Baby names in Maine in the 1910s

In Maine in the 1910s the most given names were John (1,662 boys) and Mary (1,918 girls), of 81,437 births recorded.

1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

Babies SSA recorded in Maine each year, the 1910s shaded

Births under names given to 5 or more babies of one sex in the state that year.

Maine, 1910-1919: SSA state baby-name file, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s state data.

The top names in Maine, 1910s

Girls, 1910-1919
#	Name	Births
1	Mary	1,918
2	Dorothy	1,578
3	Ruth	1,304
4	Helen	1,221
5	Margaret	1,066
6	Elizabeth	838
7	Alice	816
8	Evelyn	802
9	Frances	738
10	Doris	722
11	Florence	671
12	Irene	667
13	Mildred	656
14	Virginia	637
15	Marion	625
16	Eleanor	605
17	Phyllis	596
18	Marie	577
19	Lillian	574
20	Barbara	566

Boys, 1910-1919
#	Name	Births
1	John	1,662
2	Robert	1,345
3	George	1,248
4	William	1,175
5	Charles	1,047
6	Joseph	1,034
7	James	909
8	Donald	794
9	Arthur	759
10	Harold	749
11	Edward	693
12	Richard	632
13	Raymond	626
14	Albert	590
15	Ralph	566
16	Kenneth	557
17	Frank	552
18	Paul	541
19	Lawrence	516
20	Walter	489

Births summed over 1910-1919, per sex.

The names most over-represented in Maine in the 1910s

Each figure is the name’s births in the state in the decade against the births its national share, year by year, would predict (names with at least 100 births in the state).

Girls

Yvette · 30.4×Germaine · 18.4×Juliette · 12.4×Cecile · 10.5×Priscilla · 6.7×Yvonne · 6.6×

Boys

Lucien · 18.8×Linwood · 17.5×Lionel · 11.9×Armand · 9.4×Reginald · 7.9×Gerard · 7.4×

Ratios: observed over predicted births, 1910-1919.

More about names in Maine

The 1910s across the U.S.The most given names of the decade nationally.
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The top names of 1910The first year of the decade, nationally.
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