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Baby names in Connecticut, 1920s

1920–1929 · 246,385 recorded births

John was the most common name given in Connecticut across the 1920s, with 9,740 births in the decade. The state recorded 246,385 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Connecticut in the 1920s

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
Carmelina6717×
Sebastian17211×
Stacia37
Pasquale205
Salvatore692
Alphonse171
Domenic83
Philomena174

Top 25 in the 1920s

RankNameBirths
#1John9,740
#2Mary7,860
#3Robert7,003
#4William6,577
#5Joseph6,347
#6Edward4,912
#7Helen4,846
#8Dorothy4,206
#9George4,028
#10James3,717
#11Frank3,111
#12Charles3,057
#13Margaret2,963
#14Richard2,926
#15Ruth2,545
#16Elizabeth2,524
#17Barbara2,450
#18Raymond2,347
#19Anna2,340
#20Shirley2,277
#21Thomas2,261
#22Anthony2,210
#23Donald2,188
#24Walter2,131
#25Jean2,119

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