Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1932

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1932 were Mary for girls (1,728 babies) and Robert for boys (2,690). Social Security records list 59,721 babies born in Massachusetts in 1932 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1932

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: 403 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Cecile: 48 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Priscilla: 141 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Yvette: 19 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Natalie: 86 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Madeleine: 16 babies, 5× the national rate
Clare: 30 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Jeannette: 133 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Therese: 46 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Helena: 26 babies, 4.1× the national rate

Boys

Sumner: 18 babies, 22.5× the national rate
Antone: 18 babies, 15.8× the national rate
Normand: 70 babies, 12× the national rate
Domenic: 17 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Rene: 36 babies, 7× the national rate
Armand: 36 babies, 6× the national rate
Kevin: 21 babies, 6× the national rate
Jeremiah: 19 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Emile: 17 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Pasquale: 18 babies, 4.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1932

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Mary	1,728	–	1
2	Barbara	1,656	–	3
3	Joan	1,168	–	5
4	Dorothy	803	–	4
5	Patricia	747	–	6
6	Jean	606	↑1	15
7	Margaret	554	↓1	7
8	Elizabeth	539	↑1	17
9	Ann	528	↑6	34
10	Helen	516	↓2	8
11	Nancy	506	–	13
12	Shirley	455	↑1	9
13	Lorraine	444	↓1	55
14	Ruth	430	↓4	11
15	Marilyn	406	↓1	16
16	Claire	403	–	>100
17	Doris	355	↑1	10
18	Eleanor	346	↑1	45
19	Virginia	346	↓2	14
20	Marie	344	↑1	31
21	Phyllis	332	↓1	30
22	Frances	323	↑6	19
23	Rita	318	–	53
24	Alice	315	↑1	21
25	Theresa	306	↓3	60
26	Janet	297	↑1	35
27	Beverly	291	↑19	28
28	Irene	288	↓2	43
29	Pauline	283	↑1	59
30	Gloria	275	↓6	25
31	Anne	264	↑4	81
32	Marjorie	260	↓3	37
33	Constance	251	↑11	99
34	Catherine	247	↓3	39
35	Louise	244	↑5	36
36	Jane	242	↑11	49
37	Marion	236	↓4	73
38	Anna	232	↓4	24
39	Dolores	232	↑6	18
40	Rose	230	↑2	33
41	Evelyn	225	↓2	23
42	Carol	213	new	32
43	Betty	211	↓7	2
44	Norma	211	↓7	22
45	Jeanne	210	↓13	>100
46	Joyce	209	↑4	12
47	Lois	209	↑2	20
48	Florence	198	↓5	47
49	Lillian	194	↓11	48
50	June	193	↓9	44

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Robert	2,690	–	1
2	John	2,408	–	3
3	Richard	1,719	–	5
4	William	1,543	–	4
5	James	1,182	↑1	2
6	Joseph	1,177	↓1	9
7	Donald	1,053	–	7
8	George	908	↑1	8
9	Edward	859	↓1	11
10	Charles	833	–	6
11	Paul	754	–	13
12	Thomas	632	–	10
13	Francis	551	–	43
14	David	514	↑1	12
15	Ronald	396	↑18	16
16	Raymond	393	↓2	19
17	Arthur	383	↓1	25
18	Frank	370	↓1	15
19	Walter	327	↓1	21
20	Kenneth	290	–	14
21	Albert	283	↓2	26
22	Anthony	275	–	45
23	Norman	261	↓2	37
24	Gerald	248	↑3	24
25	Henry	246	↓2	23
26	Daniel	242	↑6	42
27	Philip	240	↑1	70
28	Frederick	234	↑7	73
29	Alfred	233	↓4	49
30	Lawrence	233	↑1	35
31	Ralph	223	↓5	27
32	Harold	221	↓8	18
33	Peter	220	↓4	62
34	Roger	202	–	50
35	Louis	184	↓5	39
36	Leo	177	↑1	74
37	Ernest	173	↓1	47
38	Eugene	164	↑2	22
39	Michael	157	↓1	54
40	Herbert	156	↑1	44
41	Leonard	155	↓2	48
42	Stanley	144	–	52
43	Bernard	129	–	60
44	Roland	128	–	>100
45	Carl	119	–	28
46	Russell	109	–	63
47	Harry	108	–	32
48	Vincent	108	–	93
49	Warren	107	new	>100
50	Fred	101	↓1	33

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