Popular baby names in Maine, 1931

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1931 were Mary for girls (256 babies) and Robert for boys (484). Social Security records list 12,665 babies born in Maine in 1931 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1931

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

Girls

Cecile: 23 babies, 14.8× the national rate
Priscilla: 50 babies, 11.2× the national rate
Jeannette: 50 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Jeannine: 23 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Therese: 18 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Mona: 16 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Constance: 57 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Muriel: 30 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Annette: 18 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Lorraine: 103 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Boys

Bertrand: 19 babies, 48.2× the national rate
Normand: 48 babies, 42.4× the national rate
Linwood: 20 babies, 21× the national rate
Dana: 15 babies, 19× the national rate
Reginald: 37 babies, 14.4× the national rate
Gerard: 31 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Lionel: 16 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Maynard: 17 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Roland: 81 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Percy: 15 babies, 6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1931

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Mary	256	–	1
2	Barbara	191	–	4
3	Joan	167	↑2	5
4	Dorothy	146	↓1	3
5	Patricia	137	↓1	8
6	Betty	132	↑6	2
7	Joyce	125	↑6	15
8	Gloria	111	↑12	23
9	Elizabeth	103	↑6	16
10	Lorraine	103	↓2	49
11	Marilyn	103	↓5	19
12	Ruth	101	↓5	11
13	Pauline	94	↑6	56
14	Doris	90	↑2	10
15	Helen	86	↓5	6
16	Beverly	85	↑16	31
17	Margaret	82	↑4	7
18	Marie	80	↑5	27
19	Virginia	76	↑5	12
20	Shirley	74	↓11	9
21	Frances	72	↑5	18
22	Rita	72	↓8	48
23	Phyllis	71	↓5	29
24	Theresa	69	↓13	59
25	Alice	68	–	21
26	Jacqueline	67	↑4	78
27	Jean	67	↓10	13
28	Irene	64	↑5	37
29	Geraldine	63	↑8	38
30	Marion	62	↓2	66
31	Eleanor	60	–	40
32	Nancy	60	↑2	17
33	Constance	57	↑6	>100
34	Evelyn	57	↓5	24
35	Lucille	52	↑5	62
36	Janet	51	↑14	45
37	Norma	51	↑1	22
38	Jeannette	50	new	>100
39	Priscilla	50	↓12	>100
40	Lois	49	↑2	20
41	Carolyn	47	↑5	60
42	Florence	47	↓6	43
43	Louise	47	↓21	33
44	June	46	↑1	44
45	Dolores	44	↑4	14
46	Marjorie	44	↓11	34
47	Mildred	43	↓4	26
48	Arlene	41	↓1	77
49	Joanne	41	new	68
50	Jane	39	new	50

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Robert	484	–	1
2	Richard	381	–	5
3	Donald	236	↑1	7
4	John	236	↓1	3
5	William	197	–	4
6	George	154	–	8
7	Charles	150	↑1	6
8	James	139	↓1	2
9	Joseph	121	↑6	9
10	Paul	112	–	12
11	Raymond	112	↓2	17
12	Arthur	98	↑7	23
13	Edward	96	↑3	11
14	Harold	94	–	18
15	Roger	89	↓3	53
16	Kenneth	85	↓5	14
17	Roland	81	↓4	>100
18	Philip	80	↑8	71
19	David	77	↑5	13
20	Norman	76	↑3	36
21	Ronald	73	↑6	27
22	Lawrence	71	↓2	38
23	Frank	66	↑2	16
24	Albert	65	↓3	24
25	Gerald	62	↓8	26
26	Thomas	61	↓4	10
27	Walter	57	↑5	20
28	Eugene	55	↑3	21
29	Ralph	54	↓11	25
30	Maurice	53	↑9	>100
31	Normand	48	↑6	>100
32	Carl	47	↑6	28
33	Earl	47	↑13	40
34	Francis	42	↓4	42
35	Bernard	41	new	54
36	Ernest	41	↓1	47
37	Leo	41	↓3	69
38	Stanley	40	↓2	49
39	Lloyd	37	new	68
40	Louis	37	↑9	37
41	Reginald	37	↑4	>100
42	Alfred	35	↓1	50
43	Henry	35	↓10	22
44	Gordon	33	new	76
45	Russell	32	new	63
46	Gerard	31	↓4	>100
47	Frederick	30	↓19	73
48	Harry	30	↓8	30
49	Clifford	29	↓6	75
50	Herbert	29	↓6	41

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