Popular baby names in Maine, 1927

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1927 were Mary for girls (261 babies) and Robert for boys (387). Social Security records list 12,524 babies born in Maine in 1927 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1927

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, 26.9× the national rate
Georgette: 20 babies, 20.4× the national rate
Cecile: 27 babies, 13.6× the national rate
Priscilla: 60 babies, 12.5× the national rate
Therese: 46 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Jeannette: 46 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Avis: 15 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Constance: 50 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Corinne: 19 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Muriel: 56 babies, 5.8× the national rate

Boys

Fernand: 19 babies, 50.5× the national rate
Lucien: 21 babies, 26.6× the national rate
Marcel: 16 babies, 20.7× the national rate
Linwood: 22 babies, 19.6× the national rate
Normand: 19 babies, 17.9× the national rate
Reginald: 38 babies, 15.6× the national rate
Armand: 21 babies, 13.7× the national rate
Gerard: 38 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Lionel: 18 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Carroll: 38 babies, 10× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1927

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Mary	261	–	1
2	Dorothy	191	–	2
3	Barbara	173	–	10
4	Ruth	129	↑1	6
5	Theresa	128	↓1	52
6	Pauline	115	–	42
7	Helen	109	–	4
8	Elizabeth	101	↑10	13
9	Gloria	100	↑22	22
10	Virginia	100	↓1	8
11	Patricia	95	↑10	18
12	Phyllis	90	↓2	29
13	Shirley	90	↓2	9
14	Rita	88	↓2	54
15	Marie	86	↑1	20
16	Doris	85	↓3	7
17	Lorraine	84	↑2	44
18	Margaret	84	↓10	5
19	Irene	82	↓4	21
20	Evelyn	80	↑5	15
21	Frances	76	↓7	12
22	Betty	75	↑5	3
23	Lillian	75	↑15	32
24	Eleanor	71	↓2	33
25	Marjorie	70	↓2	25
26	Jean	69	↓6	14
27	Louise	66	↑15	27
28	Florence	65	↑6	28
29	Alice	63	↓12	17
30	Priscilla	60	↓1	>100
31	Beverly	58	↑10	57
32	Lois	58	↑16	19
33	Lucille	56	↓1	45
34	Muriel	56	↑1	>100
35	Arlene	55	↑1	>100
36	Mildred	55	↓6	11
37	Beatrice	54	–	67
38	June	51	↑6	43
39	Constance	50	–	>100
40	Marion	50	↓16	51
41	Elaine	49	↑4	69
42	Joan	49	↑7	41
43	Norma	49	↓17	26
44	Marilyn	47	new	46
45	Jeannette	46	new	>100
46	Therese	46	↓6	>100
47	Charlotte	45	new	75
48	Geraldine	45	↓15	58
49	Gertrude	43	↓6	78
50	Joyce	42	↓22	35

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Robert	387	–	1
2	John	260	–	2
3	Richard	218	–	6
4	William	195	↑1	4
5	Donald	188	↓1	8
6	George	173	–	7
7	Charles	171	–	5
8	James	142	↑1	3
9	Raymond	136	↑1	15
10	Joseph	122	↓2	9
11	Harold	114	↑3	14
12	Paul	109	↓1	13
13	Edward	104	–	10
14	Arthur	95	↓2	22
15	Kenneth	94	↑3	18
16	Albert	87	↓1	23
17	Ralph	78	↑4	24
18	Frank	77	↑9	12
19	Roger	75	–	84
20	Roland	74	↓3	>100
21	Philip	72	↓5	75
22	Lawrence	71	↓2	37
23	Gerald	66	↑7	38
24	Norman	66	↓2	39
25	Maurice	59	↓2	>100
26	Walter	58	↑2	17
27	Thomas	55	↓3	11
28	Clarence	54	↑17	32
29	Eugene	52	–	20
30	Harry	52	↑16	25
31	Henry	52	↑10	19
32	Francis	48	↓1	36
33	Leo	45	↓7	55
34	Ernest	44	↓9	41
35	David	42	↓3	21
36	Earl	42	↓2	33
37	Carl	40	↑2	26
38	Stanley	40	new	44
39	Ronald	39	↑9	63
40	Carroll	38	new	>100
41	Gerard	38	↓3	>100
42	Reginald	38	↑2	>100
43	Herbert	37	↓10	42
44	Howard	37	↑3	28
45	Louis	37	↓8	29
46	Everett	35	↓6	>100
47	Fred	35	new	35
48	Frederick	35	↓13	64
49	Russell	35	new	54
50	Alfred	33	↓14	45

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