Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1924

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1924 were Mary for girls (2,746 babies) and John for boys (2,809). John ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 73,424 babies born in Massachusetts in 1924 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1924

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: 21 babies, 13.2× the national rate
Yvette: 38 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Rosamond: 22 babies, 8× the national rate
Priscilla: 193 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Claire: 339 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Therese: 62 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Juliette: 29 babies, 6× the national rate
Cecile: 75 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Albina: 22 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Georgette: 37 babies, 5.3× the national rate

Boys

Sumner: 32 babies, 16.5× the national rate
Antone: 42 babies, 13.4× the national rate
Rene: 50 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Normand: 41 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Lucien: 27 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Emile: 30 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Americo: 20 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Armand: 62 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Domenic: 27 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Gerard: 99 babies, 5.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1924

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Mary	2,746	–	1
2	Dorothy	1,326	↑1	2
3	Helen	1,231	↓1	3
4	Barbara	958	↑2	28
5	Ruth	923	↓1	6
6	Margaret	897	↓1	5
7	Rita	744	↑1	49
8	Doris	675	↑3	9
9	Elizabeth	661	↓2	11
10	Eleanor	652	–	29
11	Virginia	650	↓2	7
12	Alice	627	–	15
13	Irene	562	–	18
14	Shirley	527	↑6	19
15	Frances	504	↑2	10
16	Phyllis	489	↑7	44
17	Anna	484	↓3	13
18	Evelyn	474	↓3	12
19	Marie	474	↓3	14
20	Lillian	455	↑2	23
21	Marion	449	↑4	46
22	Rose	443	↑2	25
23	Florence	426	↓5	20
24	Catherine	425	↓3	27
25	Marjorie	416	↓6	17
26	Mildred	394	–	8
27	Jean	368	↑2	16
28	Josephine	349	–	34
29	Claire	339	↑1	>100
30	Louise	332	↓3	24
31	Grace	315	↑2	43
32	Gloria	311	–	41
33	Theresa	296	↑7	96
34	Patricia	288	↑9	35
35	Lorraine	284	↑1	52
36	Ann	273	↑5	55
37	Pauline	264	↓6	38
38	Gertrude	263	↓3	60
39	Anne	245	↓2	79
40	Beatrice	242	↓2	50
41	Eileen	239	↓2	93
42	Edith	236	↓8	36
43	Betty	206	new	4
44	Agnes	203	↑1	63
45	Jane	201	↓1	53
46	Nancy	198	new	69
47	Priscilla	193	new	>100
48	June	191	new	45
49	Marguerite	184	new	>100
50	Norma	178	↓4	40

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	John	2,809	–	2
2	Robert	2,247	–	1
3	William	1,812	–	3
4	Joseph	1,658	–	7
5	James	1,288	–	4
6	Edward	1,279	–	9
7	George	1,208	–	6
8	Richard	1,004	↑1	8
9	Charles	981	↓1	5
10	Francis	739	–	34
11	Thomas	695	↑1	11
12	Arthur	658	↓1	20
13	Paul	639	–	14
14	Donald	631	↑2	10
15	Raymond	614	↑2	15
16	Walter	601	↓1	16
17	Frank	588	↓3	12
18	Henry	504	↑1	18
19	Albert	502	↓1	21
20	Harold	431	–	13
21	Alfred	396	–	43
22	Anthony	390	–	39
23	David	353	↑2	24
24	Kenneth	327	↑6	19
25	Leo	320	↓2	51
26	Ralph	310	–	23
27	Louis	298	↓3	28
28	Norman	297	↑6	42
29	Stanley	289	↓1	40
30	Frederick	270	↓1	62
31	Peter	266	↑2	59
32	Lawrence	263	↑6	36
33	Daniel	262	↑3	47
34	Philip	257	↑1	71
35	Ernest	252	↓8	37
36	Michael	234	↑1	54
37	Roland	225	↑5	98
38	Bernard	214	↑1	46
39	Harry	212	↑1	22
40	Roger	209	↑4	93
41	Herbert	205	↓10	41
42	Leonard	197	↓1	38
43	Eugene	182	–	25
44	Russell	162	↑3	52
45	Fred	161	↑3	32
46	Vincent	161	↓1	78
47	Warren	158	↓15	58
48	Howard	152	↓2	26
49	Gerald	147	new	49
50	Edmund	146	new	>100

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