Popular baby names in Maine, 1936

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1936 were Mary for girls (223 babies) and Robert for boys (482). Social Security records list 12,411 babies born in Maine in 1936 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1936

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: 36 babies, 14.6× the national rate
Cecile: 22 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Therese: 15 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Carlene: 16 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Priscilla: 39 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Claudette: 29 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Dawn: 21 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Constance: 60 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Jeannette: 31 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Pauline: 82 babies, 4.6× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 31 babies, 45.3× the national rate
Bertrand: 19 babies, 43.4× the national rate
Dana: 20 babies, 28.2× the national rate
Linwood: 19 babies, 20.3× the national rate
Armand: 17 babies, 13.5× the national rate
Maynard: 18 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Reginald: 21 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Lionel: 15 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Gerard: 23 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Carroll: 36 babies, 7.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1936

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Mary	223	↑1	1
2	Shirley	212	↓1	2
3	Patricia	202	–	5
4	Joan	168	–	7
5	Barbara	151	–	3
6	Nancy	140	–	8
7	Joyce	134	↑1	12
8	Beverly	120	↑5	17
9	Marilyn	88	↓2	13
10	Janice	82	↑10	31
11	Pauline	82	↑8	82
12	Lorraine	81	↓3	76
13	Jean	79	↓2	20
14	Dorothy	77	↓4	6
15	Elizabeth	77	↓1	18
16	Gloria	77	↓4	32
17	Betty	75	–	4
18	Jacqueline	73	↑11	66
19	Ruth	72	↑12	16
20	Margaret	71	↓4	9
21	Helen	70	↑5	11
22	Sandra	68	new	38
23	Sylvia	67	↑1	53
24	Donna	64	new	22
25	Constance	60	↓10	>100
26	Rita	60	↑1	69
27	Doris	58	↓5	15
28	Theresa	58	↓3	88
29	Carol	55	↑9	10
30	Marie	55	↓12	33
31	Judith	54	↓3	43
32	Lois	54	↑15	26
33	Carolyn	53	↑3	23
34	Irene	52	↑11	57
35	Ann	51	↓2	28
36	Virginia	51	↓4	14
37	Evelyn	50	↑4	34
38	Jane	50	new	42
39	Marlene	50	↑4	39
40	Joanne	48	new	48
41	Phyllis	48	↓6	25
42	Anne	47	new	89
43	Janet	47	↓20	21
44	Marion	47	↓5	93
45	Norma	45	↓24	29
46	Frances	44	↓4	19
47	Louise	44	new	46
48	Sally	42	new	59
49	Anita	41	new	>100
50	Roberta	40	new	64

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Robert	482	–	1
2	Richard	375	–	5
3	John	253	–	3
4	Donald	230	–	7
5	William	183	↑1	4
6	James	177	↓1	2
7	David	163	↑2	10
8	Ronald	140	↓1	12
9	Roger	134	↑3	35
10	George	132	↑1	9
11	Paul	126	↓3	15
12	Raymond	112	↑1	17
13	Charles	101	↓3	6
14	Joseph	99	–	11
15	Philip	94	↑10	63
16	Gerald	91	↑11	19
17	Arthur	89	↑3	30
18	Kenneth	87	↑1	14
19	Edward	78	↓3	13
20	Norman	74	↓5	43
21	Harold	71	↑1	21
22	Thomas	68	↓4	8
23	Roland	64	↓2	>100
24	Albert	61	↓1	34
25	Ralph	61	↑1	31
26	Walter	59	↑3	26
27	Frank	58	↑1	16
28	Wayne	53	↑4	45
29	Lawrence	51	↓12	37
30	Gary	43	↑1	38
31	Maurice	43	↓7	>100
32	Frederick	42	↑2	70
33	Peter	42	↓3	56
34	Carl	41	↑5	27
35	Eugene	41	–	29
36	Ernest	40	↑7	55
37	Herbert	40	–	62
38	Stanley	38	–	58
39	Dale	37	↑5	59
40	Gordon	37	↑2	75
41	Carroll	36	new	>100
42	Henry	35	↓6	28
43	Francis	34	↓10	50
44	Leo	34	↓4	94
45	Clarence	33	↑3	52
46	Normand	31	↓1	>100
47	Bruce	30	new	73
48	Harry	30	↑1	39
49	Bernard	29	↓2	68
50	Everett	28	new	>100

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