Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1912

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1912 were Mary for girls (1,636 babies) and John for boys (1,276). Social Security records list 32,955 babies born in Massachusetts in 1912 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1912

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

Girls

Aurore: 16 babies, 20× the national rate
Germaine: 22 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Yvonne: 47 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Priscilla: 32 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Natalie: 33 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Bella: 16 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Barbara: 142 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Eileen: 57 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Althea: 16 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Clare: 16 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Boys

Sumner: 15 babies, 17× the national rate
Antone: 21 babies, 13.6× the national rate
Domenic: 17 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Armand: 34 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Gerard: 30 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Frederic: 21 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Manuel: 80 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Wilfred: 48 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Lionel: 18 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Francis: 335 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1912

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	Mary	1,636	–	1
2	Helen	829	–	2
3	Dorothy	647	–	3
4	Margaret	597	–	4
5	Alice	423	↑2	11
6	Ruth	421	↓1	5
7	Anna	368	↓1	7
8	Elizabeth	359	–	8
9	Rose	322	↑1	15
10	Catherine	303	↑1	21
11	Lillian	300	↓2	14
12	Mildred	284	↑2	6
13	Frances	259	↑3	9
14	Evelyn	256	↓2	13
15	Florence	253	↓2	12
16	Eleanor	251	↑2	39
17	Doris	232	↑2	48
18	Gertrude	228	↓1	30
19	Marion	226	↑1	55
20	Josephine	211	↑4	28
21	Marie	211	↑1	10
22	Irene	204	↓7	22
23	Louise	174	–	17
24	Esther	172	↑5	33
25	Anne	171	–	58
26	Grace	165	–	24
27	Edith	161	–	31
28	Beatrice	157	↓7	37
29	Ethel	156	↓1	18
30	Marjorie	151	↑3	56
31	Barbara	142	↑6	>100
32	Agnes	134	↓2	40
33	Katherine	134	↓2	53
34	Gladys	127	↓2	19
35	Edna	122	↓1	16
36	Julia	118	↓1	44
37	Ann	115	↑3	47
38	Virginia	115	↑8	20
39	Bertha	114	↓3	36
40	Stella	103	↑8	73
41	Eva	101	↓2	49
42	Jennie	96	↑5	81
43	Hazel	93	↓5	25
44	Blanche	88	↑5	75
45	Pauline	88	new	38
46	Ida	86	↓5	45
47	Marguerite	82	↓4	79
48	Sophie	82	new	>100
49	Charlotte	78	new	91
50	Emma	77	new	35

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	John	1,276	–	1
2	Joseph	877	–	5
3	William	796	–	2
4	James	597	–	3
5	George	533	–	6
6	Edward	503	–	8
7	Charles	500	–	7
8	Robert	403	–	4
9	Frank	354	↑1	9
10	Thomas	341	↑1	10
11	Francis	335	↑2	35
12	Arthur	294	↓3	15
13	Walter	260	↓1	11
14	Henry	241	–	12
15	Albert	222	–	17
16	Harold	205	–	13
17	Paul	205	↑1	14
18	Richard	192	↑1	19
19	Alfred	189	↑8	40
20	Raymond	189	↓3	18
21	Anthony	188	–	37
22	Louis	178	↓2	20
23	Frederick	146	↓1	51
24	Harry	145	↑6	16
25	Ralph	135	–	23
26	David	134	↑7	29
27	Michael	133	↓4	42
28	Stanley	133	↓2	43
29	Ernest	128	↓5	32
30	Samuel	124	↑4	30
31	Donald	120	↑1	27
32	Peter	120	↑4	48
33	Leo	115	↓2	49
34	Herbert	111	↓6	39
35	Lawrence	108	↓6	38
36	Daniel	106	↑3	53
37	Philip	94	↑5	69
38	Kenneth	93	↓1	33
39	Howard	87	↑1	25
40	Carl	81	↓5	24
41	Manuel	80	↓3	>100
42	Vincent	80	↑1	72
43	Bernard	79	↓2	60
44	Theodore	76	new	52
45	Chester	73	↑5	55
46	Eugene	73	↓2	41
47	Fred	73	↓2	26
48	Norman	73	↑1	61
49	Andrew	72	new	44
50	Stephen	69	new	88

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