Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1930

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1930 were Mary for girls (1,962 babies) and Robert for boys (2,693). Social Security records list 63,141 babies born in Massachusetts in 1930 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1930

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: 416 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Priscilla: 138 babies, 6× the national rate
Germaine: 24 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Georgette: 20 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Yvette: 19 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Cecile: 44 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Madeleine: 20 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Jeannette: 135 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Natalie: 84 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Therese: 74 babies, 4.6× the national rate

Boys

Sumner: 21 babies, 18.3× the national rate
Antone: 34 babies, 17.4× the national rate
Normand: 65 babies, 11× the national rate
Armand: 59 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Rene: 36 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Lucien: 18 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Marcel: 20 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Earle: 30 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Dana: 17 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Francis: 591 babies, 4.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1930

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Mary	1,962	–	1
2	Barbara	1,391	–	6
3	Dorothy	1,023	–	3
4	Joan	800	↑5	8
5	Jean	694	–	14
6	Helen	674	↓2	4
7	Margaret	626	↓1	5
8	Patricia	623	↑3	7
9	Ruth	600	↓2	10
10	Elizabeth	556	↑4	15
11	Shirley	517	↓1	11
12	Lorraine	499	–	46
13	Theresa	479	↓5	50
14	Marie	468	↑2	26
15	Virginia	467	↑6	12
16	Doris	462	↓3	9
17	Rita	451	↑2	42
18	Nancy	439	↑7	24
19	Eleanor	434	↓2	39
20	Claire	416	↓2	>100
21	Alice	410	↓1	20
22	Ann	409	↑1	41
23	Marilyn	396	↑10	22
24	Phyllis	367	↓9	28
25	Irene	360	↓3	33
26	Frances	327	↓2	16
27	Gloria	320	–	30
28	Pauline	314	↑2	52
29	Marjorie	304	↓3	32
30	Florence	285	↓1	38
31	Catherine	283	–	35
32	Evelyn	281	–	19
33	Rose	277	↓5	29
34	Louise	276	↑1	31
35	Janet	275	new	53
36	Anna	270	↓2	23
37	Anne	269	↑2	83
38	Betty	268	–	2
39	Marion	263	↓2	60
40	Dolores	247	↑7	13
41	Lillian	236	↓5	44
42	Jeanne	228	↓2	92
43	Jane	222	↑2	55
44	Beverly	215	↑2	34
45	June	214	↓4	47
46	Norma	213	↓3	25
47	Lois	205	new	17
48	Josephine	204	↓4	49
49	Mildred	203	↓7	21
50	Eileen	182	↓2	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Robert	2,693	↑1	1
2	John	2,445	↓1	3
3	William	1,656	–	4
4	Richard	1,627	–	5
5	Joseph	1,280	–	9
6	James	1,204	–	2
7	Edward	1,010	–	10
8	Donald	950	–	7
9	George	917	–	8
10	Charles	841	–	6
11	Paul	781	–	12
12	Thomas	613	↑1	11
13	Francis	591	↓1	42
14	Arthur	544	–	23
15	David	497	↑1	15
16	Raymond	493	↓1	16
17	Frank	396	–	13
18	Albert	395	–	24
19	Walter	386	–	19
20	Henry	316	↑1	22
21	Anthony	297	↑1	44
22	Kenneth	295	↑2	17
23	Norman	275	↑2	40
24	Harold	269	↓1	18
25	Alfred	256	↓5	46
26	Frederick	244	↑1	74
27	Leo	242	↑1	63
28	Louis	238	↑4	34
29	Ralph	236	↓3	25
30	Daniel	231	↓1	47
31	Roger	228	↓1	58
32	Lawrence	219	↑5	36
33	Ernest	215	↑2	43
34	Philip	213	–	75
35	Gerald	209	↑3	30
36	Eugene	204	↓5	21
37	Peter	201	↓4	56
38	Stanley	186	↑1	49
39	Herbert	178	↓3	35
40	Ronald	173	↑2	37
41	Michael	172	↑2	54
42	Bernard	160	↓2	52
43	Roland	155	↑3	>100
44	Leonard	146	↑1	45
45	Russell	140	↓1	60
46	Vincent	137	↑3	84
47	Fred	135	↑1	32
48	Carl	133	↓1	26
49	Theodore	126	new	67
50	Harry	124	↓9	28

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