Popular baby names in Maine, 1929

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1929 were Mary for girls (220 babies) and Robert for boys (404). Social Security records list 12,272 babies born in Maine in 1929 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1929

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

Girls

Germaine: 17 babies, 16.5× the national rate
Cecile: 21 babies, 12.1× the national rate
Priscilla: 57 babies, 12× the national rate
Therese: 32 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Bernadette: 15 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Constance: 52 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Jeannine: 44 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Jeannette: 34 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Muriel: 51 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Arline: 16 babies, 6.2× the national rate

Boys

Bertrand: 18 babies, 39.6× the national rate
Normand: 35 babies, 28.3× the national rate
Dana: 19 babies, 28.1× the national rate
Linwood: 22 babies, 24.7× the national rate
Armand: 24 babies, 16.5× the national rate
Reginald: 39 babies, 16.1× the national rate
Earle: 23 babies, 16× the national rate
Lionel: 20 babies, 13.6× the national rate
Gerard: 27 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Roland: 81 babies, 8.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1929

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	Mary	220	–	1
2	Barbara	168	–	7
3	Dorothy	146	–	3
4	Ruth	140	↑2	8
5	Lorraine	114	↑9	42
6	Elizabeth	113	↑13	15
7	Joan	111	↑17	13
8	Theresa	105	↓4	49
9	Shirley	103	↑1	9
10	Margaret	102	↓2	5
11	Pauline	101	↓4	50
12	Patricia	100	↓7	10
13	Helen	99	↓2	4
14	Phyllis	99	↑1	24
15	Joyce	91	↑10	23
16	Betty	88	↑1	2
17	Beverly	87	↑5	39
18	Doris	87	↓9	6
19	Virginia	87	↓3	11
20	Alice	81	↑7	21
21	Marilyn	81	↑10	33
22	Rita	81	↓4	52
23	Marie	78	↓2	22
24	Gloria	76	↓12	28
25	Jean	72	↓2	12
26	Frances	71	↓13	16
27	Eleanor	67	↑6	38
28	Irene	65	↑6	29
29	Geraldine	64	↑9	43
30	Jacqueline	64	↑16	87
31	Marjorie	63	↑1	30
32	Marion	61	↓12	53
33	Priscilla	57	↓7	>100
34	Lucille	55	↑8	57
35	Mildred	54	–	18
36	Carolyn	53	new	77
37	Evelyn	53	↓9	19
38	Florence	53	↓8	35
39	Constance	52	↑8	>100
40	Maxine	52	new	85
41	Muriel	51	↓2	>100
42	Louise	49	↓5	31
43	Arlene	44	↓14	>100
44	Jeannine	44	new	>100
45	Norma	43	↓2	25
46	Lois	41	↓10	17
47	Anita	39	new	>100
48	Charlotte	38	↑2	73
49	Lillian	38	–	40
50	Beatrice	37	↓5	72

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	Robert	404	–	1
2	Richard	321	–	6
3	John	233	–	3
4	Donald	201	–	7
5	William	183	↑1	4
6	George	150	↓1	8
7	Charles	143	↑1	5
8	James	140	↓1	2
9	Raymond	131	↑2	15
10	Paul	114	↓1	13
11	Kenneth	101	↓1	18
12	Harold	100	↑1	16
13	Joseph	98	↑1	9
14	Edward	97	↑3	10
15	Norman	83	↑4	40
16	Roland	81	–	>100
17	Arthur	80	↓5	22
18	Gerald	79	↑5	33
19	Albert	73	↑3	24
20	Roger	73	↓5	64
21	Ralph	71	↓3	26
22	Philip	69	↓2	76
23	Frank	66	↑4	12
24	Lawrence	65	↓3	38
25	Herbert	61	–	25
26	David	59	↑5	17
27	Ernest	59	↑3	43
28	Thomas	53	↑4	11
29	Frederick	52	↑4	67
30	Francis	49	↓1	39
31	Ronald	47	↑7	45
32	Leo	45	↓6	60
33	Walter	45	↓9	19
34	Henry	44	↑8	21
35	Earl	43	↑13	36
36	Clarence	41	↑1	37
37	Bernard	40	↓1	52
38	Alfred	39	↓3	41
39	Louis	39	↑4	32
40	Reginald	39	↑1	>100
41	Stanley	38	↓2	48
42	Eugene	37	↓8	20
43	Maurice	37	↓15	>100
44	Normand	35	new	>100
45	Lloyd	30	↑5	62
46	Carl	28	↓2	28
47	Clifford	28	new	72
48	Gerard	27	new	>100
49	Carroll	26	new	>100
50	Gilbert	25	new	91

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