Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1935

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1935 were Mary for girls (1,424 babies) and Robert for boys (2,482). Social Security records list 55,866 babies born in Massachusetts in 1935 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1935

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: 21 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Claire: 264 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Brenda: 27 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Priscilla: 115 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Cecile: 38 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Georgette: 16 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Therese: 39 babies, 5× the national rate
Natalie: 58 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Clare: 21 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Deborah: 34 babies, 4.6× the national rate

Boys

Antone: 19 babies, 14.3× the national rate
Normand: 48 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Rene: 45 babies, 10× the national rate
Domenic: 16 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Kevin: 33 babies, 7× the national rate
Emile: 16 babies, 7× the national rate
Armand: 31 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Bradford: 16 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Gerard: 81 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Alphonse: 15 babies, 4.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1935

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Mary	1,424	–	1
2	Barbara	1,274	–	3
3	Joan	1,094	–	7
4	Patricia	1,044	–	5
5	Shirley	939	–	2
6	Dorothy	609	–	6
7	Nancy	562	–	9
8	Ann	515	↑3	30
9	Jean	490	↓1	18
10	Margaret	483	↓1	8
11	Carol	458	↑1	11
12	Elizabeth	445	↓2	17
13	Helen	390	–	10
14	Janet	371	–	22
15	Lorraine	365	↑1	68
16	Marie	354	↑6	33
17	Marilyn	352	↓2	14
18	Judith	346	↑19	54
19	Beverly	333	↑4	20
20	Ruth	325	↓3	15
21	Anne	298	↑6	84
22	Elaine	293	↑12	51
23	Eleanor	292	↓5	48
24	Phyllis	290	↓3	27
25	Alice	289	↑3	25
26	Jane	286	↑4	43
27	Virginia	283	↓7	16
28	Frances	278	↓2	19
29	Claire	264	↓10	>100
30	Catherine	223	↑2	42
31	Marjorie	221	↑4	46
32	Joanne	220	↑1	44
33	Pauline	212	↓4	80
34	Doris	206	↓10	13
35	Rita	199	↓4	63
36	Dolores	198	↑14	26
37	Carolyn	197	↑5	28
38	Betty	196	↓2	4
39	Theresa	194	↓14	86
40	Irene	188	–	52
41	Janice	187	new	47
42	Lois	186	↑4	21
43	Sandra	186	new	50
44	Jacqueline	179	new	79
45	Jeanne	174	–	>100
46	Gloria	173	↓5	32
47	Louise	172	↓4	45
48	Marion	172	new	88
49	Constance	170	↓11	>100
50	Joyce	169	new	12

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Robert	2,482	–	1
2	John	2,139	–	3
3	Richard	1,798	–	5
4	William	1,495	–	4
5	James	1,202	–	2
6	Donald	1,050	–	7
7	Joseph	923	–	10
8	George	799	–	8
9	Edward	777	–	13
10	Paul	733	–	14
11	Charles	707	–	6
12	David	691	↑1	11
13	Thomas	642	↓1	9
14	Ronald	515	↑1	12
15	Francis	479	↓1	53
16	Raymond	397	↑1	17
17	Arthur	396	↓1	29
18	Frank	327	↑3	16
19	Peter	292	–	59
20	Kenneth	287	↓2	15
21	Albert	280	↑1	31
22	Walter	274	↓2	23
23	Anthony	270	↑2	52
24	Gerald	263	↓1	21
25	Roger	257	↓1	36
26	Daniel	247	↑2	43
27	Henry	238	↑2	27
28	Norman	229	↓2	38
29	Frederick	227	↑4	73
30	Lawrence	227	↑2	35
31	Philip	208	↓4	65
32	Michael	194	↑2	41
33	Harold	184	↓2	20
34	Ralph	178	↓4	32
35	Alfred	173	–	63
36	Louis	168	–	42
37	Leo	143	↑1	92
38	Ernest	140	↓1	55
39	Stanley	140	↑6	56
40	Eugene	136	↓1	26
41	Carl	132	↓1	28
42	Leonard	129	–	54
43	Fred	126	↑5	34
44	Bruce	124	↑6	77
45	Stephen	121	new	>100
46	Herbert	119	↓3	58
47	Russell	111	↓3	68
48	Bernard	107	↓7	67
49	Roland	104	↓2	>100
50	Vincent	92	new	>100

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