Popular baby names in Maine, 1935

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1935 were Shirley for girls (259 babies) and Robert for boys (476). Shirley ranked #2 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 12,568 babies born in Maine in 1935 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1935

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

Girls

Jeannine: 35 babies, 14.7× the national rate
Cecile: 19 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Priscilla: 43 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Rena: 19 babies, 9× the national rate
Therese: 16 babies, 9× the national rate
Claudette: 31 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Constance: 78 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Jeannette: 35 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Madeline: 21 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Lorraine: 98 babies, 4.8× the national rate

Boys

Bertrand: 18 babies, 46× the national rate
Marcel: 15 babies, 35.6× the national rate
Romeo: 15 babies, 35.6× the national rate
Normand: 33 babies, 34.9× the national rate
Dana: 16 babies, 22.2× the national rate
Earle: 15 babies, 15× the national rate
Reginald: 29 babies, 13.8× the national rate
Lionel: 18 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Maynard: 17 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Maurice: 61 babies, 8.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1935

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Shirley	259	↑5	2
2	Mary	230	↓1	1
3	Patricia	202	–	5
4	Joan	183	–	7
5	Barbara	176	↓3	3
6	Nancy	139	↑3	9
7	Marilyn	120	↑4	14
8	Joyce	106	–	12
9	Lorraine	98	↑4	68
10	Dorothy	97	↓5	6
11	Jean	93	↑1	18
12	Gloria	89	↑4	32
13	Beverly	87	↓3	20
14	Elizabeth	85	–	17
15	Constance	78	↑6	>100
16	Margaret	78	↑1	8
17	Betty	77	↓10	4
18	Marie	73	↑5	33
19	Pauline	73	↑3	80
20	Janice	72	↑16	47
21	Norma	70	↑9	29
22	Doris	68	↓3	13
23	Janet	68	↓5	22
24	Sylvia	66	↑3	60
25	Theresa	65	↑3	86
26	Helen	64	↓11	10
27	Rita	63	↓1	63
28	Judith	61	new	54
29	Jacqueline	60	↓9	79
30	Alice	56	↑2	25
31	Ruth	55	↓7	15
32	Virginia	53	↑3	16
33	Ann	52	↓8	30
34	Eleanor	52	↑12	48
35	Phyllis	52	↑3	27
36	Carolyn	50	↓7	28
37	Elaine	48	↑8	51
38	Carol	45	↑12	11
39	Marion	45	↑2	88
40	Priscilla	43	new	>100
41	Evelyn	42	↑1	31
42	Frances	42	↑2	19
43	Marlene	42	new	39
44	Charlotte	41	new	65
45	Irene	41	↑3	52
46	June	40	↓12	55
47	Lois	40	↓10	21
48	Marjorie	40	↓9	46
49	Jeanne	39	new	>100
50	Lucille	39	↓10	85

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Robert	476	–	1
2	Richard	420	–	5
3	John	250	–	3
4	Donald	225	–	7
5	James	191	–	2
6	William	159	–	4
7	Ronald	140	↑3	12
8	Paul	131	↑1	14
9	David	130	↑3	11
10	Charles	120	↓2	6
11	George	118	↓4	8
12	Roger	114	↓1	36
13	Raymond	108	–	17
14	Joseph	97	–	10
15	Norman	93	↑8	38
16	Edward	87	↑1	13
17	Lawrence	85	↑3	35
18	Thomas	82	↑7	9
19	Kenneth	71	–	15
20	Arthur	70	↓5	29
21	Roland	70	–	>100
22	Harold	69	↑4	20
23	Albert	63	↓1	31
24	Maurice	61	↑10	>100
25	Philip	61	↓9	65
26	Ralph	60	↑2	32
27	Gerald	58	↓9	21
28	Frank	52	↓4	16
29	Walter	48	↑1	23
30	Peter	46	↑12	59
31	Gary	44	↑16	44
32	Wayne	44	↑13	49
33	Francis	43	↓4	53
34	Frederick	43	↑1	73
35	Eugene	40	↓8	26
36	Henry	38	↓4	27
37	Herbert	38	↑4	58
38	Stanley	38	↓5	56
39	Carl	37	↑1	28
40	Leo	37	↓3	92
41	Louis	36	↓10	42
42	Gordon	35	new	70
43	Ernest	34	↓5	55
44	Dale	33	new	61
45	Normand	33	↓2	>100
46	Russell	32	new	68
47	Bernard	31	↓3	67
48	Clarence	31	new	48
49	Harry	30	new	37
50	Earl	29	new	46

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