Popular baby names in Maine, 1930

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1930 were Mary for girls (213 babies) and Robert for boys (442). Social Security records list 12,716 babies born in Maine in 1930 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1930

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: 20 babies, 27.7× the national rate
Georgette: 15 babies, 19.9× the national rate
Cecile: 32 babies, 19× the national rate
Priscilla: 66 babies, 14× the national rate
Jeannine: 46 babies, 13.6× the national rate
Avis: 22 babies, 13.1× the national rate
Therese: 24 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Constance: 51 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Muriel: 45 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Natalie: 20 babies, 5.6× the national rate

Boys

Fernand: 16 babies, 71.8× the national rate
Normand: 42 babies, 35.5× the national rate
Dana: 19 babies, 27× the national rate
Linwood: 25 babies, 24.2× the national rate
Reginald: 37 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Lionel: 21 babies, 13.1× the national rate
Gerard: 38 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Armand: 15 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Roland: 100 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Maynard: 16 babies, 7.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1930

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Mary	213	–	1
2	Barbara	197	–	6
3	Dorothy	165	–	3
4	Patricia	143	↑8	7
5	Joan	141	↑2	8
6	Marilyn	112	↑15	22
7	Ruth	112	↓3	10
8	Lorraine	111	↓3	46
9	Shirley	108	–	11
10	Helen	106	↑3	4
11	Theresa	104	↓3	50
12	Betty	103	↑4	2
13	Joyce	102	↑2	18
14	Rita	102	↑8	42
15	Elizabeth	100	↓9	15
16	Doris	95	↑2	9
17	Jean	95	↑8	14
18	Phyllis	90	↓4	28
19	Pauline	89	↓8	52
20	Gloria	88	↑4	30
21	Margaret	83	↓11	5
22	Louise	75	↑20	31
23	Marie	75	–	26
24	Virginia	74	↓5	12
25	Alice	73	↓5	20
26	Frances	69	–	16
27	Priscilla	66	↑6	>100
28	Marion	65	↑4	60
29	Evelyn	64	↑8	19
30	Jacqueline	64	–	74
31	Eleanor	62	↓4	39
32	Beverly	61	↓15	34
33	Irene	60	↓5	33
34	Nancy	58	new	24
35	Marjorie	56	↓4	32
36	Florence	55	↑2	38
37	Geraldine	53	↓8	43
38	Norma	53	↑7	25
39	Constance	51	–	>100
40	Lucille	47	↓6	59
41	Jeannine	46	↑3	>100
42	Lois	46	↑4	17
43	Mildred	45	↓8	21
44	Muriel	45	↓3	>100
45	June	44	new	47
46	Carolyn	42	↓10	72
47	Arlene	41	↓4	>100
48	Gertrude	41	new	96
49	Dolores	39	new	13
50	Janet	39	new	53

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Robert	442	–	1
2	Richard	344	–	5
3	John	239	–	3
4	Donald	212	–	7
5	William	186	–	4
6	George	161	–	8
7	James	156	↑1	2
8	Charles	150	↓1	6
9	Raymond	126	–	16
10	Paul	107	–	12
11	Kenneth	105	–	17
12	Roger	103	↑8	58
13	Roland	100	↑3	>100
14	Harold	98	↓2	18
15	Joseph	98	↓2	9
16	Edward	93	↓2	10
17	Gerald	84	↑1	30
18	Ralph	84	↑3	25
19	Arthur	83	↓2	23
20	Lawrence	81	↑4	36
21	Albert	78	↓2	24
22	Thomas	71	↑6	11
23	Norman	70	↓8	40
24	David	65	↑2	15
25	Frank	65	↓2	13
26	Philip	65	↓4	75
27	Ronald	58	↑4	37
28	Frederick	57	↑1	74
29	Clarence	54	↑7	39
30	Francis	54	–	42
31	Eugene	50	↑11	21
32	Walter	49	↑1	19
33	Henry	46	↑1	22
34	Leo	46	↓2	63
35	Ernest	45	↓8	43
36	Stanley	43	↑5	49
37	Normand	42	↑7	>100
38	Carl	41	↑8	26
39	Maurice	40	↑4	>100
40	Harry	39	new	28
41	Alfred	38	↓3	46
42	Gerard	38	↑6	>100
43	Clifford	37	↑4	73
44	Herbert	37	↓19	35
45	Reginald	37	↓5	>100
46	Earl	33	↓11	38
47	Fred	33	new	32
48	Everett	32	new	>100
49	Louis	32	↓10	34
50	Keith	31	new	>100

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