Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1917

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1917 were Mary for girls (2,818 babies) and John for boys (2,471). Social Security records list 65,561 babies born in Massachusetts in 1917 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1917

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: 36 babies, 15.4× the national rate
Priscilla: 118 babies, 8× the national rate
Yvette: 25 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Gilda: 28 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Rita: 768 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Yvonne: 80 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Jeannette: 166 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Claire: 138 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Germaine: 18 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Albina: 32 babies, 4.3× the national rate

Boys

Sumner: 21 babies, 17.3× the national rate
Antone: 65 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Normand: 20 babies, 13.8× the national rate
Americo: 25 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Armand: 61 babies, 7× the national rate
Gaetano: 17 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Rene: 28 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Romeo: 23 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Domenic: 20 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Emile: 23 babies, 5.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1917

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Mary	2,818	–	1
2	Helen	1,537	–	2
3	Dorothy	1,157	–	3
4	Ruth	991	↑1	5
5	Margaret	947	↓1	4
6	Rita	768	–	63
7	Elizabeth	673	↑2	8
8	Alice	665	–	13
9	Anna	657	↓2	7
10	Eleanor	585	–	26
11	Rose	540	–	16
12	Frances	519	–	9
13	Evelyn	493	↑4	11
14	Lillian	490	–	15
15	Marion	482	↑4	45
16	Doris	475	↓1	25
17	Catherine	472	↓1	18
18	Florence	452	↓5	14
19	Mildred	451	↓1	6
20	Virginia	450	–	10
21	Josephine	424	–	21
22	Irene	421	–	17
23	Barbara	402	–	67
24	Louise	386	↑2	19
25	Gertrude	370	↓1	37
26	Marie	354	↓1	12
27	Marjorie	335	↑2	36
28	Edith	316	–	28
29	Grace	298	↑2	30
30	Beatrice	280	–	39
31	Phyllis	258	↑1	92
32	Anne	254	↓5	53
33	Esther	254	–	38
34	Ethel	230	↑3	24
35	Edna	227	–	20
36	Ann	226	↑3	44
37	Agnes	223	↓1	48
38	Jennie	222	↓4	81
39	Pauline	221	↑1	33
40	Stella	216	↓2	62
41	Gladys	203	↑5	23
42	Katherine	201	↑2	49
43	Jean	197	↑4	40
44	Sophie	192	↓3	100
45	Julia	185	↓2	47
46	Bertha	180	↓4	51
47	Marguerite	170	↓2	78
48	Jeannette	166	new	>100
49	Eileen	161	new	>100
50	Eva	154	↓1	54

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	John	2,471	–	1
2	Joseph	1,590	–	5
3	William	1,519	–	2
4	Robert	1,162	↑1	4
5	George	1,035	↑1	6
6	James	996	↓2	3
7	Edward	994	↑1	8
8	Charles	917	↓1	7
9	Frank	679	–	9
10	Francis	631	–	30
11	Arthur	599	↑2	17
12	Walter	592	–	11
13	Albert	544	↑1	18
14	Thomas	531	↓3	10
15	Richard	497	–	14
16	Henry	443	↑1	15
17	Paul	420	↓1	13
18	Raymond	413	–	16
19	Harold	402	↑3	12
20	Anthony	367	–	38
21	Stanley	352	↓2	34
22	Louis	324	↓1	23
23	Alfred	308	–	43
24	Donald	304	↑1	20
25	Ralph	300	↑1	21
26	Frederick	280	↓2	51
27	Michael	251	↑1	44
28	Ernest	237	↑5	37
29	Peter	229	↑3	50
30	Leo	225	↓1	47
31	Harry	221	↓1	19
32	David	215	↓5	28
33	Norman	207	↓2	46
34	Philip	204	↑2	66
35	Bernard	188	↑2	49
36	Daniel	187	↓2	54
37	Samuel	184	↑13	42
38	Herbert	181	–	40
39	Lawrence	180	–	36
40	Kenneth	177	↓5	27
41	Vincent	175	–	65
42	Chester	172	–	56
43	Manuel	167	↑2	>100
44	Howard	147	↑5	26
45	Russell	134	↓2	52
46	Fred	133	new	29
47	Roland	130	–	>100
48	Leonard	128	↓4	41
49	Carl	127	↓9	24
50	Stephen	127	new	89

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