Popular baby names in Maine, 1933

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1933 were Mary for girls (224 babies) and Robert for boys (453). Social Security records list 11,929 babies born in Maine in 1933 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1933

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, 18× the national rate
Cecile: 21 babies, 17.4× the national rate
Jeannine: 38 babies, 16.5× the national rate
Priscilla: 47 babies, 11.8× the national rate
Dawn: 16 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Jeannette: 42 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Constance: 73 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Natalie: 16 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Muriel: 25 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Lorraine: 97 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 37 babies, 43× the national rate
Bertrand: 15 babies, 40.6× the national rate
Dana: 23 babies, 28.3× the national rate
Linwood: 21 babies, 23.7× the national rate
Reginald: 28 babies, 13.5× the national rate
Lionel: 15 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Maurice: 56 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Wilfred: 17 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Roland: 52 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Merle: 19 babies, 5.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1933

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	Mary	224	↑1	1
2	Barbara	194	↓1	3
3	Joan	192	–	5
4	Patricia	150	–	6
5	Dorothy	124	↑2	4
6	Lorraine	97	↑7	54
7	Betty	96	↑1	2
8	Beverly	94	↑2	26
9	Joyce	90	↓4	12
10	Elizabeth	89	↓1	17
11	Gloria	87	–	31
12	Jean	87	↑5	14
13	Doris	84	↓1	10
14	Pauline	84	–	64
15	Nancy	83	↑7	11
16	Shirley	83	↑4	9
17	Helen	79	↓1	8
18	Marilyn	79	↓12	16
19	Margaret	77	↓1	7
20	Theresa	75	↑1	70
21	Constance	73	↓6	>100
22	Ruth	72	↓3	13
23	Phyllis	71	↑3	28
24	Marie	63	↑7	33
25	Geraldine	62	↑12	42
26	Janet	61	↑13	25
27	Frances	58	↑9	18
28	Joanne	58	↑14	56
29	Carolyn	57	↓5	40
30	Eleanor	52	new	38
31	Jacqueline	52	↓2	86
32	Virginia	51	↓7	15
33	Louise	50	↑1	39
34	Rita	50	↓11	53
35	Alice	49	↓8	22
36	Irene	49	↓6	46
37	June	49	↑11	45
38	Lois	49	↓5	19
39	Marlene	48	new	50
40	Priscilla	47	↑3	>100
41	Elaine	46	new	61
42	Marion	45	↓10	73
43	Norma	44	↓8	23
44	Sylvia	44	↓3	84
45	Jeannette	42	↑5	>100
46	Evelyn	41	↓18	30
47	Marjorie	41	↓3	41
48	Janice	39	↓2	81
49	Lucille	39	↓11	78
50	Arlene	38	new	74

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	Robert	453	–	1
2	Richard	392	–	5
3	John	236	–	3
4	Donald	203	–	7
5	James	171	↑1	2
6	William	170	↓1	4
7	Charles	142	–	6
8	George	138	–	8
9	Raymond	124	↑1	19
10	Paul	119	↓1	14
11	Roger	112	↑1	48
12	Ronald	107	↑3	12
13	Joseph	96	↓2	9
14	Norman	94	↑4	37
15	Kenneth	85	↑5	15
16	David	82	↓2	13
17	Edward	81	↓4	11
18	Philip	74	↑4	70
19	Gerald	71	↓3	22
20	Arthur	69	↑1	25
21	Harold	67	↓2	18
22	Thomas	59	↑4	10
23	Lawrence	57	–	38
24	Maurice	56	↑5	>100
25	Frank	54	↑2	16
26	Walter	54	↓1	21
27	Henry	53	↑5	24
28	Francis	52	↑3	45
29	Ralph	52	↓1	29
30	Roland	52	↓13	>100
31	Albert	51	↓7	30
32	Carl	49	↑10	28
33	Eugene	49	↓3	23
34	Alfred	43	new	57
35	Franklin	40	new	33
36	Gordon	40	↓1	71
37	Normand	37	↑2	>100
38	Wayne	37	↑12	52
39	Bernard	36	↑4	63
40	Ernest	36	↑7	50
41	Frederick	36	↓5	78
42	Harry	36	new	35
43	Leo	35	↓5	75
44	Earl	32	↓4	41
45	Herbert	32	↓4	49
46	Louis	32	new	40
47	Clarence	30	↓10	43
48	Lloyd	30	new	73
49	Reginald	28	↓16	>100
50	Russell	28	new	67

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