Popular baby names in Maine, 1950

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1950 were Linda for girls (489 babies) and Robert for boys (484). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 18,277 babies born in Maine in 1950 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1950

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: 21 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Claire: 38 babies, 7× the national rate
Pauline: 60 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Rachel: 41 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Susanne: 18 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Belinda: 26 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Lorraine: 51 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Bonita: 23 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Priscilla: 24 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Dawn: 20 babies, 2.7× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 15 babies, 32.2× the national rate
Blaine: 18 babies, 14.6× the national rate
Dana: 88 babies, 14× the national rate
Roland: 54 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Maurice: 39 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Carroll: 18 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Clayton: 20 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Gerard: 25 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Terrance: 20 babies, 4× the national rate
Brent: 18 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1950

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1949	US rank
1	Linda	489	–	1
2	Nancy	265	↑1	6
3	Mary	264	↓1	2
4	Susan	258	–	5
5	Patricia	216	–	3
6	Barbara	190	↑1	4
7	Deborah	188	↑6	7
8	Donna	186	↑1	13
9	Brenda	180	↓1	14
10	Sharon	176	↓4	11
11	Carol	167	↓1	9
12	Diane	164	–	16
13	Sandra	161	↓2	8
14	Pamela	150	↑1	17
15	Judith	123	↓1	21
16	Kathleen	123	–	10
17	Karen	113	↑6	12
18	Jane	112	–	39
19	Cynthia	111	↑6	23
20	Gail	98	↓1	42
21	Cheryl	89	↑3	29
22	Margaret	87	↓5	15
23	Elizabeth	86	↓1	24
24	Catherine	80	new	34
25	Janet	76	↑21	18
26	Janice	74	↑4	22
27	Bonnie	73	↓7	33
28	Joyce	73	↑5	27
29	Sheila	66	↑10	70
30	Shirley	65	↑1	19
31	Ann	63	↑3	45
32	Joanne	63	↑9	67
33	Katherine	62	new	58
34	Paula	62	↓2	54
35	Ruth	62	↑7	49
36	Elaine	61	↓9	60
37	Rebecca	61	↑1	36
38	Jean	60	↓17	48
39	Pauline	60	↑5	>100
40	Carolyn	59	↓3	20
41	Gloria	58	↓13	30
42	Marie	58	↑5	72
43	Joan	57	↓17	40
44	Suzanne	57	↓15	71
45	Christine	53	↓9	28
46	Anne	52	new	84
47	Beverly	52	↑3	31
48	Lorraine	51	↓5	>100
49	Martha	51	new	32
50	Darlene	50	new	79

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1949	US rank
1	Robert	484	–	2
2	David	432	↑1	5
3	Richard	420	↓1	7
4	Michael	409	↑1	4
5	John	372	↓1	3
6	James	357	–	1
7	William	229	–	6
8	Stephen	228	–	19
9	Paul	207	↑1	18
10	Donald	204	↑2	14
11	Ronald	196	–	12
12	Thomas	184	↓3	8
13	Gary	174	↑2	10
14	Bruce	154	↑5	26
15	Daniel	154	↓2	21
16	Charles	145	↓2	9
17	Dennis	141	↑1	17
18	George	137	↑2	20
19	Peter	136	↓2	37
20	Roger	128	↓4	27
21	Steven	120	↑4	16
22	Kenneth	114	↑1	15
23	Wayne	111	↓1	35
24	Raymond	108	↓3	31
25	Gregory	105	↑9	25
26	Joseph	104	↑2	13
27	Larry	100	↓3	11
28	Mark	97	↑4	23
29	Edward	96	↑1	22
30	Dana	88	↑12	>100
31	Lawrence	86	↑4	33
32	Brian	84	↓3	79
33	Philip	83	↓7	53
34	Gerald	79	↓1	34
35	Timothy	76	↓8	32
36	Alan	65	↓5	41
37	Jeffrey	63	↑4	43
38	Norman	59	↑10	90
39	Frederick	55	↑4	75
40	Harold	55	–	45
41	Roland	54	↑3	>100
42	Arthur	53	↓4	46
43	Douglas	53	↓7	28
44	Frank	51	↓7	29
45	Dale	50	↓6	49
46	Barry	47	↑4	74
47	Ralph	47	↓2	52
48	Rodney	47	↑1	88
49	Russell	41	↓3	67
50	Maurice	39	new	>100

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