Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1927

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1927 were Mary for girls (2,261 babies) and John for boys (2,653). John ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 68,320 babies born in Massachusetts in 1927 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1927

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

Girls

Claire: 443 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Yvette: 35 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Juliette: 30 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Priscilla: 179 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Cecile: 66 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Therese: 149 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Natalie: 96 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Theresa: 660 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Jeannette: 115 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Clare: 28 babies, 4× the national rate

Boys

Sumner: 27 babies, 18.7× the national rate
Antone: 47 babies, 17.9× the national rate
Alvan: 20 babies, 12.5× the national rate
Normand: 67 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Rene: 67 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Armand: 70 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Domenic: 25 babies, 7× the national rate
Emile: 28 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Elliot: 19 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Dante: 17 babies, 6.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1927

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Mary	2,261	–	1
2	Dorothy	1,199	–	2
3	Barbara	1,170	–	10
4	Helen	863	–	4
5	Ruth	789	–	6
6	Margaret	723	–	5
7	Theresa	660	↑3	52
8	Doris	627	–	7
9	Shirley	597	↑3	9
10	Elizabeth	586	↑1	13
11	Jean	573	↓2	14
12	Rita	555	↓5	54
13	Eleanor	536	↑2	33
14	Virginia	508	↓1	8
15	Marie	493	↑3	20
16	Phyllis	490	↑1	29
17	Irene	488	↓1	21
18	Alice	482	↓4	17
19	Lorraine	478	↑13	44
20	Claire	443	↑5	>100
21	Patricia	417	↑12	18
22	Marjorie	415	↑1	25
23	Anna	407	↓2	16
24	Evelyn	394	↓4	15
25	Frances	393	↓6	12
26	Rose	367	↓2	23
27	Lillian	346	↓5	32
28	Catherine	341	↓1	31
29	Gloria	339	↓3	22
30	Pauline	328	↑1	42
31	Marion	327	↓2	51
32	Florence	322	↓4	28
33	Mildred	308	↑1	11
34	Louise	295	↓4	27
35	Marilyn	295	↑15	46
36	Ann	265	–	59
37	Betty	259	↑8	3
38	Joan	242	new	41
39	Anne	233	–	92
40	Nancy	230	↑4	56
41	Josephine	226	↓6	39
42	June	214	↓4	43
43	Grace	208	↓2	50
44	Jeanne	208	↑2	85
45	Norma	207	↓5	26
46	Jane	205	↑3	60
47	Eileen	204	↓5	91
48	Elaine	196	new	69
49	Lois	183	new	19
50	Priscilla	179	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	John	2,653	–	2
2	Robert	2,485	–	1
3	William	1,747	–	4
4	Joseph	1,451	–	9
5	Richard	1,324	↑1	6
6	James	1,247	↓1	3
7	Edward	1,153	↑1	10
8	George	1,078	↓1	7
9	Charles	921	–	5
10	Donald	853	–	8
11	Francis	733	–	36
12	Thomas	686	↑1	11
13	Paul	663	↓1	13
14	Arthur	610	↑1	22
15	Raymond	560	↓1	15
16	Frank	512	–	12
17	Walter	472	–	17
18	Albert	464	–	23
19	David	398	↑3	21
20	Henry	386	↓1	19
21	Alfred	372	↑2	45
22	Anthony	336	↓1	43
23	Harold	319	↓3	14
24	Leo	302	↑2	55
25	Kenneth	298	↓1	18
26	Ralph	293	↑2	24
27	Norman	286	↓2	39
28	Louis	284	↓1	29
29	Frederick	253	↑1	64
30	Lawrence	245	↑7	37
31	Roger	233	↑5	84
32	Eugene	229	↑6	20
33	Ernest	227	↓4	41
34	Daniel	226	↓3	46
35	Stanley	213	↓1	44
36	Peter	208	↓4	59
37	Leonard	194	↑2	40
38	Philip	189	↓3	75
39	Herbert	186	↓6	42
40	Roland	185	↑2	>100
41	Bernard	183	↓1	50
42	Harry	175	↓1	25
43	Michael	173	–	52
44	Gerald	167	–	38
45	Russell	157	↑2	54
46	Fred	149	↑3	35
47	Vincent	140	↓2	77
48	Howard	139	new	28
49	Warren	139	↓3	79
50	Carl	135	new	26

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