Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1931

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1931 were Mary for girls (1,795 babies) and Robert for boys (2,534). Social Security records list 59,671 babies born in Massachusetts in 1931 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1931

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

Girls

Yvette: 29 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Claire: 422 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Georgette: 26 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Priscilla: 132 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Cecile: 40 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Juliette: 17 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Natalie: 82 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Cynthia: 82 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Therese: 58 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Clare: 30 babies, 4.6× the national rate

Boys

Sumner: 20 babies, 17× the national rate
Antone: 16 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Normand: 61 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Rene: 37 babies, 8× the national rate
Armand: 49 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Bradford: 19 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Domenic: 17 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Dana: 24 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Gerard: 84 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Emile: 18 babies, 5.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1931

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Mary	1,795	–	1
2	Barbara	1,454	–	4
3	Joan	1,081	↑1	5
4	Dorothy	865	↓1	3
5	Patricia	626	↑3	8
6	Margaret	620	↑1	7
7	Jean	606	↓2	13
8	Helen	596	↓2	6
9	Elizabeth	545	↑1	16
10	Ruth	536	↓1	11
11	Nancy	490	↑7	17
12	Lorraine	478	–	49
13	Shirley	464	↓2	9
14	Marilyn	427	↑9	19
15	Ann	424	↑7	35
16	Claire	422	↑4	>100
17	Virginia	415	↓2	12
18	Doris	411	↓2	10
19	Eleanor	400	–	40
20	Phyllis	382	↑4	29
21	Marie	373	↓7	27
22	Theresa	370	↓9	59
23	Rita	331	↓6	48
24	Gloria	329	↑3	23
25	Alice	324	↓4	21
26	Irene	315	↓1	37
27	Janet	294	↑8	45
28	Frances	288	↓2	18
29	Marjorie	286	–	34
30	Pauline	271	↓2	56
31	Catherine	264	–	36
32	Jeanne	262	↑10	98
33	Marion	262	↑6	66
34	Anna	258	↑2	25
35	Anne	254	↑2	80
36	Betty	247	↑2	2
37	Norma	243	↑9	22
38	Lillian	242	↑3	47
39	Evelyn	237	↓7	24
40	Louise	230	↓6	33
41	June	229	↑4	44
42	Rose	228	↓9	30
43	Florence	227	↓13	43
44	Constance	226	new	>100
45	Dolores	206	↓5	14
46	Beverly	201	↓2	31
47	Jane	192	↓4	50
48	Elaine	188	new	72
49	Lois	186	↓2	20
50	Joyce	180	new	15

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Robert	2,534	–	1
2	John	2,271	–	3
3	Richard	1,658	↑1	5
4	William	1,449	↓1	4
5	Joseph	1,226	–	9
6	James	1,127	–	2
7	Donald	978	↑1	7
8	Edward	901	↓1	11
9	George	876	–	8
10	Charles	809	–	6
11	Paul	725	–	12
12	Thomas	610	–	10
13	Francis	582	–	42
14	Raymond	494	↑2	17
15	David	483	–	13
16	Arthur	440	↓2	23
17	Frank	377	–	16
18	Walter	362	↑1	20
19	Albert	332	↓1	24
20	Kenneth	292	↑2	14
21	Norman	283	↑2	36
22	Anthony	278	↓1	46
23	Henry	278	↓3	22
24	Harold	248	–	18
25	Alfred	247	–	50
26	Ralph	234	↑3	25
27	Gerald	223	↑8	26
28	Philip	218	↑6	71
29	Peter	214	↑8	61
30	Louis	213	↓2	37
31	Lawrence	210	↑1	38
32	Daniel	206	↓2	44
33	Ronald	205	↑7	27
34	Roger	202	↓3	53
35	Frederick	201	↓9	73
36	Ernest	194	↓3	47
37	Leo	183	↓10	69
38	Michael	175	↑3	55
39	Leonard	169	↑5	48
40	Eugene	166	↓4	21
41	Herbert	166	↓2	41
42	Stanley	158	↓4	49
43	Bernard	152	↓1	54
44	Roland	141	↓1	>100
45	Carl	124	↑3	28
46	Russell	123	↓1	63
47	Harry	115	↑3	30
48	Vincent	115	↓2	86
49	Fred	114	↓2	33
50	Howard	113	new	34

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