Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1918

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1918 were Mary for girls (3,006 babies) and John for boys (2,657). Social Security records list 69,506 babies born in Massachusetts in 1918 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1918

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: 34 babies, 14.4× the national rate
Aldona: 19 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Stacia: 22 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Yvette: 33 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Priscilla: 131 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Rita: 794 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Georgianna: 25 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Claire: 181 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Bella: 38 babies, 5× the national rate
Juliette: 26 babies, 5× the national rate

Boys

Sumner: 28 babies, 17.1× the national rate
Normand: 31 babies, 16.3× the national rate
Antone: 62 babies, 15.9× the national rate
Americo: 30 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Romeo: 29 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Armand: 82 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Rene: 24 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Alphonse: 68 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Emile: 29 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Augustine: 24 babies, 5.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1918

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	Mary	3,006	–	1
2	Helen	1,588	–	2
3	Dorothy	1,192	–	3
4	Ruth	1,030	–	5
5	Margaret	938	–	4
6	Rita	794	–	58
7	Alice	687	↑1	13
8	Elizabeth	675	↓1	9
9	Anna	659	–	10
10	Eleanor	605	–	26
11	Barbara	538	↑12	60
12	Frances	529	–	8
13	Evelyn	524	–	11
14	Florence	522	↑4	14
15	Doris	520	↑1	19
16	Lillian	514	↓2	15
17	Rose	507	↓6	17
18	Virginia	497	↑2	7
19	Catherine	474	↓2	20
20	Irene	452	↑2	16
21	Josephine	451	–	24
22	Marion	438	↓7	45
23	Mildred	435	↓4	6
24	Marie	399	↑2	12
25	Louise	378	↓1	18
26	Gertrude	367	↓1	39
27	Phyllis	338	↑4	80
28	Marjorie	326	↓1	34
29	Beatrice	316	↑1	40
30	Anne	307	↑2	54
31	Edith	307	↓3	30
32	Grace	301	↓3	31
33	Katherine	239	↑9	50
34	Pauline	235	↑5	35
35	Edna	229	–	23
36	Jennie	229	↑2	91
37	Agnes	228	–	47
38	Esther	224	↓5	38
39	Ann	223	↓3	44
40	Ethel	211	↓6	28
41	Sophie	199	↑3	>100
42	Julia	195	↑3	48
43	Stella	186	↓3	67
44	Claire	181	new	>100
45	Gladys	175	↓4	22
46	Lorraine	174	new	69
47	Jean	171	↓4	37
48	Marguerite	168	↓1	86
49	Bertha	167	↓3	51
50	Charlotte	157	new	78

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	John	2,657	–	1
2	Joseph	1,787	–	7
3	William	1,587	–	2
4	Robert	1,302	–	4
5	James	1,137	↑1	3
6	George	1,088	↓1	6
7	Edward	1,060	–	8
8	Charles	965	–	5
9	Frank	654	–	9
10	Francis	639	–	30
11	Arthur	625	–	17
12	Walter	603	–	11
13	Richard	591	↑2	12
14	Thomas	590	–	10
15	Henry	492	↑1	16
16	Albert	478	↓3	19
17	Paul	445	–	14
18	Raymond	444	–	15
19	Anthony	371	↑1	39
20	Alfred	369	↑3	42
21	Louis	356	↑1	24
22	Stanley	349	↓1	36
23	Harold	336	↓4	13
24	Frederick	331	↑2	59
25	Ralph	322	–	22
26	Donald	315	↓2	18
27	Leo	291	↑3	48
28	Peter	265	↑1	53
29	Ernest	262	↓1	37
30	David	248	↑2	28
31	Michael	247	↓4	45
32	Philip	234	↑2	71
33	Harry	224	↓2	20
34	Norman	222	↓1	49
35	Daniel	218	↑1	52
36	Lawrence	211	↑3	38
37	Herbert	204	↑1	40
38	Kenneth	198	↑2	27
39	Manuel	194	↑4	>100
40	Bernard	188	↓5	47
41	Chester	172	↑1	54
42	Russell	169	↑3	50
43	Victor	155	new	63
44	Theodore	153	new	64
45	Fred	146	↑1	33
46	Howard	146	↓2	26
47	Leonard	143	↑1	41
48	Stephen	143	↑2	96
49	Vincent	139	↓8	73
50	Carl	136	↓1	25

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