Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1911

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1911 were Mary for girls (1,248 babies) and John for boys (868). Social Security records list 22,851 babies born in Massachusetts in 1911 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1911

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: 29 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Priscilla: 29 babies, 6× the national rate
Jeannette: 67 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Helena: 26 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Eileen: 49 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Elinor: 24 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Philomena: 15 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Phyllis: 67 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Cecile: 23 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Barbara: 82 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Boys

Antone: 16 babies, 13× the national rate
Romeo: 18 babies, 12.9× the national rate
Armand: 26 babies, 11× the national rate
Manuel: 60 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Wilfred: 29 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Roger: 36 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Francis: 195 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Edmund: 34 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Roland: 30 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Hyman: 18 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1911

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	Mary	1,248	–	1
2	Helen	678	–	2
3	Dorothy	465	↑1	4
4	Margaret	460	↓1	3
5	Ruth	336	↑2	5
6	Anna	332	–	6
7	Alice	331	↓2	11
8	Elizabeth	276	–	7
9	Lillian	256	↑1	13
10	Rose	235	↑1	14
11	Catherine	233	↑1	20
12	Evelyn	215	↑1	16
13	Florence	213	↑1	12
14	Mildred	212	↓5	8
15	Irene	211	↑7	21
16	Frances	199	–	10
17	Gertrude	191	–	30
18	Eleanor	182	–	49
19	Doris	169	↑1	56
20	Marion	167	↓5	58
21	Beatrice	140	↑2	37
22	Marie	132	↓1	9
23	Louise	128	↑3	19
24	Josephine	127	–	29
25	Anne	126	↑9	64
26	Grace	125	↓7	23
27	Edith	123	↑4	31
28	Ethel	122	↓3	15
29	Esther	118	↑3	34
30	Agnes	114	↓2	39
31	Katherine	112	↓4	55
32	Gladys	111	↓3	18
33	Marjorie	110	–	59
34	Edna	102	↓4	17
35	Julia	98	↑4	44
36	Bertha	92	–	36
37	Barbara	82	↑6	>100
38	Hazel	82	–	25
39	Eva	77	↓4	46
40	Ann	76	↓3	53
41	Ida	69	↓1	45
42	Lena	68	new	70
43	Marguerite	68	↓2	87
44	Jeannette	67	new	>100
45	Phyllis	67	new	>100
46	Virginia	67	↓2	26
47	Jennie	66	↑2	85
48	Stella	63	new	72
49	Blanche	62	↓4	75
50	Thelma	61	new	27

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	John	868	–	1
2	Joseph	562	–	6
3	William	479	–	2
4	James	361	–	3
5	George	329	↑1	4
6	Edward	318	↓1	9
7	Charles	301	–	7
8	Robert	231	↑3	5
9	Arthur	213	↑5	18
10	Frank	211	↓1	8
11	Thomas	203	↓1	10
12	Walter	197	–	12
13	Francis	195	↓5	33
14	Henry	160	↑1	11
15	Albert	149	↓2	15
16	Harold	141	–	16
17	Raymond	129	↑10	19
18	Paul	112	–	17
19	Richard	112	↓2	20
20	Louis	107	↑2	21
21	Anthony	100	↓2	35
22	Frederick	99	↓1	52
23	Michael	97	↑7	38
24	Ernest	96	↑9	32
25	Ralph	89	↑1	24
26	Stanley	87	↓2	44
27	Alfred	84	↓7	39
28	Herbert	83	↑11	41
29	Lawrence	81	↑8	37
30	Harry	76	↓5	13
31	Leo	73	↓8	51
32	Donald	71	↑8	36
33	David	68	↑1	27
34	Samuel	68	↓6	30
35	Carl	64	↓4	26
36	Peter	61	↑2	50
37	Kenneth	60	↓5	40
38	Manuel	60	↑8	>100
39	Daniel	59	↓10	53
40	Howard	57	↑10	28
41	Bernard	53	new	54
42	Philip	50	↓7	69
43	Vincent	50	new	80
44	Eugene	49	new	43
45	Fred	49	↓9	22
46	Benjamin	44	↓1	64
47	Clarence	44	new	23
48	Leonard	44	new	46
49	Norman	42	↓2	63
50	Chester	39	↓1	58

← Massachusetts 1910 Massachusetts: all years · US 1911 Massachusetts 1912 →