What is the most popular baby name in Maine?

Even on a thin SSA book, Maine's cumulative #1 boy is Robert (26,761 births) and #1 girl is Mary (14,640 births) since 1910.

How have baby names changed in Maine over the decades?

Maine is TREND-LED today: latest-year leaders already differ from the all-time book on both sexes. Decade #1s moved from John/Mary (1910s) to Oliver/Charlotte (2020s).

How many babies are named in Maine?

Our data covers 660,034 name registrations in Maine for the top 50 boys and top 50 girls names (QUIET volume stamp · #39 of 51 jurisdictions). The SSA records all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year, from 1910 through 2025.

State name profile

Most Popular Baby Names in Maine

The boys' and girls' names most often given in Maine, ranked by total recorded births in Social Security Administration state data, 1910–2025.

Compiled byNameAlmanac, Independent data publisher

Robert
#1 boy name: Mary
#1 girl name: 660,034
Births recorded: 1910–2025
Years covered

Maine's all-time #1 names are Robert for boys and Mary for girls, based on 660,034 SSA birth registrations since 1910.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Maine has recorded 660,034 births across its top 50 boy and top 50 girl names since 1910. Robert leads all boys with 26,761 births, while Mary tops the girls with 14,640. This profile covers decade-by-decade leaders and the full top-50 rankings for both sexes.

Robert #1 boy name
Mary #1 girl name
660,034 births recorded

Where Maine sits by recorded name volume

Maine: 1,472,936 SSA name registrations (QUIET · rank 39/51). Inventory signal only, orthogonal to the top-50 lists below.

Maine vs all states by SSA name registrations

Where this state's disclosed SSA name-state registration total sits among every tracked jurisdiction

1,472,936 39th of 51 higher than 12 of 51 states

Jurisdictions, banded by SSA name-registration count

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Source Social Security Administration state baby-name files · 2026-08-11

Maine naming snapshot

According to SSA state files through 2025, Mary is #1 of 14,640 cumulative SSA births in Maine ≠ Charlotte #1 of 257 2025 girl names at all-time rank #51; Robert is #1 of 26,761 cumulative SSA births in Maine ≠ Theodore #1 of 266 2025 boy names at all-time rank #51.

Charlotte
2025 girls #1, all-time #51: Mary
all-time girls #1, 2025 #51: Theodore
2025 boys #1, all-time #51: Robert
all-time boys #1, 2025 #51

Both sexes in Maine already split latest-year vs all-time leaders, cumulative totals since 1910 and 2025 use different denominators.

Data updated Aug 2026

Both sexes trend-led

What a thin registry book shows for Maine

Maine sits in the lightest third of SSA name-state registration totals (1,472,936 · QUIET · #39/51). Cumulative top-50 leaders are Robert (26,761 boy births) and Mary (14,640 girl births) across 660,034 top-50 registrations since 1910. Both sexes are TREND-LED: the latest 2025 #1 differs from the all-time cumulative #1 on each side. Boy top-50 share 414,776 vs 245,258 for girls.

In Maine, the latest SSA year #1 differs from the all-time cumulative #1 for both boys and girls, a dual trend split against the long book.

Coverage notes on a thin state file

Decade-by-decade data for Maine extends back to 1910. In the 1910s, the #1 boy name was John and the #1 girl name was Mary. By the 2020s, the top names had shifted to Oliver for boys and Charlotte for girls.

SSA state files include any name appearing five or more times in a given state-year; lower-frequency names are suppressed for privacy. Figures are comparable across all 50 states and DC. Alternate spellings (Sophia vs Sofia) are separate names; middle names are not tracked. This page is for informational and research purposes.

Charlotte

89
Eleanor

45
Amelia

45
Violet

44
Harper

43
Evelyn

40
Olivia

39
Lucy

39
Grace

37
Ivy

36

What this shows Charlotte leads 2025 girls in Maine; Mary remains the all-time cumulative #1 at rank #51 in 2025.

Theodore

83
Oliver

77
Henry

66
Noah

54
Levi

53
Wesley

46
Jack

44
James

43
William

43
Liam

41

What this shows Theodore leads 2025 boys in Maine; Robert remains the all-time cumulative #1 at rank #51 in 2025.

Mary

14,640
Elizabeth

9,061
Patricia

8,688
Linda

8,654
Barbara

8,460
Susan

7,438
Jennifer

7,229
Nancy

6,659
Margaret

6,151
Dorothy

5,898

What this shows Mary leads Maine girls with 14,640 recorded births.

Robert

26,761
John

22,178
Michael

21,124
Richard

19,926
David

19,667
James

19,310
William

16,137
Joseph

11,482
Donald

10,392
Thomas

10,241

What this shows Robert leads Maine boys with 26,761 recorded births.

