Popular baby names in Maine, 1937

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1937 were Mary for girls (236 babies) and Robert for boys (504). Social Security records list 12,297 babies born in Maine in 1937 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1937

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, 18× the national rate
Priscilla: 43 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Claudette: 31 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Muriel: 27 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Dawn: 15 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Pauline: 79 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Claire: 27 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Constance: 56 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Jeannette: 26 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Cynthia: 27 babies, 4× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 34 babies, 46.9× the national rate
Dana: 27 babies, 35× the national rate
Reginald: 34 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Gerard: 37 babies, 13.3× the national rate
Roland: 64 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Maurice: 49 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Wilfred: 15 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Malcolm: 15 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Carlton: 15 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Carroll: 21 babies, 4.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1937

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1936	US rank
1	Mary	236	–	1
2	Patricia	228	↑1	3
3	Barbara	161	↑2	2
4	Joan	158	–	9
5	Shirley	154	↓3	4
6	Nancy	144	–	7
7	Beverly	117	↑1	14
8	Joyce	92	↓1	11
9	Donna	90	↑15	21
10	Jean	88	↑3	23
11	Elizabeth	87	↑4	17
12	Betty	84	↑5	5
13	Gloria	79	↑3	32
14	Pauline	79	↓3	87
15	Janice	78	↓5	25
16	Marilyn	78	↓7	13
17	Sandra	77	↑5	26
18	Carolyn	76	↑15	20
19	Dorothy	75	↓5	8
20	Marie	74	↑10	35
21	Carol	71	↑8	6
22	Margaret	70	↓2	10
23	Judith	67	↑8	34
24	Ruth	67	↓5	15
25	Doris	64	↑2	22
26	Joanne	62	↑14	51
27	Lorraine	62	↓15	83
28	Jacqueline	58	↓10	70
29	Sylvia	58	↓6	50
30	Constance	56	↓5	>100
31	Norma	56	↑14	33
32	Helen	55	↓11	12
33	Janet	53	↑10	18
34	Ann	50	↑1	30
35	Elaine	50	new	45
36	Frances	50	↑10	19
37	Virginia	50	↓1	16
38	Alice	48	new	28
39	Eleanor	47	new	53
40	Lois	47	↓8	29
41	Theresa	46	↓13	95
42	Arlene	45	new	60
43	Florence	45	new	81
44	Jane	45	↓6	42
45	Rita	45	↓19	69
46	Carole	43	new	56
47	Priscilla	43	new	>100
48	Anita	42	↑1	93
49	Marlene	40	↓10	40
50	Irene	39	↓16	62

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1936	US rank
1	Robert	504	–	1
2	Richard	368	–	5
3	John	233	–	3
4	Donald	197	–	7
5	David	188	↑2	8
6	William	187	↓1	4
7	James	174	↓1	2
8	Raymond	140	↑4	19
9	Ronald	136	↓1	11
10	Roger	127	↓1	36
11	Charles	125	↑2	6
12	George	120	↓2	10
13	Paul	108	↓2	15
14	Joseph	95	–	12
15	Gerald	85	↑1	20
16	Edward	84	↑3	13
17	Kenneth	82	↑1	14
18	Thomas	78	↑4	9
19	Lawrence	75	↑10	38
20	Philip	73	↓5	62
21	Arthur	70	↓4	31
22	Wayne	69	↑6	44
23	Norman	68	↓3	43
24	Roland	64	↓1	>100
25	Harold	62	↓4	21
26	Albert	56	↓2	37
27	Ralph	52	↓2	34
28	Eugene	49	↑7	33
29	Gary	49	↑1	29
30	Maurice	49	↑1	>100
31	Ernest	46	↑5	53
32	Peter	46	↑1	52
33	Frank	44	↓6	18
34	Walter	41	↓8	26
35	Francis	40	↑8	55
36	Herbert	40	↑1	65
37	Henry	38	↑5	30
38	Gerard	37	new	>100
39	Stanley	37	↓1	57
40	Carl	36	↓6	28
41	Leo	36	↑3	97
42	Normand	34	↑4	>100
43	Reginald	34	new	>100
44	Daniel	33	new	39
45	Alfred	32	new	60
46	Dale	32	↓7	59
47	Frederick	31	↓15	68
48	Louis	31	new	46
49	Keith	28	new	>100
50	Russell	28	new	67

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