Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Connecticut, 1920

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	970
2	Helen	706
3	Dorothy	455
4	Margaret	354
5	Anna	307
6	Ruth	298
7	Elizabeth	294
8	Frances	244
9	Rose	243
10	Josephine	227
11	Eleanor	213
12	Florence	209
13	Doris	205
14	Evelyn	192
15	Marion	186
16	Alice	183
16	Mildred	183
18	Virginia	175
19	Irene	169
20	Barbara	164
20	Marie	164
22	Lillian	163
23	Catherine	148
24	Ann	137
24	Jean	137
24	Julia	137
27	Gertrude	126
28	Louise	123
29	Rita	122
30	Shirley	121
31	Marjorie	120
32	Anne	118
33	Jennie	114
34	Jane	112
35	Sophie	109
36	Edith	106
36	Grace	106
38	Gladys	92
39	Agnes	89
40	Beatrice	87
41	Lucy	85
41	Theresa	85
43	Esther	84
44	Ethel	81
44	Pauline	81
46	Katherine	80
46	Stella	80
48	Olga	79
49	Elsie	78
50	Betty	77

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	1,037
2	Joseph	743
3	William	626
4	Robert	543
5	Edward	521
6	George	419
7	Frank	352
8	James	348
9	Charles	333
10	Walter	243
11	Anthony	227
12	Raymond	225
13	Thomas	206
14	Richard	199
15	Francis	194
16	Arthur	192
17	Albert	189
18	Henry	186
19	Michael	183
20	Stanley	167
21	Louis	159
22	Harold	144
23	Harry	134
24	Peter	130
25	Donald	122
25	Paul	122
27	Ralph	105
28	Andrew	94
29	David	92
30	Alfred	90
31	Vincent	88
32	Howard	87
33	Frederick	86
33	Theodore	86
35	Kenneth	84
36	Fred	83
37	Daniel	79
38	Ernest	78
39	Stephen	77
40	Eugene	72
41	Salvatore	70
42	Leonard	68
43	Lawrence	66
44	Nicholas	62
44	Philip	62
44	Victor	62
44	Warren	62
48	Carl	61
48	Russell	61
50	Norman	58