Popular baby names in Maine, 1941

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1941 were Judith for girls (233 babies) and Robert for boys (439). Judith ranked #6 nationally for girls. Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 13,201 babies born in Maine in 1941 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1941

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

Girls

Claudette: 42 babies, 16.6× the national rate
Jeannine: 22 babies, 16.2× the national rate
Cecile: 16 babies, 12.4× the national rate
Carlene: 17 babies, 10× the national rate
Claire: 36 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Muriel: 20 babies, 7× the national rate
Jeannette: 29 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Pauline: 66 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Constance: 62 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Lorraine: 70 babies, 4.9× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 22 babies, 40.5× the national rate
Dana: 22 babies, 27.6× the national rate
Roland: 57 babies, 8× the national rate
Reginald: 20 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Maurice: 38 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Clayton: 20 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Gerard: 20 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Carroll: 20 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Brian: 27 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Everett: 23 babies, 4.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1941

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1940	US rank
1	Judith	233	↑3	6
2	Sandra	223	↑1	9
3	Patricia	214	↓2	3
4	Mary	211	↓2	1
5	Nancy	185	–	8
6	Barbara	140	–	2
7	Linda	135	–	5
8	Donna	125	↑4	20
9	Joan	119	–	17
10	Carol	100	↓2	4
11	Gloria	98	↑5	26
12	Joyce	88	↓2	13
13	Elizabeth	84	↑4	21
14	Margaret	83	↑17	12
15	Brenda	81	↑19	41
16	Janice	80	↓3	22
17	Betty	79	↓3	7
18	Jean	79	↑6	32
19	Shirley	76	↓1	10
20	Beverly	74	↓9	29
21	Marie	74	–	42
22	Carolyn	72	–	11
23	Lorraine	70	↓4	93
24	Marilyn	68	↑1	30
25	Pauline	66	↑2	>100
26	Ann	64	↑16	37
27	Dorothy	63	↓12	14
28	Constance	62	↓5	>100
29	Jacqueline	61	↓9	73
30	Elaine	60	↑3	44
31	Judy	60	new	16
32	Janet	59	–	18
33	Sharon	59	new	15
34	Joanne	58	↑4	54
35	Doris	54	↓5	38
36	Virginia	54	new	23
37	Ruth	53	↓9	28
38	Priscilla	50	↓9	>100
39	Rita	49	↑1	63
40	Diane	47	↑5	40
41	Sally	46	↓6	61
42	Frances	45	↑8	31
43	Sylvia	44	↓6	65
44	Claudette	42	↑2	>100
45	Gail	42	↓1	68
46	Theresa	42	new	95
47	Susan	41	new	27
48	Geraldine	39	new	45
49	Irene	39	new	74
50	Phyllis	39	↓11	35

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1940	US rank
1	Robert	439	–	2
2	Richard	407	–	5
3	James	270	↑2	1
4	David	269	–	7
5	John	268	↓2	3
6	William	231	–	4
7	Donald	185	–	10
8	Ronald	180	–	9
9	Raymond	144	↑11	22
10	Paul	143	–	18
11	Charles	142	–	6
12	George	118	↓3	13
13	Thomas	115	↑2	8
14	Peter	102	↑2	44
15	Roger	100	↓3	25
16	Kenneth	93	↓2	15
17	Gary	92	↑6	19
18	Gerald	85	↓1	20
19	Michael	84	↑11	16
20	Philip	77	↑5	52
21	Edward	74	↓3	17
22	Wayne	71	↓3	37
23	Joseph	68	↓10	12
24	Arthur	64	↓3	33
25	Stephen	64	↑13	41
26	Albert	62	↑1	40
27	Bruce	62	↑8	51
28	Lawrence	61	↓2	34
29	Roland	57	↓5	>100
30	Larry	56	↑2	11
31	Eugene	54	↑5	42
32	Frank	54	↑5	21
33	Walter	51	↑6	26
34	Dennis	50	–	23
35	Norman	50	↓13	49
36	Harold	48	↓7	24
37	Frederick	45	↑4	69
38	Ralph	45	↓10	38
39	Carl	42	↓6	29
40	Stanley	42	↑3	57
41	Henry	39	↑6	28
42	Maurice	38	↑3	>100
43	Ernest	36	new	61
44	Daniel	34	↓13	31
45	Francis	34	↑4	60
46	Rodney	33	new	>100
47	Dale	32	↓7	59
48	Leo	31	new	>100
49	Herbert	30	new	76
50	Douglas	29	↓4	53

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