Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1910

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1910 were Mary for girls (989 babies) and John for boys (513). Social Security records list 15,261 babies born in Massachusetts in 1910 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1910

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

Girls

Yvonne: 34 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Priscilla: 25 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Jeannette: 44 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Cecile: 23 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Elinor: 16 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Constance: 29 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Eileen: 27 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Marion: 162 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Dorothea: 29 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Phyllis: 36 babies, 3.5× the national rate

Boys

Francis: 127 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Frederick: 52 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Patrick: 23 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Warren: 22 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Roland: 16 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Philip: 34 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Edmund: 15 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Manuel: 20 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Leo: 48 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Stanley: 46 babies, 2.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1910

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	Mary	989	1
2	Helen	473	2
3	Margaret	374	3
4	Dorothy	331	4
5	Alice	313	10
6	Anna	252	6
7	Ruth	247	5
8	Elizabeth	224	7
9	Mildred	198	8
10	Lillian	196	14
11	Rose	187	16
12	Catherine	184	22
13	Evelyn	175	17
14	Florence	168	12
15	Marion	162	59
16	Frances	146	11
17	Gertrude	138	26
18	Eleanor	137	55
19	Grace	135	23
20	Doris	132	64
21	Marie	130	9
22	Irene	121	21
23	Beatrice	114	36
24	Josephine	110	30
25	Ethel	105	13
26	Louise	98	20
27	Katherine	97	57
28	Agnes	96	41
29	Gladys	94	15
30	Edna	92	18
31	Edith	91	35
32	Esther	86	38
33	Marjorie	86	68
34	Anne	81	67
35	Eva	80	45
36	Bertha	78	33
37	Ann	75	52
38	Hazel	67	24
39	Julia	59	49
40	Ida	58	47
41	Marguerite	58	84
42	Viola	58	48
43	Barbara	56	>100
44	Virginia	56	29
45	Blanche	55	74
46	Theresa	55	96
47	Sarah	53	40
48	Elsie	51	44
49	Jennie	51	81
50	Laura	49	53

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	John	513	1
2	Joseph	299	6
3	William	259	3
4	James	212	2
5	Edward	177	9
6	George	177	5
7	Charles	163	7
8	Francis	127	36
9	Frank	125	8
10	Thomas	119	12
11	Robert	108	4
12	Walter	103	13
13	Albert	97	14
14	Arthur	95	17
15	Henry	94	10
16	Harold	76	18
17	Richard	74	21
18	Paul	58	15
19	Anthony	53	37
20	Alfred	52	38
21	Frederick	52	69
22	Louis	50	24
23	Leo	48	51
24	Stanley	46	47
25	Harry	44	16
26	Ralph	42	28
27	Raymond	42	19
28	Samuel	41	32
29	Daniel	40	53
30	Michael	39	45
31	Carl	37	26
32	Kenneth	36	43
33	Ernest	35	31
34	David	34	30
35	Philip	34	83
36	Fred	33	22
37	Lawrence	33	35
38	Peter	33	56
39	Herbert	26	41
40	Donald	24	44
41	Theodore	24	54
42	Patrick	23	>100
43	Warren	22	>100
44	Alexander	20	>100
45	Benjamin	20	70
46	Manuel	20	>100
47	Norman	20	63
48	Andrew	19	42
49	Chester	19	61
50	Howard	18	27

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