Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1913

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1913 were Mary for girls (1,874 babies) and John for boys (1,480). Social Security records list 38,007 babies born in Massachusetts in 1913 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1913

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

Girls

Stasia: 16 babies, 12.9× the national rate
Gilda: 18 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Germaine: 23 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Priscilla: 45 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Yvonne: 38 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Rita: 186 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Juliette: 16 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Lauretta: 17 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Jeannette: 81 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Bernadette: 24 babies, 4× the national rate

Boys

Antone: 27 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Romeo: 21 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Armand: 44 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Jeremiah: 17 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Emile: 18 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Manuel: 112 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Israel: 19 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Lionel: 20 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Hyman: 42 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Gerard: 30 babies, 4.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1913

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	Mary	1,874	–	1
2	Helen	940	–	2
3	Dorothy	683	–	3
4	Margaret	637	–	4
5	Ruth	512	↑1	5
6	Alice	498	↓1	11
7	Elizabeth	451	↑1	8
8	Anna	439	↓1	7
9	Catherine	346	↑1	22
10	Rose	346	↓1	14
11	Eleanor	324	↑5	34
12	Lillian	318	↓1	16
13	Mildred	281	↓1	6
14	Marion	276	↑5	51
15	Evelyn	270	↓1	12
16	Josephine	270	↑4	24
17	Florence	262	↓2	13
18	Gertrude	248	–	33
19	Frances	246	↓6	9
20	Irene	238	↑2	21
21	Doris	236	↓4	44
22	Marie	217	↓1	10
23	Edith	207	↑4	29
24	Louise	202	↓1	17
25	Grace	196	↑1	25
26	Esther	188	↓2	32
27	Rita	186	new	>100
28	Anne	181	↓3	57
29	Barbara	181	↑2	94
30	Agnes	174	↑2	41
31	Beatrice	171	↓3	37
32	Katherine	171	↑1	54
33	Marjorie	168	↓3	48
34	Virginia	163	↑4	15
35	Ethel	162	↓6	20
36	Edna	139	↓1	18
37	Gladys	133	↓3	19
38	Jennie	125	↑4	80
39	Phyllis	123	new	>100
40	Bertha	121	↓1	39
41	Stella	121	↓1	69
42	Ann	113	↓5	46
43	Hazel	108	–	27
44	Eva	106	↓3	50
45	Julia	105	↓9	42
46	Ida	99	–	49
47	Marguerite	99	–	78
48	Elsie	96	new	40
49	Sophie	94	↓1	>100
50	Blanche	91	↓6	76

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	John	1,480	–	1
2	Joseph	987	–	5
3	William	880	–	2
4	James	666	–	3
5	George	634	–	6
6	Charles	562	↑1	7
7	Edward	555	↓1	8
8	Robert	492	–	4
9	Francis	368	↑2	30
10	Thomas	361	–	10
11	Arthur	344	↑1	17
12	Frank	340	↓3	9
13	Walter	325	–	11
14	Albert	285	↑1	16
15	Henry	276	↓1	12
16	Richard	240	↑2	19
17	Harold	224	↓1	13
18	Paul	217	↓1	14
19	Raymond	212	↑1	18
20	Alfred	211	↓1	42
21	Stanley	211	↑7	41
22	Anthony	195	↓1	38
23	Louis	194	↓1	20
24	Frederick	189	↓1	49
25	Harry	167	↓1	15
26	Michael	163	↑1	40
27	Ernest	162	↑2	34
28	Leo	160	↑5	48
29	David	150	↓3	29
30	Ralph	149	↓5	22
31	Donald	144	–	25
32	Philip	141	↑5	69
33	Peter	129	↓1	51
34	Herbert	128	–	39
35	Daniel	126	↑1	54
36	Lawrence	123	↓1	35
37	Samuel	119	↓7	36
38	Manuel	112	↑3	>100
39	Bernard	98	↑4	52
40	Howard	95	↓1	26
41	Carl	94	↓1	23
42	Chester	93	↑3	56
43	Kenneth	92	↓5	33
44	Norman	92	↑4	57
45	Vincent	92	↓3	66
46	Theodore	80	↓2	60
47	Russell	79	new	50
48	Leonard	76	new	46
49	Benjamin	75	new	70
50	Roland	74	new	>100

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