Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1925

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1925 were Mary for girls (2,504 babies) and John for boys (2,647). John ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 69,531 babies born in Massachusetts in 1925 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1925

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

Girls

Rosamond: 27 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Yvette: 37 babies, 8× the national rate
Claire: 346 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Priscilla: 184 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Therese: 103 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Juliette: 26 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Georgette: 32 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Germaine: 24 babies, 5× the national rate
Cecile: 56 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Natalie: 92 babies, 4.5× the national rate

Boys

Sumner: 29 babies, 16.6× the national rate
Antone: 43 babies, 14.6× the national rate
Normand: 66 babies, 12.5× the national rate
Americo: 22 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Rene: 44 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Romeo: 23 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Armand: 63 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Emile: 27 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Domenic: 22 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Pasquale: 38 babies, 6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1925

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Mary	2,504	–	1
2	Dorothy	1,181	–	2
3	Helen	1,084	–	4
4	Barbara	951	–	22
5	Ruth	915	–	6
6	Margaret	803	–	5
7	Rita	638	–	48
8	Doris	631	–	8
9	Alice	617	↑3	15
10	Elizabeth	599	↓1	10
11	Virginia	575	–	7
12	Eleanor	568	↓2	31
13	Irene	540	–	19
14	Shirley	510	–	17
15	Marie	454	↑4	16
16	Frances	450	↓1	11
17	Theresa	450	↑16	80
18	Jean	441	↑9	14
19	Evelyn	439	↓1	12
20	Gloria	435	↑12	20
21	Rose	424	↑1	26
22	Anna	423	↓5	13
23	Lillian	423	↓3	25
24	Phyllis	415	↓8	40
25	Marion	407	↓4	47
26	Marjorie	404	↓1	21
27	Catherine	397	↓3	29
28	Mildred	376	↓2	9
29	Florence	358	↓6	24
30	Claire	346	↓1	>100
31	Pauline	323	↑6	38
32	Louise	313	↓2	27
33	Josephine	306	↓5	36
34	Patricia	297	–	28
35	Lorraine	289	–	51
36	Ann	269	–	52
37	Grace	255	↓6	44
38	June	238	↑10	39
39	Betty	237	↑4	3
40	Jane	224	↑5	53
41	Gertrude	222	↓3	70
42	Eileen	212	↓1	96
43	Nancy	210	↑3	60
44	Beatrice	209	↓4	50
45	Edith	207	↓3	42
46	Anne	205	↓7	85
47	Constance	196	new	>100
48	Priscilla	184	↓1	>100
49	Norma	180	↑1	34
50	Charlotte	172	new	77

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	John	2,647	–	2
2	Robert	2,288	–	1
3	William	1,778	–	3
4	Joseph	1,656	–	7
5	James	1,200	–	4
6	George	1,188	↑1	6
7	Edward	1,136	↓1	9
8	Richard	1,059	–	8
9	Charles	842	–	5
10	Thomas	693	↑1	11
11	Francis	683	↓1	35
12	Donald	675	↑2	10
13	Paul	675	–	13
14	Arthur	623	↓2	20
15	Raymond	581	–	15
16	Walter	550	–	16
17	Frank	537	–	12
18	Albert	491	↑1	21
19	Henry	429	↓1	18
20	Harold	376	–	14
21	Alfred	357	–	43
22	David	344	↑1	22
23	Anthony	343	↓1	39
24	Leo	321	↑1	54
25	Kenneth	297	↓1	19
26	Ralph	292	–	25
27	Louis	283	–	29
28	Norman	263	–	41
29	Ernest	259	↑6	37
30	Frederick	251	–	65
31	Daniel	237	↑2	44
32	Philip	228	↑2	75
33	Peter	222	↓2	60
34	Stanley	222	↓5	40
35	Roland	217	↑2	98
36	Michael	209	–	55
37	Bernard	203	↑1	48
38	Leonard	203	↑4	38
39	Roger	193	↑1	90
40	Lawrence	188	↓8	36
41	Herbert	180	–	42
42	Harry	177	↓3	23
43	Eugene	176	–	24
44	Russell	167	–	53
45	Vincent	163	↑1	71
46	Gerald	147	↑3	45
47	Fred	145	↓2	33
48	Theodore	142	new	63
49	Howard	141	↓1	26
50	Edmund	135	–	>100

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