Popular baby names in Maine, 1926

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1926 were Mary for girls (261 babies) and Robert for boys (402). Social Security records list 12,556 babies born in Maine in 1926 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1926

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: 23 babies, 33.3× the national rate
Juliette: 15 babies, 19.8× the national rate
Priscilla: 62 babies, 13.6× the national rate
Cecile: 26 babies, 12.6× the national rate
Therese: 49 babies, 11.5× the national rate
Jeannette: 34 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Theresa: 138 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Constance: 51 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Muriel: 55 babies, 5× the national rate
Arline: 15 babies, 4.6× the national rate

Boys

Fernand: 26 babies, 85.1× the national rate
Bertrand: 21 babies, 57.4× the national rate
Lucien: 24 babies, 31× the national rate
Dana: 16 babies, 25.7× the national rate
Linwood: 22 babies, 23× the national rate
Normand: 22 babies, 21.1× the national rate
Reginald: 36 babies, 13.9× the national rate
Gerard: 40 babies, 12.5× the national rate
Armand: 15 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Roland: 85 babies, 9.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1926

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Mary	261	–	1
2	Dorothy	178	↑1	2
3	Barbara	172	↓1	16
4	Theresa	138	↑9	64
5	Ruth	136	↓1	6
6	Pauline	119	↑3	39
7	Helen	113	↑1	4
8	Margaret	110	↓2	5
9	Virginia	106	↑2	8
10	Phyllis	97	↓3	33
11	Shirley	97	↑7	14
12	Rita	92	↑7	50
13	Doris	88	↑1	7
14	Frances	86	↓2	10
15	Irene	83	↑2	21
16	Marie	81	↓6	18
17	Alice	77	↓2	17
18	Elizabeth	76	↓13	11
19	Lorraine	76	↑6	53
20	Jean	71	↑14	12
21	Patricia	69	↑1	23
22	Eleanor	68	↓6	32
23	Marjorie	67	↑1	22
24	Marion	66	↓1	47
25	Evelyn	64	↓5	13
26	Norma	64	↑9	29
27	Betty	63	↑10	3
28	Joyce	62	↑20	44
29	Priscilla	62	↑20	>100
30	Mildred	61	↓3	9
31	Gloria	60	↓2	20
32	Lucille	59	↓6	43
33	Geraldine	57	↓5	54
34	Florence	56	↓1	26
35	Muriel	55	↑12	>100
36	Arlene	53	↓6	>100
37	Beatrice	53	↑5	58
38	Lillian	52	↓17	28
39	Constance	51	↓7	>100
40	Therese	49	↑10	>100
41	Beverly	48	new	74
42	Louise	48	↓11	27
43	Gertrude	47	↓7	71
44	June	46	↓5	40
45	Elaine	45	new	68
46	Edith	44	↓2	42
47	Catherine	43	new	31
48	Lois	43	↓3	19
49	Joan	42	new	51
50	Hazel	41	new	48

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Robert	402	–	1
2	John	254	–	2
3	Richard	231	–	7
4	Donald	173	↑1	9
5	William	171	↓1	4
6	George	165	↑1	6
7	Charles	152	↓1	5
8	Joseph	145	↑1	8
9	James	136	↓1	3
10	Raymond	136	–	15
11	Paul	109	–	13
12	Arthur	107	↑2	20
13	Edward	103	↓1	10
14	Harold	97	↑1	14
15	Albert	87	↓2	21
16	Philip	86	↑6	70
17	Roland	85	–	>100
18	Kenneth	79	↓2	18
19	Roger	79	↑4	89
20	Lawrence	77	↓1	36
21	Ralph	77	↓3	24
22	Norman	64	↑5	39
23	Maurice	62	↑17	>100
24	Thomas	59	↑13	11
25	Ernest	58	↑3	37
26	Leo	58	↑4	54
27	Frank	57	↓6	12
28	Walter	56	↓8	17
29	Eugene	54	↓3	23
30	Gerald	53	↑5	41
31	Francis	50	↓7	35
32	David	49	↑9	22
33	Herbert	45	–	44
34	Earl	44	↑8	32
35	Frederick	44	↑4	64
36	Alfred	41	↑2	45
37	Louis	41	↓6	30
38	Gerard	40	↑5	>100
39	Carl	39	↓3	26
40	Everett	39	↑8	>100
41	Henry	38	↓16	19
42	Bernard	36	↓10	49
43	Clayton	36	↑7	>100
44	Reginald	36	↑2	>100
45	Clarence	33	↓16	29
46	Harry	31	↓12	25
47	Howard	31	↓2	27
48	Ronald	31	new	88
49	Alton	30	new	>100
50	Leonard	30	new	38

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