Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Connecticut, 1917

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,138
2	Helen	792
3	Anna	408
4	Dorothy	395
5	Margaret	361
6	Elizabeth	347
7	Ruth	324
8	Rose	316
9	Josephine	260
10	Frances	252
11	Florence	219
12	Alice	212
13	Lillian	211
14	Eleanor	191
15	Marion	188
16	Catherine	187
17	Mildred	180
18	Evelyn	176
19	Anne	165
20	Doris	150
20	Jennie	150
22	Marie	147
23	Irene	144
24	Virginia	142
25	Julia	139
26	Rita	137
27	Gertrude	135
28	Louise	134
29	Edith	132
29	Marjorie	132
31	Sophie	129
32	Beatrice	127
33	Ann	125
34	Stella	123
35	Barbara	122
36	Grace	119
37	Jean	114
38	Katherine	109
39	Theresa	101
40	Ethel	99
41	Agnes	93
42	Pauline	90
43	Lucy	86
44	Bernice	82
45	Lena	81
46	Edna	80
47	Elsie	79
48	Charlotte	78
49	Genevieve	77
49	Gladys	77

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	1,076
2	Joseph	788
3	William	651
4	Edward	471
5	George	445
6	Robert	401
7	Frank	392
8	Charles	345
9	James	322
10	Walter	286
11	Anthony	252
12	Michael	231
13	Stanley	230
14	Louis	202
15	Henry	199
16	Thomas	196
17	Francis	181
18	Paul	177
19	Peter	176
20	Raymond	170
21	Albert	162
22	Arthur	153
22	Harold	153
24	Richard	131
25	Harry	122
26	Donald	108
27	Frederick	100
28	Stephen	98
29	Ernest	97
30	Alexander	90
30	David	90
30	Vincent	90
33	Andrew	89
34	Alfred	87
34	Nicholas	87
34	Ralph	87
37	Russell	80
37	Theodore	80
39	Lawrence	79
40	Daniel	78
41	Howard	77
42	Kenneth	71
43	Leonard	70
43	Philip	70
43	Salvatore	70
46	Samuel	67
47	Carl	59
48	Fred	58
49	Bernard	57
50	Herbert	56