Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1915

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1915 were Mary for girls (2,794 babies) and John for boys (2,291). Social Security records list 60,195 babies born in Massachusetts in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1915

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

Girls

Antonetta: 23 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Stasia: 21 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Juliette: 35 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Rita: 654 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Rosamond: 22 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Priscilla: 73 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Germaine: 23 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Albina: 28 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Jeannette: 123 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Yvonne: 49 babies, 3.9× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 21 babies, 17.9× the national rate
Antone: 42 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Myer: 16 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Domenic: 34 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Armand: 62 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Rene: 27 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Jeremiah: 18 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Emile: 28 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Hector: 24 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Americo: 18 babies, 6.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	2,794	–	1
2	Helen	1,452	–	2
3	Dorothy	1,038	–	3
4	Margaret	886	–	4
5	Ruth	877	–	5
6	Alice	670	↑1	13
7	Anna	659	↓1	7
8	Rita	654	↑3	71
9	Elizabeth	617	↓1	8
10	Rose	516	↓1	16
11	Lillian	512	↑1	15
12	Eleanor	483	↓2	28
13	Florence	474	↑3	14
14	Catherine	465	↓1	19
15	Evelyn	457	–	10
16	Mildred	452	↑2	6
17	Frances	447	↓3	9
18	Irene	412	↑3	17
19	Doris	409	↓2	34
20	Josephine	391	–	22
21	Marion	362	↓2	50
22	Virginia	352	↑9	12
23	Marie	348	↑4	11
24	Barbara	343	–	83
25	Gertrude	337	↓3	35
26	Louise	334	↓3	18
27	Edith	313	↓1	31
28	Beatrice	291	↑2	37
29	Esther	284	↑5	33
30	Marjorie	282	↓2	39
31	Grace	277	↓6	27
32	Anne	275	↓3	52
33	Jennie	245	↑6	73
34	Ethel	223	↓2	23
35	Agnes	216	↑1	45
36	Edna	206	↓3	20
37	Gladys	206	↓2	21
38	Stella	205	↑2	64
39	Phyllis	196	↑5	100
40	Pauline	193	↑6	32
41	Katherine	192	↓4	49
42	Sophie	191	↑3	97
43	Bertha	184	↓5	46
44	Julia	183	↓1	44
45	Ann	180	↓3	43
46	Jean	158	↑1	48
47	Marguerite	153	new	85
48	Hazel	150	new	26
49	Eva	148	–	55
50	Lena	141	new	77

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	John	2,291	–	1
2	Joseph	1,557	–	5
3	William	1,318	–	2
4	George	944	↑1	6
5	James	902	↓1	3
6	Robert	852	↑2	4
7	Edward	848	–	8
8	Charles	830	↓2	7
9	Frank	582	–	9
10	Francis	581	–	29
11	Thomas	524	↑1	10
12	Walter	524	↓1	11
13	Arthur	500	–	18
14	Albert	446	–	17
15	Henry	433	–	14
16	Paul	430	↑2	13
17	Richard	409	↓1	15
18	Raymond	369	↑1	16
19	Harold	354	↑3	12
20	Anthony	352	↓3	36
21	Stanley	306	–	34
22	Louis	304	↓2	23
23	Alfred	297	–	42
24	Ralph	283	↑2	21
25	Frederick	268	↓1	52
26	Donald	249	↑4	20
27	Ernest	249	↑5	35
28	Michael	246	↑1	43
29	Leo	229	↓4	47
30	Harry	215	↓3	19
31	David	203	–	31
32	Peter	197	↓4	49
33	Herbert	196	↑4	40
34	Philip	191	↓1	69
35	Daniel	186	–	55
36	Norman	181	↑6	50
37	Lawrence	180	↓3	37
38	Samuel	179	↓2	39
39	Bernard	148	↑4	48
40	Kenneth	147	–	28
41	Manuel	144	↓2	>100
42	Russell	144	↑3	51
43	Chester	143	↓5	54
44	Vincent	136	↓3	65
45	Carl	130	↑1	22
46	Leonard	128	new	44
47	Fred	127	new	26
48	Howard	127	↓4	25
49	Stephen	127	new	86
50	Roland	125	↓3	>100

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