Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1934

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1934 were Mary for girls (1,507 babies) and Robert for boys (2,476). Social Security records list 56,258 babies born in Massachusetts in 1934 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1934

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: 320 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Priscilla: 122 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Yvette: 15 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Natalie: 84 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Cecile: 30 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Therese: 35 babies, 5× the national rate
Cynthia: 127 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Elinor: 48 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Maureen: 124 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Jeannette: 106 babies, 4.3× the national rate

Boys

Antone: 20 babies, 16.5× the national rate
Normand: 38 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Armand: 42 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Earle: 30 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Rene: 27 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Lucien: 16 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Bradford: 15 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Gerard: 70 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Dana: 16 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Francis: 484 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1934

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1933	US rank
1	Mary	1,507	–	1
2	Barbara	1,354	–	3
3	Joan	1,123	–	7
4	Patricia	909	↑1	6
5	Shirley	675	↑8	4
6	Dorothy	639	↓2	5
7	Nancy	573	–	10
8	Jean	533	↓2	16
9	Margaret	530	↓1	8
10	Elizabeth	504	–	18
11	Ann	483	↓2	32
12	Carol	432	↑12	14
13	Helen	432	↓2	9
14	Janet	391	↑3	21
15	Marilyn	387	–	17
16	Lorraine	386	↓4	56
17	Ruth	370	↓3	13
18	Eleanor	330	↓2	44
19	Claire	320	–	>100
20	Virginia	311	↑5	15
21	Phyllis	304	↓1	28
22	Marie	303	↓4	34
23	Beverly	296	↓1	22
24	Doris	286	↓3	11
25	Theresa	281	↑5	77
26	Frances	271	↑3	19
27	Anne	262	↓4	88
28	Alice	259	↓2	25
29	Pauline	251	↑3	71
30	Jane	249	↑6	48
31	Rita	232	↓4	63
32	Catherine	229	↑5	42
33	Joanne	224	↑14	45
34	Elaine	223	↑6	54
35	Marjorie	214	↓4	41
36	Betty	209	↓1	2
37	Judith	208	new	94
38	Constance	206	↑1	>100
39	Anna	201	↑10	31
40	Irene	197	↓12	49
41	Gloria	195	↓7	30
42	Carolyn	192	new	33
43	Louise	191	↑3	40
44	June	188	↓11	46
45	Jeanne	181	new	>100
46	Lois	180	↓5	20
47	Rose	180	↓4	37
48	Norma	178	–	24
49	Carole	171	new	89
50	Dolores	169	–	26

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1933	US rank
1	Robert	2,476	–	1
2	John	2,218	–	3
3	Richard	1,863	–	5
4	William	1,394	–	4
5	James	1,236	–	2
6	Donald	1,053	↑1	6
7	Joseph	950	↓1	10
8	George	797	↑3	8
9	Edward	792	↓1	13
10	Paul	732	–	14
11	Charles	706	↓2	7
12	Thomas	612	–	9
13	David	589	–	12
14	Francis	484	–	49
15	Ronald	466	–	11
16	Arthur	404	↑1	29
17	Raymond	357	↓1	19
18	Kenneth	327	↑3	15
19	Peter	312	↑3	61
20	Walter	301	↓1	21
21	Frank	299	↓3	16
22	Albert	263	↓2	32
23	Gerald	242	↑6	22
24	Roger	241	↑6	39
25	Anthony	236	↓2	52
26	Norman	235	↑5	38
27	Philip	233	↑7	69
28	Daniel	229	↓4	42
29	Henry	228	↓4	27
30	Ralph	223	↓4	31
31	Harold	207	↓3	18
32	Lawrence	205	–	34
33	Frederick	196	↓6	77
34	Michael	191	↑3	47
35	Alfred	184	↓2	64
36	Louis	184	↓1	40
37	Ernest	183	↑5	51
38	Leo	173	–	86
39	Eugene	151	–	24
40	Carl	134	↑6	28
41	Bernard	130	↓1	65
42	Leonard	127	↓6	53
43	Herbert	122	–	57
44	Russell	122	↑4	70
45	Stanley	122	↓4	58
46	Warren	115	↑3	96
47	Roland	109	↓2	>100
48	Fred	105	new	33
49	Harry	103	↓2	36
50	Bruce	101	new	78

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