Popular baby names in Maine, 1924

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1924 were Mary for girls (289 babies) and Robert for boys (352). Social Security records list 13,839 babies born in Maine in 1924 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1924

Names given at least 15 times in Maine that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Laurette: 15 babies, 46.2× the national rate
Yvette: 31 babies, 34.5× the national rate
Juliette: 23 babies, 24.6× the national rate
Therese: 34 babies, 20.3× the national rate
Germaine: 17 babies, 17.9× the national rate
Cecile: 38 babies, 15.5× the national rate
Althea: 24 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Georgette: 17 babies, 12.7× the national rate
Priscilla: 58 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Avis: 21 babies, 8.4× the national rate

Boys

Fernand: 25 babies, 58.8× the national rate
Romeo: 21 babies, 31.6× the national rate
Linwood: 28 babies, 25.4× the national rate
Marcel: 21 babies, 25.4× the national rate
Normand: 20 babies, 22.3× the national rate
Lucien: 16 babies, 21.3× the national rate
Gerard: 54 babies, 17.1× the national rate
Armand: 31 babies, 16.6× the national rate
Reginald: 31 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Rene: 15 babies, 13.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1924

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Mary	289	–	1
2	Dorothy	205	–	2
3	Barbara	176	↑1	28
4	Ruth	172	↓1	6
5	Margaret	137	–	5
6	Helen	136	–	3
7	Rita	132	↑9	49
8	Elizabeth	126	↑2	11
9	Doris	116	↑3	9
10	Frances	116	↓3	10
11	Pauline	113	↑2	38
12	Virginia	112	↓4	7
13	Phyllis	102	↓2	44
14	Shirley	101	↑4	19
15	Alice	99	–	15
16	Marie	96	↓7	14
17	Irene	93	↑4	18
18	Marjorie	88	↓4	17
19	Eleanor	87	↑3	29
20	Theresa	84	↑11	96
21	Evelyn	75	↓2	12
22	Geraldine	75	↑10	58
23	Florence	74	↓6	20
24	Lorraine	73	↑22	52
25	Marion	70	↓5	46
26	Mildred	69	↑4	8
27	Lucille	66	↓4	37
28	Muriel	66	↑1	>100
29	Lillian	65	↓3	23
30	Gloria	62	↓6	41
31	Betty	61	new	4
32	Louise	61	↓4	24
33	Beatrice	59	↑7	50
34	Priscilla	58	↑4	>100
35	Arlene	56	↓10	>100
36	Gertrude	56	↓2	60
37	June	54	new	45
38	Patricia	53	↑12	35
39	Edith	52	↑4	36
40	Catherine	50	new	27
41	Charlotte	49	↓8	80
42	Jean	47	new	16
43	Jeannette	47	↓16	>100
44	Norma	47	↑5	40
45	Grace	46	↓1	43
46	Kathleen	46	↑2	76
47	Maxine	46	new	77
48	Gladys	44	↓3	30
49	Marguerite	44	↓12	>100
50	Constance	43	↓11	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Robert	352	–	1
2	John	255	–	2
3	William	211	↑1	3
4	George	199	↓1	6
5	Richard	196	–	8
6	Joseph	181	↑1	7
7	Charles	179	↑2	5
8	Donald	170	–	10
9	James	157	↓3	4
10	Raymond	138	↑4	15
11	Harold	135	↓1	13
12	Kenneth	122	↑3	19
13	Arthur	105	–	20
14	Paul	104	↓2	14
15	Edward	102	↓4	9
16	Roland	101	–	98
17	Ralph	89	↑3	23
18	Lawrence	84	↓1	36
19	Albert	83	↑2	21
20	Frank	80	↑4	12
21	Roger	76	↑6	93
22	Norman	74	↑3	42
23	Philip	74	↓5	71
24	Walter	74	↑2	16
25	Francis	70	↓2	34
26	Frederick	68	↑5	62
27	Henry	61	↓8	18
28	Leo	61	↓6	51
29	Thomas	59	↑5	11
30	Gerald	56	↑5	49
31	Earl	55	↑9	33
32	Gerard	54	↑10	>100
33	Herbert	53	↑4	41
34	Stanley	53	↑4	40
35	Ernest	51	↓7	37
36	Harry	49	↓6	22
37	Clarence	47	↓5	29
38	Fred	44	↑7	32
39	Bernard	43	↓3	46
40	Alfred	40	↓11	43
41	Louis	40	–	28
42	David	39	↑4	24
43	Maurice	39	↓4	>100
44	Carl	38	–	27
45	Eugene	36	↓12	25
46	Everett	36	↓3	>100
47	Clifford	34	new	64
48	Howard	34	↑2	26
49	Armand	31	new	>100
50	Clayton	31	new	>100

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