Popular baby names in Maine, 1951

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1951 were Linda for girls (422 babies) and Michael for boys (473). Michael ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 18,349 babies born in Maine in 1951 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1951

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: 17 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Claire: 35 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Pauline: 40 babies, 5× the national rate
Rachel: 34 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Roxanne: 23 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Priscilla: 30 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Louise: 50 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Lucille: 23 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Dawn: 20 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Sheila: 71 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 16 babies, 38.1× the national rate
Maynard: 17 babies, 20.5× the national rate
Dana: 66 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Roland: 53 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Galen: 15 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Malcolm: 19 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Maurice: 33 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Clayton: 20 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Brent: 20 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Leo: 30 babies, 3.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1951

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1950	US rank
1	Linda	422	–	1
2	Susan	271	↑2	6
3	Patricia	267	↑2	3
4	Deborah	248	↑3	4
5	Mary	225	↓2	2
6	Nancy	225	↓4	7
7	Donna	182	↑1	12
8	Barbara	174	↓2	5
9	Brenda	163	–	14
10	Diane	162	↑2	15
11	Carol	150	–	11
12	Sharon	149	↓2	13
13	Sandra	148	–	9
14	Pamela	146	–	16
15	Cynthia	136	↑4	20
16	Kathleen	135	–	10
17	Karen	130	–	8
18	Judith	125	↓3	25
19	Gail	115	↑1	36
20	Margaret	108	↑2	17
21	Cheryl	98	–	30
22	Janice	94	↑4	21
23	Bonnie	89	↑4	37
24	Jane	88	↓6	43
25	Joyce	80	↑3	28
26	Paula	80	↑8	51
27	Elizabeth	78	↓4	23
28	Ann	71	↑3	46
29	Debra	71	new	18
30	Sheila	71	↓1	69
31	Gloria	68	↑10	31
32	Catherine	67	↓8	34
33	Elaine	67	↑3	66
34	Jean	66	↑4	49
35	Shirley	66	↓5	27
36	Christine	65	↑9	24
37	Beverly	63	↑10	33
38	Joan	63	↑5	39
39	Carolyn	60	↑1	22
40	Ruth	60	↓5	53
41	Janet	57	↓16	19
42	Rebecca	57	↓5	32
43	Suzanne	57	↑1	83
44	Anne	52	↑2	82
45	Katherine	51	↓12	55
46	Louise	50	new	>100
47	Marie	47	↓5	78
48	Sally	47	new	77
49	Virginia	46	new	47
50	Theresa	45	new	64

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1950	US rank
1	Michael	473	↑3	4
2	Robert	471	↓1	2
3	David	413	↓1	5
4	Richard	395	↓1	7
5	John	384	–	3
6	James	319	–	1
7	Stephen	274	↑1	19
8	William	232	↓1	6
9	Paul	221	–	18
10	Donald	213	–	15
11	Gary	209	↑2	10
12	Thomas	205	–	8
13	Daniel	198	↑2	21
14	Ronald	169	↓3	12
15	Charles	146	↑1	9
16	Bruce	127	↓2	26
17	Peter	121	↑2	38
18	Steven	121	↑3	13
19	Kenneth	118	↑3	16
20	Mark	116	↑8	20
21	Dennis	113	↓4	17
22	Joseph	112	↑4	14
23	George	110	↓5	22
24	Roger	109	↓4	29
25	Wayne	104	↓2	37
26	Gregory	102	↓1	25
27	Edward	99	↑2	23
28	Larry	92	↓1	11
29	Raymond	88	↓5	32
30	Timothy	88	↑5	28
31	Brian	84	↑1	75
32	Douglas	83	↑11	27
33	Gerald	79	↑1	36
34	Philip	79	↓1	55
35	Alan	78	↑1	40
36	Jeffrey	71	↑1	35
37	Arthur	68	↑5	44
38	Dale	67	↑7	49
39	Dana	66	↓9	>100
40	Lawrence	62	↓9	33
41	Stanley	60	new	54
42	Frank	58	↑2	31
43	Scott	58	new	68
44	Barry	57	↑2	71
45	Harold	53	↓5	46
46	Roland	53	↓5	>100
47	Carl	49	new	43
48	Frederick	49	↓9	78
49	Rodney	49	↓1	84
50	Terry	48	new	30

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