Popular baby names in Massachusetts, 1943

The most popular baby names in Massachusetts in 1943 were Mary for girls (1,703 babies) and Robert for boys (3,143). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 79,769 babies born in Massachusetts in 1943 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Massachusetts in 1943

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: 209 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Therese: 34 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Maureen: 386 babies, 5× the national rate
Elinor: 28 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Deborah: 101 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Meredith: 39 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Clare: 25 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Noreen: 42 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Madeleine: 23 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Muriel: 52 babies, 3.5× the national rate

Boys

Antone: 25 babies, 16.8× the national rate
Normand: 45 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Kevin: 128 babies, 7× the national rate
Armand: 31 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Dana: 32 babies, 6× the national rate
Bradford: 30 babies, 6× the national rate
Gerard: 118 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Edmund: 80 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Rene: 28 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Francis: 469 babies, 4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Massachusetts, 1943

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1942	US rank
1	Mary	1,703	–	1
2	Patricia	1,475	–	3
3	Carol	1,357	–	5
4	Judith	1,331	↑1	7
5	Barbara	1,271	↓1	2
6	Sandra	924	–	6
7	Nancy	908	–	9
8	Linda	893	–	4
9	Susan	806	↑1	18
10	Joan	736	↓1	21
11	Margaret	609	–	14
12	Diane	598	↑7	24
13	Kathleen	582	↑4	22
14	Donna	569	↑10	17
15	Ann	558	↓2	37
16	Elizabeth	528	↓4	23
17	Janet	523	↓2	20
18	Elaine	522	↓4	46
19	Joyce	514	↑2	16
20	Dorothy	488	↓4	19
21	Jean	437	↓1	36
22	Beverly	425	↓4	32
23	Joanne	420	↑4	49
24	Janice	401	↑2	26
25	Marie	389	↓3	45
26	Maureen	386	↑2	>100
27	Marilyn	364	↓2	27
28	Carolyn	359	↓5	11
29	Jane	347	↑7	44
30	Karen	344	↑12	15
31	Virginia	344	↑1	25
32	Anne	336	↓1	80
33	Gail	326	↓4	55
34	Helen	317	↓1	28
35	Frances	306	↓1	31
36	Ruth	295	↓1	33
37	Carole	273	↓7	42
38	Catherine	273	–	48
39	Sheila	272	↑1	92
40	Eileen	271	new	68
41	Shirley	252	↑2	12
42	Ellen	239	↓3	67
43	Roberta	239	↓2	66
44	Lorraine	227	↓7	94
45	Pamela	226	new	54
46	Cynthia	224	↑3	>100
47	Phyllis	223	–	39
48	Geraldine	218	↓2	51
49	Sharon	212	new	8
50	Paula	211	new	93

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1942	US rank
1	Robert	3,143	–	2
2	John	3,097	–	3
3	Richard	2,443	–	5
4	William	2,109	–	4
5	James	1,884	–	1
6	David	1,417	–	6
7	Paul	1,338	↑1	19
8	Joseph	1,289	↓1	13
9	Thomas	1,201	–	8
10	Edward	1,053	–	18
11	Ronald	936	↑1	9
12	Charles	908	↓1	7
13	George	869	–	14
14	Donald	801	↑1	11
15	Michael	788	↓1	10
16	Peter	743	–	39
17	Kenneth	599	–	15
18	Stephen	528	↑1	29
19	Raymond	473	↑1	22
20	Francis	469	↓2	64
21	Arthur	433	–	30
22	Frank	426	↑1	21
23	Daniel	405	↓1	25
24	Gerald	371	–	23
25	Walter	362	–	26
26	Anthony	343	–	44
27	Roger	341	–	24
28	Dennis	333	↑2	20
29	Lawrence	320	–	32
30	Bruce	310	↑4	51
31	Philip	307	↓3	57
32	Albert	287	↓1	43
33	Ralph	263	↑3	40
34	Frederick	260	↓1	70
35	Henry	243	–	31
36	Alan	233	↑3	67
37	Douglas	229	↓5	28
38	Alfred	209	↓1	78
39	Leonard	204	↑2	55
40	Norman	197	–	56
41	Harold	184	↑1	27
42	Louis	180	↓4	53
43	Stanley	177	↑2	54
44	Wayne	177	↓1	41
45	Russell	174	↑1	73
46	Carl	160	↓2	33
47	Leo	155	↑3	>100
48	Howard	153	new	48
49	Steven	149	new	58
50	Bernard	138	↓3	92

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