Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1929

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1929 were Mary for girls (1,937 babies) and John for boys (2,439). John ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 62,990 babies born in Massachusetts in 1929 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1929

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: 436 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Yvette: 27 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Priscilla: 159 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Therese: 113 babies, 6× the national rate
Cecile: 50 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Natalie: 99 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Jeannette: 121 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Constance: 154 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Theresa: 565 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Cynthia: 52 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Boys

Sumner: 41 babies, 23.4× the national rate
Antone: 27 babies, 17.1× the national rate
Normand: 69 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Rene: 42 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Domenic: 18 babies, 7× the national rate
Armand: 52 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Marcel: 25 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Bradford: 16 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Romeo: 16 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Jason: 18 babies, 5.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1929

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	Mary	1,937	–	1
2	Barbara	1,285	–	7
3	Dorothy	972	–	3
4	Helen	705	–	4
5	Jean	658	↑3	12
6	Margaret	657	–	5
7	Ruth	656	↓2	8
8	Theresa	565	↑2	49
9	Joan	544	↑24	13
10	Shirley	544	↓3	9
11	Patricia	540	↑3	10
12	Lorraine	528	–	42
13	Doris	525	↓4	6
14	Elizabeth	508	↓3	15
15	Phyllis	495	↓2	24
16	Marie	477	↑2	22
17	Eleanor	457	↓1	38
18	Claire	436	↑3	>100
19	Rita	432	↑1	52
20	Alice	425	↓3	21
21	Virginia	409	↓6	11
22	Irene	393	↓3	29
23	Ann	387	↑6	46
24	Frances	352	↓1	16
25	Nancy	335	↑10	32
26	Marjorie	325	↓2	30
27	Gloria	316	↑4	28
28	Rose	311	↓3	26
29	Florence	304	↑3	35
30	Pauline	303	↑4	50
31	Catherine	299	↓3	34
32	Evelyn	298	↓5	19
33	Marilyn	295	↑3	33
34	Anna	284	↓12	20
35	Louise	281	↑2	31
36	Lillian	276	↓6	40
37	Marion	276	↓11	53
38	Betty	253	↑1	2
39	Anne	236	↓1	91
40	Jeanne	234	↑5	92
41	June	228	↑1	48
42	Mildred	226	↓2	18
43	Norma	209	↑3	25
44	Josephine	204	↓3	45
45	Jane	201	↓2	62
46	Beverly	197	new	39
47	Dolores	186	new	14
48	Eileen	183	–	98
49	Grace	182	↓5	54
50	Elaine	179	↓3	67

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	John	2,439	↑1	3
2	Robert	2,434	↓1	1
3	William	1,650	–	4
4	Richard	1,451	–	6
5	Joseph	1,314	–	9
6	James	1,091	–	2
7	Edward	960	–	10
8	Donald	947	↑2	7
9	George	935	↓1	8
10	Charles	798	↓1	5
11	Paul	670	–	13
12	Francis	642	–	39
13	Thomas	634	–	11
14	Arthur	532	↑1	22
15	Raymond	526	↓1	15
16	David	473	↑4	17
17	Frank	446	↓1	12
18	Albert	430	↓1	24
19	Walter	418	–	19
20	Alfred	357	↓2	41
21	Henry	334	–	21
22	Anthony	314	–	44
23	Harold	294	–	16
24	Kenneth	277	–	18
25	Norman	269	–	40
26	Ralph	269	↑3	26
27	Frederick	259	↑3	67
28	Leo	253	↑3	60
29	Daniel	233	↑4	47
30	Roger	232	↑5	64
31	Eugene	228	↑3	20
32	Louis	227	–	32
33	Peter	216	↑3	55
34	Philip	213	↓6	76
35	Ernest	212	↑2	43
36	Herbert	210	↓10	25
37	Lawrence	201	↓10	38
38	Gerald	191	↑3	33
39	Stanley	189	↓1	48
40	Bernard	176	–	52
41	Harry	161	↑3	27
42	Ronald	158	↑7	45
43	Michael	150	↓1	54
44	Russell	147	↑1	56
45	Leonard	146	↓6	42
46	Roland	145	↓3	>100
47	Carl	134	new	28
48	Fred	129	↓2	34
49	Vincent	125	↓1	82
50	Howard	119	–	31

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