Popular baby names in Maine, 1938

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1938 were Patricia for girls (217 babies) and Robert for boys (460). Patricia ranked #3 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 12,462 babies born in Maine in 1938 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1938

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: 27 babies, 14.2× the national rate
Cecile: 22 babies, 12.4× the national rate
Claudette: 36 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Dawn: 19 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Beverley: 15 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Priscilla: 33 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Constance: 67 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Jeannette: 31 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Lorraine: 76 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Pauline: 74 babies, 4.9× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 33 babies, 40.6× the national rate
Dana: 23 babies, 31.1× the national rate
Linwood: 19 babies, 18.8× the national rate
Reginald: 29 babies, 12.6× the national rate
Maynard: 18 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Gerard: 33 babies, 11× the national rate
Roland: 62 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Maurice: 49 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Clayton: 19 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Wendell: 16 babies, 4.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1938

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1937	US rank
1	Patricia	217	↑1	3
2	Mary	208	↓1	1
3	Nancy	168	↑3	7
4	Barbara	165	↓1	2
5	Joan	149	↓1	10
6	Sandra	131	↑11	14
7	Judith	130	↑16	12
8	Shirley	126	↓3	5
9	Donna	104	–	20
10	Carol	103	↑11	6
11	Janice	102	↑4	24
12	Joyce	96	↓4	11
13	Dorothy	93	↑6	8
14	Marilyn	88	↑2	19
15	Jean	87	↓5	27
16	Betty	84	↓4	4
17	Gloria	79	↓4	36
18	Elizabeth	78	↓7	17
19	Beverly	77	↓12	18
20	Lorraine	76	↑7	93
21	Pauline	74	↓7	97
22	Margaret	72	–	9
23	Jacqueline	70	↑5	69
24	Constance	67	↑6	>100
25	Ann	66	↑9	32
26	Carolyn	66	↓8	15
27	Doris	62	↓2	25
28	Elaine	56	↑7	42
29	Alice	55	↑9	29
30	Ruth	55	↓6	21
31	Marie	54	↓11	37
32	Janet	52	↑1	16
33	Gail	48	new	77
34	Helen	48	↓2	13
35	Virginia	48	↑2	22
36	Jane	47	↑8	44
37	Sylvia	45	↓8	56
38	Sally	44	new	54
39	Norma	43	↓8	34
40	Phyllis	43	new	28
41	Frances	42	↓5	23
42	Joanne	42	↓16	57
43	Theresa	42	↓2	92
44	Eleanor	40	↓5	60
45	Rita	40	–	74
46	Anita	39	↑2	99
47	Marjorie	39	new	53
48	Roberta	39	new	73
49	Lois	38	↓9	33
50	Rosalie	38	new	66

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1937	US rank
1	Robert	460	–	1
2	Richard	371	–	5
3	John	238	–	3
4	Donald	200	–	7
5	James	192	↑2	2
6	David	182	↓1	8
7	Ronald	162	↑2	10
8	Paul	156	↑5	15
9	William	154	↓3	4
10	Charles	131	↑1	6
11	George	131	↑1	11
12	Roger	118	↓2	31
13	Raymond	110	↓5	20
14	Joseph	99	–	12
15	Kenneth	92	↑2	14
16	Edward	87	–	13
17	Gerald	80	↓2	19
18	Philip	79	↑2	64
19	Lawrence	71	–	36
20	Arthur	70	↑1	32
21	Wayne	69	↑1	40
22	Norman	66	↑1	43
23	Roland	62	↑1	>100
24	Peter	61	↑8	48
25	Thomas	61	↓7	9
26	Harold	59	↓1	23
27	Gary	57	↑2	22
28	Frank	56	↑5	18
29	Frederick	52	↑18	71
30	Michael	52	new	21
31	Maurice	49	↓1	>100
32	Ralph	49	↓5	35
33	Eugene	46	↓5	33
34	Albert	39	↓8	37
35	Larry	38	new	16
36	Walter	38	↓2	26
37	Francis	37	↓2	51
38	Herbert	37	↓2	68
39	Carl	35	↑1	29
40	Dale	35	↑6	56
41	Henry	34	↓4	30
42	Russell	34	↑8	70
43	Gerard	33	↓5	>100
44	Normand	33	↓2	>100
45	Stanley	32	↓6	59
46	Fred	31	new	38
47	Harry	31	new	44
48	Howard	31	new	42
49	Bruce	30	new	66
50	Leo	30	↓9	>100

← Maine 1937 Maine: all years · US 1938 Maine 1939 →