Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1919

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1919 were Mary for girls (2,769 babies) and John for boys (2,406). Social Security records list 65,054 babies born in Massachusetts in 1919 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1919

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

Girls

Stacia: 25 babies, 14.5× the national rate
Stasia: 22 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Yvette: 34 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Priscilla: 116 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Gilda: 25 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Therese: 22 babies, 6× the national rate
Rita: 782 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Claire: 151 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Juliette: 25 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Jeannette: 155 babies, 4.7× the national rate

Boys

Sumner: 27 babies, 18.6× the national rate
Antone: 68 babies, 17.7× the national rate
Normand: 32 babies, 16.7× the national rate
Americo: 25 babies, 10× the national rate
Rene: 36 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Armand: 64 babies, 8× the national rate
Elliot: 16 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Emile: 28 babies, 6× the national rate
Gerard: 73 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Romeo: 19 babies, 5.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1919

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Mary	2,769	–	1
2	Helen	1,520	–	2
3	Dorothy	1,129	–	3
4	Ruth	969	–	5
5	Margaret	907	–	4
6	Rita	782	–	54
7	Elizabeth	654	↑1	8
8	Alice	613	↓1	13
9	Anna	596	–	10
10	Eleanor	574	–	30
11	Frances	517	↑1	9
12	Virginia	507	↑6	7
13	Evelyn	501	–	11
14	Doris	497	↑1	18
15	Florence	492	↓1	14
16	Catherine	480	↑3	23
17	Barbara	474	↓6	60
18	Rose	472	↓1	19
19	Lillian	453	↓3	17
20	Mildred	441	↑3	6
21	Irene	424	↓1	16
22	Josephine	410	↓1	26
23	Marion	402	↓1	44
24	Gertrude	395	↑2	39
25	Marie	373	↓1	12
26	Louise	342	↓1	20
27	Marjorie	329	↑1	33
28	Phyllis	326	↓1	84
29	Edith	300	↑2	29
30	Beatrice	296	↓1	41
31	Grace	283	↑1	34
32	Pauline	241	↑2	36
33	Anne	239	↓3	63
34	Esther	214	↑4	38
35	Jennie	214	↑1	93
36	Agnes	213	↑1	50
37	Edna	213	↓2	22
38	Ann	210	↑1	49
39	Gladys	206	↑6	21
40	Jean	204	↑7	37
41	Ethel	202	↓1	28
42	Sophie	199	↓1	>100
43	Stella	197	–	70
44	Eileen	185	new	>100
45	Katherine	185	↓12	51
46	Charlotte	181	↑4	79
47	Shirley	172	new	89
48	Marguerite	166	–	96
49	Eva	165	new	55
50	Lorraine	163	↓4	62

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	John	2,406	–	1
2	Joseph	1,581	–	7
3	William	1,389	–	2
4	Robert	1,245	–	4
5	George	1,071	↑1	6
6	Edward	1,069	↑1	8
7	James	1,035	↓2	3
8	Charles	857	–	5
9	Frank	641	–	9
10	Arthur	605	↑1	19
11	Walter	599	↑1	11
12	Francis	588	↓2	34
13	Thomas	574	↑1	10
14	Richard	566	↓1	12
15	Albert	491	↑1	18
16	Paul	474	↑1	15
17	Raymond	438	↑1	14
18	Henry	416	↓3	16
19	Alfred	375	↑1	42
20	Harold	368	↑3	13
21	Stanley	350	↑1	37
22	Anthony	345	↓3	41
23	Louis	313	↓2	28
24	Donald	299	↑2	17
25	Ralph	296	–	22
26	Ernest	260	↑3	36
27	Frederick	251	↓3	64
28	David	250	↑2	27
29	Leo	246	↓2	49
30	Michael	236	↑1	46
31	Peter	231	↓3	57
32	Harry	206	↑1	20
33	Manuel	192	↑6	>100
34	Herbert	191	↑3	40
35	Bernard	190	↑5	45
36	Philip	186	↓4	71
37	Norman	185	↓3	48
38	Daniel	181	↓3	51
39	Lawrence	180	↓3	38
40	Chester	173	↑1	53
41	Theodore	171	↑3	54
42	Kenneth	168	↓4	26
43	Howard	164	↑3	24
44	Russell	163	↓2	50
45	Eugene	157	new	33
46	Samuel	153	new	43
47	Vincent	146	↑2	72
48	Roland	143	new	>100
49	Fred	140	↓4	30
50	Leonard	140	↓3	39

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