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Baby names in Connecticut, 1910s

1910–1919 · 179,964 recorded births

Mary was the most common name given in Connecticut across the 1910s, with 7,907 births in the decade. The state recorded 179,964 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Connecticut in the 1910s

Names given far more often here than nationally in these years. The multiplier is conservative — it is the low end of the plausible range, so a name carried by a handful of births does not outrank one carried by hundreds.

NameBirthsvs national
Carmelina3714×
Concettina2312×
Sebastian108
Stacia49
Pasquale177
Carmel93
Salvatore444
Dominic260

Top 25 in the 1910s

RankNameBirths
#1Mary7,907
#2John7,075
#3Joseph5,269
#4Helen5,218
#5William4,130
#6Edward3,098
#7Anna3,072
#8George2,836
#9Margaret2,792
#10Frank2,722
#11Dorothy2,721
#12Robert2,504
#13James2,350
#14Charles2,320
#15Rose2,214
#16Elizabeth2,183
#17Ruth2,182
#18Josephine1,741
#19Walter1,721
#20Anthony1,688
#21Frances1,684
#22Florence1,526
#23Michael1,510
#24Stanley1,473
#25Thomas1,472

Other decades in Connecticut

All Connecticut names, 2025

Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. State records begin in 1910. Names given to fewer than five babies in a state in a year are withheld at source. namelegacy.org