Popular baby names in Maine, 1932

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1932 were Barbara for girls (261 babies) and Robert for boys (486). Barbara ranked #3 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 12,912 babies born in Maine in 1932 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1932

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: 15 babies, 24.7× the national rate
Cecile: 23 babies, 16.3× the national rate
Jeannine: 30 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Priscilla: 46 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Therese: 17 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Jeannette: 40 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Constance: 89 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Muriel: 31 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Rachel: 31 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Pauline: 93 babies, 4× the national rate

Boys

Fernand: 16 babies, 55.9× the national rate
Normand: 39 babies, 30.7× the national rate
Reginald: 48 babies, 20.6× the national rate
Dana: 16 babies, 19.8× the national rate
Linwood: 20 babies, 18.2× the national rate
Armand: 21 babies, 16.2× the national rate
Lionel: 23 babies, 11.9× the national rate
Gerard: 33 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Malcolm: 30 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Roland: 81 babies, 8.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1932

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Barbara	261	↑1	3
2	Mary	248	↓1	1
3	Joan	214	–	5
4	Patricia	177	↑1	6
5	Joyce	121	↑2	12
6	Marilyn	117	↑5	16
7	Dorothy	115	↓3	4
8	Betty	110	↓2	2
9	Elizabeth	105	–	17
10	Beverly	102	↑6	28
11	Gloria	98	↓3	25
12	Doris	94	↑2	10
13	Lorraine	93	↓3	55
14	Pauline	93	↓1	59
15	Constance	89	↑18	99
16	Helen	89	↓1	8
17	Jean	87	↑10	15
18	Margaret	87	↓1	7
19	Ruth	84	↓7	11
20	Shirley	84	–	9
21	Theresa	75	↑3	60
22	Nancy	74	↑10	13
23	Rita	71	↓1	53
24	Carolyn	70	↑17	46
25	Virginia	67	↓6	14
26	Phyllis	66	↓3	30
27	Alice	65	↓2	21
28	Evelyn	61	↑6	23
29	Jacqueline	61	↓3	85
30	Irene	60	↓2	43
31	Marie	60	↓13	31
32	Marion	60	↓2	73
33	Lois	59	↑7	20
34	Louise	58	↑9	36
35	Norma	58	↑2	22
36	Frances	56	↓15	19
37	Geraldine	55	↓8	42
38	Lucille	53	↓3	63
39	Janet	49	↓3	35
40	Lillian	49	new	48
41	Sylvia	49	new	96
42	Joanne	46	↑7	62
43	Priscilla	46	↓4	>100
44	Marjorie	45	↑2	37
45	Ann	44	new	34
46	Janice	44	new	94
47	Beatrice	43	new	87
48	June	43	↓4	44
49	Florence	40	↓7	47
50	Jeannette	40	↓12	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Robert	486	–	1
2	Richard	416	–	5
3	John	239	↑1	3
4	Donald	227	↓1	7
5	William	194	–	4
6	James	166	↑2	2
7	Charles	144	–	6
8	George	142	↓2	8
9	Paul	133	↑1	13
10	Raymond	118	↑1	19
11	Joseph	117	↓2	9
12	Roger	105	↑3	50
13	Edward	95	–	11
14	David	94	↑5	12
15	Ronald	91	↑6	16
16	Gerald	85	↑9	24
17	Roland	81	–	>100
18	Norman	80	↑2	37
19	Harold	77	↓5	18
20	Kenneth	76	↓4	14
21	Arthur	74	↓9	25
22	Philip	73	↓4	70
23	Lawrence	70	↓1	35
24	Albert	66	–	26
25	Walter	57	↑2	21
26	Thomas	55	–	10
27	Frank	54	↓4	15
28	Ralph	54	↑1	27
29	Maurice	51	↑1	>100
30	Eugene	50	↓2	22
31	Francis	49	↑3	43
32	Henry	48	↑11	23
33	Reginald	48	↑8	>100
34	Stanley	44	↑4	52
35	Gordon	42	↑9	81
36	Frederick	41	↑11	73
37	Clarence	39	new	40
38	Leo	39	↓1	74
39	Normand	39	↓8	>100
40	Earl	38	↓7	41
41	Herbert	37	↑9	44
42	Carl	35	↓10	28
43	Bernard	33	↓8	60
44	Fred	33	new	33
45	Gerard	33	↑1	>100
46	Howard	33	new	36
47	Ernest	31	↓11	47
48	Carroll	30	new	>100
49	Malcolm	30	new	>100
50	Wayne	30	new	57

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