What baby names are unique to Connecticut?

Pasquale is the name most distinctive to Connecticut, given about 9 times more often there than in the United States as a whole. Carmelina, Salvatore and Concettina follow.

How is a distinctive name measured?

Each name's share of births in Connecticut is compared with its share nationally. The multiplier shown is the conservative low end of that ratio, so a name carried by a handful of births cannot outrank one carried by hundreds.

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Names unique to Connecticut

The most distinctive Connecticut baby names, 1910–2025

These are the names given far more often in Connecticut than anywhere else in the country, across the whole record from 1910 to 2025. Pasquale leads: it is given about 9× more often here than across the United States as a whole.

The multiplier compares each name's share of Connecticut births with its share nationally, and reports the conservative low end of that comparison — so a name carried by a handful of births cannot outrank one carried by hundreds.

Across the whole record, 1910–2025

#	Name	Births	vs national
1	Pasquale	933	9×
2	Carmelina	104	6×
3	Salvatore	3,212	5×
4	Concettina	23	5×
5	Alphonse	516	5×
6	Hedwig	132	5×
7	Domenic	536	4×
8	Concetta	603	4×
9	Philomena	388	4×
10	Rocco	1,271	4×
11	Doreen	1,771	4×
12	Peter	21,148	4×
13	Arline	628	3×
14	Wilfredo	368	3×
15	Carmine	525	3×
16	Jadiel	215	3×
17	Maryellen	470	3×
18	Maura	702	3×
19	Vincenzo	376	3×
20	Yadiel	159	3×
21	Carmela	757	3×
22	Maureen	4,462	3×
23	Giuliana	399	3×
24	Armand	480	3×
25	Carmel	272	3×
26	Normand	194	3×
27	Annmarie	586	3×
28	Brendan	2,711	3×
29	Maryann	1,859	3×
30	Noreen	610	3×
31	Nyasia	178	3×
32	Carmella	607	3×
33	Marybeth	314	3×
34	Edmund	1,415	3×
35	Meghan	2,615	3×
36	Filomena	153	3×
37	Francis	8,008	3×
38	Albina	123	3×
39	Antoinette	1,941	2×
40	Conor	728	2×

Right now, in 2025

A different list from the one above, and not a contradiction: these are the names distinctive to Connecticut in a single recent year rather than across the whole record.

Name	Births	vs national
Domenic	7	6×
Rea	5	5×
Carmine	15	5×
Salvatore	15	4×
Avalee	5	4×
Izaak	5	4×
Carmela	10	3×
Francesco	9	3×
Siena	20	3×
Vincenzo	17	3×

Decade by decade

The single most distinctive name of each decade.

Decade	Name	vs national
1910s	Carmelina	14×
1920s	Carmelina	17×
1930s	Sebastian	12×
1940s	Pasquale	10×
1950s	Pasquale	7×
1960s	Pasquale	7×
1970s	Tylon	10×
1980s	Babygirl	8×
1990s	Vincenzo	4×
2000s	Yadiel	7×
2010s	Carmine	5×
2020s	Joniel	6×

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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