Popular baby names in Maine, 1925

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1925 were Mary for girls (285 babies) and Robert for boys (400). Social Security records list 13,028 babies born in Maine in 1925 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1925

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, 27.7× the national rate
Juliette: 20 babies, 26.4× the national rate
Georgette: 21 babies, 19.3× the national rate
Therese: 39 babies, 13.5× the national rate
Cecile: 28 babies, 12.7× the national rate
Avis: 23 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Priscilla: 39 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Jeannette: 46 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Constance: 57 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Madeline: 46 babies, 5.6× the national rate

Boys

Bertrand: 17 babies, 31.7× the national rate
Normand: 22 babies, 22.2× the national rate
Lucien: 16 babies, 21× the national rate
Linwood: 18 babies, 17.8× the national rate
Marcel: 15 babies, 17.6× the national rate
Armand: 25 babies, 15× the national rate
Rene: 15 babies, 14.6× the national rate
Reginald: 36 babies, 14.5× the national rate
Gerard: 41 babies, 12.8× the national rate
Lionel: 22 babies, 12.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1925

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Mary	285	–	1
2	Barbara	200	↑1	22
3	Dorothy	181	↓1	2
4	Ruth	163	–	6
5	Elizabeth	123	↑3	10
6	Margaret	116	↓1	5
7	Phyllis	110	↑6	40
8	Helen	109	↓2	4
9	Pauline	107	↑2	38
10	Marie	104	↑6	16
11	Virginia	99	↑1	7
12	Frances	98	↓2	11
13	Theresa	95	↑7	80
14	Doris	92	↓5	8
15	Alice	90	–	15
16	Eleanor	90	↑3	31
17	Irene	89	–	19
18	Shirley	85	↓4	17
19	Rita	81	↓12	48
20	Evelyn	78	↑1	12
21	Lillian	77	↑8	25
22	Patricia	77	↑16	28
23	Marion	72	↑2	47
24	Marjorie	70	↓6	21
25	Lorraine	62	↓1	51
26	Lucille	61	↑1	41
27	Mildred	61	↓1	9
28	Geraldine	60	↓6	54
29	Gloria	60	↑1	20
30	Arlene	59	↑5	>100
31	Louise	58	↑1	27
32	Constance	57	↑18	>100
33	Florence	57	↓10	24
34	Jean	57	↑8	14
35	Norma	56	↑9	34
36	Gertrude	54	–	70
37	Betty	53	↓6	3
38	Kathleen	52	↑8	81
39	June	48	↓2	39
40	Jeannette	46	↑3	>100
41	Madeline	46	new	>100
42	Beatrice	44	↓9	50
43	Charlotte	44	↓2	77
44	Edith	44	↓5	42
45	Lois	42	new	18
46	Thelma	42	new	35
47	Muriel	41	↓19	>100
48	Joyce	40	new	59
49	Priscilla	39	↓15	>100
50	Therese	39	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Robert	400	–	1
2	John	257	–	2
3	Richard	224	↑2	8
4	William	195	↓1	3
5	Donald	190	↑3	10
6	Charles	159	↑1	5
7	George	150	↓3	6
8	James	145	↑1	4
9	Joseph	140	↓3	7
10	Raymond	128	–	15
11	Paul	112	↑3	13
12	Edward	108	↑3	9
13	Albert	106	↑6	21
14	Arthur	104	↓1	20
15	Harold	100	↓4	14
16	Kenneth	100	↓4	19
17	Roland	91	↓1	98
18	Ralph	84	↓1	25
19	Lawrence	81	↓1	36
20	Walter	81	↑4	16
21	Frank	76	↓1	12
22	Philip	74	↑1	75
23	Roger	72	↓2	90
24	Francis	63	↑1	35
25	Henry	62	↑2	18
26	Eugene	61	↑19	24
27	Norman	61	↓5	41
28	Ernest	59	↑7	37
29	Clarence	57	↑8	30
30	Leo	57	↓2	54
31	Louis	54	↑10	29
32	Bernard	51	↑7	48
33	Herbert	51	–	42
34	Harry	48	↑2	23
35	Gerald	45	↓5	45
36	Carl	44	↑8	28
37	Thomas	44	↓8	11
38	Alfred	43	↑2	43
39	Frederick	42	↓13	65
40	Maurice	42	↑3	>100
41	David	41	↑1	22
42	Earl	41	↓11	31
43	Gerard	41	↓11	>100
44	Stanley	40	↓10	40
45	Howard	38	↑3	26
46	Reginald	36	new	>100
47	Gordon	35	new	72
48	Everett	33	↓2	>100
49	Lewis	33	new	79
50	Clayton	32	–	>100

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