Popular baby names in Maine, 1942

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1942 were Mary for girls (265 babies) and Robert for boys (489). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 14,723 babies born in Maine in 1942 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1942

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: 39 babies, 14× the national rate
Cecile: 18 babies, 12.1× the national rate
Claire: 31 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Priscilla: 54 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Pauline: 58 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Lorraine: 66 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Constance: 49 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Rachel: 28 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Gertrude: 18 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Viola: 17 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 17 babies, 34× the national rate
Dana: 26 babies, 29.2× the national rate
Linwood: 16 babies, 13.9× the national rate
Rene: 16 babies, 13.4× the national rate
Wilfred: 17 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Reginald: 28 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Maurice: 43 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Roland: 51 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Gerard: 28 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Brian: 37 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1942

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1941	US rank
1	Mary	265	↑3	1
2	Patricia	253	↑1	3
3	Sandra	253	↓1	6
4	Linda	238	↑3	4
5	Nancy	210	–	8
6	Judith	194	↓5	7
7	Barbara	165	↓1	2
8	Donna	151	–	20
9	Carol	137	↑1	5
10	Sharon	118	↑23	11
11	Joan	116	↓2	18
12	Gloria	104	↓1	31
13	Carolyn	99	↑9	10
14	Joyce	88	↓2	13
15	Margaret	87	↓1	14
16	Shirley	86	↑3	12
17	Marie	81	↑4	43
18	Betty	78	↓1	9
19	Beverly	78	↑1	32
20	Dorothy	77	↑7	17
21	Jean	75	↓3	36
22	Brenda	74	↓7	40
23	Elaine	73	↑7	45
24	Elizabeth	73	↓11	22
25	Janice	68	↓9	25
26	Janet	66	↑6	19
27	Lorraine	66	↓4	91
28	Diane	65	↑12	28
29	Ann	61	↓3	38
30	Marilyn	60	↓6	27
31	Susan	59	↑16	21
32	Jacqueline	58	↓3	69
33	Pauline	58	↓8	>100
34	Sally	56	↑7	56
35	Carole	54	new	35
36	Priscilla	54	↑2	>100
37	Joanne	53	↓3	48
38	Doris	52	↓3	41
39	Jane	52	new	46
40	Ruth	51	↓3	33
41	Constance	49	↓13	>100
42	Gail	48	↑3	60
43	Anne	46	new	76
44	Bonnie	46	new	34
45	Louise	46	new	61
46	Rita	45	↓7	55
47	Helen	44	new	26
48	Sheila	44	new	94
49	Judy	43	↓18	15
50	Irene	42	↓1	80

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1941	US rank
1	Robert	489	–	2
2	Richard	477	–	5
3	John	343	↑2	3
4	David	307	–	6
5	James	300	↓2	1
6	William	236	–	4
7	Ronald	201	↑1	9
8	Donald	199	↓1	10
9	Paul	149	↑1	19
10	Charles	138	↑1	7
11	George	124	↑1	14
12	Thomas	124	↑1	8
13	Raymond	121	↓4	24
14	Roger	115	↑1	25
15	Kenneth	103	↑1	15
16	Gerald	96	↑2	22
17	Peter	96	↓3	39
18	Edward	95	↑3	17
19	Joseph	94	↑4	11
20	Lawrence	89	↑8	30
21	Michael	88	↓2	13
22	Wayne	86	–	41
23	Stephen	85	↑2	32
24	Arthur	83	–	29
25	Douglas	83	↑25	23
26	Gary	83	↓9	18
27	Philip	82	↓7	54
28	Larry	76	↑2	12
29	Bruce	71	↓2	50
30	Dennis	63	↑4	20
31	Daniel	62	↑13	28
32	Walter	58	↑1	26
33	Frederick	56	↑4	68
34	Ralph	55	↑4	38
35	Norman	54	–	53
36	Eugene	51	↓5	45
37	Roland	51	↓8	>100
38	Harold	50	↓2	27
39	Albert	49	↓13	40
40	Frank	47	↓8	21
41	Ernest	46	↑2	61
42	Francis	46	↑3	58
43	Stanley	45	↓3	56
44	Maurice	43	↓2	>100
45	Fred	38	new	46
46	Rodney	38	–	>100
47	Brian	37	new	>100
48	Alfred	34	new	76
49	Carl	34	↓10	36
50	Leo	34	↓2	>100

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