Popular baby names in Maine, 1939

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1939 were Patricia for girls (232 babies) and Richard for boys (416). Patricia ranked #3 nationally for girls. Richard ranked #5 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 12,315 babies born in Maine in 1939 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1939

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: 22 babies, 12.4× the national rate
Claudette: 36 babies, 12× the national rate
Muriel: 23 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Jeannette: 34 babies, 6× the national rate
Claire: 30 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Lorraine: 75 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Constance: 49 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Pauline: 56 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Priscilla: 35 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Jacqueline: 76 babies, 4× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 30 babies, 42× the national rate
Dana: 28 babies, 34.6× the national rate
Linwood: 16 babies, 17.3× the national rate
Lionel: 19 babies, 12.2× the national rate
Roland: 66 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Reginald: 20 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Wilfred: 16 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Gerard: 20 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Maurice: 32 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Carroll: 23 babies, 5.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1939

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1938	US rank
1	Patricia	232	–	3
2	Mary	211	–	1
3	Judith	177	↑4	8
4	Barbara	172	–	2
5	Sandra	155	↑1	13
6	Nancy	146	↓3	7
7	Donna	124	↑2	20
8	Joan	113	↓3	11
9	Shirley	109	↓1	5
10	Joyce	95	↑2	12
11	Carol	88	↓1	6
12	Betty	85	↑4	4
13	Margaret	82	↑9	10
14	Janice	80	↓3	24
15	Beverly	79	↑4	25
16	Jean	79	↓1	32
17	Elizabeth	78	↑1	18
18	Marilyn	78	↓4	19
19	Jacqueline	76	↑4	72
20	Lorraine	75	–	95
21	Linda	71	new	15
22	Helen	69	↑12	16
23	Carolyn	64	↑3	14
24	Marie	64	↑7	37
25	Dorothy	63	↓12	9
26	Gloria	58	↓9	36
27	Pauline	56	↓6	>100
28	Jane	54	↑8	46
29	Ruth	53	↑1	22
30	Norma	52	↑9	38
31	Doris	50	↓4	29
32	Constance	49	↓8	>100
33	Ann	47	↓8	33
34	Elaine	47	↓6	45
35	Joanne	46	↑7	53
36	Phyllis	45	↑4	30
37	Rita	44	↑8	78
38	Sylvia	44	↓1	62
39	Janet	43	↓7	17
40	Sally	42	↓2	52
41	Eleanor	41	↑3	63
42	Evelyn	40	new	40
43	Frances	40	↓2	26
44	Louise	40	new	59
45	Gail	38	↓12	73
46	Theresa	38	↓3	94
47	Virginia	38	↓12	21
48	Anita	37	↓2	97
49	Claudette	36	new	>100
50	Alice	35	↓21	31

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1938	US rank
1	Richard	416	↑1	5
2	Robert	401	↓1	1
3	John	269	–	3
4	David	216	↑2	7
5	William	188	↑4	4
6	James	186	↓1	2
7	Donald	184	↓3	8
8	Ronald	149	↓1	10
9	Paul	139	↓1	17
10	Roger	136	↑2	28
11	Charles	134	↓1	6
12	George	125	↓1	11
13	Raymond	119	–	22
14	Thomas	91	↑11	9
15	Kenneth	87	–	13
16	Peter	83	↑8	46
17	Gerald	81	–	19
18	Edward	78	↓2	15
19	Wayne	78	↑2	39
20	Joseph	67	↓6	12
21	Arthur	66	↓1	32
22	Roland	66	↑1	>100
23	Michael	65	↑7	18
24	Gary	62	↑3	21
25	Philip	62	↓7	66
26	Ralph	60	↑6	35
27	Norman	59	↓5	44
28	Lawrence	58	↓9	36
29	Bruce	53	↑20	64
30	Frederick	48	↓1	71
31	Albert	47	↑3	41
32	Harold	47	↓6	23
33	Walter	45	↑3	25
34	Frank	44	↓6	20
35	Eugene	42	↓2	37
36	Dale	41	↑4	59
37	Daniel	38	new	38
38	Alfred	34	new	70
39	Stephen	34	new	65
40	Francis	33	↓3	53
41	Carl	32	↓2	30
42	Leo	32	↑8	>100
43	Maurice	32	↓12	>100
44	Gordon	31	new	82
45	Bernard	30	new	76
46	Dennis	30	new	34
47	Henry	30	↓6	31
48	Normand	30	↓4	>100
49	Dana	28	new	>100
50	Ernest	28	new	55

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