17 babies, 6.9× the national rate

Boys

Lucien: 20 babies, 29.6× the national rate
Linwood: 20 babies, 22.4× the national rate
Emile: 16 babies, 20.4× the national rate
Lionel: 24 babies, 15.9× the national rate
Roland: 79 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Armand: 17 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Gerard: 21 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Earle: 15 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Carroll: 25 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Laurence: 20 babies, 6.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1920

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Mary	311	–	1
2	Dorothy	236	–	2
3	Ruth	200	–	5
4	Margaret	177	↑1	4
5	Helen	172	↓1	3
6	Barbara	145	↑3	47
7	Frances	129	↑5	9
8	Phyllis	123	↑6	72
9	Elizabeth	122	↓1	8
10	Virginia	117	–	7
11	Alice	108	↓5	15
12	Eleanor	107	↑12	25
13	Evelyn	107	↓6	12
14	Irene	100	↑4	17
15	Pauline	96	↓4	36
16	Doris	89	↓3	14
17	Mildred	86	↑5	6
18	Rita	82	↑3	52
19	Marie	79	↓4	13
20	Marion	79	–	43
21	Florence	76	↓4	16
22	Lillian	70	↓3	18
23	Louise	67	↑11	19
24	Gertrude	63	↑3	42
25	Edith	62	↑1	32
26	Marjorie	62	↓10	24
27	Beatrice	60	↓4	41
28	Catherine	60	↑10	21
29	Shirley	57	↑17	56
30	Hazel	56	↓1	34
31	Muriel	56	–	>100
32	Marguerite	54	↑11	93
33	Charlotte	48	↑7	79
34	Lucille	48	↑8	29
35	Geraldine	47	↑13	60
36	Arlene	46	↓11	>100
37	Grace	45	↑12	37
38	Bernice	44	new	40
39	Ethel	44	↓6	30
40	Priscilla	44	new	>100
41	Constance	43	new	>100
42	Jeannette	43	↓12	>100
43	Edna	42	new	27
44	Gladys	42	↓16	22
45	Anita	40	new	>100
46	Rose	39	↓7	20
47	Esther	37	↓6	39
48	Anna	36	↓11	10
49	June	36	new	53
50	Bertha	34	↓6	57

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Robert	288	↑1	3
2	John	215	↓1	1
3	Charles	172	↑4	5
4	William	166	–	2
5	George	163	↓2	6
6	James	157	–	4
7	Donald	151	↑4	16
8	Joseph	149	↓3	7
9	Richard	129	↑3	10
10	Edward	118	↑3	8
11	Raymond	117	↓3	15
12	Harold	115	↓3	12
13	Arthur	110	↓3	18
14	Albert	93	–	19
15	Paul	88	↑2	14
16	Ralph	88	↓1	22
17	Philip	80	↑12	71
18	Roland	79	↑5	>100
19	Kenneth	75	↓3	23
20	Lawrence	74	–	36
21	Frank	71	↓2	9
22	Henry	65	↓1	17
23	Thomas	65	↑12	11
24	Walter	65	↓6	13
25	Ernest	61	↓3	37
26	Stanley	60	↑10	40
27	Leo	56	↑5	48
28	Norman	55	↓2	47
29	Clarence	51	↑1	26
30	Roger	51	↑3	>100
31	Earl	50	new	31
32	Eugene	49	↑10	30
33	Alfred	47	↓9	42
34	Herbert	47	↓3	41
35	Francis	45	↓10	34
36	Howard	44	↑5	24
37	Gerald	43	↓9	64
38	Harry	43	↓4	21
39	Frederick	41	↓1	60
40	Carl	39	↑6	27
41	Warren	37	new	39
42	Bernard	36	↓5	46
43	David	36	↓3	25
44	Everett	36	↓1	95
45	Chester	35	new	55
46	Maurice	35	↓7	>100
47	Clifford	34	↓2	59
48	Fred	33	↓4	33
49	Elmer	32	new	45
50	Lewis	31	new	72

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