Baby names in Maine in the 1930s

In Maine in the 1930s the most given names were Robert (4,636 boys) and Mary (2,268 girls), of 124,732 births recorded.

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Babies SSA recorded in Maine each year, the 1930s shaded

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

Maine, 1930-1939: SSA state baby-name file, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s state data.

The top names in Maine, 1930s

Girls, 1930-1939
#	Name	Births
1	Mary	2,268
2	Patricia	1,885
3	Barbara	1,866
4	Joan	1,677
5	Shirley	1,333
6	Nancy	1,121
7	Dorothy	1,083
8	Joyce	1,070
9	Betty	963
10	Marilyn	961
11	Beverly	930
12	Elizabeth	889
13	Lorraine	884
14	Jean	854
15	Gloria	850
16	Pauline	797
17	Margaret	785
18	Helen	752
19	Doris	745
20	Ruth	737

Boys, 1930-1939
#	Name	Births
1	Robert	4,636
2	Richard	3,853
3	John	2,441
4	Donald	2,121
5	William	1,794
6	James	1,746
7	George	1,370
8	Charles	1,343
9	David	1,310
10	Paul	1,268
11	Ronald	1,191
12	Raymond	1,168
13	Roger	1,152
14	Joseph	981
15	Edward	865
16	Kenneth	848
17	Arthur	780
18	Gerald	778
19	Philip	751
20	Norman	745

Births summed over 1930-1939, per sex.

The names most over-represented in Maine in the 1930s

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 · 17.6×Jeannine · 10.3×Cecile · 9.8×Priscilla · 6.7×Carlene · 6.5×Claudette · 6.3×

Boys

Bertrand · 30.6×Normand · 29.9×Dana · 20.2×Lucien · 17.3×Marcel · 15.6×Linwood · 13.4×

Ratios: observed over predicted births, 1930-1939.

More about names in Maine

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