Popular baby names in Maine, 1934

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1934 were Mary for girls (219 babies) and Robert for boys (448). Social Security records list 12,548 babies born in Maine in 1934 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1934

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: 27 babies, 21.4× the national rate
Jeannine: 28 babies, 13.9× the national rate
Carlene: 20 babies, 13× the national rate
Priscilla: 35 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Claudette: 21 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Rena: 17 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Constance: 78 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Jeannette: 34 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Muriel: 25 babies, 5× the national rate
Jacqueline: 79 babies, 4.3× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 36 babies, 42.1× the national rate
Lucien: 16 babies, 26.9× the national rate
Dana: 17 babies, 21.9× the national rate
Linwood: 15 babies, 14.3× the national rate
Reginald: 28 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Gerard: 39 babies, 11.8× the national rate
Roland: 71 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Lionel: 16 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Clayton: 29 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Rodney: 34 babies, 6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1934

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1933	US rank
1	Mary	219	–	1
2	Barbara	198	–	3
3	Patricia	197	↑1	6
4	Joan	192	↓1	7
5	Dorothy	128	–	5
6	Shirley	124	↑10	4
7	Betty	117	–	2
8	Joyce	109	↑1	12
9	Nancy	109	↑6	10
10	Beverly	108	↓2	22
11	Marilyn	98	↑7	17
12	Jean	92	–	16
13	Lorraine	88	↓7	56
14	Elizabeth	87	↓4	18
15	Helen	86	↑2	9
16	Gloria	84	↓5	30
17	Margaret	83	↑2	8
18	Janet	81	↑8	21
19	Doris	80	↓6	11
20	Jacqueline	79	↑11	80
21	Constance	78	–	>100
22	Pauline	73	↓8	71
23	Marie	67	↑1	34
24	Ruth	66	↓2	13
25	Ann	64	new	32
26	Rita	62	↑8	63
27	Sylvia	60	↑17	70
28	Theresa	57	↓8	77
29	Carolyn	56	–	33
30	Norma	55	↑13	24
31	Geraldine	54	↓6	43
32	Alice	53	↑3	25
33	Joanne	53	↓5	45
34	June	52	↑3	46
35	Virginia	52	↓3	15
36	Janice	51	↑12	68
37	Lois	51	↑1	20
38	Phyllis	50	↓15	28
39	Marjorie	49	↑8	41
40	Lucille	48	↑9	84
41	Marion	47	↑1	86
42	Evelyn	45	↑4	29
43	Louise	45	↓10	40
44	Frances	44	↓17	19
45	Elaine	42	↓4	54
46	Eleanor	42	↓16	44
47	Florence	39	new	61
48	Irene	38	↓12	49
49	Arlene	37	↑1	53
50	Carol	37	new	14

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1933	US rank
1	Robert	448	–	1
2	Richard	370	–	5
3	John	248	–	3
4	Donald	207	–	6
5	James	194	–	2
6	William	176	–	4
7	George	149	↑1	8
8	Charles	146	↓1	7
9	Paul	137	↑1	14
10	Ronald	135	↑2	11
11	Roger	114	–	39
12	David	113	↑4	12
13	Raymond	99	↓4	19
14	Joseph	92	↓1	10
15	Arthur	91	↑5	29
16	Philip	90	↑2	69
17	Edward	86	–	13
18	Gerald	81	↑1	22
19	Kenneth	78	↓4	15
20	Lawrence	78	↑3	34
21	Roland	71	↑9	>100
22	Albert	65	↑9	32
23	Norman	65	↓9	38
24	Frank	61	↑1	16
25	Thomas	61	↓3	9
26	Harold	60	↓5	18
27	Eugene	59	↑6	24
28	Ralph	57	↑1	31
29	Francis	53	↓1	49
30	Walter	48	↓4	21
31	Louis	47	↑15	40
32	Henry	45	↓5	27
33	Stanley	44	new	58
34	Maurice	43	↓10	>100
35	Frederick	42	↑6	77
36	Bruce	40	new	78
37	Leo	40	↑6	86
38	Ernest	39	↑2	51
39	Gerard	39	new	>100
40	Carl	37	↓8	28
41	Herbert	37	↑4	57
42	Peter	37	new	61
43	Normand	36	↓6	>100
44	Bernard	35	↓5	65
45	Wayne	35	↓7	48
46	Rodney	34	new	>100
47	Gary	33	new	60
48	Carroll	31	new	>100
49	Clifford	30	new	85
50	Alfred	29	↓16	64

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