Decade-by-Decade Leaders

The #1 boy and girl name in Maine for each decade

How we calculated this

For each decade, we sum every year's SSA state-level birth count per name, then take the single name with the highest ten-year total for each sex. A name can lead a decade with a strong single peak year or with steady, moderate demand across all ten years, the total treats both the same way.

Decade	Top Boy	Births	Top Girl	Births
1910s	John	1,662	Mary	1,918
1920s	Robert	3,582	Mary	2,690
1930s	Robert	4,636	Mary	2,268
1940s	Robert	5,009	Linda	3,727
1950s	Michael	5,261	Linda	3,321
1960s	Michael	4,857	Lisa	3,575
1970s	Michael	3,164	Jennifer	3,348
1980s	Matthew	2,819	Jessica	2,719
1990s	Matthew	1,725	Emily	1,409
2000s	Jacob	1,320	Emma	1,141
2010s	Liam	804	Emma	787
2020s	Oliver	480	Charlotte	430

Boy Top 50 Boy Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Robert	26,761
2	John	22,178
3	Michael	21,124
4	Richard	19,926
5	David	19,667
6	James	19,310
7	William	16,137
8	Joseph	11,482
9	Donald	10,392
10	Thomas	10,241
11	Paul	10,050
12	Christopher	9,929
13	Daniel	9,829
14	Charles	9,761
15	Matthew	8,520
16	George	8,113
17	Mark	7,545
18	Stephen	7,322
19	Ronald	6,817
20	Scott	6,782
21	Kenneth	6,747
22	Timothy	6,732
23	Peter	6,661
24	Joshua	6,532
25	Andrew	6,485
26	Raymond	6,260
27	Brian	6,170
28	Jeffrey	6,159
29	Edward	5,970
30	Steven	5,713
31	Benjamin	5,675
32	Ryan	5,512
33	Jason	5,499
34	Kevin	5,412
35	Roger	5,354
36	Nicholas	5,170
37	Gary	4,952
38	Jacob	4,518
39	Philip	4,488
40	Arthur	4,419
41	Eric	4,355
42	Anthony	4,045
43	Lawrence	4,006
44	Harold	3,953
45	Bruce	3,843
46	Jonathan	3,719
47	Patrick	3,710
48	Samuel	3,702
49	Gerald	3,584
50	Frank	3,545

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Mary	14,640
2	Elizabeth	9,061
3	Patricia	8,688
4	Linda	8,654
5	Barbara	8,460
6	Susan	7,438
7	Jennifer	7,229
8	Nancy	6,659
9	Margaret	6,151
10	Dorothy	5,898
11	Sarah	5,767
12	Lisa	5,760
13	Donna	5,537
14	Jessica	5,376
15	Sandra	5,337
16	Karen	5,169
17	Ruth	5,070
18	Emily	4,584
19	Deborah	4,479
20	Carol	4,376
21	Rebecca	4,348
22	Michelle	4,234
23	Helen	4,197
24	Amanda	4,140
25	Kathleen	4,085
26	Brenda	3,996
27	Melissa	3,995
28	Diane	3,959
29	Joan	3,951
30	Pamela	3,888
31	Sharon	3,872
32	Marie	3,796
33	Judith	3,787
34	Katherine	3,766
35	Amy	3,749
36	Shirley	3,727
37	Heather	3,685
38	Cynthia	3,617
39	Kimberly	3,550
40	Pauline	3,529
41	Theresa	3,512
42	Ashley	3,418
43	Evelyn	3,333
44	Catherine	3,332
45	Rachel	3,296
46	Joyce	3,289
47	Alice	3,252
48	Virginia	3,250
49	Jean	3,210
50	Laura	3,162

Read with Maine

Nearest ABS peers for a thin-registry state (Maine · QUIET · TREND-LED).

QUIET TREND-LED

District of Columbia · QUIET

1,497,731 SSA registrations (near-scale with Maine; ABS Δ 24,795). Leader lane may differ from Maine's TREND-LED.

Idaho · QUIET

1,322,199 SSA registrations (near-scale with Maine; ABS Δ 150,737). Leader lane may differ from Maine's TREND-LED.

Rhode Island · QUIET

1,222,600 SSA registrations (near-scale with Maine; ABS Δ 250,336). Leader lane may differ from Maine's TREND-LED.

New Mexico · SPARSE

1,797,826 SSA registrations (near-scale with Maine; ABS Δ 324,890). Leader lane may differ from Maine's TREND-LED.

Why names rise and fall

Maine stamps QUIET · TREND-LED - read the matching SSA methodology before quoting state leaders.

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files, 1910–2025 (ssa.gov).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

Read our methodology - thin-registry states: how small SSA state files are compared without inventing suppressed names.

According to the Social Security Administration, as of June 2026 this profile draws directly on the agency's state-level public-use files, which document 6,696,687 state-level records across all 51 reporting jurisdictions spanning 1910-2025.