Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1923

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1923 were Mary for girls (2,779 babies) and John for boys (2,655). Social Security records list 70,927 babies born in Massachusetts in 1923 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1923

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

Girls

Yvette: 35 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Juliette: 34 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Claire: 307 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Priscilla: 172 babies, 7× the national rate
Therese: 37 babies, 6× the national rate
Cecile: 80 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Jeannette: 155 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Natalie: 92 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Germaine: 20 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Lauretta: 23 babies, 4.3× the national rate

Boys

Antone: 63 babies, 18.9× the national rate
Sumner: 29 babies, 18.1× the national rate
Normand: 51 babies, 12.4× the national rate
Fernand: 24 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Americo: 26 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Silvio: 20 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Armand: 83 babies, 8× the national rate
Romeo: 26 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Rene: 44 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Lucien: 31 babies, 6.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1923

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	Mary	2,779	–	1
2	Helen	1,299	–	3
3	Dorothy	1,297	–	2
4	Ruth	998	–	6
5	Margaret	875	–	4
6	Barbara	814	–	33
7	Elizabeth	655	↑1	9
8	Rita	652	↓1	50
9	Virginia	652	↑2	7
10	Eleanor	649	↓1	28
11	Doris	648	↑1	11
12	Alice	606	↓2	15
13	Irene	536	↑1	17
14	Anna	490	↓1	13
15	Evelyn	484	↑3	12
16	Marie	467	–	14
17	Frances	461	↓2	10
18	Florence	460	↑1	18
19	Marjorie	449	↑6	16
20	Shirley	449	↑4	26
21	Catherine	447	↓4	24
22	Lillian	438	↓1	20
23	Phyllis	432	↑3	45
24	Rose	425	↓4	23
25	Marion	381	↓3	44
26	Mildred	371	↓3	8
27	Louise	369	–	22
28	Josephine	364	–	30
29	Jean	325	↑1	19
30	Claire	307	↑5	>100
31	Pauline	283	↑1	37
32	Gloria	270	↑4	48
33	Grace	249	↑1	39
34	Edith	248	↓3	36
35	Gertrude	241	↓6	59
36	Lorraine	241	↑4	57
37	Anne	240	↓4	71
38	Beatrice	236	↓1	46
39	Eileen	221	↓1	95
40	Theresa	216	↑10	>100
41	Ann	215	↓2	52
42	Constance	213	↓1	>100
43	Patricia	192	new	56
44	Jane	191	new	55
45	Agnes	182	new	63
46	Norma	181	new	41
47	Lucille	179	new	35
48	Kathleen	177	new	70
49	Esther	175	new	47
50	Ethel	172	↓3	38

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	John	2,655	–	1
2	Robert	1,949	–	2
3	William	1,780	–	3
4	Joseph	1,738	–	7
5	James	1,254	↑1	4
6	Edward	1,244	↓1	8
7	George	1,192	–	6
8	Charles	914	–	5
9	Richard	865	–	9
10	Francis	666	–	34
11	Arthur	661	–	19
12	Thomas	650	–	12
13	Paul	632	↑2	14
14	Frank	588	↓1	11
15	Walter	575	↓1	16
16	Donald	571	↑2	10
17	Raymond	543	↓1	15
18	Albert	527	↓1	20
19	Henry	490	–	18
20	Harold	412	–	13
21	Alfred	384	–	42
22	Anthony	353	–	39
23	Leo	329	↑5	49
24	Louis	323	–	27
25	David	322	↑1	24
26	Ralph	290	↓3	23
27	Ernest	266	↑3	38
28	Stanley	260	↓1	41
29	Frederick	258	↓4	60
30	Kenneth	258	↓1	21
31	Herbert	257	↑6	40
32	Warren	242	↑9	43
33	Peter	239	↓2	58
34	Norman	232	–	44
35	Philip	229	↓2	70
36	Daniel	224	↓4	47
37	Michael	223	↓2	50
38	Lawrence	217	↓2	36
39	Bernard	209	–	46
40	Harry	207	↑2	22
41	Leonard	197	↓3	37
42	Roland	193	↑6	>100
43	Eugene	181	↓3	25
44	Roger	181	–	95
45	Vincent	170	↑4	72
46	Howard	155	↑4	26
47	Russell	153	↓1	52
48	Fred	148	↓5	33
49	Edwin	144	↓2	56
50	Manuel	144	↓5	>100

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