Popular baby names in Maine, 1969

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1969 were Lisa for girls (295 babies) and Michael for boys (461). Social Security records list 14,766 babies born in Maine in 1969 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1969

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

Girls

Bethany: 20 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Laurie: 86 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Kelley: 27 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Heidi: 65 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Lynn: 47 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Terry: 16 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Kerry: 21 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Shelley: 27 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Jane: 19 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Sara: 26 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Dana: 40 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Roland: 18 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Lewis: 15 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Peter: 112 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Shawn: 99 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Dale: 35 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Alan: 42 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Jamie: 17 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Wade: 15 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Bruce: 41 babies, 2.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1969

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1968	US rank
1	Lisa	295	–	1
2	Michelle	254	–	2
3	Jennifer	217	↑2	3
4	Melissa	165	↑2	5
5	Tammy	163	↓1	9
6	Kimberly	152	↓3	4
7	Amy	119	↑9	6
8	Julie	116	↑3	12
9	Karen	111	↓1	13
10	Susan	101	↓1	11
11	Kelly	98	↓4	15
12	Lori	97	↑11	20
13	Christine	92	–	14
14	Mary	89	↓4	8
15	Heather	86	↑30	34
16	Laurie	86	↓4	79
17	Tracy	85	↑5	17
18	Tina	84	↓4	22
19	Angela	78	↓4	7
20	Pamela	72	↑6	24
21	Michele	69	↑13	30
22	Deborah	67	↑8	27
23	Elizabeth	65	↓4	16
24	Heidi	65	↑13	80
25	Rebecca	65	↓5	28
26	Laura	63	↓9	10
27	Patricia	62	↓6	18
28	Stephanie	62	↑3	19
29	Sandra	61	↑20	25
30	Dawn	59	↓3	21
31	Wendy	59	↓13	29
32	Denise	55	↑1	35
33	Linda	54	↓8	33
34	Donna	53	↓6	26
35	Shannon	51	new	31
36	Brenda	49	↓1	38
37	Cynthia	49	↓8	23
38	Catherine	48	new	58
39	Debra	48	↓3	43
40	Kathleen	48	↓8	42
41	Lynn	47	↓3	>100
42	Rhonda	47	new	44
43	Cheryl	46	↓19	41
44	Katherine	42	new	70
45	Sarah	42	new	72
46	Stacey	42	↓5	52
47	Ann	41	new	57
48	Nancy	40	↓6	45
49	Stacy	40	new	53
50	Theresa	39	–	49

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1968	US rank
1	Michael	461	–	1
2	David	297	–	2
3	John	266	–	4
4	Scott	257	↑5	12
5	Robert	256	↓1	5
6	James	235	–	3
7	Jeffrey	201	↑4	11
8	Christopher	191	↑2	7
9	Mark	191	↓4	8
10	Richard	166	↓3	10
11	William	161	↑1	6
12	Daniel	157	↑2	18
13	Kevin	153	↑4	16
14	Steven	152	↑6	14
15	Timothy	138	↓7	17
16	Brian	131	–	9
17	Thomas	129	↓4	13
18	Paul	123	↓3	22
19	Eric	115	↑4	21
20	Peter	112	↓1	43
21	Stephen	112	↓3	27
22	Joseph	110	↓1	15
23	Todd	107	↑2	28
24	Shawn	99	↑3	41
25	Matthew	93	↓3	24
26	Andrew	84	↑7	33
27	Kenneth	81	↑2	23
28	Charles	74	↑2	19
29	Donald	74	↓3	30
30	Troy	69	↑9	42
31	Jason	67	↑7	25
32	Patrick	65	↓1	31
33	Anthony	59	↑4	20
34	George	59	↑1	38
35	Ronald	59	↓11	29
36	Keith	57	↑13	36
37	Sean	54	↑5	37
38	Edward	53	↓4	32
39	Gary	53	↑2	35
40	Gregory	53	↓8	26
41	Craig	52	↑3	39
42	Douglas	50	↓14	34
43	Jonathan	46	↑3	46
44	Alan	42	new	76
45	Corey	42	new	58
46	Marc	42	new	63
47	Bruce	41	↓7	72
48	Dennis	41	–	44
49	Dana	40	new	>100
50	Randy	39	↓7	55

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