Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1936

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1936 were Mary for girls (1,430 babies) and Robert for boys (2,600). Social Security records list 55,119 babies born in Massachusetts in 1936 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1936

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: 18 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Claire: 241 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Madeleine: 20 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Georgette: 16 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Priscilla: 117 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Cecile: 51 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Deborah: 38 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Maureen: 163 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Natalie: 49 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Muriel: 74 babies, 4.1× the national rate

Boys

Antone: 15 babies, 16.4× the national rate
Domenic: 18 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Normand: 29 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Armand: 40 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Frederic: 31 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Bradford: 15 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Gerard: 59 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Rene: 21 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Francis: 461 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Kevin: 16 babies, 3.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1936

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Mary	1,430	–	1
2	Barbara	1,240	–	3
3	Joan	1,087	–	7
4	Patricia	1,034	–	5
5	Carol	682	↑6	10
6	Nancy	667	↑1	8
7	Dorothy	542	↓1	6
8	Shirley	536	↓3	2
9	Margaret	489	↑1	9
10	Ann	467	↓2	28
11	Jean	449	↓2	20
12	Marilyn	422	↑5	13
13	Elizabeth	413	↓1	18
14	Beverly	381	↑5	17
15	Marie	356	↑1	33
16	Helen	348	↓3	11
17	Janet	339	↓3	21
18	Judith	338	–	43
19	Elaine	306	↑3	50
20	Eleanor	300	↑3	47
21	Lorraine	296	↓6	76
22	Ruth	280	↓2	16
23	Anne	269	↓2	89
24	Virginia	266	↑3	14
25	Jane	264	↑1	42
26	Phyllis	255	↓2	25
27	Janice	246	↑14	31
28	Claire	241	↑1	>100
29	Joanne	236	↑3	48
30	Pauline	232	↑3	82
31	Doris	228	↑3	15
32	Frances	221	↓4	19
33	Sandra	219	↑10	38
34	Alice	217	↓9	27
35	Theresa	216	↑4	88
36	Catherine	214	↓6	44
37	Joyce	209	↑13	12
38	Carole	207	new	73
39	Rita	203	↓4	69
40	Irene	197	–	57
41	Marjorie	196	↓10	49
42	Carolyn	187	↓5	23
43	Betty	184	↓5	4
44	Louise	184	↑3	46
45	Dolores	172	↓9	30
46	Evelyn	168	new	34
47	Jacqueline	167	↓3	66
48	Constance	166	↑1	>100
49	Rose	166	new	37
50	Maureen	163	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Robert	2,600	–	1
2	John	2,157	–	3
3	Richard	1,771	–	5
4	William	1,396	–	4
5	James	1,119	–	2
6	Joseph	974	↑1	11
7	Donald	973	↓1	7
8	Paul	833	↑2	15
9	Edward	792	–	13
10	David	752	↑2	10
11	George	715	↓3	9
12	Thomas	627	↑1	8
13	Charles	598	↓2	6
14	Ronald	511	–	12
15	Francis	461	–	50
16	Raymond	406	–	17
17	Arthur	385	–	30
18	Peter	333	↑1	56
19	Kenneth	324	↑1	14
20	Walter	295	↑2	26
21	Frank	293	↓3	16
22	Anthony	265	↑1	48
23	Gerald	258	↑1	19
24	Michael	257	↑8	33
25	Albert	246	↓4	34
26	Roger	241	↓1	35
27	Daniel	236	↓1	41
28	Lawrence	228	↑2	37
29	Frederick	221	–	70
30	Philip	208	↑1	63
31	Henry	196	↓4	28
32	Ralph	191	↑2	31
33	Norman	183	↓5	43
34	Alfred	162	↑1	60
35	Harold	160	↓2	21
36	Leo	159	↑1	94
37	Ernest	152	↑1	55
38	Leonard	146	↑4	54
39	Louis	145	↓3	44
40	Bruce	138	↑4	73
41	Eugene	137	↓1	29
42	Stephen	137	↑3	99
43	Carl	127	↓2	27
44	Bernard	117	↑4	68
45	Alan	116	new	>100
46	Fred	111	↓3	36
47	Russell	102	–	69
48	Roland	101	↑1	>100
49	Stanley	101	↓10	58
50	Herbert	99	↓4	62

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