Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1920

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1920 were Mary for girls (2,970 babies) and John for boys (2,699). Social Security records list 69,499 babies born in Massachusetts in 1920 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1920

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: 24 babies, 15.9× the national rate
Stasia: 31 babies, 13.5× the national rate
Stacia: 20 babies, 12.2× the national rate
Aldona: 19 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Yvette: 34 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Priscilla: 144 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Claire: 181 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Rita: 781 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Germaine: 21 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Gilda: 19 babies, 4.8× the national rate

Boys

Antone: 64 babies, 16.8× the national rate
Normand: 33 babies, 12.4× the national rate
Sumner: 24 babies, 11.8× the national rate
Americo: 21 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Rene: 35 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Gaetano: 18 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Armand: 74 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Jeremiah: 22 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Lucien: 21 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Gerard: 69 babies, 5.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1920

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Mary	2,970	–	1
2	Helen	1,515	–	3
3	Dorothy	1,239	–	2
4	Ruth	1,060	–	5
5	Margaret	1,004	–	4
6	Rita	781	–	52
7	Elizabeth	643	–	8
8	Eleanor	633	↑2	25
9	Alice	626	↓1	15
10	Barbara	626	↑7	47
11	Doris	562	↑3	14
12	Anna	555	↓3	10
13	Virginia	532	↓1	7
14	Frances	522	↓3	9
15	Lillian	501	↑4	18
16	Catherine	497	–	21
17	Irene	475	↑4	17
18	Florence	467	↓3	16
19	Evelyn	464	↓6	12
20	Rose	463	↓2	20
21	Marion	455	↑2	43
22	Mildred	446	↓2	6
23	Marjorie	420	↑4	24
24	Josephine	417	↓2	28
25	Marie	390	–	13
26	Phyllis	344	↑2	72
27	Louise	325	↓1	19
28	Gertrude	318	↓4	42
29	Edith	312	–	32
30	Grace	271	↑1	37
31	Beatrice	258	↓1	41
32	Pauline	256	–	36
33	Shirley	250	↑14	56
34	Anne	239	↓1	65
35	Edna	228	↑2	27
36	Jean	228	↑4	33
37	Agnes	219	↓1	54
38	Esther	214	↓4	39
39	Ann	213	↓1	49
40	Ethel	213	↑1	30
41	Jennie	199	↓6	97
42	Katherine	199	↑3	45
43	Marguerite	197	↑5	93
44	Gladys	190	↓5	22
45	Stella	189	↓2	82
46	Eileen	188	↓2	100
47	Claire	181	new	>100
48	Jane	177	new	48
49	Julia	169	new	55
50	Lorraine	167	–	70

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	John	2,699	–	1
2	William	1,715	↑1	2
3	Joseph	1,662	↓1	7
4	Robert	1,594	–	3
5	Edward	1,227	↑1	8
6	James	1,226	↑1	4
7	George	1,080	↓2	6
8	Charles	909	–	5
9	Richard	725	↑5	10
10	Thomas	677	↑3	11
11	Francis	659	↑1	34
12	Arthur	645	↓2	18
13	Frank	609	↓4	9
14	Walter	591	↓3	13
15	Albert	552	–	19
16	Paul	538	–	14
17	Raymond	509	–	15
18	Henry	450	–	17
19	Donald	413	↑5	16
20	Harold	392	–	12
21	Stanley	377	–	40
22	Alfred	364	↓3	42
23	Anthony	362	↓1	43
24	Ralph	342	↑1	22
25	Louis	314	↓2	28
26	Frederick	291	↑1	60
27	David	280	↑1	25
28	Ernest	271	↓2	37
29	Leo	262	–	48
30	Peter	261	↑1	57
31	Kenneth	240	↑11	23
32	Michael	235	↓2	50
33	Lawrence	226	↑6	36
34	Norman	225	↑3	47
35	Daniel	216	↑3	52
36	Herbert	202	↓2	41
37	Philip	199	↓1	71
38	Harry	196	↓6	21
39	Bernard	189	↓4	46
40	Roger	185	new	>100
41	Roland	176	↑7	>100
42	Russell	175	↑2	51
43	Warren	172	new	39
44	Chester	165	↓4	55
45	Manuel	164	↓12	>100
46	Leonard	161	↑4	38
47	Theodore	159	↓6	63
48	Eugene	152	↓3	30
49	Howard	148	↓6	24
50	Vincent	148	↓3	73

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