Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1933

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1933 were Mary for girls (1,513 babies) and Robert for boys (2,513). Social Security records list 55,349 babies born in Massachusetts in 1933 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1933

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: 34 babies, 11.8× the national rate
Claire: 331 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Priscilla: 127 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Jeannette: 111 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Cecile: 26 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Natalie: 63 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Clare: 24 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Maureen: 125 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Cynthia: 90 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Lorraine: 417 babies, 4× the national rate

Boys

Sumner: 16 babies, 17.9× the national rate
Antone: 20 babies, 14.6× the national rate
Normand: 45 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Domenic: 15 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Armand: 41 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Emile: 21 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Bradford: 15 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Earle: 29 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Rene: 26 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Jeremiah: 16 babies, 5.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1933

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	Mary	1,513	–	1
2	Barbara	1,439	–	3
3	Joan	1,142	–	5
4	Dorothy	743	–	4
5	Patricia	725	–	6
6	Jean	587	–	14
7	Nancy	527	↑4	11
8	Margaret	515	↓1	7
9	Ann	509	–	34
10	Elizabeth	473	↓2	17
11	Helen	465	↓1	8
12	Lorraine	417	↑1	54
13	Shirley	403	↓1	9
14	Ruth	402	–	13
15	Marilyn	393	–	16
16	Eleanor	367	↑2	38
17	Janet	353	↑9	25
18	Marie	343	↑2	33
19	Claire	331	↓3	>100
20	Phyllis	331	↑1	28
21	Doris	319	↓4	10
22	Beverly	309	↑5	26
23	Anne	305	↑8	85
24	Carol	300	↑18	20
25	Virginia	270	↓6	15
26	Alice	269	↓2	22
27	Rita	266	↓4	53
28	Irene	262	–	46
29	Frances	261	↓7	18
30	Theresa	253	↓5	70
31	Marjorie	245	↑1	41
32	Pauline	233	↓3	64
33	June	228	↑17	45
34	Gloria	225	↓4	31
35	Betty	223	↑8	2
36	Jane	220	–	47
37	Catherine	217	↓3	44
38	Marion	215	↓1	73
39	Constance	210	↓6	>100
40	Elaine	209	new	61
41	Lois	208	↑6	19
42	Joyce	195	↑4	12
43	Rose	195	↓3	35
44	Evelyn	190	↓3	30
45	Lillian	189	↑4	51
46	Louise	189	↓11	39
47	Joanne	182	new	56
48	Norma	179	↓4	23
49	Anna	176	↓11	29
50	Dolores	175	↓11	21

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	Robert	2,513	–	1
2	John	2,087	–	3
3	Richard	1,687	–	5
4	William	1,355	–	4
5	James	1,150	–	2
6	Joseph	1,061	–	9
7	Donald	956	–	7
8	Edward	783	↑1	11
9	Charles	775	↑1	6
10	Paul	754	↑1	14
11	George	734	↓3	8
12	Thomas	654	–	10
13	David	513	↑1	13
14	Francis	496	↓1	45
15	Ronald	392	–	12
16	Raymond	391	–	19
17	Arthur	389	–	25
18	Frank	351	–	16
19	Walter	297	–	21
20	Albert	295	↑1	30
21	Kenneth	283	↓1	15
22	Peter	250	↑11	60
23	Anthony	248	↓1	46
24	Daniel	240	↑2	42
25	Henry	240	–	24
26	Ralph	233	↑5	29
27	Frederick	223	↑1	78
28	Harold	218	↑4	18
29	Gerald	212	↓5	22
30	Roger	208	↑4	48
31	Norman	201	↓8	37
32	Lawrence	190	↓2	38
33	Alfred	189	↓4	57
34	Philip	186	↓7	70
35	Louis	183	–	40
36	Leonard	173	↑5	47
37	Michael	170	↑2	53
38	Leo	167	↓2	75
39	Eugene	161	↓1	23
40	Bernard	153	↑3	63
41	Stanley	145	↑1	55
42	Ernest	143	↓5	50
43	Herbert	125	↓3	49
44	Vincent	115	↑4	94
45	Roland	111	↓1	>100
46	Carl	109	↓1	28
47	Harry	107	–	35
48	Russell	106	↓2	67
49	Warren	99	–	99
50	Theodore	97	new	68

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