Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1921

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1921 were Mary for girls (3,036 babies) and John for boys (2,784). Social Security records list 71,149 babies born in Massachusetts in 1921 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1921

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: 24 babies, 12.7× the national rate
Stacia: 19 babies, 12.4× the national rate
Antonetta: 19 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Yvette: 34 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Priscilla: 164 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Therese: 28 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Claire: 228 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Juliette: 29 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Cecile: 72 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Rita: 767 babies, 5× the national rate

Boys

Sumner: 29 babies, 20.3× the national rate
Antone: 74 babies, 18.1× the national rate
Normand: 40 babies, 15.2× the national rate
Americo: 33 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Armand: 88 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Rene: 38 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Domenic: 33 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Romeo: 22 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Lucien: 27 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Gerard: 93 babies, 5.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1921

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	3,036	–	1
2	Helen	1,367	–	3
3	Dorothy	1,266	–	2
4	Margaret	1,047	↑1	4
5	Ruth	1,046	↓1	5
6	Rita	767	–	48
7	Alice	678	↑2	15
8	Barbara	664	↑2	40
9	Elizabeth	652	↓2	10
10	Eleanor	648	↓2	29
11	Virginia	600	↑2	6
12	Doris	598	↓1	13
13	Anna	595	↓1	11
14	Irene	538	↑3	18
15	Frances	516	↓1	9
16	Rose	505	↑4	20
17	Evelyn	504	↑2	12
18	Mildred	468	↑4	7
19	Florence	465	↓1	17
20	Lillian	452	↓5	19
21	Marion	440	–	43
22	Marie	438	↑3	14
23	Catherine	431	↓7	23
24	Marjorie	403	↓1	16
25	Josephine	387	↓1	28
26	Louise	343	↑1	22
27	Phyllis	333	↓1	60
28	Shirley	331	↑5	44
29	Gertrude	305	↓1	46
30	Edith	288	↓1	33
31	Grace	285	↓1	35
32	Beatrice	268	↓1	41
33	Jean	261	↑3	25
34	Anne	259	–	70
35	Pauline	256	↓3	37
36	Ann	234	↑3	53
37	Claire	228	↑10	>100
38	Eileen	226	↑8	100
39	Gladys	217	↑5	24
40	Edna	210	↓5	27
41	Jennie	206	–	99
42	Sophie	206	new	>100
43	Agnes	202	↓6	56
44	Ethel	195	↓4	32
45	Marguerite	195	↓2	98
46	Lorraine	189	↑4	61
47	Constance	178	new	>100
48	Esther	176	↓10	42
49	Theresa	171	new	>100
50	Muriel	170	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	John	2,784	–	1
2	Robert	1,785	↑2	2
3	Joseph	1,730	–	7
4	William	1,647	↓2	3
5	James	1,220	↑1	4
6	Edward	1,211	↓1	8
7	George	1,197	–	6
8	Charles	931	–	5
9	Richard	769	–	10
10	Francis	697	↑1	35
11	Thomas	673	↓1	11
12	Frank	653	↑1	9
13	Arthur	652	↓1	19
14	Paul	567	↑2	14
15	Walter	560	↓1	15
16	Albert	544	↓1	20
17	Raymond	539	–	16
18	Henry	487	–	17
19	Donald	428	–	13
20	Harold	409	–	12
21	Anthony	364	↑2	40
22	Alfred	341	–	43
23	Stanley	312	↓2	41
24	David	309	↑3	25
25	Ralph	295	↓1	23
26	Frederick	290	–	61
27	Louis	287	↓2	29
28	Warren	277	↑15	24
29	Ernest	260	↓1	38
30	Norman	259	↑4	46
31	Leo	257	↓2	50
32	Peter	253	↓2	57
33	Michael	241	↓1	47
34	Herbert	225	↑2	42
35	Harry	222	↑3	21
36	Daniel	221	↓1	49
37	Lawrence	217	↓4	37
38	Philip	214	↓1	72
39	Kenneth	205	↓8	22
40	Bernard	201	↓1	45
41	Vincent	177	↑9	70
42	Roger	175	↓2	99
43	Manuel	171	↑2	>100
44	Roland	169	↓3	>100
45	Leonard	162	↑1	39
46	Russell	162	↓4	52
47	Chester	155	↓3	56
48	Howard	155	↑1	27
49	Eugene	153	↓1	26
50	Theodore	149	↓3	65

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