Popular baby names in Maine, 1928

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1928 were Mary for girls (217 babies) and Robert for boys (402). Social Security records list 12,730 babies born in Maine in 1928 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1928

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: 30 babies, 34.3× the national rate
Juliette: 16 babies, 20× the national rate
Priscilla: 70 babies, 14.1× the national rate
Cecile: 22 babies, 12× the national rate
Therese: 45 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Avis: 22 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Jeannette: 39 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Arline: 17 babies, 6× the national rate
Constance: 40 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Muriel: 47 babies, 5× the national rate

Boys

Bertrand: 25 babies, 55.9× the national rate
Fernand: 15 babies, 52× the national rate
Normand: 24 babies, 24.7× the national rate
Marcel: 17 babies, 22.4× the national rate
Reginald: 39 babies, 17.2× the national rate
Linwood: 19 babies, 16.7× the national rate
Earle: 21 babies, 14.3× the national rate
Armand: 17 babies, 10× the national rate
Lionel: 15 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Roland: 88 babies, 8.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1928

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	Mary	217	–	1
2	Barbara	200	↑1	8
3	Dorothy	174	↓1	3
4	Theresa	133	↑1	49
5	Patricia	124	↑6	11
6	Ruth	118	↓2	6
7	Pauline	108	↓1	48
8	Margaret	104	↑10	5
9	Doris	99	↑7	7
10	Shirley	98	↑3	10
11	Helen	94	↓4	4
12	Gloria	91	↓3	25
13	Frances	90	↑8	13
14	Lorraine	88	↑3	39
15	Phyllis	84	↓3	26
16	Virginia	82	↓6	9
17	Betty	81	↑5	2
18	Rita	81	↓4	57
19	Elizabeth	80	↓11	14
20	Marion	78	↑20	47
21	Marie	77	↓6	21
22	Beverly	75	↑9	46
23	Jean	74	↑3	12
24	Joan	74	↑18	27
25	Joyce	70	↑25	30
26	Priscilla	70	↑4	>100
27	Alice	69	↑2	19
28	Evelyn	66	↓8	17
29	Arlene	64	↑6	>100
30	Florence	64	↓2	32
31	Marilyn	63	↑13	38
32	Marjorie	63	↓7	29
33	Eleanor	62	↓9	36
34	Irene	61	↓15	28
35	Mildred	58	↑1	15
36	Lois	56	↓4	18
37	Louise	56	↓10	31
38	Geraldine	47	↑10	50
39	Muriel	47	↓5	>100
40	Gladys	46	new	41
41	Therese	45	↑5	>100
42	Lucille	44	↓9	51
43	Norma	44	–	23
44	Thelma	44	new	40
45	Beatrice	43	↓8	70
46	Jacqueline	43	new	97
47	Constance	40	↓8	>100
48	Jeannette	39	↓3	>100
49	Lillian	39	↓26	35
50	Charlotte	36	↓3	72

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	Robert	402	–	1
2	Richard	295	↑1	6
3	John	225	↓1	2
4	Donald	205	↑1	7
5	George	192	↑1	8
6	William	181	↓2	4
7	James	163	↑1	3
8	Charles	144	↓1	5
9	Paul	129	↑3	13
10	Kenneth	114	↑5	17
11	Raymond	112	↓2	16
12	Arthur	108	↑2	22
13	Harold	106	↓2	14
14	Joseph	105	↓4	9
15	Roger	90	↑4	71
16	Roland	88	↑4	>100
17	Edward	83	↓4	10
18	Ralph	82	↓1	24
19	Norman	81	↑5	39
20	Philip	80	↑1	73
21	Lawrence	74	↑1	38
22	Albert	73	↓6	23
23	Gerald	70	–	41
24	Walter	66	↑2	18
25	Herbert	64	↑18	25
26	Leo	58	↑7	61
27	Frank	55	↓9	12
28	Maurice	54	↓3	>100
29	Francis	52	↑3	40
30	Ernest	51	↑4	43
31	David	50	↑4	19
32	Thomas	49	↓5	11
33	Frederick	48	↑15	67
34	Eugene	47	↓5	20
35	Alfred	43	↑15	33
36	Bernard	43	new	49
37	Clarence	43	↓9	35
38	Ronald	43	↑1	50
39	Stanley	42	↓1	45
40	Harry	41	↓10	26
41	Reginald	39	↑1	>100
42	Henry	38	↓11	21
43	Louis	38	↑2	32
44	Carl	36	↓7	28
45	Russell	34	↑4	55
46	Fred	33	↑1	36
47	Floyd	31	new	54
48	Earl	30	↓12	37
49	Leonard	30	new	42
50	Lloyd	30	new	59

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